By GEORGE LAMBERT WARSAW — This is a big: year in Poland — the 30th anni- versary of the Polish People’s Republic. Although the date of the anniversary is July 22, much is already being written about it and considerable space is being given to it in the other media. The idea is to stress the tremen- dous accomplishments during those 30 years of socialist con- struction, accomplishments in all spheres of life that have changed the face of the country and have opened up new vistas for the Polish people. The idea is to imbue- the young generation with the spirit which, in the difficult years im- mediately following the war, per- meated those who helped lay the foundations of socialism and contributed to the present stage of accelerated socialist con- struction. It is this last phase I want to deal with in this article in order to show what it has meant for the country and for the people. A New Stage It can be said that this new stage started with the change in party leadership and in the government at the end of 1970 and was constantly developed at plenary meetings of the Central Committee of the Party, rounded out into a general pro- gram at the Party’s Sixth Con- gress in December 1971 and dis- cussed in detail at its plenary meetings since then. A key factor at all these meetings was that growing in- dustrial and agricultural produc- tion had to be accompanied by increased earnings by the work- ers and farmers, as well as by all sections of the population whose work contributes to the welfare of the country, plus the freezing of food prices. Another factor was_a better supply of goods (in quality and quantity) for the home market. Still an- . other was faster housing cons- truction and more spacious and better equipped apartments; 30th anniversary more hospitals and improvement in the health service; more cul- tural and sport facilities, etc. In short, implementation of the aims of socialism. It so happened that the change of leadership coincided with the beginning of the new Five Year Plan, 1971 through 1975. Not long ago the party and the gov- ernment summed up the results of the first three years of the plan, which show that the new approach along with the close — contact of the leadership with the masses, the consultation of workers and experts on major issues, etc., have been welcomed by the workers and farmers in concrete deeds: increased pro- | duction, higher productivity and an enthusiastic response to all appeals of the party and govern- ment for additional output over and above the annual plans. National Income Up One-Third - : During these three years the national income has increased by about one-third, industrial output rose by 36% and farm production by nearly 19%. Such increases have never been rec- orded in People’s Poland. The reason can be found, among other things, in the following facts and figures. The Sixth Party Congress and the Five- Year Plan envisaged wage in- creases for 4.6 million public. sector workers, but higher national income 6.4 million workers got raises in pay during the past three years. This leaves 4.5 million workers in the public sector whose earn- ings should go up, but the plan envisaged wage increases only for some of them, the rest hav- ing to wait for the next 5-year plan (1976 through 1980). However, this has now been changed: by the end of the Five- Year Plan, December 31, all of them will get higher pay. Thus in a_ single five-year period eleven million workers will have received wage increases, plus extra pay for productivity, pro- “motion and reclassification. Growing industrial and agricultural production in Poland is ac- . . companied by increased earnings for workers and farmers. In the past five years, 11 million workers have received pay increases. Photo shows the Gdansk shipyards. Big Wage Boost The wage increases during the past three years have been fair- ly substantial — an average of 24%, and by the end of this year should reach 30% (the plan envisaged an 18% increase for the. whole 5-year period.) I should add here that on August 1 of this year the minimum wage will go up by 20%. The Bill adopted by parlia- ment which covers the afore- mentioned wage increases, pro- vides for other additions to family income. On the same date the lowest old age and disability pensions as well as family allowances will be raised. Although old age pensions have gone up by an average of 15% during the past three years, they are still low. 'The finest gesture of all By E. ZAIDELSON In 1921 the Soviet ambassador to London invited American dancer Isadora Duncan to visit the young Soviet state. At that: time a world-famous artist, she was among the first to greet the Russian revolution and had ex- pressed interest in visiting the country. No amount of warning of the “horrors” she would find there or threats by capitalist entre- preneurs could make her change her mind and on July 9, 1921 she filled out her visa form at ' the Estonian Embassy in Lon- con, that being the country she would pass through on her way to Petrograd. On it she wrote that she wanted “to-go to Russia to work . . . for an indefinite period”. On the list of persons enter- ing from the Narva frontier sta- tion between Estonia and Soviet Russia on the morning of July 21, 1921 are the names of Isa- dora Duncan, one of her pupils, Irma Erich, and Duncan’s assist- ant, Susanne Chambonne. Upon her arrival in Moscow, the newspaper Izvestia featured an article welcoming her entitled, “Our Guest” in. which A. Luna- charsky, wrote: “Duncan has been called the ‘Queen of Ges- tures’, but of all her gestures this last one—her journey to revolutionary Russia despite the horrors she: was led to expect —is the finest and worthy of the loudest applause . . .” Subsequently in his reminis- cenes, Lunacharsky described his first encounter with Isadora Duncan: “She hastened to assure me that she sought no comforts in Russia: “J don’t need anything,’ she said. ‘I am prepared to eat bread and salt, but I do want you to give me a thousand boys and girls from the poorest families, and I shall make real graceful people of them . . . It does not matter that you are poor,’ she repeated. ‘No matter that you are hungry—we shall dance all the Same.’ -“The most surprising thing about it,” wrote Lunacharsky, “was that in those war years of famine we managed to give Isa- dora a building and the oppor- tunity to gather quite a large number of children and that ‘we SRT dancéd all the same’. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 29; 1974—PAGE 8 On November 7, 1921, the Fourth Anniversary of the Great October Revolution, Isadora Duncan appeared with her Rus- sian pupils'on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. The packed hall gave her a _ stormy ovation. Among the warmly applauding _ spectators was ’V. I. Lenin, She lived and worked in Russia until 1924, married the ‘poet Sergei Yesinin and took out Soviet citizenship. She set up her school-studio in Moscow which, upon her departure, was directed by her former pupil Irma Erich. Always a great friend of Rus- sia, Isadora Dun¢an, in reply to . reporters’ questions of what she considered the happiest period of her life said, “Russia, Russia and only Russia! My three years there with all their tribulations were worth all the other days of my life. There is nothing im- possible in that land where I am soon going again and where I. shall stay.” This never took > place. A few days after this in- terview Isadora Duncan died in an auto accident on Sept. 14,- 1927. (Abridged from Sovietskaya Estonia.) of People's Poland The increase will help, but it’s only the first step in the reform of the system of old age and dis- ability pensions. There will also be a raise in pensions of war veterans and invalids. Family allowances are to be altered in system and increased in two stages. At present, fami- lies with a monthly income of up to 1,000 zlotys per capita benefit from the right of an in- creased family allowanges. This Bonn, Berlin sign important - By FILS DELISE BERLIN—The diplomatic rep- resentatives of the GDR and the FRG will take up their work in each others capitals in the spring or early summer as final recog- nition of the sovereign and in- dependent existence of the two German states. This significant event in European and world politics was finally. made pos- cible by the agreement signed between Bonn and Berlin last week. It symbolizes the defeat of the old policy of trying to deny the existence in any form of the GDR. It is official recog- nition that the 25-year political, diplomatic and economic block- ade of the GDR by the Western powers was a profound miscal- culation. It is seen as a victory for the proponents of coexistence everywhere and as a renewal of the process of: normalization of relations between Bonn and Ber- lin, which had for some time been faltering in Bonn. Finally, it deeply buries the efforts of the West German monopoly press, the CDU-CSU and revanchist cir- © cles to persuade West Germans that further normalization of re- ‘lations with the GDR is impos- sible. The new agreement com- mits diplomatic representatives’ of each country in the others capital, in addition to their rou- tine diplomatic activities, “to further and build up normal, neighborly relations between the GDR and the FRG in political, economic and cultural fields, as _ well as in other areas.” -. ance for non-working mothe, .. addition, the allowance for limit will now be raised (q August 1, 1974) to 1,400 zloty the third and every subseque child by 150 zlotys. The allo bringing up three or more Ch dren will rise by 50 or 100 tys, depending on the per income of the given family. invalid child will be inc by 500 zlotys monthly. In the second stage, beginnin with January 1, 1975, the alloy ance for the first child will \ raised by 50 zlotys and for t second by 100 zlotys. The alloy ance for non-working mothe, ‘bringing up one or two chi dren will be increased corre pondingly. 5 4 Situation Insproving . The reform of the family q lowance system will improy the situation. of a great 7 families. For example, a fam with three children, were th mother is not working, which now receiving,the lower rate | allowance, will get 305 zloty more in the first stage and a additional 235 zlotys~ in th second, making an addition, total of 540 zlotys a month, or fifth of the national aseray wage. oP y There is no doubt that a these measures to raise livin standards will further enhany the prestige of the Party and th government, induce the worke to make an even greater produ, tion effort, and lead to the fy filment of production pledg, for additional output ung taken by workers all overs country in honor of the 30th a, niversary of Peopje’s Polan \ \ , aN agreeme The West German Commun Party (DKP) paid tribute to i “constructive attitude of th GDR and its many initiatiy, which decisively contributed , the fact that in negotiations LN tween the FRG and GDR re were achieved which are ae traordinarily positive significanq for the participant.” They wey on to say that the agreement the exchange of diplomatic re resentatives “expresses the terests of the working people our land and the interests i peace and security in Eu has been shown once more thy good results are possible in normalization of relations b tween both sovereign and he tually-independent states.” __ The monopoly press and y vanchists in the FRG were Uy able to conceal their chagrin ov the latest advance in the com} ty cated negotiations between a and democratic Berlin. Th howled that the new agreeme means the GDR will now } treated in Bonn like any oth foreign state. Observers see th as a weird complaint, since is precisely the name of game. This was looked upon her mere chatter since everyone izes that in actual fact the agreement merely — expressy what the whole world has re nized: there are two sovere independent states and the no way of getting around basic fact of European poli life.