Automation high on .

British TUC agenda

LONDON

A ten-thousand-word statement on automation will be

Presented to next month’s Trades Union Congress at

‘Halt Kenya cruelties,

UN asked

NEW YORK

The International League » for the Rights of Man an- nounced last week it had sent a letter to UN Secretary-Gen- , &tal Dag Hammerskjold pro- | testing against the “wholesale (

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Yi“Wion of human rights” by » the Kenya government.

The league, which has a

Consultative status with the | Uniteq Nations Economic and em Council and has 26 af- , filiates throughout the yorld, ; alleges that the Kenya ad- ? Ministration has violated six articles of the United Nations’

F Universal declaration of hu- - ™an rights,

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| _ The letter says hat these in- Clude “the exaction of forced f labor, the use of torture to ob-

Han confessions, discrimina- tions before the law, the ar- ! py arrest and detention of { “Hawai of Africans of the i; era _Embu and Meru : pecs Without any form of 1 Boe the institution of a pass i pom, the institution of en- f orced villagisation, and the 3 "litical detainees and suspects.” ; _Conceding that the suppres- ie of the Mau Mau revolt at ey involves the vio- Bic n of some rights, the lea- a Said: “The evidence avail- Best demonstrates that the ae 10n of human rights in Shag has passed far beyond & might conceivably be med “unavoidable”. limits.

B ahe league isasking that ae action be taken as the | Beary the United Nations ight through the Human Co S Commission and the ™mmittee for Information

from No : | _ on = Self - Territories, Governing

Labor leader freed

; DAMASCUS

. aon hearly five years in Pind wi concentration camp, Asap imeh Nasser, former =a Working class leader in Pincce has been released by

: e Jordan ; government and Aeported to Syria.

q 4 : sc, Was arrested in Febru- BCom 51 under Jordan’s anti- to Munist law and sentenced

Sty et ~=6years imprisonment ' With hard labor,

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deprivation of property of pox

Brighton by the general council.

The TUC agenda and an- nual report, published last week, shows that ten unions have tabled resolutions on automation which reflects the growing concern among Brit- ish workers for measures to

safeguard their living stan- .

cards.

The Electricians, Vehicle Builders, Municipal Workers, Technicians, Chemical Work- ers, Constructional Engineers, Shale Miners, and clerks, all sound the need for urgent action.

They recognise the need for improved production tech- niques — but not at the ex- pense of the workers.

Public ownership is -called for: so is a top-level committee of interested organisations to study automation in connection with nuclear energy develop- ment.

Most press for measures to establish strict methods of consultation between employ- ars and workers, for firm agreement on steps to avoid redundancy and for aequate compensation for workers un- avoidably dismissed.

The TUC general council’s statement deals lengthily with the technical aspects of the question and declares automa- tion will cause no “misery or upheaval.” It scorns a “science fiction” approach.

The same care given to planning and technical ad- justments must in future be given to manpower adjust- nients, it says.

Given foresight and plan- ning, and taking into account nermal labor turnover, pro- vision of suitable work in the company concerned or in the area should not prove difficult within the framework of full employment, the council de- clares,

And compensation is a fair and reasonable charge on in- creasing productivity and helps the workers to “tide over” while looking for other jobs.

Independence warning voiced by Nigerian ACCRA

Chief Rotimi Williams, dep- uty premier of Western Nig- eria, said last week that “Wes- tern Nigeria will lose faith in the British government if self-government is not granted this year.”

He* added: “I do not want to prophesy the outcome of such a refusal.”

He said he looked forward beyond the day of independ- ence to the time when there would be a “United States of West Africa,” composed of Nigeria, the Gold Coast and Liberia.

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* TOP: Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov (third from left) discusses a point with Jacob Malik, Soviet ambassador to Britain, at the London Conference on Suez. U.S.

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is seen at extreme left.

BOTTOM: British Prime

Minister Sir Anthony Eden (indicated by arrow) addresses the conference.

Force against Egypt fraught

with danger, says Shepilov

LONDON

Renewed warning of the grave consequences of the use of force against Egypt

was given here last week by Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov.

The Soviet dele-

gation to the London Conference on Suez considered it “our bounden duty” to give such warning, he told newsmen. “It would be wrong to underestimate the seriousness of the situation which may

arise in connection with the intensified activity of those circles in Britain, France and the United States that believe in settlement of the Suez ques- tion from positions of sirength,” he said.

He termed the military pre- paratory measures of some countries against Egypt an open and intolerable challenge fo the freedom-loving Egyp- tian people.

Answering the questions of more than 200 newsmen at- tending a 50-minute press con- ference; Shepiloy described the London conference as a moral and political defeat for those who wanted to impose a solu- tion on Egypt.

The Dulles plan, he declar- ed, was a colonising plan, and any attempt to solve the Suez preblem through ultimatums and threats of force without taking inte account the sov- ereign rights and interests of the. Egyptian. people was a eolonising approach.

In one vivid passage, Shepi- lov said the discussion on Suez ‘Gllumined like a flash of light- ning the processes of history which are taking place before

the eyes of the whole world, and also the differencé in principle of the approaches of various states, or various social strata, to these processes.

“What is going on is a pro- cess of liberation of the coun- tries and peoples of the East from age-long colonial depen- dence and from unequal and humiliating treaties, imposed on those countries and peoples by force of arms and deceit.”

Shepilov said that the Soviet celegation, throughout the con- ference, had done its utmost to find an approach to the Suez question that would be just and acceptable to all interest-

éd states. The Soviet Union, he added, would continue to seek a settlement by negotia- tion.

Asked if he though the Suez dispute might impair recently improved relations between Britain and the Soviet Union, Shepilov said he did not think it would, provided both coun- tries followed a policy of seek- ing peaceful settlement of dis- putes.

“T am convinced that the good relations between Britain and the Soviet Union are bas- cd on factors of a permanent and not a transient character,” lie said.

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