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Leipzig Trade Fair
draws 46 countries |

: By FILS DELISLE
Tribune Berlin Correspondent
ri BERLIN — The Leipzig Trade
air opened Aug. 30 for eight
foe: with optimist forecasts
Or substantial business deals
tween the capitalist and so-

Gialist worlds.

ee international importance
ae Bed in the West to the Fair
a 1S period of capitalist reces-
N was indicated by the pres-
€nce of 6,000 business firms from
. Countries. Equally instructive
Hd the presence of high level
!plomatic, political and indus-
Mal representatives from the
A, Britain, France, Italy, the
G, Japan, the USSR and other
“apitalist and socialist countries.

‘ Canada was represented by
‘tamic and porcelain exhibitors.
eed was seen as a low-keyed
pS for Canadian business,
Om 8 beginning nevertheless.
Cials of the Fair look forward
a expansion of this develop-
mit. The opportunity for that
come at next year’s spring

600,000 now
jobless in Chile

Chile’s coal industry is in
pal crisis with the closing
Se last month of the Lota-
wo Wager mines, throwing 16,000
i rkers out of jobs. As of April
at of a million tons of
Be ped piled up at Lota-Schwa-
me ue of lack of custdmers.
oe acks at the Huachipato steel
st pany further boosted the
ck to 400,000 tons.
ioin € 16,000 jobless coal miners
Recs 600,000 other unemployed,

. Tding to figures released. by
ver eerial associations and uni-
ey institutions. \This number
She each month because of
ites depression and the
000 Ss decision to dismiss 100,-
Dlo Public administration em-

ees early this year.
ro ree important textile mills
| Wor ores, Fiap and Bellavista)
| req Just three days a week with
C eos staffs. Inchalam, the

sh

neat wire factory, has been
it e Since May and is finding
bile ficult to export its stock-

FIDEL CASTRO

peAVANA — An emotion-filled
idet a by Cuba’s Prime Minister
helq h astro capped the activities
Versa ere to mark the 50th anni-
ning of the first Marxist-
ban Ist Party of Cuba. The Cu-
ed 6 ©mmunist Party was found-
ae ” Aug. 16,-1925.
Ca Peaking in Havana Aug. 22,
Tole pointed out the important
nist Played by the first Commu-
Ble fen of Cuba in the strug-
of 4. the “definitive liberation”
© Cuban people. He spot-

Fair, which is the major Fair of
the year and traditonally draws
leading industrial producers from
all parts of the world.

Despite, or perhaps because of,
critical economic conditions in
the capitalist countries, every
inch of available space has been
taken by exhibitors at the Fair
grounds. The very unmistakeable
desire of leading capitalist group-
ings to get as much business as
they can at the Leipzig Fair —
and with the GDR specifically —
was voiced by U.S. ambassador
John Sherman Cooper.

At a. meeting with the GDR
government and party leaders at
the Union Carbide exhibit, Coop-
er congratulated the GDR on
“the opening” of what he called
“a further impressive interna-
tional Trade Fair at Leipzig.” He
urged raising of “the still modest
trade” between the USA and the
GDR to the “levels one can ex-
pect between.two strong econo-
mies.” He added: ‘“‘As a step in
this direction, my country has
proposed — and the German De-
mocratic Republic has agreed —
that American representatives
come to Leipzig to visit the
Trade Fair and to exchange
views with representatives of the
German Democratic Republic on
ways of furthering and facilitat-
ing trade between our two coun-
tries.”

Erich Honecker, first secre-
tary of the Socialist Unity Party,
assured the U.S. ambassador
that, despite some obstacles, the
GDR ‘was ready to work out a
broader basis for USA-GDR
trade. Canadians who have won-
dered at Canada’s seeming in-
difference to trade possibilities
busily being grasped by other
capitalist countries at the Trade
Fair could well ponder the very
positive statement of the U.S.

ambassador. Formal diplomatic.

relations have now been agreed
upon between Ottawa and so-
cialist Berlin. The ice has been
broken at the Leipzig Fair. That
should make it easier now for

Ottawa and Canadian business

to follow in the footsteps of all
the leading capitalist ‘countries
which have already beaten a path
to Leipzig and to increased trade
with the socialist, capitalist and
developing countries.

: 50th Anniversary, Communist Party of

lighted the courage, heroism, and
determination of Carlos Balino,
Julio Antonio Mella, Ruben Mar-
tinez Villena and other outstand-
ing founders and militants of
that first Cuban Communist
Party.

Castro said that although it
was only a small group at a mo-
ment when objective and human
circumstances in Cuba were
very difficult, the first Commun-
ist Party had a decisive influ-
ence on the struggle of the
Cuban people against oppression
and imperialism. He recalled
that despite the persecution to
which it was subjected, the first
Communist Party of Cuba play-
ed an important role in the
struggle against the Gerado
Machado tyranny.

Castro emphasized that the

ON AUGUST 2, 1945

HANOI — The 30th anniver- -

sary of the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam on Aug. 2, coupled
with the joyous celebrations
marking the liberation of the
whole of Vietnam this year
showed how correct Ho Chi
Minh’s prediction was — “The
people of the South and North
will live under one roof,” he had
said during the darkest days.
This year’s festivities in Hanoi
took place at the same spot
where, 30 years ago, Ho Chi
Minh read the Proclamation of
Independence from French colo-
nial rule, establishing the first
workers’ and peasants’ state in
Southeast Asia. The founding of
the DRV marked the end of a

colonial era, the renaissance of

Vietnam and the beginning of
deep social transformations.

campaign against the French.

Peace was short-lived. Scar-
cely one year later, with massive

——— :

Above,

Ce -
ch Mai hospital in ruins, destroyed in Nixon’s

Christmas 1972 bombings of Hanoi. Below, the rebuilt hos-
pital in the capital with a portion of the ruins left as a
grim reminder.

Ps a

Ho Chi Minh reading Vietnam Workers’ Party nee fares the

Celebrations in Havana mark

party carried out “extraordinary
work” in developing “the poli-
tical conscience of the Cuban
working class and people.

“It gave considerable impulse
to. the worker-peasant women
and youth organizations. It con-
ducted a tireless struggle for the
rights of the workers and peas-
ants against racial discrimina-
tion in Cuba,” he said.

Hard Battle

Castro related that the “fun-
damental nucleus” of the organ-
izers of the 26th of July Move-
ment studied the Marxist texts,
and he emphasized that it was
when they became armed
with the ideas of Marx and
Lenin that the Cuban people and
revolution became invincible.

After the victory of Jan. 1,
1959, Castro stressed, there were

still hard battles — not only the
battle against U.S. imperialism,
but also against ° prejudice,
against “the anti-communism
that had been sown for decades
by all means possible.” That
final battle, he pointed out, was
waged by “all revolutionaries,
from different origins, first co-
ordinated and later united in the
principles of Marxism - Lenin-
ism.” It was after the popular
triumph in 1959 that all the re-
volutionary forces were united
to form “our great Communist
Party of today — one party, not
three-parties or four parties; one

‘party, with the only true and

scientific ideology.”
‘Revolution Indestructible’
The most emotion-filled mo-
ment in the evening came when
Castro called upon “the man

American support, French impe-
rialism launched attacks both
north and south of the 17th
parallel. For eight long: years,
the battles raged until the de-
bacle at Dien Bien Phu on May
7, 1954 which dramatically and
finally ended French presence in
Indochina.

A period of reconstruction be-
gan in 1955 and. paid special
attention to the completion of
land reform, restoring and de-
veloping the economy and the
liquidation of all vestiges of
colonialism. The socialist trans-
formation period (1958-60) and
the period of building socialism,
chiefly based on the first five-
year plan scheduled for 1961-65
was cut short by the U.S. impe-
rialist aggression unleashed in
1964.

Despite one of the most vici-
ous wars in history, _ which
ended in defeat for imperialism
on April 30,.1975 with the liber-
ation of the South, DRV premier
Pham Van Dong’s speech last
week to the people assembled in
Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square extend-
ed the hand of friendship to the
United States.

“It is certain,” he said, “that
the majority of the American
people dnd many political circles
in the U.S. will support this
positive policy of the DRV. Our
relations with other countries,”
he stressed, “are based on mu-
tual respect, sovereignty, non-
interference, equality and mu-
tual benefit.” T.M.

Cub:

oe no ice mah

who for 26 years was a leader
of that Party, Comrade Blas
Roca.” The Lazaro Pena Theatre
of the Central Organization of
Cuban Trade Unions, where the
ceremony was being held, filled
with prolonged and overwhelm-
ingly enthusiastic applause.
Roca was visibly moved by the
crowd’s sentiments.

Castro also stressed, “Our
cause has triumphed, our people
have had the historic fortune to
see their dreams come true, in
the atmosphere of transition the
world is now experiencing and
with the international support of
our fraternal, invariable and in-
fallible friend, the USSR.” He
said, ‘“‘The Revolution is now in-
destructible; that fact is
acknowledged even by our fierc-
est enemies.” —Daily World

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