OS. 2D I SO hE le a ba a =.VT.C‘( |r G. Endicott, chairman of the Canadian Jal is shown introducing Prime Minister Worlg Nehru of India (seated in foreground) to the New De i, ahaa bureau meeting held Jast month in German workers buck “tom weapon plan By PHYLLIS ROSNER BERLIN _ ;_ Siteering Ww Several thousand workers from Henschel heavy orks at Kassel, West Germany last week downed nN pr : “Tm the pees against Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s plan to Untry with atomic weapons. Raeot demonce Kassel workers were hauer s ating, Erich Ollen- Chaj hess Democratic party at Bo n told the Bundestag forWarg . Patty would put M to i hs ON for a referen- any on aken in West Ger- atomi . Undeswehy ° arming of the A ti ion, W West German trade {0 action builders’, has called ati,» if necessary, strike ad @8ainst atomic arms. Ices, ~S Of the public serv- Dying SedWorkers, food’ sup- have 8nd chemical workers Calls, already made _ similar decig € builders’ leaders “On Prot © give full trade un- “ction to any members who refuse to do construction work on missile bases or at- omic arms depots. Ollenhauer’s announcement came as the hot debgte in the Bundestag on the atomic arms question drew to a close after three days of debate often ris- ing to an uproar. s To prolonged applause from Opposition benches Ollenhau- er declared: “Atomic arming will not dis- appear from the agenda. If with your majority the reso- lution is adopted, then we shall fight so that it is not operat- ed.” Food profits in US. Continue eat” YORK Business gen- Many j 8Y be in a slump with duct; "dustries curtailing pro- Chaing ’ Ut the big food Wholesale, distributors and Cor & Ts, dairies, millers, Ufactyy ®cessors and food man- “TS — continue to re- n : ; Profits Pe increases in their Ch; atles J. Coe, editor of the Facts For Farmers, May, 'S paradox in his om, &Aition, Mente Paradox,’ he com- Ing aitic 1S all the more strik- Years € farming has for many Stat, ©" in such a depressed Shoy, “24 the latest figures ine, = decline in net farm > €ven though retail to climb food costs have climbed to an all-time high.” Net profit of Safeway stores, for example, increased more than $5 million in 1957 over 1956 (from $25.4 million to $30.9 million). General Foods net profits were up almost $2 million (from $32.6 million to $34.5million). General Mills net profits climbed more than a million (from $5 million to $6.4 mil- lion). Quaker Oats profits were up almost a million (from $7.1 million to $8 million). Meanwhile, the net income of U.S. farmers has dropped from $16.1 billion in 1951 to $11.6 billion in 1957. USSR ENDS _H - TESTS Britain, U.S. urged to follow example MOSCOW — By deciding to stop all atomic and hydrogen weapon tests without wait- ing for interna to follow. tional agreement the Soviet Union has set an example for other nuclear powers Members of both the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities meeting in joint session cheered Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko time and time again as he made the historic announcement. “Striving to do everything possible to relieve mankind of . the danger of atomic war,” said Gromyko, “the Council of Ministers of the USSR sub- mits to the Supreme Soviet the proposal that, as an initial step to this end, the Soviet Union should unilaterally end the tests of atomic and hydrogen weapons of all types. “Tf the U.S. and Britain join the. Soviet Union and in their turn decide to end atomic and hydrogen weapon tests, the question which is deeply agi- tating all nations will finally be solved — test explosions of nuclear weapons will be end- ed everywhere and forever.” Gromyko continued: ‘Nat- urally if the governments of other countries possessing nu- clear weapons refuse to re- spond to the initiative taken by the Soviet Union and con- tinue to explode atomic and hydrogen weapons, the Soviet Union will have to be guided by the interests of its own se- curity. “Tf those who are organiz- ing military preparations hope that in the future too the So- viet Union alone will disarm unilaterally, while the West- ern powers continue to build up their armaments then they must know that such hopes are false. “Disarmament can only be based on honest agreement with due regard for the security in- terests of all parties. “In submitting the proposal for a unilateral termination of atomic and hydrogen weapons tests, the Soviet government expects that the U.S. and Bri- tain will acknowledge this de- cision and on their own parts make a contribution towards the cause of limiting the nu- clear arms race and reducing the danger of an atomic war. Nuclear-free zone TOKYO — The Japanese So- ealist party’s policy committee last week called for the-im- mediate establishment of a nuclear-free zone in Asia, which would include China, the Soviet Far East and Japan. ANDREI GROMYKO First step to agreement “The Soviet Government is convinced,” he declared, ‘that the ending of nuclear tests everywhere will become a turning point in international relations toward greater con- fidence and peaceful coopera- tion among the states.“ The Soviet Union was aware that the ending of tests would not signify the complete elim- ination of the threat of atomic war. “This is why, in favoring the ending of test explosions, we simultaneously and clearly de- clare that we consider it our chief aim to reach an agreement with other powers on an un- conditional ban of all types of atomic and hydrogen weapons, the ending of their production and complete destruction of existing stocks, with appropri- ate control.” He declared that the Soviet government could not but heed the appeals made by scientists and ordinary people all over the world for an ending of atomic tests and that was why it was taking this unilateral action. At the present time, when only the U.S8., Britain and the Soviet Union were producing atomic weapons, it was com- piratively easy to achieve agreement to end tests, but if the number of states producing such Weapons increased then it would become increasingly difficult. Gromyko said the campaign in Britain showed that the or- dinary people of Britain were at one in demanding the end of tests. If the atomie armament of Western Germany became a fact, he said, this would inev- itably raise new obstacles to agreement between the powers on disarmament and the re- sponsibility would rest with the West German government and those governments which. are prodding it to take such. steps. Immediately after Gromyko had submitted his resolution, the Supreme Soviet heard the world-famous atomie scien- tist, Academican Igor Kurcha- tov, welcome the Soviet gov- ernment’s decision: on behalf of all Soviet scientists and par- ticularly atomic scientists. “The Soviet Union has now equipped its armed forces with all kinds of atomic and hydro- gen weapons,” Kurchatov de- clared. “Anyone who dares to use the atomic sword against the Soviet Union will be destroy- ed by it. But it was a terrible thought that atomic war could ever be started. “We Soviet scientists are deeply concerned at the fact that so far there has been no agreement on the prohibition of atomic. weapons.” He said that if tests continue at the same rate as the pres- ent time then harmful radio- activity, and particularly stron- tium fallout, will cause imher- ited. diseases among several million people in each genera- tion. Talk about the alleged impossibility of controlling tests, he declared, was empty and irresponsible chatter. April 11, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3