La 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 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 12, 1975—Page 7