‘tion th
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of the fact that the majority

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f other socialist countries.”
He gj pbort Indochina
fully su that the Soviet Union
Indoch Pports the people of
athe and added: “It is our
The Parallst duty to help
fithe end We will fulfill it to
“The Soy;
‘the eeoviet Union condemns
Vietnam ty bombings of North
Mands th Y U.S. planes and de-
/Upport at they end. We fully
aS Vietna just proposals of
Ff South eens the Republic
WF eg .
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+ With ced U.S. plans
J atieg E Bel of local hae
sf ation \ ae the national liber-
f% to mele _in Indochina so
Y Strategic in its political and
) ee in that area.
Vietna: shington this is called
W Saig. ne the war,” he
) American intended to replace
¥en gan, Uniforms, that have
dy the N quite a rough time
ents of Indochina,
Uniforms of puppet

lers, whi
ing ere the political lin-
can.» S the same — Ameri-
if ~Promis

OMmis;
| Dossibte RE to do everything
| Strengthe fe) develop and
N relations with Bang-

ladesh, Mr. Brezhnev said that
at the same time “we stand for
good relations with Pakistan,
with which we have no conflicts
and no conflicting interests.”
Nixon and Peking

While the Tribune already re-
ported his comments on Presi-
dent Nixon’s visit to China, we
are repeating the gist of them:

“First of all, the re-establish-
ment of relations between two
large States and the normaliza-
tion of relations between them
is quite natural,” he said. The
Soviet Union had always oppos-
ed the imperialist isolation of
China and supported a proper
recognition of its role interna-
tionally.

He observed that apart from
the official communique. little
had been made public about the
Peking talks and about the sub-
stance of the U.S.-Chinese
agreement.

“Therefore, facts the subse-
guent deeds of the United States
and the People’s Republic of
China will say the decisive word
about the signifiance of the Pe-
king talks.”

U.S. and USSR

On President Nixon’s visit to
the Soviet Union on May 22,
Mr. Brezhnev said they ap-
proached the talks with Nixon
from a_ businesslike, realistic

position, being fully aware of
the importance of Soviet-U.S.
relations for the peoples of their
countries and for the entire in-
ternational situation.

“We have stated before and

confirm now; and improvement -

of relations between the USSR
and the United States is pos-
sible. More than that, it is desir-
able, but, of course, not at the
expense of some third countries
or peoples,’ the Party leader
stressed.

On Soviet-Chinese relations,
he said it was now up to the

Chinese side. The Soviet Union ~

had long made known to the
Chinese leaders their proposals
on non-aggression, non-use of
force, on settlement of border
issues and on improving rela-
tions on a mutually advantage-
ous basis.
Common Market

Turning to the Common Mar-
ket, Mr. Brezhnev said they
recognized realities, including
the existence of the Common
Market.

The Soviet Union was for
equality in economic relations
and against discrimination, but
these relations depended on the
attitude adopted by the mem-
bers of the Common Market to
the real-situation in the social-
ist community.

ff Mog
if Positive Ew. (TASS) — Serious
lace ;, Changes have taken

} oven € world trade union
: 4 PXander Becnt years, said
Tess at €lepin in his ad-

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| Mote apman of -AUCCTU
Pitade uni the role of the world
Whole ae Movement on the
tee in... {mportant public
be in © ie umberialist strug-
incssive Re Tst place of its pro-
meteasin ng, has been rapidly
ote Sipninne’ becoming ever
radin Cant. The processes
Ment of , difr &radual rapproache-
, oo contingents of
4 hoe union move-
action 5 interests of unity
a a accelerating.

Pog ; Ssive Vor ving loyalty of
Lie inc trade unions to the
| Onalis of proletarian interna-
Be consi d class solidarity,
I) 0Petation wont Pursuance of
f tions a With all the trade
H ientay nm sbective of their
lSive ic have played a de-

Ment oo in thi

Nn this ra :
Disarrar a as aes
| Sed ; as strongly - in-
: ; gly . in
pn aa the reformist trade
* the AFL.cpot The influence
(Ney, iaw. 10 has dropped to

8
! me of t € anti-Communist
| re ation € leadership of the
ee Thad a’ Confederation of
Un ~ ~fions has serious-

& () .

. Left min its prestige.
aotism ng Petty-bourgeois re-

) Mage as inflicted great

on
Ment, the trade union

characterized now by a gradual
overcoming of factionalism and
a stronger tendency towards
unity on the part of unions of
different orientations. The
movement for the establishment
of links with World Federation
of Trade Unions and Interna-
tiosal Federations of Trade
Unions has gained in strength.
The tendency towards the
achievement of unity of action
on continent-wide scale is also
making headway.

“We actively support the pro-
posal to convene an all-Euro-
pean trade union conference,”
Shelepin said. “We are optim-
ists and are confidently looking
into the future. We are confii-
dent that the unity of action of
the world trade union move
ment will be achieved.”

Soviet trade unions will con-
tribute to this’ in every way
possible. All trade unions are
equally concerned over such
problems as the struggle against
war, against the forces of ag-
gression, reaction and fascism,
for peace and social progress.

The AUCCTU maintains links
with trade unions in 116 coun-
tries, It strives first of all to
further develop, strengthen and
improve relations and all-round
cooperation with the trade
unions of the socialist countries.

The Soviet trade unions give
fraternal assistance and support
to the patriots of Vietnam, Laos,
and Cambodia, and are making
their contribution to the world
public opposition to the crimin-
al aggression of U.S. imperiai-
ism.

The traditional links between
the Soviet trade unions and the
General Confederation of Labor
of France and the General Ital-
ian Confederation of Labor have
grown stronger in recent years,
as have those with Finland’s
unions.

“we are not in the least re-
sponsible for the absence of
links with the largest trade
union organization in North
America, the AFL-CIO. It is the
AFL-CIO leadership which is
entirely responsible for that. As
far as we are concerned, we are
ready to cooperate,” the Soviet
union chief said.

The AUCCTU seeks active
cooperation with the trade
unions of Britain and West Ger-

many.

Friendly relations and collab-
oration have been further devel-
oping between the Soviet trade
unions and the trade unions of
the Arab world and Africa. Sov-
iet workers ~ have consistently
acted in solidarity with the
struggle of Arab and African
working people against imper-
jalism, colonialism and neoco-
Jonialism. Relations are main-
tained with the trade unions of
Japan, affiliated with the Gen-
eral Council of Trade Unions of
Japan (Sohyo) and the Liaison
Council of Neutral Trade Unions
(Churitsu Roren), with the
trade unions of India and all
the. major confederations in
other countries of Asia, con-
tacts with trade. union centres
and industrial trade unions in
many countries of Latin. Ame-
rica have widened.

|

NS cs li ie Sn 3, ES
The success of the entire Fivé Year Plan and hence of the
ee ve tire
program for raising the living standards of th is
their production and social activities. apron een ae

The numerical strength of the trade unions duri
Soviet power has i ; 3 ring the years of
trial cates \as increased 60-fold, more than two thirds are indus-