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Photo shows a large tractor-hauled bulldozer newly pro-

duced by the Kiyang Machine Plant, North Korea. While
Canada still does not produce its own car, North Korea
manufactures tractors, trucks, lorries, excavators, elec-
tric locomotives and equipment for steel -rolling mills.

WHILE SOUTH KOREA .LANGUISHES

Miracle In North Kor

By BERT WHYTE

PEKING—

“Tf there is such a thing as a miracle in the

world, there is one in North Korea,” said Jean Vidal of
L’Humanite on his return from a visit to the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea recently.

Vidal, like other foreign This year
correspondents, was tremen- North Korea
is. embarking

dously impressed by the speed
with which Korea has healed
her war scars and is marching
along the socialist road to a
brighter future.

“Korea will become one of

the -communist paradises of
the world.’ he enthused.

Are trade union funds used to
aid G.B.-U.S. monopoly in Africa?

SECRET British Foreign therefore

Office document revealing
the- sharp behind the scenes
struggle taking place between
a handful of top British and
American labor leaders for)
control of the International
Confederation of Free Trade
Unions (ICFTU). was. -made
public by the Nigerian Trade
Union Congress recently.

The Nigerian T.U.C. pamph-
let entitled “The Great Con-
spiracy Against Africa” quotes
from a document marked
“U.K. Eyes Only.” This docu-|

ment was prepared for the at-|

tention.” of Britain’s cabinet
members on the eve of the 6th.
Congress of the ICFTU in
Brussels in December 1959,
analyzing the reasons for the
Anglo - American conflict in
the ICFTU.

The document shows the di-:
rect secret relationship be-
tween some top union leaders
of both countries and the
foreign affairs and_ intelli-
gence agencies of their respec-
tive governments,- and how
these leaders are fighting for
centrol of the ICFTU as an
ideal weapon for furtherance
of the new style of colonialism
in Africa,

“As revealed by: the docu-
ment here is the British’ esti-
mation of the role “of the
1CFTU in Africa:

“The gradual abdication. of
direct British and other Euro-
pean rule in Africa in favour
of measures to establish direct
independence, makes it all the
mere necessary to maintain
our African connections by the
development of non-political
means. In these conditions, the
role of trade-unionism, and}

the role of the
ICFTU, have acquired a new
and vital importance for us..
Trade union help will be need-
ed to check irresponsible na-
tionalization and to control
key sectors of the economy of
the newly - created African
States.”
*

America’s attitude is sum-
med up in a quote from a sec-
ret policy report written by
Vice-President Nixon after a
1957 visit to Africa.

“The aim .of United States
seems to be to take advan-
tage of the difficult situation
in which the United Kingdom
and other European powers
find themselves; to replace
their influence and interests
by direct U.S. penetration in
Africa, using the machinery of
the ICFTU and American. con-
tacts that have been built up
with African leaders for this
purpose.”

The American plan to use
the ICFTU for furthering its
colonial expansionist plans for
Africa ran into the snag that
the ICFTU International Soli-
darity Fund is controlled by
Sir Vincent Tewson (former
general secretary of the Brit-
ish Trade Union Congress).
The American State Depart-
ment. and the Central -Intelli-
gence Agency met. this diffi-

culty -by premising Meany and:

Reuther that any funds neces-
sary would be met from secret
or other ‘aid sources.”

Substantiating these allega-
tions is the fact that since 1957
the AFL-CIO has’ withheld
$221,000 from this fund.

At the last executive meet-
ing however, the labor body

slapped a per capita increase
on its affiliates to provides a

.| $444 million “special purposes

fund‘ $3,250,000 to be spent in
the next three years through
the ICFTU solidarity fund.

*

The question Canadian un-
ionists must ask is: Are Cana-
dian trade union funds being
used to further the aims of

American or British monopo-

lies in Africa?

The questionable activities
of the Canadian Labor Con-
gress in connection with Cuba
has made that body’s initerna-
tional outlook more than
suspect in the eyes of most
B.C. unionists. Now this docu-
ment requires a straight for-
ward answer from top labor
leaders in Canada, Does Cana-
dian labor have an independ-
ent foreign policy or is our,
money being spent through
the ICFTU to support the plots
and plans of American mono-
poly?

ona grand
Seven Year
Plan .) (2961-
1967) aimed at
making’. deci-
sive advances
in the socialist
in d ustrializa-
tion of the
country and radically. improy-
ing the living-standards of the
people.

Because heavy. industry al-
ready has a firm base, the first
three years will see great at-
tention paid to rapid develop-
ing light industry and stepping
up the flow of consumer
goods; the latter four years
will lay stress on further ex-
panding heavy industry and
improving its technical equip-
ment.

POST-WAR PROGRESS
When the war came to an
end in Korea, the major cities
were destroyed, furnaces had
rusted, paddy fields were pock-
marked with craters, food and
clothing were in short supply.

Within three short years,
thanks to the dauntless cour-
age of the people (and the
generous aid from all socialist
countries) the country had re-
covered from its war wounds
and laid the technical founda-
tion for embarking on a five-
year plan,

During this period the gross
industrial output value grew
at the astounding speed of an
average of 45 percent annu-|:
ally.

“A powerful heavy industry
was built. Tractors and trucks
began to pour from the as-

administration.

this.

ministers put together.”

GDR Has Goods On Globke |

East German authorities have documents linking Eich-
mann and Hans Globke, under-secretary of state in West
Germany under Chancellor Adenauer.

Globke,. with a_long. career in the Hitler government,
remains a strong influence in “Adenauer’s West German

He wrote a. legal interpretation. of: Nazi sartat laws that
classified Jews as an impure people and dangerous to Ger-
mans, thereby forbidding. German-Jewish marriages,

Globke stayed in the Hitler’ movement to the end. Nazi
Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, hanged at Nuremburg in
1946, said Globke was a loyal Nazi. Globke denies none of.

At 62, he holds cabinet rank today, heads a staff of 80,
co-ordinates the work of ministries and, according to a
German biographer, “has more power! than all 17 federal

sembly lines.

A dense network

industry plants cove
country. Output %
zoomed.

Farm co-ops were ®
vast irrigation sche
started. By the end)
electricity had fount
to 90 percent of :
areas, 3

Other gains welt
up in education an
fields. Free nurserl
dergartens spran
where. Paid holidaj
medical service wé
ed, Illiteracy was |
wiped out and todat
school education #F
made compulsory. ~

The Five-Year Plat fc
61) was: successfully 4
2% years ahead of 87P

There are 3,843 ag
co-ops in North ;
1960, despite droll
some floods, they 4
bumper crop — thé
70 years. “

SEVEN-YEAR PLAN

of

According to the th
ary draft of the 5®,
Plan, industrial outpy, :
is to increase moré ie f
times during the re
years and the total #
put more than 1. 5 im? hy

(me.

“Thus, ‘our count
turned into an adv?
cialist industrial °
towns and rural. vil
be more beautifully:
ed and the materia
tural life of our per
become far more ve
says.Kim I Sung, - |

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Steel production %
from 451,000 tons a |
2,500,000 tons in 196

Electric power. wi
from 7,811,000,000 ne
1959 to 17.000; 000.0" 00
1967. :

Coal production 4
crease.in the same P* Fi
8,854,000 tons to ov F
lion tons; cement vot
000 tons to 4,300
chemical fertilizer.
000 tons to 1,500
fabrics from 158,000,
tres to 500,000, oon

These advances i day

|
go

| prosperity to the ail i

North Korea. Mea? nth
people in. South K aii

‘under U.S. domil® ye

suffering from tHe .
life in 4,000 years © 2
South Korean phra%
For..the Koreat p
peaceful - reunifical!™,
country is the uP
tional aspiration 22°

April 14, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNaE