A graphic illustration of the comparative rates of growth of

the USSR and the USA.

New type Soviet self-serve

is glimpse of

By JOHN WEIR PT Staff Correspondent

I see by the papers where the independent general stores in Canada, squeezed by the chains, are going the way of the buffalo, while the recent national conference of the Consumers Association of Canada was told that soon shoppers will be carried around huge stores’ on con- veyor belts . . . with a spe- cial apparatus to shake out the money, I suppose.

There’s something new in the os line in the

wall USSR, too.

In -Zamos- tye, which is Leningrad way, they are operat- ing what ®S they call * a “People’s F Store’. The fact that it’s a self-service store wouldn’t make it news, but it is also a bill-yourself and pay-yourself establish- ment.

The doors are open, you walk in, do your shopping, make out your own bill from the list of prices, pay your money, take your change from the cash register and go home. That’s all there is to it.

There are no salesmen at the counters, no cashiers, no store detectives to watch the customers. At the door an old-age pensioner sits to hear any complaints (not about the service, naturally, but about the goods) and notes suggestions of what the cus- tomers would like to have ordered that isn’t now on the

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shelves.

The People’s Store is man- aged by a board elected by the workers of the Grazh- dansky State Farm in which the residents of the hamlet are employed. They say that at first it was hard to con- vince people that a “busi- ness” could be run in such a manner, but now they. ac- cept it as the normal way of conducting trade in a country that is building a communist society.

‘Old Doc’ retires with memories, calendars

“Old Doc” Douglas has retired. This isn’t really news because it’s actually the second time in his long

“career as a practising den-

tist that Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas has called it quits.

But this time it’s different. “Old Doc”, now 79, says he has put away his dentist’s chair for keeps. From now on, the only teeth he’ll touch will be his own.

Jealous of the reputation he established during his half century of practice, Old Doc has taken his name ‘into re- tirement with him. There will be no more Old Doc calendars with their pretty girls, their slogans, and their dental plates, announced at $40 each,

It was the penchant for ad- vertising that got Old Doc into repeated difficulties with the Dental Association. He was on the mat a dozen times but he never gave up; going stronger all the time. MADE $40 PLATES

Many observers felt that the Association disliked Dr.

_ Douglas’s $40 plates more

than his advertising. This is one field where the fees are flexible but always in the high price range and $40 is regarded as “unethical” be-

“Old Doc’ Douglas

cause it is price cutting. When the IWA was being organized in the thirties, it faced bitter employer opposi- tion that included black- listing militant union men. The Union, at that time part of the Carpenters and Join- ers, desperately needed its own means of transportation to isolated coastal points. The idea of a loggers’ navy

was debated and Old put his name on the note financed the first of 2 of vessels,

LONG ASSOCIATION

This was only one 4? of Old Doc’s association the B.C. labor movement

He backed one bank !

“after another in the & period of unionism i? woods.

Despite continued hat ment by the Dental Ass? tion, threats to cancel licence, and- charges of professional conduct, Doc refused to give in ® demands that he stop 24 tising in the labor and P gressive press.

Now, he has retired, ing with him his name reputation, both held i” regard in British Colum particularly in labor cirdl

He talks about the oe ing he’s doing at his hom® Dogwood Avenue in -ver and says he’s “79 J young and still using } ginal set of teeth.”

Then he _ adds, with twinkle in his eye, ee man has a kick in him yet I may be back in bus again,”

Nobody would be the | bit surprised if it happe not even the B. sa Den sociation.

Jacques

By JACQUES DUCLOS (Abridged)

(Member of the French Senate and member of the Political Bureau and secre- tary of the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party of France.) .

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On July 1, by an over- whelming majority, the Al- gerian people voted for in- dependence in the form out- lined in the Evian agreement reached between the Pro- visional Government of the Algerian Republic and the French Government.

A sharp blow has been struck against imperialism, and the attainment of inde- pendence by Algeria opens a new chapter in the history of the crisis of the colonial system.

This does not mean that the imperialists are no long- er thinking of saving the es- sential part of their privileges while they utilize new me- thods and negotiate com- promises with certain ele- ments in countries that have gained their independence. NEO-COLONIALISTS ACTIVE

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of the countries of Black Africa formerly subject to French colonialism bears wit- ness to the existence and the activity of a neo-colonialism that maintains its economic

interests and continues its methods of political inter- vention.

This is certainly the aim of the Gaullist power, which expresses the. domination of the capitalists trust in mat- ters concerning Algeria.

But all evidence shows that colonialist manoeuvers, relatively easy in the coun- tries of Black Africa where independence was. obtained without mass struggle, will not find such smooth going in Algeria.

The Algerian people have gone through seven years of heroic struggle, and quite na- turally they will insist on concretizing their victory in deeds.

During the period that pre- ceded the self-determination poll of July 1, De Gaulle al- lowed the OAS to multiply its destructive actions, with the thought in mind of creat- ing for an independent Al- geria a difficult situation that would be favorable to the neo-colonialist manoeu- vers.

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Even if not all the details: are known as to the differ- ences between Ben Khedda, president of the GPRA, and Ben Bella, its vice-president, it is known that the latter opposes the measures taken by the GPRA, that is, by Ben Khedda, against the gen- eral staff of the National Liberation Army.

- Jacques Duclos

To make clear the reac- tions developing in the Al- gerian masses, it might be emphasized that the news- paper, El Moudjahid, organ of the FLN, wrote as follows:

3s . Already the ominous

- customs of the former. col-

Oonial administration are springing up again ... We see the danger growing of a infiltration which

Algeria

French neo- -colonialis™ trying to encourage by d ‘of capital economy 2” agents... 250

And the idea of th needed by the Als

people is strongly expe

in the organ of es youth, “The Voice of you! which writes:

0 “The condition essenti the continuation of the wtio®

nomic and social rev? remains unity, that which has given the Alé ‘ people its triumph ar powerful enemy.- aD through unity will we i, to maintain the integt™ , the territory so dearly quired.” Co As to the Algeria? Fl munist Party, it declan f

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