j Kerala “Were spectacular throughout | Munists this . on * Offi —6«OOD NEW: DELHI Having doubled its vote in 4ndia’s second general election € Communist party has em- erged as that country’s’ second Party, Although previous press dis- Patches centred on the Com- Munist electoral victory in state,° party’s gains Country. Most recent, but still incom- ‘Piete figures, are given by *J0y Ghosh, the party’s gen- “tal secretary, in the current sue of New Age. € popular vote for Com- 166 year was 12,- 5 1150 as compared with 5,- 00,000 in 1951-52. The Com- Munists now tallied 10.6 per- Cent ef-all votes cast for can- dates to the central parlia- Singapore tosses out bar on ‘subversives oubled in India on] ment, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s Congress party won 54,056,646 votes, 47.1 percent of the total. At the last count the Con- gress party had elected 366 MPs, the Communists 29 and the Socialists 6. Communists won 207 seats in state assemblies. Ghosh said it was signifi- cant that parties openly op- posed to socialism — Hindu Mahasabba, “Jan Sangh and the Forum of Free Enterprise —were repudiated by the el- ectorate. . It is also important to note that some of the powerful figures in the Congress hier- archy in the different states have been defeated by the op- position,” he wrote. — SINGAPORE , By 23 votes to two the Singapore Legislative Assembly last Week threw out the clause attached to the colony’s con- Sttution barring “subversives” from standing in the first "ection for the new self-governing Singapore. One of the two members who voted for its retention was ~ avid Marshal, former chief Minister, who earlier resigned from the Labor Front which “®used to lead and has now "Mnounced he will resign from © legislature. ene present chief minister, im Yew Hock, now leader the Labor Front, said that €tshall was a man “who 88 emotionally unstrung” Who was best ignored. © restriction was imposed om smgapote by British Col- nial Secretary A. T. Lennox- fie during negotiations in Ndon with a Singapore all- Party delegation last, month. te t immediately aroused fur- “4S opposition in the colony. Meal the same majority the “gislature also approved the St of the constitutional settle- Ment in the belief that des- Bite the great restrictions of egeePore in military and for- hag Policy matters, it would “8d to more self-government. i Seven “independents,” oF Clally-appointed members the legislature abstained oth votes, or else absent- ben bemselves from the cham- ante Voting came after five Whip, CL heated debate in ck the bar on ‘subversives” aie is aimed against Com- dates t and left-wing candi- .. » Was repeatedly attack- ay °S undemocratic, ie Kuan Yew, leader of bar left-wing People’s Action tty, has announced he will jp Tesign his seat and fight beg erin to show that the hie of Singapore are be- fish” the rejection of the Bri- jp. Colonial Office’s ban in é ie first election on “persons Wn to have been engaged ‘Subversive activities.” Australian Labor leader Herbert Evatt, has chal- lenged the Menzies govern- ment to hold a referendum to see whether ‘Australians want nuclear tests to continue. Bri- jain’s forthcoming nuclear tests~ at “Christmas Island were “excursions into death and — destruction which are diabolical in clfaracter,” he said at a labor women’s con- ference. Communist vote. | HUMANITY IMPERILLED | More scientists ask ending of H-tests LONDON Two Nobel prizewinners, leaders of of the World Federation of Scientific Workers, have issued a new warning on H-bomb hazards. They are Prof. F. Joliot-Curie, of France, president of the federation, and Prof. C. F. Powell, FRS, of Britain, chairman of its executive council. Test explosions are contin- _ uing, they say, despite all the warnings, and they ask scien- tists to tell the whole world of the dangers resulting from the pollution of the atmos- phere and the ground are bet- ter known, and the latest in- formation increases our anx- iety,” they say. “The. radio-strontium pro- duced by explosions of A and H-bombs with its half-life of about 30 years is carried to the higher levels of the atmos- phere and circles the earth. ‘Tt settles slowly and con- inually on the ground in dust or rain and is taken up by plants. The deposition ‘of ra- dio-strontium resulting from previous nuclear explosions is still occurring and will con- tinue for several more years. “Human beings as well as dometsic animals consume vegetation and thereby absorb into their bodies radio-stron- tium. Milk contains radio strontium. ‘If further test explosions are not prevented, the level of radio-strontium in adults and, more important, in chil- dren, is likely to rise suffic- iently to produce many cases of bone cancer and leukemia. “From radio-strontium and other products of the test ex- plosions, particularly radio caesium, the amount of radia- tion to which man is exposed is increasing and constitutes a threat to future generations. “We call on all scientists to spread clear and precise infor- mation far and wide so that all men may understand ‘the dangers. “We.call on all governments to reach an agreement leading to the immediate cessation of tests of nuclear weapons. The indispensable safety measure is of prime concern for all governments and all people’s not only those of nations which have made or intend to make such tests.” Toppling of Franco regime aim of united movement in Catalonia LONDON Catalans of widely different shades of opinion have launch- ed a united demand for an end to the Franco regime and for the holding of free elections. The province of Catalonia, in north-east Spain, is both the ~chief manufacturing and agri- cultural region, of the country. Its chief town is Barcelona —long a centre of opposition to Franco. % The appeal,» which has just reached London, calls on the province’s 2,300,000 people to unite in a “liberation effort” in a bid “to regain human dig- nity and freedom within an order freely chosen by us all.” The appeal was distributed in Catalonia as a leaflet. SARS Jeeta, SSS Demand that the U.S. allow Paul Robeson to sing in Britain was carried at the annual meeting of Equity, organiza- tion of. British actors, last week. Carried on a show of hands, the resolution congratulated Equity’s council on its efforts in behalf of Robeson’s right to sing, approved “a message of sympathy and encouragement to this great artist,” and urged the council “to make representations in whatever quarters may have. influence in restoring” his freedom.” This picture was taken at the Peace Arch, near Blaine, Wash., in 1955 when Robe- son crossed the border into Canada for the first time since 1950, when the U.S. government barred him from leaving the country. Engineering workers in Britain ask GAW By GEORGE SINFIELD Delegates of .over 900,000 British LONDON engineering workers have warned employers that their union will take “all neces- sary action” to enforce the right of all workers to work. The national committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, meeting at Eastbourne, members must be safeguarded at all times. : The executive council was instructed to launch -:a_ na- tional campaign against’ re- dundancy and to establish the right-to-work principle. Simultaneously, the council will provide its district com- mittees with propaganda ma- terial and information on the issues involved. The’ décision amended a’ motion seeking a national stoppage, Another successful resolu- tion instructed the council to get a national agreement for a guaranteed annual wage of not less than the consolidated rate. i The decision declared that the basis of the scheme should be a separate national annual wage fund to be set up through per capita contributions by the employers to ensure regu- lar wages to redundant work- ers till they found other’ suit- abla jobs. decided that the livelihood of Archbishop hits fantastic bill CAPETOWN A warning to South Afri- cans against planning a “‘ce- lestial future for a white her- renvolk” by creating the con- ditions of a voleano through apartheid policies has been given by Archbishop Dennis Hurley,, Roman Catholic Arch- bishop of Durban. He was addressing a meet-. ing at Durban opposing the Strijdom.. government’s | bill giving itself power to bar} Africans from attending “white’ churches. As a result of its discussions on the bill the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in toria, has declared that non- white people cannot worship South Africa, meeting: at Pre- together with the white. MAY 10, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3 : ST MATT TMT ott OT on i ecinacnaamtl mn eae fee ees TT