sover paworama \ A bublik is a bagel is a bun. . By BERT WHYTE Soviet trade with the United States is expected to increase 25-fold within the next few years, according to Maurice Stans, U.S. ‘secretary of com- merce, who recently spent 10 days in the USSR discussing trade and investment possibil- ities. A fortnightly newsletter, Soviet Business and Economic Report, is being established as a joint venture of TASS, the Soviet mews agency, and a Washington - based American company, Porter International. First issue is tentatively sche- duled for April 1. Porter Inter- national will also offer sub- scribers to the service in-depth studies of key areas of the Soviet economy. Bo k * For the second time within a year prices of Soviet TV sets have been reduced. The new price cut, which became effec- tive February 1, particularly af- fects large-screen sets: one type which sold for 420 roubles now costs only 340. The prices of color TV-sets have dropped 24% on the aver- age. By the end of the current five-year plan industry will be producing 1.5 million color sets annually. a ok * Some 50 scientists from the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan and the United States -attended an international symposium on the exploration of the Bering Sea held recently in the town of Hakodate, on Hokkaido Island. Said a TASS dispatch: “The rigorous climate makes the sys- tematic exploration of this sea difficult: that is why it remains one of the least explored seas in the world.” * a * The world’s most powerful hydroturbines and hydrogener- ators are produced in Leningrad. They are sold to many foreign firms and countries. “Last December we won a contract, in conditions of sharp competition, to deliver two 440,000-kw turbines for the A _t rat i G8 AB Ke < ak} % si EI Ty i Mica hydropower action on the Columbia River in Canada,” Georgi Zarubkin, chairman of the Soviet Energomacheport trading organization, told a New Times correspondent. “Two tur- bines of about the same capa- city will be delivered by the well-known Japanese Hitachi Company, which has long-stand- ing ties with the Canadian busi- ness world.” Chief customers for Soviet hydro equipment are, naturally, the socialist countries. Other clients include Brazil, India, Bri- tain, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan and Sweden. * % +e In this land of no unemploy- ment and no inflation, 1972 will also be a year of wage in- creases. Doctors and teachers will have their pay raised as of September 1, night shift wages will go up, and taxes will be cut and in certain cases abolished for employees in low-paying jobs. Last year some farm mechan- ics were given wage hikes and this measure is to be extended this year. Students will benefit. Starting with the 1972 academic years (September 1) college and spe- cialized secondary and technical school students will begin to receive bigger stipends, and food allowances for vocational school students will be increas- ed. * * * Soviet agricultural aviation has a fleet of thousands of planes and helicopters which give assistance to collective farms at all seasons of the year. They fertilize crop fields, sow rice, destroy weeds and pests. This year aviators will spray 89 million hectares of land with chemicals as against 85 million last year. The Ukraine in the recent period has built 100 rural air- fields out of joint funds of col- lective farms; the plan is to have 1,000 such landing strips by 1975. You've seert one plant and you've seen them all? Not quite, be- cause this is a plant in Mokhsogollokh in Soviet Yakutia in the Far North and it is producing ferroconcrete house units for the fast grow- ing communities in the sub-Arctic region. Producing 200,000 tons last year, the plant will give 330,000 tons by 1973. Mokhsogollokh is Yakut for Falcon Mountain. In addition to the cement plant, a large-panel housebuilding, a reinforced-concrete casting, a mineral-wool and a ceramsite plant have been put in commission, and a lime plant is to be put in operation presently. A gas-pipeline string anda year-round road functioning have been built from Yakutsk to these parts. In summer the plants’ products will be shipped over Siberian: rivers to the remotest, northernmost arecs of the Arctic. In Yakutsh which is located in the permafrost zone, they have fully given up the construction of wooden buildings and-changed over: to « large-panel construction, erecting 6- and 7-storeyed, air-conditioned houses. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1972—PAGE 10 ~“War. Measures Act. By MONICA WHYTE MOSCOW — A bagel is a bublik is a baranka is a bagel is a—by any name it still means a round, hard bread with a hole in the middle like a doughnut. “Bread has always been a staple food of the Russian peo- ple,” said Elena Deftyalyuk, di- rector of the Experimental Baranki Bakery in Moscow, “and no doubt baranki evolved /aS a preserved bread — some- think that would keep practi- cally forever on long trek across the taiga, on sea voyages and Arctic explorations.” Moscow. consumes around 2,000 tons of bread products daily and of this figure baranki account for 100 tons. Although . four other bakeries produce varieties, the Experimental Bakery is noted for introducing -new lines and recipes. Thus, about 18 months ago Musco- vites discovered bread sticks on sale. They were an instant suc- cess. © “We bought two automatic lines from Italy,” the director told 50 foreign correspondents who were visiting the. bakery, “and experimented with recipes until we got what we wanted— a crisp, dry bread. Last year we produced five and a half tons a day and the demand was. much greater than the supply. This year, as. our second line comes into full operation, we expect to sell between nine and 10 tons daily.” Elena: Deftyalyuk is a short, plump woman in her early 40s and she has been director of the Experimental Bakery since it opened in 1966. She is indefatigable in her enthusiasm for her job and this is reflected in the bakery’s excellent re- cord: all 360 employees over- fulfill their quotas. The bakery operates on a three-shift basis, five days a week. Labor turn-over is low, but as 85 percent of the work- force is female, some quit to stay home with babies after their maternity leave is up and some find that the weekly turn- about shift system is incom- patible with domestic situa- tions. The average wage runs around 138 roubles a month, plus bonus. The director herself receives. 180 roubles monthly, excluding premiums, but it is noteworthy. that one woman in the plant who has learned to manage three machines at once, gets 170. iS a The chief engineer of bakery was naturally m0 terested in showing us 0V machines. that produced the finished goodies. Learning i I was from Canada, he t0! it that discussions were Wy way for a Canadian firm be in Simcoe, Ontario to pu int) Soviet. bagel-making machi | x - (y “It was interesting t0 ef the whole process from jj point where the dough is ® | in huge vats, portioned © little blobs, cut into thé - quired shapes, zipped * into ovens to emerge oe : other end— brown and HM) . was even nicer to sample y product with fragrant RU | tea served out of a samova | Fight for Quebec rights related (Excerpt from the speech by Jeanette Walsh at the recent convention of the Communist Party of the USA, acquainting the U.S. delegates with the struggle in Quebec.) I would like to add my voice as a French-Canadian Commun- ist to the expressions of solidar- ity and deep admiration, ex- pressed by the leader of our delegation, for the heroic strug- gle for social and _ national emancipation conducted by the Communist Party of the USA. The crisis of October 1970 was precipitated by the federal Trudeau government in order to crush once and for. all the na- tional awakening, the movement for emancipation, the growing movement for _ self-determina- tion which more and more in- fluences my: nation, the French- Canadian nation which, since the British Conquest two hun- dred years ago, has been reduc- ed to carriers of water, to an Oppressed nation on our own soil. : The Trudeau government used the pretext of two kidnappings to send an army of occupation into Quebec and to proclaim the 3,000 searches and 500 arrests with- out warrant or charges, an offi- cial inquisition directed at the teachers—all this could paralyse my people only ' temporarily. For, the very next day after the proclamation: of the. War.Meas- ures Act, the Communist Party was. the first. to demonstrate . unitedly. on , Parliament: . Hill, having as one. of the slogans: Quebec Needs. Jobs, . Not. the Army”... ‘ ‘The three: central’ labar. bod- tion of Labor, the Quebec-based ies, that is the Quebec Federa- Confederation of National Trade Unions and the Quebec Teach- ers’ Corporation, formed a Com-~ mon Front and succeeded in drawing to. their side the na- tional and democratic forces of the petty bourgeoisie. It was the unity of the work- ing class of all Canada, in soli- darity with my people, express- ed above: all by the Canadian Labor Congress, by the Com- munist Party of Canada and by the New Democratic — Party, which created a split in the Tru- deau. government and obliged ‘it to let lapse the repressive legis- lation. The October 1971 crisis was the result of the united struggle of all those who work for the newspaper La Presse, the big- gest French-language paper in North America, for security in face of automation and for the right of the journalists to free- dom of speech, Again the trade unio? me ment formed a Commol’ yj and took the leadership % became a national an nl cratic struggle for the a a demonstrate in the streé aid for labor control of te ical development. BS The vicious attack of re ; lice on a great demonstra « the three central labor fo i became the basis for the | a © tion of a permanent Cy - Front, for the official reer $ tion of the role of the § op ¢ servants of state me capitalism, for the realiz@ ih: the necessity for the class to act as a class oa political scene, and ever A” clare itself anti-capitalis for socialism. A. Coming from these sty to your convention, wy © breathes the courage of off class struggle, of the st el 2 of the Black people, of ¥ . canos, of the Puerto Ric liberation, I feel at home SORBS ENJOY FREEDOM | BERLIN (ADN) — The Insti- tute for Sorbic Language in the German Democratic Republic in 20 years has issued 150 publi- cations on the history, language and literature of the Sorbs (or Wends) , the only national minor- - ity in the GDR. ~ In 1948 the rights of the 100,- 000 Sorbs who are living in the south-east of the country were. guaranteed by the state for the first time during the thousand years’ history of this small’ “Sorbic language and st western Slav people. Ths a today equal rights in all ‘ul public, economic, and u S life. About 1,300 Sorb 4% have been elected to nin@ “and numerous municip# iY blies.. In 49 towns an@ palities. there are Sorb the history and culture. Sorbs are compulsory bi at the schools of the © region. i ee