rhilean families have had to
_ i€ave their country.. Some of

_ by illegally crossing the border,

| ttavellers with completely valid

many to the Chilean people, and
in particular to those who were
granted asylum within its bord-
ers, arises from the principles of
solidarity inherent in the social-
ist doctrine and from its own
experience with fascism.

Seen from the material aspect
the following is highly note-
worthy: every Chilean family re-
ceived a new apartment which
they could furnish according to
their own wishes. All the fami-

By GUARANI PEREDA
ember of the Central Committee
Of the Socialist Farty of Chile
BERLIN — Thousands of

nem ask for asylum, others
left the country in a rather un-
Conventional way, for instance

nd others left in a way that
appeared quite normal, as simple

documents by passing through’
Customs and police examina-
| tions, 5;

| Were driven by hunger. The

| Yeral tens of thousands.

‘Tom the first. moment.

| “atic Republic the policy pur-
| Socialism is no heavenly para-

| ee been built up by the con-

ee from nazism to achieve the
“andard of prosperity they en-

'ty extended by Socialist Ger-

| WORLD NEWS

lies have all the amenities of
comfortable living at costs
which one is quite ashamed to
indicate: the complete furnish-
ing of homes or apartments,
ranging from furniture to tooth-
brushes, including washing ma-
chine, TV set, linen, crockery,
curtains and carpets, is paid
back in small installments and
on terms covering 30 to 50 years,
with no interest charges. (It
should be added that no install-
ments are to be paid at least
until 1976.)

Our people, and in particular,
every beneficiary here, will
Sued with regard to the refugees _ never forget all the evidence of
iS exemplary. solidarity.

And there is something else
that should be mentioned in
connection with the qualitative
aspects of solidarity shown to
Chileans living in the GDR.

Here the best social condi-
tions exist to provide suitable
solutions not only for the most
pressing material needs of every
single immigrant family but also
for the most important psycho-
logical questions and cultural
interest of the Chileans.

Some decided to do so be-
Cause they were subjected to
Political persecution, and others

; pamber of Chileans who left
_ their country is estimated at ‘se-

; The socialist countries, with
4 Ina making a gloomy excep-
ine have extended their solidar-
_ .y to the persecuted Chileans.

Here in the German Demo-

‘tise, no fantasy and no dream:
,l€ GDR is a real society which

Crete efforts of millions of men
d Women who made tremen-
Sus sacrifices after the libera-

‘Wy today.
Provided With Everything
€ character. of the solidar-

| WILL CONTINUE REVOLUTION, NEW PERUVIAN RULERS SAY

Bt

sh

ihe land,” he was interrupted by Thomas Grace, a participant in
a Unarmed demonstration, who had his faot blown off by guards-
Way fire. “What freedom?” Grace demanded. “It's a sham in every

 &er

Withdr.

Be.

LIMA—After being deposed as president in a bloodless coup
ug. 29, Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado, the man who had. steered
€ru’s independence since October 1968, appealed to Peruvians:
And | ask, of all the men and women of Peru .. . that they remain

“€tmudez, prime minister and minister of war in the Velasco gov-

_ mment. The official communique said: “We have made a revolu-

_0nary takeover to eliminate personality cults and deviations in our

4 Ga Olutionary) road by those who commit errors and do not appre-
4 ate the true revolutionary sentiments of the Peruvian people.”

KILLERS OF KENT STUDENTS GO FREE

CLEVELAND — By a 9-3 verdict Aug. 28 a jury absolved Ohio

aticnal guardsmen, in a suit brought against them by the parents
do four murdered Kent State Universitly students who were gunned
Wn by the. guardsmen in 1970.

die eh jury gave a license to the government to shoot anyone who
“Sagrees with them,” said Elaine Holstein, mother of one of those
Ot during a student demonstration.

As the judge thanked the jury on behalf of “everyone in this

ISRAELIS DROP NAPALM ON LEBANON

(PEIRUT—Wwhile numerous agencies throughout the world urge
oe €nd to horrot weapons, the Israelis, who continue their military
Cupation of Arab territories, on August 21 used flaming jellied

S88oline to kill 37 civilians and injure 60 in the Lebanese city of

‘albek. The ancient ruins date back to Phoenicians times, and
large numbers of tourists.

This act of blatant terrorism came shortly before Henry Kissin-
» the U.S. secretary of state, was due to arrive in Israel for his

dllegeg “ : ;
t peace” mission. According to ie
i US. has promised the Israeli militarists close to $3-billion

Ww .
orth of war materiel and other aid if they accept a new partial
awal in Sinai.

4 aoa and give all support that the continuity of the revolutionary
| '0cess requires.”
The man who took over is 53-year-old Gen. Francisco Morales .

Israeli government sources, -

INFLATION

While we ‘wrestle it to the ground’ —
‘what are socialist countries doing about it?

Working people in Canada
know all too well the ravages of
inflation. They know that a wage
increase today is eaten up in no
time by constantly rising -prices
of necessities.

It’s the same throughout the
capitalist world. But only
throughout the capitalist world;
in socialist society wages are
rising, but these are genuine in-
creases, because prices are not
shooting up.

Why is it so?

Inflation has been avoided in
socialist countries, in the view
of Soviet economics expert Aeli-
ta Dostal, because “under social-
ism economic management, trade
and the circulation of money are
centralized to the utmost. This
ensures a stable purchasing pow-
er of the national currency on
the domestic market.”

In the field of trade, this pro-
tects the socialist countries’ eco-
nomies from a direct influence
of economic developments in the
West. “This is why the socialist
countries can have an autono-
mous system of prices.

“Retail . prices,” she points
out, “are a means of maintaining
a’stable standard of living of all
sections of the population. Due
to the state subsidies, stable low
prices are fixed on staple goods,

‘particularly foodstuffs and goods

for children. This applies to rent,
public transport fares, accommo-
dation at holiday homes and san-
atoria. Meat-procurement estab-
lishments are also subsidized by
the state.”

Some Living Costs

In the Soviet Union, 1975 is
the final year of their ninth Five
Year Plan. And what has been
happening? Another Soviet eco-
nomic analyst, Yuri Kanin, offers
these facts: —

“In 1971-74 (first four years of
the plan) 45 million Soviet peo-

ple moved into new dwellings. A .

small number of persons built
apartments through cooperative
building societies or put up their
own homes. Housing was financ-
ed by the state, industrial enter-
prises and collective farms. Two-
thirds of the money spent on the

£90 om 05 98 a HOE 9 1

Rents, transit

fares, food and other necessities have not bead hit

by our soaring inflation. But family incomes have gone up there.
Above: A new station of the Moscow Metro.

upkeep of housing is provided by
the state. In the USSR the rent
and utility rates are the lowest
in the world, amounting to be-
tween 4% and 5% of the income
of the working family. In the
USSR housing has never been a
sphere of commercial operations
— the rent has been unchanged
for the past 46 years, and utility
rates for 25 years.”

That’s not wrestling inflation
to the ground; that’s. giving it
no ground to stand on.

Considering that record, some-
one could understandably jump
to the conclusion that wages too

-have been unchanged. Not so.

Average monthly wages of fac-
tory and office workers have
risen by 15% in the current eco-
nomic plan. That percentage
wouldn’t even beat the inflation-
ary rise in Canada — but when
you’re paying no more than 5%
of earnings for rent, without a

rent boost in 46 years. . ae

Pensions Up

The money incomes of 77 mil-
lion people have increased in the
past four years. In addition there
are many non-monetary provi-
sions. The money incomes of 30
million people have also grown
thanks to higher pensions, sti-
pends and grants. The minimum
pensions of factory and office
workers have increased by 50%
during the plan period, and of
collective farmers by 66%. “As

World trade unions meet UN,
discuss recession, inflation

GENEVA — The first official
meeting between the internation-
al trade union organizations and
the United Nations took place

in Geneva .on July 17 of this’

year,

The discussion centred around
the international economic situa-
tion and the chief problems cur-
rently under discussion in the
world community, including the
recession in the capitalist coun-
tries with growing unemploy-
ment and spiralling inflation.

The international trade union
organizations stressed the ;im-
portance they attached to being
kept more closely informed on
the economic and social activi-
ties of the UN and in taking an
active part in them when the
matters involved concerned the
worker’s interests. In this con-
text, they especially expressed
their desire to follow closely the
coming Special Session of the
General Assembly and to take
a constructive part in activities
concerning the rule of trans-
national companies. The various
kinds of help which the trade
union organizations already give
or could plan for the future in

the framework of aid to the
Third World were also discussed.

The trade union movement
was represented by delegations

from the International Confed- -

eration of Free Trade unions
(ICFTU), the World Confedera-
tion of Labor (WCL), and the
World Federation of Trade
Unions (WFTU).

From the UN and its special-
ized agencies were representa-
tives from the UN Economic and
Social. Affairs Department, the
UN Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD), the UN
Environment Program (UNEP),
the UN Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO), the UN
Development Program. (UNDP),
and such specialized agencies as

the International Labor Office

(ILO), the Food and Agriculture
Organization of UN (FAO), the
International Monetary Fund
(IMF), and the General Agree-
ment on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT).

Another meeting is planned
between the trade union bodies
and the UN in the first half of
1976.<¢

before,” Kanin remarks, ‘Soviet
citizens do not make contribu-
tions to the pension fund.”

Pay for collective farmers has
gone up 22% to bring it more
in line with the average national
wage.

In the past four years real per
capita incomes have gone up by
nearly 19%.

No consideration of Soviet in-
comes is complete without men-

-tion of the public consumption

funds. Yuri Kanin explains:

“The social aim of the public
consumption funds is to even
out conditions for the all-round
development of people, and to
ensure them, irrespective of
wages and family status, equal
opportunities for education, med-
ical aid, the upbringing of chil-
dren, etc.

“These funds are used to in-
crease pensions and improve so-
eial maintenance, finance free or
reduced - fare

ensure subsidies for the upkeep
of housing.
From Profits

“At the present time, pay-
ments and benefits from the pub-
lic consumption funds constitute
25%, sometimes even more, of
the incomes of factory and office
workers. The rate of growth of
these funds outpace the growth
of wages.”

Where do they get all the
money? A natural question. |

“Deductions from the profits
of state enterprises and organi-

zations constitute about 90% of —
_ the national budget. These profits
are the main source of the

growth of popular well-being and
the public consumption funds. A
considerable proportion of the

profits left at the disposal of self-

funding enterprises is spent on
incentives and _ socio-cultural
needs, housing in particular.”

The Soviet writers are frank.
There are problems to be solved.

But the solving always seems to

come down in favor of the work- |

er, the consumer. Listen to Aeli-
ta Dostal: : :

“The scarcity of some con-
sumer goods, particularly dur-
ables, is one of the main factors
in a certain increase in the peo-
ple’s deposits in savings banks
in the socialist countries.”

So what? a Canadian may ask.
Put your money in a bank and
next month it’s worth less.

“Judge for yourself,” says Ae-
lita Dostal. “Since there are no

price increases in the socialist:

countries . . . there is no danger

of the depreciation of the peo- __

ple’s savings. Moreover, there
are now more goods of better
quality and greater variety in

‘shops . . .” so the money in the — -
bank can really buy a better

deal. aye

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