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se Soviet women are helping themselves to their pay |
"hout any cashier being present. The picture was taken
N the Lvov Shoe Manufacturing plant where there are

no longer checkers, timekeepers or cashiers. On pay day
.€ foreman brings the pay to the shop. Money is placed
in boxes according to the denominations of the bills.

orkers come up to the boxes, look up their name in the
Pay list, Sign it, and take sum of money coming to them.

STORY OF MAN TOLD IN
SOVIET SCIENCE BOOK

THE ORIGIN OF MAN,
OViet Print. Hard cover,
$3.50. Available at Peo-
Dle’s Co-op Bookstore, 307

- Pender.

: Nothing is more difficult for
th scientist to comprehend
Se Science, since it is, in
of ae the direct opposite
on at is sometimes called
Ping sense.” Take water,
“4 aha Who, without any
at tC proof, would believe
igh) tt is composed of two
Y flammable gases.

‘ee Society of the Middle
that it seemed to be absurd
€ earth should be a

Who and those selected few,
hew better and spoke
€ir conviction, lived in
ism d of miserable antagon-

we must distin-
Witige tween two types of
Orie, + A8ainst scientific the-
Stems Irst, the criticism which
Prova, TOM disbelief until
tha ae Otherwise and, second,
Sourege wicism coming from

S who see but don’t want

to see. Of the two, the latter
is truly pathetic, but unfortun-
ately, even in our day and age,
still very influential, at least,
in some parts of the world.

There is hardly a_ theory
which has been exposed to
more criticism, ridicule, and
outright falsification by ignor-
amuses and worse alike than
the theory of the evolution of
modern man from the anthra-
poids, “but alas, and yet it
moveth,” said Gallileo.

The Origin of Man builds on
the shoulders of Darwin, tak-
ing into account vast new dis-
coveries in the last decades
both inside and outside the So-
viet Union, putting the missing
links together.

Enlightening for all those
who like scientific reading,
provided it is not too techni-
cal. Diagrams, drawings and
coloured prints help to illus-
trate each chapter. It is almost
as if the reader lived through
the span of a million years
which marks man’s appearance
on this planet: —Truly the
Story of Man!

Moscow leffer

Ben Swankey, Burnaby,
writes: “Recently I received a
letter from friends now. visit-
ing in Moscow. Your readers
may be interested in some of
their comments:

“Every day there is some-

-[thing new to see and learn.

Just the other day we visited
a number’ of housing projects
on the outskirts of Moscow.
Most of their apartments are
pre-fab and are much larger in
size than our average apart-
ment. The time spent on erec-
tion is approximately six days
a floor. You must realize that
this includes plumbing, heat-
ing and electrical installations.
So at this rate they expect in
a fairly short space of time to
relieve the acute problem of
housing in such large cities as
Moscow.

“We also visited a large auto
plant. This plant was engaged

RECORDS

The People’s Co-op Book-
store (307 W. Pender, Vancou-
ver) has just received a first
shipment of longplaying rec-
ords from New China. There
are 20 different recordings,
all 10” and all of good fidel-
ity ($4.25 each).

The recordings range
throughout Chinese musical
life — compositions in ‘the
European Harmonic System,
Chinese traditional music
(both art and folk), mass songs
and even popular dance
music, In their sum, they give
a deeper insight into the spir-
itual and social mood of New
China than could be gained
by any means other than an
actual trip to China.

.The outstanding record
among Chinese compositions
in’ European art music form
(“‘classical” music) is Ho
Chan-hao and Chen Gong’‘s
Fantasia For Violin & String
Orchestra’ “Liang Shan-po”
(M-043).

Hsin’ Hu-kuang’s Ghatamei-
lin Symphonic Poem (M-105)
is a tragic, sometimes lyrical

and ultimately triumphant
tone poem.
Hsien Hsing-hais Yellow

River Caniata (M-112) is a
sort of Chinese “Ballad For
Americans’’—only better--
Symphony No. 2 “Memor-
ies of the war” by Wong Won-
kai (M-136 /M-137) is of un-
ique interest: as the first
Chinese symphony - available
here in Canada.
Peking-Opera Theatre is par-
ticularly wel: represented, the
outstanding item being a two
record set of The White Ser-
pent (M-169-9).—N. E. Story

in the production of trucks, a
large number of which were
for export. The rate of produc-
tion of the assembly line is a

truck completed every four
minutes. Plans are underway
to cut the production time by
half in the next two years
through the introduction of
new techniques.”’

5 a Tq i
Capitalist ‘news
E. H. Tudor, Morningside,
Alta., writes:

“May I through the medium
of your paper comment upon
the news served up to the pub-
lic today, August 21st by the
CBC news 11 a.m.

“First John R. Walker from
Moscow upon the trial of Fran-
cis Powers, pilot of the U‘S.
spy plane: ‘a fair trial by Rus-
sian standards is possible.’ The
question to us socialists is what
are fair trials by American
standards of justice? I must re-
fer your readers to the ten-
year sentence imposed upon
Gene Debs as against the four
years sentence imposed by Im-
perial Germany upon Dr. Karl
Leibknecht for a similar “of-

fence’; the frame up and sen-

tence for life against Tom
Mooney by U.S. ‘justice’; the
trials and final execution of

Sacco and Vanzetti on trumped
up charges—their crime, they
were militant socialists.

“Seven years last June the
execution by the electric chair
of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
(case not proven) in spite of
protests from all over the pro-
gressive world; as check up
of the trial and the comment
of Dr. Harold Urey will bear
witness. While a bit of senti-
ment is being drummed up for
Powers’. and_ leniency, let us
not forget the orphaned sons of
the Rosenbergs.

“After decades of British,
Dutch, French and Belgium
rule, these colonial pOwers pull
out against their will, leaving
Africans in a primitive condi-
tion—their own words. If the
people are backward and prim-
itive the colonial powers are
responsible and yet they would
have the world believe that
they alone are the free world.
If so why are the Africans ris-
ing?—to shake off this ‘demo-
cratic freedom’.

WORLD THEORETICAL DEBATE
TOPIC OF BUCK ARTICLE

“The Debate Concerning the
Moscow Declaration” is the

title of a major article by Tim!
leader of the,

Buck, national
Communist Party of Canada,
which appears in the Septem-
ber-October issue of the par-
ty’s theoretical organ, Marxist
Review.

In this article Tim Buck dis-
cusses some of the questions
that have arisen around the
new theoretical formulations
contained in the famous dec-
laration of Communist and
Workers’ parties drawn up in
Moscow in 1957.

It is an article which will be
of tremendous interest to ali
workers who are concerned
about the present stage of the

fight for peace and socialism.

This issue of Marxist Review
also contains an article on
Marxism and African Libera-
tion which makes an important
contribution to our under-
standing of the complex politi-
cal situation in that continent
today.

An article by Nelson Clarke,
“Farmers Against the Monopo-
lies,’ and the letter written by
the Communist Party to the
Prime Minister and the 10 pro-
vincial premiers on federal-
provincial relations round out
this issue of Marxist Review.

The magazine may be ob-
tained for 25 cents a copy from
the Peoples’ Co-Op Bookstore,
307 West Pender.

Back to school scon for these Chinese children who are
seen onjoying their summer holidays sunbathing.

September 9, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5