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ie unionists from West- dll, Countries heard the bril- % mag Teport to the congress ile by Indian trade union j,,¢ S. A. Dange,-on the hye Of the world trade union aR Ment in the fight against Malism.

any delegates followed him We te rostrum to demonstrate ai uth of his claim that “the 4c. C8! freedom of millions in 4 Ye » Africa and Latin America €come a fact.” ‘ detew Others — such as the Jyaent® from Saudi Arabia— lTaetined the fact that, °for jay oS upon millions, there is @ hard struggle ahead.

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Jie, € Saudi Arabian delegate it tibed conditions bordering | Woy prery for some of the oil- ty ts in his country prior =e Strikes in recent years. “the a report, Dange divided 8st areas and countries of 4 iy Africa and Latin America stn Wo groups, the first con- § of countries which had Political independence, |g; “8¢ond of those still strug- q. tor it, such as Algeria, Prus and Kenya. th, © in the latter countries ’ “naitis fight to improve living ‘Jt: 22S, often catastrophic, Hii, 2€ combined with the 4 for national independ- ‘It; Gemocratic and trade i Neat ents, and an end to Th iscrimination. < is Other group of countries a oe as India, Indonesia, lati &; Malaya, and those of

| de ena ready won political in- Nbje dence; but they are still ‘fy, tO pressure or control Unite Titain, France or the inj — States, or other imper- *t powers, ‘tig Clear task of the trade ! ting _Movement in these coun- terns to help to eradicate the Dons: of colonialism, by ‘! on ing rapid economic de- Ihde Ment leading to eventual Ndence. tring to his own country, | Bee fave the example of Opposition to Indian aye tS to nationalize mines, Wher ors oilfields. ) “long Te the old “classical” ‘Ue ‘lism of direct political | % > 88 developed by Brit- |g France — had been | Neng €d, the U.S. colonialists * rep Ving in, endeavoring

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Nesea tary pacts against the Menace of Commu-

Changing colonial World tops agenda

By PHYLLIS ROSNER

Delegates representing millions of colonial and semi- jwual peoples, along with those from countries which have 4. ved independence from the capitalist countries and from . Ocialist world, have just concluded their discussions at Pzig — at the World Trade Union Congress.

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nism, and through technical missions.

There was no objection to taking aid from foreign coun- tries, but it must be without strings, not like the “Hisen- hower Doctrine” ‘for the Mid- dle East. It must be aid really serving the country’s develop- ment.

The monopolists — driven away from their traditional spheres of exploitation by China, and with the growing threats to their holdings from free India, Indonesia and the Arab world — were beginning to concentrate their attention on Africa.

Africa, “that vast continent of untold possibilities,’ was more and more attracting the monopolists.

They hoped to exploit her cheap labor and vast wealth on tap, to use it against the workers of the newly inde- pendent countries against Asia’s democratic masses and against Europe’s workers.

In all the countries he had mentioned, said Dange, in gen- eral progress had been achieved in the trade union movement, though there were still short-

comings “which have to be

looked straight in the eye.” What was decisive, however,

‘for a victorious struggle for

national independence and the workers’ interests, was the

“unity of the trade union move-

ment.

Points of common interest and agreement were many.

Dange expressed the hope that the trade unions within the International Confedera- tion of Free Trade Unions de- manding rational independ- ence would “unite to orientate the ICFTU’s policy more favorably toward the fight

against colonialism, to force ,

the ICFTU leadership not only to talk about it, but also take action against colonialism.”

The gigantic achievements of the peoples of Asia, Latin Am- erica and of the Middle East, justify the confident note of Dange’s report and his con- cluding words:

“As we have seen, the most ancient lands of vast natural

resources and manpower are ,

following their own road of development, bringing the whole imperialist system to a erisis from which it has no way out, even through war or threats of war.”

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Here the first bridge ever to be built across the Yangtse is shown under construction:

First train crosses Yangtse as’ great bridge project completed

By ALAN WINNINGTON PEKING Crowds cheered, sirens wail- ed and firecrackers exploded as the first passenger train ever to cross the mighty Yang- tse roared over the new mile. long bridge at Wuhan on Oct- ober. 16.

Opening of the bridge means it is now possible to travel by train all the way from Hong Kong to Paris.

The bridge is a _ double- decker with a highway for six lanes of traffic on the top and a double - tracked railway below. Both decks are flanked with footpaths.

The first train was bound from Peking to the Viet Nam

border. The bridge links the capital directly with Canton over 1,450 miles to the south.

It also links several other railways and joins the vast triple, city of Wuhan into a single metropolis which will become one of China’s major industrial bases.

Formally opening the bridge, Vice-Premier Li Fu-chun re- minded the enormous crowd at the bridgehead that this had been a dream of the Chinese people ever since they over threw the Imperial Dynasty. But it could only be realized after the people themselves took state power.

The bridge was a sign of

the infinite resources of social-

ism, and a monument to the’ friendship between China and

the Soviet Union.

Soviet Minister of Transport

Construction E. F. Kozhevni-:

kov, responding to this refer- ence to help from about 20 Soviet experts, said that bridge-builders had mastered complex engineering and technical problems of this dificult bridge on a torrential

China’s

river and that “the world’s latest method of bridge con- struction was first put into practice here.”

The Chinese built the bridge in the amazingly short time of

25 months.

Kuibyshev now tops Grand Coulee to become world’s largest dam

By SAM RUSSELL : MOSCOW

A Soviet power station — the Kuibyshev hydro-electric on October 14 became the most powerful in the world, with the switching in of its 20th turbine.

This dam on the Volga, now completed, has a capacity of 2,100,000 kilowatts. The Grand Coulee power station in the U.S., with a capacity of 1,974,- 000 kilowatts, was previously the world’s biggest.

The new station started sup- plying Moscow with power over a year ago, but it was not due to have been completed

till the end of this year. En- gineers and technicians on site had earlier decided to finish it before next month’s 40th anni- versary of the Russian Revolu- tion, but a month ago they put the completion date forward to October 15 and then beat the new schedule by a day.

The last six turbines at Kuibyshev were assembled, tested and put into operatien in 20 days, a feat never before known in engineering history.

Kuibyshev station’s comple- tion comes almost 25 years éo the day after the Dnieper Dam power. station first gave cur-

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rent to Soviet industry in Oct- ober 1932.

For nearly 25 years it main- tained its position as the Sov- iet Union’s and Europe’s big- gest power station.

Kuibyshev has taken that place, but will not hold it long, for the Stailngrad station, 2,- 300,000 kilowatts, also on the Volga, is due to be completed by 1960.

This will be followed by the Bratsk — 3,600,000 kilowatts, the Krasnoyarsk — four mil- lion, and the huge Yenesei sta- tion with a planned capacity of six million kilowatts.

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