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LONDON—The feeling in Scotland against the rocket bases, n 4 neue far tests is shown in the unprecedented number of protest resolutions own for dis- ze the Scottish Trades Union Congress convention a April. c preliminary agend i otest resolutions from no ee: genda contains pr fe @nizations, some of them from unions which do not normally put forward politically Charge West behind Indonesian intrigue D dees — Proclama- Padang ebel government at Bad n central Sumatra is ie = SaaS of a series Weaken BUS, calculated to lie i ra divide the Repub- the oust nesta and enable ‘ ah Dutch colonialists' 3 cee The intrigues link Ah pene ut Dutch, British i aeericen - controlled the d oil companies with ny cae of Teactionary ar- Constituras > «Which has now over, ed itself as a rival ine Ment in central Suma- hee Proclaimed aim of the © force President €nce” Ommunist influ- juands replace Premier Oha by Vice-President Hatta, who has © centre of anti- ate mist and pro-American ues, lor Com, Deen th intrig rebels have Made it clear in ‘ito the SEATO broadcast foy, On, fn} © rebel Jeader, Sjafrud- Protec: already promised to ang... -reign_ : enterprises ho a er, Sumual, has an- Weleon, that the rebels would col ae rn of the Dutch Ver ne Wspa Diakay the past few days Pers published in EXtent ta have disclosed the to the Of foreign aid given rebels, Page and other banks in § financed the }ebel art, Where Tad with Singapore lore; Y the rebels obtained 32) ae €xchange totalling Dighe vution Indonesian ru- Suman the expense of the In 729 cocoanut growers. ageing recent campaign Provo... Dutch _ colonialists €d by the Netherlands’ PRESIDENT SUKARNO refusal to return West Iran- ian to Indonesia, Dutch banks in areas of central Sumatra under rebel control remained untouched. Two oil companies, Caltex and Standard Vacuum, are named by Djakarta newspa- pers as the economic backers of the rebel clique. On his return to the coun- try last week, President Su- karno declared that the gov- ernment would fight the reb- el clique ‘with all our po- tentialities’ to preserve the country’s sovereignty and in- dependence. He said it was impossible for countries pursuing an in- dependent policy to avoid pressure from “a foreign state which plays an import- ant role in foreign affairs.” Ever since the Republic of Indonesia had won recogni- tion, he said, foreign inter- ests had endeavoured to ex- ploit all its political, military and economic difficulties in order to pull the whole or part of Indonesia into a cer- tain bloc. American H-bombers fewer than 21 trade Transport. workers, engin- foundry workers, rail- painters, pattern printers, copper- smiths, sheet metal workers, vehicle builders, plasterers, and firemen all say: “Stop this madness.” eers, waymen, makers, So do trades councils in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Kirk- caldy, Greenock, Kilmarnock, Coatbridge and Clydebank. Kilmarnock Trades Coun- cil is asking the TUC Gener- al Council to support any trade union which blacklists work on the rocket sites. An omnibus resolution from the Transport and Gen- eral, Workers’ Union heads the long list. It asks the convention to back. protests against rocket bases and nuclear tests and to support demands for sum- mit talks and nuclear energy research for peaceful pur- poses. The most powerful trades council’ in Scotland — Glas- gow, with an affiliated mem- bership of approximately 90,- 000— asks the TUC General Council to use its power to get the U.S. H-bomber bases out of Britain. “Only a binding contract concluded by the heads of states restraining them from the use of nuclear weapons and undertaking to find a basis for disarmament will relieve world tension,” de- clares a resolution from the TUC General Council itself. Leaders of Scotland’s 74,000 coal miners have branded the Macmillan government’s White Paper on defense as “a trait- orous document designed to step up the atmosphere of the cold war.” It comes at a time when people are demanding sum- mit talks as a beginning to international understanding and disarmament, says the Scottish area executive. “Britain cannot. go on spending $3,800 million a year and at the same time give a decent standard of living to our people,” it continued. The executive unanimously demanded that the National Council of Labor launch an immediate nationwide cam- paign to force a change in the government’s policy to one of summit _ talks, including People’s China, Blood and\oil on the desert. SOCIALIST REPORT France fights for riches of Sahara BY GEORGE SINFIELD LONDON—tThe struggle by French colonialists to own, control and exploit vast min- eral deposits in the Sahara Desert is the reason for the war in Algeria. That is the only conclusion to be drawn from a report— published last week—of a three-man _ Socialist Inter- national delegation which studied conditions on the spot last December. The delegation itself ex- presses no views on the mat- ter. It merely records things it was told about the French occupation. It interviewed. French Socialists in Paris. It saw French Socialists in Algeria. It spoke to and had corres- pondence with various repre- sentatives of Algerian opin- ion. Here and there an under- current of fear that French policy could ultimately strengthen Communism in the entire area can be detected. And there are indications of imperialist struggle for the Sahara riches. The delegation consisted of John Sanness (Norway), Sam Watson (Britain) and Jules Bary (Belgium). John Clark of the British Labor party acted as secretary. ; The French, the delegation states, are actively prospect- ing for iron, coal, tin, uranium and oil—particularly oil. Reports meta] ore suggest that the and coal deposits “may be very large.’ The delegation visited a well at Hassi Massaoud, where a large oi] field has been dis- covered. A newly laid six-inch’ pipe- line is pumping 600 tons of crude oil daily from the well. Supplies are shipped from Philippeville, on ‘the Algerian. coast, to refineries in France. This year, the delegation was told, the French‘ aim to have a 24-inch pipeline in operation. Estimated output by 1962 is ten million tons. Successful exploitation of Sahara oil depends largely on. the “achievement of a_pol- itical solution in Algeria,” it is pointed out. American and British firms are seeking to obain conces- sions. The firms inelude Cal- tex, Aramco, Shell and Brit- ish Petroleum. Some trade unionists the delegation. met‘ thought local Socialist leaders were “deter- mined to maintain the pol- itical, electoral and economic privileges of Europeans as opposed to the’* mass of Moslems.” The delegation was: also told that certain reforms in housing, hospitals, schools and so on—introduced by the for- mer Socialist government of France—have improved ‘the conditions of native workers. Many Frenchmen seem proud of the nev program, but the delegation says ‘the change was rather a matter of facing up to a long-neg- lected duty than a matter for pride. The report gives promin- ence to the ‘views of the National Liberation Front. Recognition by France of Algerian independence, a cease - fire, withdrawal of troops, creation of a FLN pro- visional government of. the Republic of Algeria, © are stated to be the demand of the FLN., February 28, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3 aA