‘War end of all liberties, above all, end of freedom fo live’, says delegate

Peace petition goes to British parliament

By PHYLLIS ROSNER : LONDON

Delegates from the World Peace Committee have arrived here to Present petitions to parliament ask- mg for the banning of the atom and hydrogen bombs, outlawing of all weapons of mass destruction and slashing of armaments expen- ditures,

Leader of the delegation is A. Lecrivain-Servoz, deputy from the Rhone district of France, who told & press conference: “We have come here to present to the leaders of the British ‘parliament proposals to further the cause of peace. We do not bring here ideas for revo- lution, but the aspirations and hopes of the peoples of the world.”

Lecrivain-Servoz added: “I da not represent any government, I represent a people who have had an awakening in the face of the danger of war.”

From France also came Charles

Serre, Independent deputy from Oran, and Jean Lureat, famous painter, now best known as a tap- estry designer. Lurcat said the de- mand for a peace settlement is gaining tremendous support among. French intellectuals.

“Several thousand leading French intellectuals of all types and all shades of politics are active in the fight for peace,” he said, “not only in Paris, but in a whole number of provinces throughout France.”

He pointed out that three of the six world peace delegates denied entry visas into the U.S. where they had hoped to appear before Congress, were intellectuals—world famous painter Pablo Picasso, chemistry professor Aubel of Sor- bonne university and Lureat him- self.

Lureat noted, however, that al- though they were considered “un- desirable” bp the U.S. state depart- ment, their barring from the U.S.

had been protested by such con- servative newspapers as the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune.

Serre spoke with pride of the support given to the peace move- ment by the broad masses of the French people, “men and women representing workers of all types.” He disclosed that just before his departure from ‘France a peace conference had been held in Paris attended by over 12,000 delegates from municipal peace committees.

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Italian members of the delegation included Socialist deputy Fernando Santi, who is also secretary-general of the Italian Confederation of La- bor; Socialist Deputy Fuisto Tol- loy; and Mario Palermo, former minister of war from 1944-45, a senator and municipal councillor of Naples. |

“We fight against two types of ‘war’ mentality,’ Santi said, “those

who do not believe war will come and when bombs drop it will be too late to convince them, and | those who think war is inevitable.”

The Italian people, he said, have

particular reasons to struggle for peace since they had to fight in fascist wars for many years. “War,” he said, “is the end of all liberties, above all the end of the freedom to live.”

Senator Palermo said the peace movement had initiated petitions, similar to those being presented to the British parliament, in every Italian muncipal council, Eighty percent of the councils have already agreed to support the peace move- ment, even those councils predom- inantly Christian Democratic in composition. He said his own coun- cil, at Naples, which had a majority of Christian Democrats, had un- animously approved the petitions.

Others on the delegation were the

Dutch writer, Theun de Vries, and

Danish dockers leader, Kar! Frit- ensen,

Bishop Peter Jannos from Hun- gary and two Russian cultural © leaders were denied entry visas by the British government.

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South African bill patterned on Section 98

CAPE TOWN

The pro-fascist Malan government’s law advisers, on instructions from Justice Minister Swart, are drafting an anti-Communist bill for the Union of South Africa on the lines of discredited Canadian anti-

Ommunist legislation—the former

Section 98 of the Criminal Code

of Canada, repealed in 1936—the Guardian, progressive South Afri-

can weekly, charges.

ain feature of the proposed bill,” states the Guardian, nowhere does it contain the words Communist or communism.

“Ss that This

Means that it gives the government very wide and drastic powers to out- aw any opposition group whatsoever.”

The bill is reported to be in the hands of F. Lutge, attorney general of the Transvaal, who recently came to Cape Town for discussions

with Swart,

When further revisions havé been ee the bill will be presented to 27° cabinet for approval. to he South African bill is said 8 be based on Canada’s former

ction 98 which, asia result of great Toyular Pressure, was repealed in ernie but which the Canadian gov- Cane now wishes to restore in Mi €r to outlaw the Labor-Progres-

ve Party of Canada.

Similar legislation is contemplat- Rhew, Australia, and by Southern Dail €sia, According to the Rand a Y Mail, the “British, Canadian, a €nch, Belgian, Hindustan and

akistan governments are closely NOR rage ey aie ge

interested in the Rhodesian and South African bills,” as these legis- lative moves are aimed at severing Communist threads running from the Union and Rhodesia to East Africa, where Britain is building up a vast military organisation con- nected with the security of the African continent.”

It is evident that under the gui- dance of British M.15, measures ostensibly aimed only at Commu-

nists but actually designed to cur- tail all civil liberties, are being co- ordinated throughout the Common-

wealth. ae

People’s gov't working

to end Yangtse floods

of the

This year millions of: Chinese people living in the Yangtse River will have peace of mind for the Ways they have lived with the fear of the river

PEKING

vast flood area first time. Al- hanging over their homes

and crops—within the shadow of utter disaster. Time and time again,

© Tiver has burst through d

A Z ykes

pected by corrupt Kuomintang Cials, ruining millions.

aie last year, hundreds of peas- * tence Were shot dead when they

i rately tried to prevent Kuo- 1. 24g troops from weakening Kes by slashing them with

Seny. foxholes an in Rutile eee d trenches in a las} Ple’s A

Tod Vinee

rmy.. ay, from Shasi in Hupeh pro- ag 1250 miles from the Pacific tribute, along all the banks and x aii of the Yangtse, over gover ion peasants and People’s bi oent workers are pooling “e beers to change the river in yy ed. Before the flood threat will materialize again, the dykes have been raised to three feet More above the level of the

ort to hold back the Peo- |

highest flood water yet recorded—

“1931. eae the central and lower reaches of the Yangtse, sixth long- est river in the world, grows half the country’s rice, 42 percent of its cotton, 68 percent of its tea, a quarter of its wheat.

Last year 2 heavy concentration of rain raised the level of the river Hang had been chopped up by the Kuomintang. The People’s Army arrived too late for repairs to be rushed through and, to make mat- ters worse, & disastrous typhoon plew in from the sea last July,

mos a org oo floods, loss of crops in the Yangtse area was about two- thirds of all crops lost by flood

in China in 1949.

s highest point since 1931. The.

t of the sea dykes. |

7. THE KUZNETSOVS DISCUSS SOCIALIST PLAN NING

"We're now used to turning our dreams into realities’

(How a planned society operates is told in this seventh instalment of Ralph Parker's ‘series on a typical Moscow family, the Kuznetsovs. Parker, formerly M: oscow correspondent for the New Y ork Times, is now correspondent in the Soviet capital for the London Daily Worker.)

“You see, Sasha,’’ Kuznetsov told his son, though they go about it a different way.”

They had cast their lines.

By RALPH PARKER

“St’s very much the

same for them as for us workers,

As he kept an eye on the red floater on the placid surface of the River Moskva, the story of the collective farm’s early years of struggle, the war gashing across its land, and now the beginning of prosperity seemed very much the story of his own working life.

Across the river they could see most of the land of the Gorki collective farm, with its eight fields

running to the ragged edge of the forest,, the orchard and vegetable gardens, the herd of cattle in the water meadows.

The potato-tops were browning, the stubble gleaned dully and a timber raft, not yet broken up, choked a backwater.

There was an end-of-the-season feeling. :

From the village an avenue of poplar and ash ran to the main buildings of the farm — the stables, carpentry shop, cowsheds and barns were new buildings with tin roofs and white plastered walls.

Kuznetsov. recalled the home where he had left_his fishing com- panion ,an old farmer, a few hours

before. 2

It Was a new cottage, well built and airy. Beyond the porch was a kitchen with a big stove, a cup- board for pots and pans.

And beyond that the living room with sunlight streaming in through large windows.

A painted plank floor, reproduc- tions and pictures by a local artist on the’ walls, three beds with em- broidered bedspreads, good broad- cloth suits hanging on a peg behind a linen curtain — that was what struck them.

Afterwards they had walked up the road to the farm management office.

A lanky,

sunburned man _ wear-

; “On the collective farm each worker receives a share of the total income proportionate to the amount, kind and quality of his

work ... each knows the plan of work and what is expected of him.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 24, 1950 — PAGE 3 a

ing a guardsman’s badge on his shirt looked at them quizically as

they passed. “That’s the farm’s agronomist, a Ukrainian,’ they were told.

The farm office is a plain bunga- low with a big veranda.

_ Over the door runs a board with

the reminder that Soviet collective farms have promised to raise the country’s milk and butter supplies very substantially.

On the wall a blackboard has been prepared for the announce- ment of harvest results, classified by brigades and smaller labor units.

All these signs of Socialist com- petition — of people competing in groups for the most exemplary fulfilment of promises they have themselves made after carefully weighing up their possibilities — are quite familiar to Kuznetsov the factory worker.

In his job, too, there is a care- fully controlled break-down of to- tal achievement into the share of the smallest labor unit, the basis for the award of premiums and honors. j :

On the collective farm each wor- ker receives a share of the total in- — come proportionate to the amount, kind and quality of his work.

Further, each worker knows the plan of work and what is expected of him.

“Yes,” Kuznetsoy, _reflected, “without a plan, without clear prospects, we Soviet people can’t live. The plan’s become a meéces- sity, habit and second nature. That's one of the main differen- ces between us and the people in capitalist society. We've grown

used to turning our dreams into

reality, into statistics and time- schedules.

“The farmers are like the fac- tory workers.” .

On the walls of the farm offices they had seen what the farmers of the Gorki collective farm, quite an average farm, meant it to be like in three years’ time.

A rebuilt club house, school — at present it’s seven — their own radio — diffusion center and everywhere trees — trees to

bind the sandy soil and enrich it with humus.

10-year