‘War end of all liberties, above all, end of freedom fo live’, says delegate

Peace petition goes to British parliament

By PHYLLIS ROSNER
: LONDON

Delegates from the World Peace
Committee have arrived here to
Present petitions to parliament ask-
mg for the banning of the atom
and hydrogen bombs, outlawing of
all weapons of mass destruction
and slashing of armaments expen-
ditures,

Leader of the delegation is A.
Lecrivain-Servoz, deputy from the
Rhone district of France, who told
& press conference: “We have come
here to present to the leaders of
the British ‘parliament proposals
to further the cause of peace. We
do not bring here ideas for revo-
lution, but the aspirations and
hopes of the peoples of the world.”

Lecrivain-Servoz added: “I da
not represent any government, I
represent a people who have had
an awakening in the face of the
danger of war.”

From France also came Charles

Serre, Independent deputy from
Oran, and Jean Lureat, famous
painter, now best known as a tap-
estry designer. Lurcat said the de-
mand for a peace settlement is
gaining tremendous support among.
French intellectuals.

“Several thousand leading French
intellectuals of all types and all
shades of politics are active in the
fight for peace,” he said, “not only
in Paris, but in a whole number
of provinces throughout France.”

He pointed out that three of the
six world peace delegates denied
entry visas into the U.S. where
they had hoped to appear before
Congress, were intellectuals—world
famous painter Pablo Picasso,
chemistry professor Aubel of Sor-
bonne university and Lureat him-
self.

Lureat noted, however, that al-
though they were considered “un-
desirable” bp the U.S. state depart-
ment, their barring from the U.S.

had been protested by such con-
servative newspapers as the New
York Times and the New York
Herald Tribune.

Serre spoke with pride of the
support given to the peace move-
ment by the broad masses of the
French people, “men and women
representing workers of all types.”
He disclosed that just before his
departure from ‘France a peace
conference had been held in Paris
attended by over 12,000 delegates
from municipal peace committees.

* * *

Italian members of the delegation
included Socialist deputy Fernando
Santi, who is also secretary-general
of the Italian Confederation of La-
bor; Socialist Deputy Fuisto Tol-
loy; and Mario Palermo, former
minister of war from 1944-45, a
senator and municipal councillor of
Naples. |

“We fight against two types of
‘war’ mentality,’ Santi said, “those

who do not believe war will come
and when bombs drop it will be
too late to convince them, and
| those who think war is inevitable.”

The Italian people, he said, have

particular reasons to struggle for
peace since they had to fight in
fascist wars for many years.
“War,” he said, “is the end of all
liberties, above all the end of
the freedom to live.”

Senator Palermo said the peace
movement had initiated petitions,
similar to those being presented to
the British parliament, in every
Italian muncipal council, Eighty
percent of the councils have already
agreed to support the peace move-
ment, even those councils predom-
inantly Christian Democratic in
composition. He said his own coun-
cil, at Naples, which had a majority
of Christian Democrats, had un-
animously approved the petitions.

Others on the delegation were the

Dutch writer, Theun de Vries, and

Danish dockers leader, Kar! Frit-
ensen,

Bishop Peter Jannos from Hun-
gary and two Russian cultural ©
leaders were denied entry visas
by the British government.

| SHORT, SHORT

South African
bill patterned
on Section 98

CAPE TOWN

The pro-fascist Malan government’s law advisers, on instructions
from Justice Minister Swart, are drafting an anti-Communist bill for
the Union of South Africa on the lines of discredited Canadian anti-

Ommunist legislation—the former

Section 98 of the Criminal Code

of Canada, repealed in 1936—the Guardian, progressive South Afri-

can weekly, charges.

ain feature of the proposed bill,” states the Guardian,
nowhere does it contain the words Communist or communism.

“Ss that
This

Means that it gives the government very wide and drastic powers to out-
aw any opposition group whatsoever.”

The bill is reported to be in the hands of F. Lutge, attorney general
of the Transvaal, who recently came to Cape Town for discussions

with Swart,

When further revisions havé been
ee the bill will be presented to
27° cabinet for approval.
to he South African bill is said
8 be based on Canada’s former

ction 98 which, asia result of great
Toyular Pressure, was repealed in
ernie but which the Canadian gov-
Cane now wishes to restore in
Mi €r to outlaw the Labor-Progres-

ve Party of Canada.

Similar legislation is contemplat-
Rhew, Australia, and by Southern
Dail €sia, According to the Rand
a Y Mail, the “British, Canadian,
a €nch, Belgian, Hindustan and

akistan governments are closely
NOR rage ey aie ge

interested in the Rhodesian and
South African bills,” as these legis-
lative moves are aimed at severing
Communist threads running from
the Union and Rhodesia to East
Africa, where Britain is building up
a vast military organisation con-
nected with the security of the
African continent.”

It is evident that under the gui-
dance of British M.15, measures
ostensibly aimed only at Commu-

nists but actually designed to cur-
tail all civil liberties, are being co-
ordinated throughout the Common-

wealth. ae

People’s gov't working

to end Yangtse floods

of the

This year millions of: Chinese people living in the
Yangtse River will have peace of mind for the
Ways they have lived with the fear of the river

PEKING

vast flood area
first time. Al-
hanging over their homes

and crops—within the shadow of utter disaster. Time and time again,

© Tiver has burst through d

A Z ykes

pected by corrupt Kuomintang
Cials, ruining millions.

aie last year, hundreds of peas-
* tence Were shot dead when they

i rately tried to prevent Kuo-
1. 24g troops from weakening
Kes by slashing them with

Seny.
foxholes
an in
Rutile eee d trenches in a las}
Ple’s A

Tod
Vinee

rmy..
ay, from Shasi in Hupeh pro-
ag 1250 miles from the Pacific
tribute, along all the banks and
x aii of the Yangtse, over
gover ion peasants and People’s
bi oent workers are pooling
“e beers to change the river in
yy ed. Before the flood threat
will materialize again, the dykes
have been raised to three feet
More above the level of the

ort to hold back the Peo- |

highest flood water yet recorded—

“1931.
eae the central and lower
reaches of the Yangtse, sixth long-
est river in the world, grows half
the country’s rice, 42 percent of
its cotton, 68 percent of its tea, a
quarter of its wheat.

Last year 2 heavy concentration
of rain raised the level of the river
Hang had been chopped up by the
Kuomintang. The People’s Army
arrived too late for repairs to be
rushed through and, to make mat-
ters worse, & disastrous typhoon
plew in from the sea last July,

mos
a org oo floods, loss of crops
in the Yangtse area was about two-
thirds of all crops lost by flood

in China in 1949.

s highest point since 1931. The.

t of the sea dykes. |

7. THE KUZNETSOVS DISCUSS SOCIALIST PLAN NING

"We're now used to turning
our dreams into realities’

(How a planned society operates is told in this seventh instalment of Ralph Parker's ‘series on a
typical Moscow family, the Kuznetsovs. Parker, formerly M: oscow correspondent for the New Y ork Times,
is now correspondent in the Soviet capital for the London Daily Worker.)

“You see, Sasha,’’ Kuznetsov told his son,
though they go about it a different way.”

They had cast their lines.

By RALPH PARKER

“St’s very much the

same for them as for us workers,

As he kept an eye on the red floater on the placid surface of the River Moskva, the story of
the collective farm’s early years of struggle, the war gashing across its land, and now the beginning of
prosperity seemed very much the story of his own working life.

Across the river they could see most of the land of the Gorki collective farm, with its eight fields

running to the ragged edge of the
forest,, the orchard and vegetable
gardens, the herd of cattle in the
water meadows.

The potato-tops were browning,
the stubble gleaned dully and a
timber raft, not yet broken up,
choked a backwater.

There was an end-of-the-season
feeling. :

From the village an avenue of
poplar and ash ran to the main
buildings of the farm — the stables,
carpentry shop, cowsheds and barns
were new buildings with tin roofs
and white plastered walls.

Kuznetsov. recalled the home
where he had left_his fishing com-
panion ,an old farmer, a few hours

before. 2

It Was a new cottage, well built
and airy. Beyond the porch was a
kitchen with a big stove, a cup-
board for pots and pans.

And beyond that the living room
with sunlight streaming in through
large windows.

A painted plank floor, reproduc-
tions and pictures by a local artist
on the’ walls, three beds with em-
broidered bedspreads, good broad-
cloth suits hanging on a peg behind
a linen curtain — that was what
struck them.

Afterwards they had walked up
the road to the farm management
office.

A lanky,

sunburned man _ wear-

; “On the collective farm each worker receives a share of the
total income proportionate to the amount, kind and quality of his

work ... each knows the plan of work and what is expected of him.”
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 24, 1950 — PAGE 3 a

ing a guardsman’s badge on his
shirt looked at them quizically as

they passed. “That’s the farm’s
agronomist, a Ukrainian,’ they
were told.

The farm office is a plain bunga-
low with a big veranda.

_ Over the door runs a board with

the reminder that Soviet collective
farms have promised to raise the
country’s milk and butter supplies
very substantially.

On the wall a blackboard has
been prepared for the announce-
ment of harvest results, classified by
brigades and smaller labor units.

All these signs of Socialist com-
petition — of people competing
in groups for the most exemplary
fulfilment of promises they have
themselves made after carefully
weighing up their possibilities —
are quite familiar to Kuznetsov
the factory worker.

In his job, too, there is a care-
fully controlled break-down of to-
tal achievement into the share of
the smallest labor unit, the basis
for the award of premiums and
honors. j :

On the collective farm each wor-
ker receives a share of the total in- —
come proportionate to the amount,
kind and quality of his work.

Further, each worker knows the
plan of work and what is expected
of him.

“Yes,” Kuznetsoy, _reflected,
“without a plan, without clear
prospects, we Soviet people can’t
live. The plan’s become a meéces-
sity, habit and second nature.
That's one of the main differen-
ces between us and the people in
capitalist society. We've grown

used to turning our dreams into

reality, into statistics and time-
schedules.

“The farmers are like the fac-
tory workers.” .

On the walls of the farm offices
they had seen what the farmers of
the Gorki collective farm, quite an
average farm, meant it to be like
in three years’ time.

A rebuilt club house,
school — at present it’s seven —
their own radio — diffusion center
and everywhere trees — trees to

bind the sandy soil and enrich it
with humus.

10-year