against

Pe oe BERT WHYTE
lenies gy Those age-long
Maroy agriculture, flood
ght, are again plagu-
’ unese countryside in
dg Provinces, Following
is. . heels of a series
ites €nted natural cal-
a ra 1959 and 1960,
tees ot St attacks by the
RDpoint eee are causing
ations © Setbacks not only
; ture but also in a
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All China joins battle

flood, drought

overcome every disaster.
Renmin Ribao (People’s
Daily) carried some up-to-date
reports in the battle with the
elements in its recent issues. It
gave details of a spring
drought affecting in varying
degrees farming in the pro-
vinces of Shantung, Honan,
Shansi and Shensi, and the
Inner Mongolian Autonomous
Region. Rainfall in early
spring helped to some extent
but the lack of snow last win-
ter has had an adverse effect.
“Along the middle, and the
lower reaches of the Yellow
River the Communist’ Party
organizations and admimnistra-
tive organs in the drought-
affected areas are now leading
rural commune members in a
vigorous fight against
drought,” says the paper.

“Incomplete statistics show
lthat in the first 10 days of
April a labor force totalling
roughly 3,000,000 in Shan-
tung, Hopei, Shansi and
Shensi provinces was engaged

irrigation. By making use of
all available water sources,
Honan, Hopei, Shantung, Shan-
si and Shensi have irrigated
about 30 million mu of farm.
land of which roughly 20 mil
lion mu are wheat field.” (A
mu is one-sixth of an acre—
B.W.)

Further south, in the Pearl
River Delta, heavy rains have
eaused floods in some areas
and threatened others. Says
Renmin Hibao:

“Heavy rain fell in north-
ern, eastern’ and western
Kwangtung as well as north-

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The OAS is United States
machinery by which the terms
of the Kennedy Doctrine -are
going to be enforced. The
president says plainly that,
under this new doctrine, he
will intervene, with U.S. arm-
ed forces where necessary, to
upset the results of elections
if they are not acceptable to
the United States.

What is not. acceptable to
the United States is described
in the Kennedy-Diefenbaker
communique as “alignment
with Communist. .leadership
abroad’. This is, in words at
least, a joint threat that all
the countries of this .hemi-
sphere are going to be kept
under effective U.S. control,
even if it requires war to
achieve it. No patriotic Cana-
dian can accept such an ar-
bitrary “restriction on the
right of the people of this
country to decide for them-
selves what path we shall fol-
low and-to choose the govern-
ment to pursue: it.

Rejecting such an arbitrary
restriction of our own sOove-
reignty we have no -moral
right whatever to join an Or
ganization. to. help . impose
such a_ restriction on other
peoples. This is, if possible,
even more the case because
President Kennedy’s attempt
to prevent social and political
progress threatens to bring
large-scale war to this .hemi-
sphere. ney

ACT NOW '

The urgent need of the
present situation is to arouse
patriotic Canadians to act.
The executive of the Canadian
Labor Congress is calling for
Canada to join the Organiza-
tion of American - States.
These officers ‘should be told
by scores of local unions -and
labor councils that their pro-

It is quite evident that their
action is calculated to satisfy
the international presidents of
unions affiliated to the CLC
rather than to serve the na-
tional interests of Canada.

The National Committee for
the Organization of the New
Party should be corrected
also. The New Party is not
going to unite the majority of
democratic Canadians around
it by advocating more and
more surrender of Canadian
sovereignty to the United
States. The men and women
who can and will make the
New Party ‘successful and
able to elect a parliamentary
majority are opposed to Can-
ada joining in action to over-
throw the Castro -government
in Cuba. They want Canada
to maintain friendly — rela-
tions with the people of Latin
America through the strug-
gles that are inevitable in the
great national resurgence that
they are going through.

Finally the Kennedy pro-
gram must be rejected be-
cause it is in opposition «to
the broad trend which is set-
ting in all over the world in
favor of peace through com-
plete and general world dis-
armament. : : Bee
“ Eyery member of the
House of Commons should be
pressed by voters in his con-
siituency to declare himself
against the proposal thai Can-
ada joins the Organization of
American States.

Defeat of the scheme fo en-
tangle us in schemes of U.S.
imperialism in Latin America
through membership in OAS
will be a modest but positive
step forward in the struggle
Zo re-assert the sovereigniy of

Canada.

in battling drought and spring}.

Emergency measures have been taken in the previnee of
Kwantung to protect the rice paddies after early spring
floods inundated some 15,00 acres,. Photo shows members
of a people’s commune diverting. water from. their. rice
paddies with foeot-powered pumps. ns

eastern Kwangsi... .
in these areas led the masses
in the fight against floods. At
a critical moment when the
water level of.a reservoir in
Hsinhuei

Party secretary ‘Tsai Ming-
huei led more than 100 eivil-
ian workers to the dykes. They
drained away water by adding
new spillways -and after sev-
eral hours the danger was
averted.”

In Hunan Province battles
are being waged.in various
places to combat-floods-and-en-
sure a good harvest. But Hun-
an, - reports «Ré€nmin ..Ribao,
has paid. early - attention to
this year’s flood prevention
work. :

“T,ocal-authorities - have
made check-ups- of the--dams
and dykes of their -reservoirs
and lakes and. worked out
measures to. resist-..possible
floods and- guard. against the
high water-season. =Anti-flood
directing — organizations -- have
been set up. and impreved: and
rescue teams organized.”

te EJ *

While visiting..Nanking re
cently I spent a good three
hours: talking..to Chang Tsao
Jen, head of the office. of the
Aid Agriculture Committee of
the Nanking - Party .Commit-
tee. I.wanted to know ‘what
Kiangsu.. Province {of- which
Nanking is the capital) -was
doing to support agriculture,

Cadres}j

Country .. suddenly!
rose, the county..Communist}

speed up its growth and tech-
nical. transformation,

Chang answered decisively:
“Aid must be -practical, and it
must be in time.. The workers
and peasants are ail. members
of one family. Part ef-our job
is to educate. the factery work-

ers. to fully. understand the -

policy . of. aiding. -agrieulture,
its vital significanee.”’

He outlined «some ‘steps that _

have been taken:

® Some = 100;000 ---workers
helped... the. .peasants ~build

dams, canals and-dykes in the

early. period of ‘the rural com-
munes.

e The factories: produce
quantities. of.mechanized farm
tools, as well-as simpie farm
tools.

ed from cities to: countryside to
add strength -to -the ferces ac-
tually engaged- in--agriculture
production.

“In 1960 over: 40,000. Nan-
king -technical::werkers and

laborers made... a <-permanent

shift to the. rural:-communes,”’
said Chang.

w J ®

What is happening in-Kiang-
su. Province is -being dupli-
cated in many. other ‘provinces.
No wonder, then; -that *China’s
500 million. peasants. and 150
million urban workers are un-
daunted by -temperary diffi-
eulties.

Vehicle :
Type of flight
Duration of flighi

the time of Jaunching.

Two Space Flights Compared

GAGARIN
Spaceship

- Around the earth Ballistic parabola
108 .minutes

Altitude reached 196 mlies 115. mites
Maximum. speect 18,000 mph 5,160 mph
Period of 2

weighilessness 95. minutes 5 minutes
Distance travelled 25,000 miles 302. miles
Weight of capsule 1,034 Ibs. 237 Ibs,
Thrust 400 tons 39 tons
Recovery On land In the ccean

It was -also reported this week in. Mescow.2ha? the
rocket which ‘put the spaceship carrying Gagarin. into orbii
had six engines ‘with a iotal thrust. of 20 million pounds at

SHEPARD
Missile

15 minutes

© Workers -have:-peen shift-

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