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Socialist joint venture
at Polish spinning mill

ZAWIERCIE — A GDR-Polish
cotton spinning mill, - called
“Freundschaft” (Friendship), one
of the most modern works of its
kind in Europe, has been set up
at Zawiercie, north of Katowice
in Poland. It was built following
a decision by the Party leader-
ships and the Governments of
the German Democratic Repub-
lic and the People’s Republic of
Poland and designed, financed,
equipped and run jointly by ex-
pérts from both countries.

It is the first time that two
socialist countries, the GDR and
Poland, have. built a factory
which is their joint property
with the output shared by both
equally. Some of the spinning
machines were supplied by
Czechoslovakia, and raw ma-
terials are being imported from
the Soviet Union, so that two
more socialist countries have a
share in this joint venture. It was
put into operation officially on
June 16, 1975.

Standing in the large expanse
of the ring spinning section,
you have the impression that
there are almost no workers in
here. You hear the buzzing of
long rows of the most up-to-date
ring spinning frames from the
textile machine _ engineering

works at Karl Marx-Stadt in the
GDR. Containers, gliding almost
noiselessly through the hall,
continuously transport raw ma-
terials, semi-finished and finish-
ed products to the various de-
partments. The use of modern
transport facilities permits a ra-
tional organization of work.

Every time a thread gets
broken; which is signalled by a
small lamp, the thread is fasten-
ed again by the skillful hands of
one of the young women work-
ing here. Each of them operates
six rows totalling 1,500 bobbins,
but the atmosphere lacks any
feverish haste. Eighty people, in-
cluding the technical mainten-
ance personnel, work each shift.
The women who operate these
highly-productive automats were
all trained at a textile combine
at Cottbus in the GDR. A voca-
tional school at the works will
train the follow-up personnel.

But Edward Pikon,: the direc-
tor and his assistant, Werner
Schmidt from the GDR do not
deny they still face big problems.
They aim to achieve full produc-
tion in nine months. Three hund-
red tons will be produced. this
month, but when the factory
reaches its full capacity, it will
turn out 1,000 tons.

Angolans gain freedom

LUANDA Five hundred
years of Portuguese colonialism
in Angola ended Nov. 11 as the
flag of Portugal was lowered for
the last time, and_ remaining
soldiers boarded a boat for Lis-
bon. Angola was the last of Por-
tugal’s colonies.

The administration. of the
country is now in the hands of
the Peoples’ Movement for the
Liberation of Angola (MPLA),
the organization recognized by
Portugal as the legitimate libera-
tion movement. The MPLA plans
to institute popular reforms in
industry and agriculture and will
hold national elections as soon
as possible.

But Angola’s . independence
was marred by the background
of fighting, as MPLA troops
battled counter - independence
forces-in-the north and south of
the country. South ~ African
troops and mercenaries invaded
the country last month and con-
scripts and mercenaries of the
Front for the Liberation of An-
gola (FNLA), in the pay of im-
perialist powers, are seeking to
gain control of the oil rich coun-
try.

The MPLA which has the sup-

_port of almost all the Angolan

people, has so far succeeded in
retaining its control.

‘reliable

Newspaper people for the
big dailies often use devices
which, if unnoticed can be ac-
cepted by the reader as gos-
pel. Who hasn’t wondered
who the “high-ranking- offi-
cial” is? Or what exactly is a
“usually reliable source”?

Some dailies and news-
magazines are liberally sprink-
led with such intriguing-look-
ing tidbits as “sources close
to...” and “observers say
...” but never — never —
are we let in on the secret of
who they all are. Could there
perhaps be a “Guidebook to
Reporters” that is used? What
would is read like?

Sources Close To

Best of all. This is very sec-
ret and hints at news leaks
and scoops.

Reliable Sources

One of the best. It implies
you have sources, that they
are reliable and that must be
unnamed because they are
close to the story.

Those deceiving

sources

Usually Reliable Sources

Not as good. This could
mean they are usually reli-
able, but have let you down
before. It’s better than noth-
ing, but use sparingly.

- Sources

Not a bad one. It hints that
you have many sources —
perhaps a network. It also
dcesn’t clutter up the reader
with a description of its re-
liability.. Use often.

Observes say

Not too good. Everyone
thinks he is an. observer.
Lacks authority and suggests
your sources have dried up.

Witnesses Told

A witness is suspect. No
two ever agree on what hap-
pened. Avoid. -

A High-Ranking Official

Can be employed occasion-
ally. Too many “ifs” — how
high?. What rank? An official
what? Too risky.
One Person When Asked

Terrible. Only Time Maga-
zine uses this, and everyone
knows about time.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 14, 1975—Page 8

The United Nations Social
Committee Oct. 17 passed a reso-
lution classifying Zionism as a
form cf racism by a vote of 70
to 29 with 27 abstaining. The
resolution is almost certain to be
passed by the General Assembly
and has drawn angry protest
from the United States which
threatens to withdraw its sup-
port from the UN fight against
racism.

Israel, whose generals two

days earlier spoke openly about
war with Syria and Jordan, pre-
dictably repeated the story of a
“small people being persecuted”
and rang the Zionist call to arms
with statements about “sur-
vival.” :
. Arab delegates said that the
resolution: condemning Zionism
was aimed at the racist and na-
tionalist Jewish state and not
against Judaism as a religion.
The Toronto Star editorially
wrote a vicious piece about a
UN “gang-up” and trotted out
the old story of a people looking
for a “spot on the map where
persecuted Jewry could create
its own sovereign state .. .”

It flatly denied any persecu-
tion of Arabs and blandly tells
the reader that eight Arabs sit
in the Israeli parliament out of

Communists
in Turkey
urge unity

In an interview published ear-
lier this year in the British
paper Morning Star, the general-
secretary of the Turkish Com-
munist Party said the present
government leaders of his coun-
try intend to hold onto their
power through fascist comman-
do assaults against all opposi-
tion, and through collaboration
with the militarist clique now
heading Turkey’s armed forces.

Mr. I. Bilen, whose party is
officially banned in Turkey, said
government leaders are linked
with big landlords, bankers, in-
ternational monopolies, NATO
and the CIA. \

The Turkish economy is domi-
nated by foreign capital, and the
present government, which came
into power after the fall of the
Republican Peoples’ Party gov-
ernment, represents the inter-
ests of the foreign investors.

The government is doing no-
thing to help the critical unem-
ployment situation in Turkey,
Bilen said. It stands between
nine and ten millions out of a
population of nearly 37-million
pecple. The’ Communist Party
leader said the economic situa-
tion in Turkey forces millions
of people to emigrate, and in
Western Europe alone there are
cver one million Turkish work-
ers and their families.

The Communist Party of Tur-
key (TKP) “is concentrating its
efforts on organizing resistance
to ensuré the unity in action of
all revolutionary, progressive
and patriotic forces against im-
perialism and its accomplices,
and to ensure the formation of
a national democratic front and
a democratic government,” Bilen
said.

On Turkey’s role. in Cyprus,
the TKP “is for the indepen-
dence and territorial integrity of
Cyprus, freed from all the bases
and all the influences of impe-
rialism, for the withdrawal of
all foreign armed forces includ-
ing the Turkish army.”

120 members, and that a million
Arabs (never using the term Pa-
lestinians) live in “Israeli-cont-
rolled territories on the Left
Bank and Gaza Strip.” No men-
tion of raids, refugee camps, Is-

2

raeli
more and more Arabs off theif
land, occupation of parts of
Egypt and Syria, and the rejéc-
tion of all UN resolutions calling
for Israeli military pull-back.

The Toronto Star made no mention of Israeli raids on re-
fugee camps, like the raid on Camp Nabatiya last year, shown
here before and after Israeli bombing.

Story aids anti-detente campaign

French-Soviet talks useful —

litary sphere was now a task of |

The campaign to scuttle the
detente continues. The Toronto
Globe and Mail Oct. 25 publish-
es an account of the Soviet-
French talks in Moscow under
the by-line of Leo Ryan from
Paris.

Ryan uses every writer’s trick
to portray a scene of doom and

gloom for France and paints a
‘picture , of

French _ president
D’Estaing being snubbed in Mos-
cow. The French- Soviet talks
were “a diplomatic setback for
France” and ‘a warning to the
West.” Gathering himself to-
gether, Ryan boldly writes that
“some observers in Europe con-
sider the affair to be a turning
point in the whole process of
East-West detente.”

In fact, the opposite is the
case. The talks are described as
“especially important” in a 8-
page cable received by the Trib-
une from the Soviet news
agency APN. The agreements
reached between the two coun-
tries are summed up in a decla-
ration signed by CPSU general
secretary L. I. Brezhnev and
president Giscard D’Estaing.

“A close study of this docu-
ment,” says APN, “shows it con-
tains provisions of great political
significance.

“The USSR and France pro-
claimed they are ‘fully resolved
to follow the course of concord
and cooperation’ in furthering
detente. They have assessed the
all-European Conference in Hel-
sinki as an event of enormous
importance, believing that the
principles formulated in the final
Act create new possibilities for
strengthening European  secu-
rity.”

The two.countries recognized
in their jcint declaration that an
extension of détent into the mi-

utmost urgency. It stressed they
will both work toward reducing

the dangers of military confrom |
tation and promote disarm@ |

ment.

They particularly emphasized
the need to prevent the prolifer:
ation of nuclear weapons an
their determination to bear thé
responsibility’ that rests wit
them as nuclear powers.

Both parties to the declaratio”™
held similar positions concer
ing the basic question for #
Mideast settlement and_ theif
view concerning their determi”
ation to respect the will of th®

peoples of Indochina for free |

independent development with
cut outside interference. They

supported the admission of th® |

Democratic Depublic of Vietna™
and the Republic of South viel
nam to the United Nations. _

They held identical views 0” |

the need to settle the Cyprvs
problem on the basis of full res”
pect for the independenc®
scvereignty and territorial intes”
rity of the Republic of Cyprus:
Finally, the USSR and Franc®
reaffirmed their adherence to th®

UN Charter and spoke again

its revision.

PE a
In addition to the joint declat

ation, three agreements wef
signed during the talks —
cooperation in the field of ene™
gy, civil aviation aid aircraft i”
dustry, and tourism.

The Globe and Mail would

have performed a real servic’
had it studied the document
talks @

the French-Soviet

passed the information and 4 |

sessment of the participants %
to its readers. As is too ofté é
the case, however, the capitalié
dailies ignore the facts in fav?
of fiction.

settlements which force}

and agreements resulting i 4 ;

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