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Britons preparing for

Oct. Tory eviction day

} “Eviction Day for Tories” was how the British Daily Worker headlined the news of the Oct. 8 general election

in Britain.

Harry Pollitt and-John Gol- Jan, chairman and secretary of the Communist Party, issued an immediate statement de- claring “The labor movement has the power to rout the Tor- jes ... The men responsible for Suez, for Nyasaland and Hola. who glorify the H-bombs

and re-arm Adenauer, who have turned Britain into Am- erica’s rocket base can no longer be alowed to rule.

“Britain’s economic future demands that the Tories go. Unemployment, already twice

OBITUARY

GEORGE GAROSH

George Garosh, veteran of many labor struggles in B.C. passed away last week at the age of 66 years, following a Jengthy cancer illness.

Born in Lithuania, George Garosh came. to Canada as a young man and began work as a hardrock miner. He was a eharter member of the Brit- annia local of Mine-Mill, and jJater became an active mem- ber of Local 1-71 of the IWA when he went to work in the ‘woods,

During the ‘Hungry Thiri- ies’ he took an active part in the struggles of the unemploy- ed, and was for many: years a member of the Victory Square Club of the Labor-Progressive Party.

Funeral services were hes at Simmons and McBride, con- ducted by Dick Archibald of the Mine-Mill Union and Nigel- Morgan, provincial leader of the LPP.

as high as two years ago, is rising again.

“There .are record profits and rents for big pusiness and the landlords and take-over ty- coons, but resistance to wage increases and a shameful pit- tance for the aged.”

Emphasizing that Commun- ist representation is essential for new parliament, the state- ment called for the election of 17 Communist candidates. “In all other constituencies .... Communist Party members and Daily Worker readers will work to return Labor party candidates.”

Top plank in the _ British Communist party’s 14- point election manifesto is the urg- ency of policies. leading to peace and an end to the cold war, :

“New opportunities to end the cold war now exist. To grasp them Britain must speak as a free and — independent

‘country, tied neither to Nato

war plans nor to America.

We need a Government that will end the testing and manu- facture of the H.-bomb now, close all U.S. bases in Britain, make, sure the West German generals never get. nuclear arms, and cut Britdin’s arms expenditure by half.

It must press for an immed- iate Summit meeting, and work untiringly for interna- tional agreement to end all tests and ban all nuclear wea- pons. It must support a peace- ful settlement in Berlin, and a peace treaty with the two German States,

Instead of carrying on the cold war, let Britain sign a

non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union.” ~

Among the many socialist achievements to. be celebrated on China’s tenth anniversary

will be the conquest of huiger. Through cooperatives and peasant “communes” bigger crop yields are being harvested, with the result that food, once a permanent scarcity

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for the people, is now shared in abundance.

w.S. action im Laos aims at another Korea

HANOI—The Laotian government is feverishly hunt- ing for “evidence” of Vietminh “aggression” to place

before the illegally set up UN subcommittee inquiry now

in Laos. According to Asian press reports the Laos govern-

ment is “searching hungrily in Laos’ northern jungles in

an attempt to capture one Vietnamese prisoner” which they can present to the UN sub-committee as “evidence”

of Vietnam invasion.

To date they haven’t found one,* much ‘to the chagrin of the Laos government and its spokesman Umkha _ Sookhav- ong, deputy chief of the royal Laotian forces, who has peev- ishly complained, ‘‘we © still don’t have a single Vietminh prisoner. That is our big prob- lem.”

Meantime Western news ag- encies report stepped-up U.S. intervention with giant U.S. transport planes landing | al- most hourly, bringing in am-

munition and arms to support the Sananikone government in

CONCERT — BANQUET Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4

CONCERT

To be held at Russian People’s Home, 600 Campbell Ave., starting 1:30 p.m. Music — songs — folk dances. Special documentary film on the construction of the Ming Tomb Reservoir. Admission free.

BANQUET —

To be held at Marco Polo, 90 East Pender Street. Ten-course Chinese dinner followed by recital and speeches. Tickets $3.00 per person, available at People’s Co-op Book- store, 307 W. Pender, MU 5-5836.

its civil war against the Lao- tian pecple. Tons of grenade launchers, Browning automat- ic rifles, pyrotechnic signalling pistols, and military equip- ment of all kinds are _ being flown in from Japanese bases by U.S. and’ Chiang Kia-shek manned planes,

Under U.S. pressures Thai- land is also getting into’ the picture and actively support- ing the U.S. scheme to use SEATO (South East Asia Tre- aty Organization) for an open armed intervention in Laos.

To date it is reliably con- firmed that in order to main- tain the reactionary “pro- Western” government of Laos, against the will of the Laotian people and to save it from col- lapse, U.S. has poured in some $300-million dollars, plus vast quantities of military equip- ment, together with U.S. mili- tary personnel assigned the job of training the 25,000-man ‘Yoyal’? Laotian army,

The UN sub-committee, the result of U.S. pressures and disregard for UN charter pro- visions, is in violation of the commission( upon which Can- ada was represented) to assist in the peaceful solution of South East Asian problems.

Hungary aids North Korea

A Hungarian-built machine

tool factory with an annual

production capacity of 1,000 machine tools has been hand= ed to the North Korean author ities by the head of the mas chine export’ office of the

Hungarian Ministry for the ~

Machine Industry, Mr. Janos ~

Meszaros, at North Korea.

The factory is equipped to produce machine tools which have proved their worth in

Hungarian industry -and will 9 include lathes, rotary drills

and milling machines.

Many of the processes in the foundry, which is equip: © ped for an annual output of —

4,000 tons, are fully automatic. And the whole plant has been fitted -with the most modern

labour-safety devices. Pe

Several Hungarian experts took part in the opening cere mony. They will stay on at the factory for a time to train

Korean engineers and workers. —

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Old friendship:

Two Byelorussian farm w0- men from the village of Mik- ~ alevka recently celebrated the centenary of their friendship. One of them, Kartsia Mirono- va, is 109, and her friend, Ageta Shershneva, 107.. In spite of their. advanced age, they often speak at meetings, telling the young people about life in the past. Both

these women receive pensions _

from the collective farm on

which they worked for many —

years.

“a. ceremony in ~

Pat

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