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Madzunya Flees fromWrath ofthe People

JOHANNESBURG.

MRAf~~~~~t, M:~:~~~, ~~~dear life at the Western NativeTownship last week. He hadgone there at the invitation ofP. Q. Vundla (expelled fromthe ANC and now an active •member of Moral Rearma­ment) to address a meeting toboost his "candidature" for theANC Transvaal Presidency.

As soon as he mounted theplatform there was an uproarfrom the audience. Speakersfrom the floor accused him ofbeing a "sell out." They saidhe could not address the meet­ing.

At that moment the light in(Continued on page S)

to hospital where she gavebirth to a still-born baby. Afew days later she died as aresult of a burst womb.

The loss of these two liveslies heavily upon the heads ofthe women of Daveyton Town­ship who fought among them­selves to be the first to get thepass- that badge of slavery.The tears that they shed duringthe funeral last Sunday havedone nothing to remove theirguilt for a crime against Marthaand her relatives and againstthe rest of the women of SouthAfrica.

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PASS QUeUE-Trouble started when somewomen began to gatecrash thequeue and the rest of thewomen crowded up screamingand gesticulating.

The police then began todrive them back and one ofthem connected a hosepipe toa water-tap and showered thewomen. The womenthen rushedbackwards. Martha was amongthe women who ran. Shetripped and fell. The otherwomen trampled on her. Marthawas in an advanced stage ofpregnancy. She suffered inter­nal injuries and had to be taken

BENONITO DEATH

Pass Laws Claim Their First Woman Sacrifice

BENONI.

T~e%O~:s~'ss;c~~~:~ c:~i~:~veyton Township last week withthe death of Martha Qoba onOctober 18 as a result of in­juries suffered during a stam­pede started outside the Davey­ton police station.

The queue of women takingpasses had become so long andthe process of issuing passeswas so slow that the womenbegan to lose their patience.Many women had queued upfor more than one day withoutreaching the pass issuing unit.

INT O THE POLICE VAN AND OFF TO JAIL-the women wve the Afrika salute as they are driven away.

And a New Age ReporterWas Also Arrested

W OME N INCOURT TODAY

JOHANNESBURG.All the arrested women were

remanded to appear in courtthis Thursday, October 30.

They are being charged,under the city's bye-laws. withcontravening section 76 bydisturbing the public peace,with an alternative charge ofobstructing the pavements.

"JOHANNESBURG.

Wlr~:ltv~~EI~Ef~H~~~~BURG OF THE NATIVEAFFAIRS DE PA R T MENTTEAMS ISSUING PASS BOOKSTO AFRICAN WOMEN, CLOSEON 2,000 WOMEN HAD BEENARRESTED F O R DEMON­STRATING AGAINST THEM­ABOUT A QUARTER OF THETOTAL WHO SERVED JAILSENTENCES IN THE 1952 DE­FIANCE CAMPAIGN.

Police lock-ups and jails arefilled to overflowing with the wo­men and their children.

At the end Qt last week 250 wo-men were behind bars in theWomen's Jail of the Fort, and hun­dreds of others who had beenbailed out after the first largebatches had been arrested werepressing to surrender their bail tomake their protest more effectivestill.

At the beginnin2 of this week theprotest was snowballin2 fast withreports of women in Sophiatown,Orlando and other townships pre- By Tennyson Makiwane when a European policeman 'hit' all right, because the women who

pa~n; ~rg:~~ ::y:~~P:~t:~:'iS how I :~sao~r~~~ r~~~~e~C;~:e~f ~her;!:h:ou~e~a~s? ,!h~e ~:l~·. ;.~~~ ~~~rO~~IYoV~~dtheso~~ce b~~~~est~~the police will bring the women to the S.A. Police-the other day. All duced my "treason pass," a docu- punch him, but I stopped them.court today (Thursday). As for the the time I was in custody it was as rnent we were given by the court's He handed me over to the passFort, a women's jail wardress was if I was locked up in a den of registrar for the purpose of identi- office officials saying: "This is aoverheard to say: "There isn't hooligans. Some of them could fication . loafer without a pass." A Special

space leftlNNi~~~ARY ~~~~~ngOP:~ y~~~r ,,~~~thblid~:~:! "QUICK, QUICK" ~~~~jC~te~ete~~~e s~r£ ~~~a~1~~~~Monday was three years to a day "you bastard." "N o . . . that's not your pass," "No , he is a leader."

since 2,000 women went on the Then, as if they are scoring he said. "Give me your reference Although I was held on the sirn­first march to the Union Buildings points in an important competition, book, quick, quick." I didn't have ple charge of failure to produce ato protest to Strijdom about wo- they drive you sick saying: "Kaffer one. The policeman pressed home reference book on demand, I wasmen's passes. On this anniversary do this," "Kaffer don' t do that" his advantage. He "yanked" me by immediately handcuffed.day, the arrests shifted from the I was taking pictures of the the collar of my j cket and dragged As soon as I was locked up in a

(CoIlUn S) womca·. anu-pua demon'tratioD JOo &JODI . nat DAr)YH~ gl a riot (Continued on CI <f) I '..:;:;====;;;:;;;;=;;;;;;;;;=;;;.1

· 2 NEW AGE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1958

Y DID GUINEA VOTE ORI DEPENDENCE?

thor ities coul d d o to stop them.Mr . Schoup is sur ely not suggest ­mg tha t we should think deGaulle wan ted Gu inea to breakaway and accordingly "fixed "things to hap pen that way? But ifthis is not the explanation. whomsho uld we suspect of cooking theelecti on ~esult?-*Ed . )

All Anti-NationalistsMust Unite

W tho ut being impertinent. Iwould like to ask those "certainquarters" you ment ion in yourlead .ng article of October 16 totell us how they ar e going to getwha t they say they want. (TheNew Aee edtorial said: " TheCongress' of Dem ocrats a nd theso-called 'communists' in th eCon gress mo vem ent seem to beunder heavy fire from certainqu ar ters these da ys."-Ed.)

Surely it is no t en oug h for aparty just to have an aim-to sayit wants democ racy, a decentstand ar d of life for all, higherwages etc. Th e forces capab le ofachieving that aim must also bedefined if an yon e is to believetha t that party sincerely desiresto achieve the objective it talksabout.

Wha t objectives of the realanti-Na tionalist part ies ca n beaccomplished without un ity andco-op erat ion? Wh at can be ac­comp lished without the Con­gresses? The successes gained bythe an ti-Na tiona list forces since1948 g.ve us the answ er.

Yet jo int action and co-opera­tion on only tho se aims we havein common could not fa il to berewardin g. All o rganisation s sin­cerely determined to get rid ofthe Na ts will rea lise tha t unity isthe first and most imnorta nt com-mon aim. H. G. BRASSHout Bay , Cape.

Workers' Poverty Dueto Capitalism

Co mment on the Ne w Age edi­toria l of October 23 is needed.[T he editoria l adv ised Africans totake action to secure higher wages.Ed.]

F irstly, to state as you do , th atthe work ing class 'will have no­body bu t themselves to blame forthe con tinuauon of their sta te ofpoverty' is to fu rther a gros s capi­talist distor tio n. The reason forthe povert y of th e worki ng-classl.es not in that class. but in thecease less greed of the cap ita listsfor profits, a nd the conse que nt ex­plo itation of the work ing-class.

Secon dly, it is inco rrect that'commerce and indu str y have ac­cepted the need for an all-ro undincrease in the wages of Afric anworke rs'. The vast majority ofcapitalists have ne ver give n anysup port to such an idea. e.g. theChamber of Min es, which calls thetun e, has never dreamt of givingincr eas es to the minewor kers.Wage increases mean a certainredu ction of pro fits, slight as itmay be. Thu s, the capitalist classnever 'volun ta rily concedes wageinc reases, since a ny reduction inprofit s is alien and loathsometo the m. It is thi s class , and not'the Go vern ment itself' which isthe main obs tacle to a generalwage increase. The Go vernment,by refu sing wage comm issions anda nati onal minim u m wage, is sim­ply car rying ou t the wishes of itsclass.

Thirdly, it is wrong to expectthe wor king class to spont aneouslyor ganise itself. Such organ isationis the task of a Sociali st party,absent in South Afric a. At thi sstage, the brun t of or gani singworke rs in defence of thei r livingstanda rds falls on the SACfU.New Age shoul d ra ther advise theSACTU leadershi p, than chok e offthe working-class. T he ANC , be inga multi- class org a nisation, cannotlead the working-class. Ob viously,it ca n and shoul d play a very con­structive role in the £1 a Day

campai gn. JOSTEL MOKONE.

Johannesbu rg.

DO ES HADEMEYER KNOWHAT HE'S SAYIN ?

A OF HONOUR

knows very well that two yearsago on August the 9th. 1956,20,000 women of alI races an dfrom all corners of South Africaassembled at Union Buildings tosta te their case agains t passes tothe Prim e Minister of our coun­try .

If he wants furth er informationon the matter he ea n approachany Native Comm issioner and theMi nistry of Nat ive Affa irs.

We call upon all women in theWestern Cape. and Afr ican wo­men in particula r, to intensify thestruggle against the pass an d per ­mit system.

A cord ial invi tation is extendedto all non-African women . asmo the rs of the nat ion. to go toLa nga Na tive Commissioner'sCourt to witness what ha ppens totheir African coun terparts.

ZOLLIE MALIN DIPresident, ANC,Calle Westem Re gion.

Th e Africans in the WesternCa pe and democrats of all racialgroups support the Afr ican wo­men of the T ransvaal in thei rheroic and ga ll ant stand againstthe pass system gen erally and theissue of refer ence boo ks (dompasses) in part icul ar.

We condem n the pass system asthe most inhu man and barbaroussystem bein g pe rpe tua ted by suc­cessive South African govern ­ments in peace time. We ap pealto our govern m ent to repeal allpass and permit legislation andwe furth er appeal to both em­ployers and work ers al ike to fightfor the abolitio n of the systembecause it retards the industrialdevelopme nt of our commonfat herl an d.

Th e sta teme n t issued by theCommissioner o f the Police. Mr .Rademeyer , tha t the protests ar ebein g instigated by communistsand banne d lea ders is as irre­sponsi ble as it i i misleading, He

SEE FOR YOURSELVES WHATB PPE S TO OUR WOMEN

Lutuli and Jarrett-Kerrto Speak at C.O.D.

MeetingsJOHANNESBURG.

Chief Albert Lu tuli and FatherMartin Ja rrett-Kerr will speak at apublic meet ing here sponsored bythe Con gress of Demo cr ats onTuesday Novemb er 4 at 8 n.m. Themeeting will be held at the ZionistCen tre (Minor Hall ), 84 de Vill iersStr eet.

Thi s COD meeting is pa rt of aseries of ac tivities planned to winEur opeans to the concept of a de­mo cratic multi -rac ia l societ y andCh ief Lutuli will deal with suchissues as "What is the alternative tothe Na tionalist policy of a part­heid?", "Should Whites fear the ex­tens ion of the vote to Non -Euro­peans?", and " Wha t chan ges will ademocratic mu lti-racial socie tybrina for European people?"

AR~o;era7J,a::,i n;uro~~w~:~~~in wr iting this column weekafter week? Som etimes it seemsso Co us. F or the numb er ofread ers who respond sponta­neously is still comparative lysmall.

We usuall y have to chasethe money; tra p it like thetrapper traps the rar e mink. ordig it out laboriously like themine r does the gli ttering gold.Our staff being limited, an dvery busy in several direct ionsat one and the same time, wewould much rath er the moneychased us for a chan ge.

Take, for inst ance , the ques­tion of guarantees. You wi ll

~::r;k~r ~:Je~~~~ ~~aerab~~~~ F~~~~~~~~:::;@ Ius specific amounts eachmont h. A goo d num ber re­spo nded to ou r appeal, an dmost of them honour th eirpromises promptly and regu­larly . There are some , how­ever, who have begun to fallbehind and who seem to haveforgotten that a promise, oncegiven, should be kept.

YOUR MONTHLY GUA­RANTEE IS IMPORTANTTO NEW AGE. PLEASE DONOT LET US DOWN . If, fo rany reason, we are un able tocall on you to collect, mak e ityour business to see that weget it. .

Our London reader s certainlykeep their promises. They sentus £60 last week, and underto okto send us mor e lat er. The"more" turned out to beanother £65 th is week - awonderful effort. Ma ny tha nks

CAPE TOWN,

CORRECTIONNew Age deeply regrets that

the picture of the mannequinwe published in last week'sissue was incorrectly capti.roedThe pretty lady you saw WJ SMiss Norma Nai doo, not Mis­Norma Isaacs, as we had It.We apologise for any incon­venien-e we may have causedMiss Naidoo, but assure hershe looks just as beautiful byany other name.

CAPE TOWN.

Physical CultureDisplay

SOVIET DRE M CO ITRUE .

SO~~e;::~~h:~'~:eP~~: ~~~I~rflT ~rl~i~~W~Soviet Union's most cheris hed OF 1958 SOVIET PR ODUC-dreams _ to overta ke the TION HAD RISEN TO 30United States in th e produc- MILLION TONS, THE U.S.tion of steel-may be achieved FIGURE HAD DROPP ED TOmuch earlier than was ever ONLY 33 MILLION TONS.hoped for ." (The Soviet figure is th e es-

We mentioned that "lronl - tima te ot the AmerIcan Ironcally the bIggest factor con- and Steel Institute in Its re-tri bnting to the rapidity of the port "Stee l in the SovietSoviet challenge was not so Union" published after a visitmuch the Increased Soviet by representa tives of the In-production over the pre vious stit ute to the USSR this year.year as the fact that the U.S. The Soviet Five-Year Planoutput has fallen because of gives th e figure 68,300,000 forthe economic crisis." 1960. The U.S. figures are

Although these conclusions taken from the United Nat Ionswere correct a gremlin seems Monthly Report.)to have got at our figures and TEN YEARS AGO AN-they were completel y wrong. NUAL SOVIET PRODUC-Here are the corre ct ones. n ON WAS ONLY 18.3

In 1957 Soviet steel produe- MILLION TO N S COM·tlon was about half that of PARED WITH A WHOP-the U.S.-51 million tons as PING U.S. 88.6 MILLIONagainst 102 million tons. TONS.

BUT OWING TO THE (We are obliged to "Con-SLUMP, U.S. PRODUCTI ON tact " for drawing our atte n -DEC LIN E D STEADILY tion to the error in our pre-FROM .JANUARY 1957 TO vious figures.)

At a well attended meeting orga-

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n sed by the African Women'sLeague, Nyanga, to protest againstpasses for women resolutions Werepassed expre ssing alarm at what ishapperu ng to their sisters in theTransvaal, condemning the actionof the Government in arrestingwomen for passes and demandingthe immediate release of theirs.sters, conde rnn 'ng the pass system'which has made innocent Africanneople criminal> and has broughtabout hardship and miseries tomany Atrican families." The meet-

~~;e~r l~h1s U~~t~rlg~sGA~tnment to l/~~~~~~~~~The meeting also welcomed the

f~~i:~~~ C~p~hew~~~~~anR~~~e~~ RACIALISM CHECKShold a protest meeting on Novem-ber 16, 1958, and called upon all CHESS GAMEfreedom-lovmg people to support it.

"RAISE AFRI A WAGES,"C M'MERC URGES GOVI.

United Front Call From Durban

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Moses Mabhida.

Swart's Masterpiece - the Treason

"PERSECUTION OF THE91 MUST STOP"

DURBAN. -Improvements in the health of the

A RESOLUTION calling on the labou~ forces; . .Government to pass legislation -A blgg~r contribution to the

for an early increase in wages for economy,Non-European unskilled workers - A higher standard of living forwas unanimously adopted at a all ;

~e~~ti~f c~fm~:rc~s~~f~a~tdM~~;~~ -The country would begin to mov.elast week. towards a contented, settled Afri­

can population; and,Mr. C. B. Pearce, of Johannes- - Worl d opinion of South Africa

~~~g, r~;~~tfo~hesai:Iee~hna~ \h ea~~~ woul d be improved. .between ski1led and unskilled lab- Mr. E. P. Bradlow, Chairman ofour was far too wide. the Economic Affairs Committee of

the Chamber, said: "Poverty. thePointing out that on the Reef 85 greatest cause of social unrest, ap­

per cent of the African labour force pears to have increased rather thandrums of freedom are beat ing all received wages below the bare sub- declined in South Africa. Therefore,over the so-called dark Continent of sistence level, Mr. Pearce said that it is necessary for the GovernmentAfrica: in Kenya, in Tanganyika, in an increase in African wages would to use its power to raise theirUganda, in Nyasaland, in the have these benefits: wages." IL;;;;;======== = = ========ll

B~~~~;EO~er:h:nsC:p;OI~:~~University team, Stellenbosch townrefused to play a major chess 2nmesgaimt them.

CAPE TOWN. The chess player. Mr. GeraldHolmes, is Cane Town's second

Pupils from II schools ill the best player. A i'ormer U.C.T. stu­Cape will meet for a mass physical dent, he now works for a chemist,

• culture display at the Hartieyvale but is qualified for the university

DURBAN . I~hfrol' cdaes i atosoantdheisne Adlrguemria. aln South fence Fund: which would still ~e ~fno;,tsN~~~b~r fnT~:t~[s~~~y ~ili team.'~THIS persecution of the 91 Con- b ' 11 ' h s re .belhg nee~e.d to aid the accused and their be floodlit and is being organised by m~~~ di:~i~~~ fiSttelr;~~~s~~th It:s~

gressmen and women accused u~~~~n a~ w~lt~st theC~~~;[Ya~~~. t e families, the .Teachers' Educational and Pr~· year, when Mr. Holmes agreed toof High Treason must stop and the The meetlnq also pledged its "full ~e~:~~~: 1 f~~docla!Ion In aid of their stand down, but with this year's

trials that have been I:oinl: on now an~B~:ffi~~~t,ro:: =u:~e~~~:t~a~~ :::~ ~:ut~hAf~i~~~~~~ h:o~:.i· :h~~~ew~a~~hb~~~e c;~;::'m'1~~~dedfor almost two years must be crea;ing vigour and determination the people with courage, sacrifice -<i>-- The match is usually played at

~:~::~~ s::::::: o~~e ~::: ~~t~~~~:a ~~loS:a~eci ::n: i: hU::I~ ~:~p:~::~~~~~na(J~~th~~: Ie:~ Incitement Case Appeal ~~~~n~ff~~d toUfi~v:r~lt~ore c;~l~~African Congress of Trade Unions peoples irrespective of race can live tion and Nationalist tyranny, and rant venue, but Stellenbosch pre-at a mass meeting held in Durba~ in peace and harmony." ~:.I~:~~~r::;tia"n~e f~~:d~:1~1::~ a ll:~d Sth~rea~~eafOo~r\w~hi~i~dre~ ferred to cancel the match.

last week. Other speakers at the meeting sections of the South African peo- drift men who were convicted on a TO BE DISCUSSEDThe meeting, which was one of were Mr. Alan Paton, Chairman of pIe in our lifetime." charge of incitement. The case .

~~~ If~es~e~::~fri~::rs~e1~a~n r~~i: ~i~e~~:~i~e~ar~r' t~~r.N~tar·I~i~~ FOOTN~:. ~~i~~ o~~ ~d~l ~~~:st;.HoThec~:~ T~h: isq~~St~~~~d ~~ aW~:ltr~oi~a:~niscent of the meetings held during Congress and Mrs. Vera Poonen, ot . dReportmg the w~!hd~wal of the men are Mr. Diliza Dayile and Mr. wheth~r eac.h team should Ket half

~~eH~lr~~~ep~~~~a~~n~a~~~it~a;:d the Congress of Democrats. ~nl l~~~chnetrs~gr~~er:' ~~~~~r~a~ag~ Ngenisile Giya~a. . :Ie:t~~;t o~d~h:ew~:~e~~d ":~v~::the crowd overflowed on to the our leaders and even housewives Advocate Seligson, instructed by Chess Union next month, when thebalcony. RESOLUTION S ~ho.se cnm~ I! had ~een to opp.os~ C. J. Jankelowitz, appeared for the who-le issue of Coloured players

AN OVATION A resolution moved from the ~heu '1n~~~~ sm~:~~~~e at~t~el~~t defence. will also be discussed.floor and unanimously adopted week commented:

Chief Lutuli President-General called on the Government to dropof the African ' Nat ional Congress, the treason charges forthwith. The "The absurdity of the chargesaddressing his first mass meeting in resolution also urged the people not against them finally became appa­the centre of the city since his ban- to relax their suppor t for the De- rent to all."ning in 1953, was given a tremen-dous ovation when he said, "The

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Madzunya Flees(Conti nue d from page I)

the hall went ou t. Mr. Ma d­zunya dash ed out of the hallthrough an emergency exit butsome mem bers of the audiencepursued and cau ght up withhim . His angry capt ors thendecided to take him to a" people:s cour t" in Sophia townfor tria l, H e was beingmarched there when he sudde n­ly pulle d himself free andboarded a moving Europeantram.

The tram conductor, sh ock edby this "intrusion," beat himup with an iron rod.

Passer s-by say that the still­ness of the night was brokenby the cries of a man thatsounded like the blea ting of agoat. "M y baas , my baas, theywant to kill me, " Madzunyacried out.

He was tak en to the N ew­lands Police Station by th etram conduc tor but was late rreleased.

~ethods . A coup le of troop car­rrers (kwe la-kwelas) are wai tingin readiness an d a step ladder hasbeen provi ded to ena ble the womento mount the hig h steps easily.The vans pull off amid st cheers~~~ onlo okers: wom en as well as

Day s rem iniscent of the "defiancecamp aign " and the bu s boycottare back again.

The Congres s office in town ha sbecome a bu zzing hi ve of activityOld ,~cti~ ists ,;Vho wer e apparently~n holi day hav e been revita­li sed . At the same time streams offres~ recr~its a re pour ing in.

Di scussions are goin g on ex­citedly 10 the townshi ps as thewomen pledge thei r de term mationto continue the fight. The big tas kat the mo ment is that of hammer­ing do wn the arg uments of thesceptics. Th ere are some peoplewho are sayin g that it is no useres isting becau se so me wome nhave alre ady taken out the passes.

But th is migh t well be the •Waterloo of the pass laws , themilitant won:en a rgu e. They aregoing t~ con tmu e the battle, bitteras It migh t be, they say.

"They will have to arrest usevery day ."

Shots Fired

HRES

sea led off the streets leading tothe pass offices and the womenwere surrounded. Police vans drewup. At that moment everybodygra sped the meaning of wha t washap pening. And in a matter ofseconds the atmosphere wascharged with tension .

A policeman grabbed hold ofone woman and bundled her in tothe police van. But that was no tneces sary. The women on theirown jum ped into the vans . Nowthey sang freedom songs and criesof "Af rika" filled the air. Mor evans were brought up and quicklyswall owed up the women .

The exciting events of the da ywere no t over. For the polic estoppe d an other large group ofw.om~n who were marching onthe CIty from Sophiatown and dis­persed after firing a few shot sover their heads. The women late rre-assembled and went to the N ew­land s police station where the yde mand ed to be arre sted to join" our sisters." The police refusedto a rr est the m.

By T uesday evening the stor y ofthe a rres ts was on ever ybod y's lips . Ir=~~=======-:Many ~omen made up the ir mindsimmediately. A wom an in a bu sque ue sai d she was going home to~hii~~~~~rg to say goodbye to he r

" I think I'd ra ther go to jailthan take out a pass ," she said .. Some women said: "We are go­ing there tom orrow, we also wantto be arr ested.

The men nodd ed "ya ! val " an d~,ome suggested that it was tim e

t:~h~e~o~~~~,~d over our pant s

On Wednesday the man y word ssp oken the pre vious day wer eturned into acti on. All you ha dto do to see the women in actionwas to stan d a few paces from th epass offices and watch . A groupof women . come along, many wit hsma ll bab ies on their backs, an dde mand to be arrested. After som e

~O.~~~I~~U a~:u:d~:c:rr::tl.I" tlfh~yshout " Mayi buy' Afrika" and singand danc e as they get into thevans.

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REMAN DED

NEW AGE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1958

F rom T . Makiwane

JOHANNESBU RG.

"WHICH is this , ro om 217."" N o !" some sai d , "it's

roo m 46."But the room number di dn ' t

really matter . What th e wom enwanted was the very heart ofthe place where they we re issu­ing the passes.

F aced with a floo d of an grywomen the officia ls at the govern­men t pass office did not know whatto do . Somebody brought up atab le to the doorway an d an­noun ced that tho se who had cometo get reference books shouldcom e forw ard.

"N o! N o!" came a ro ar fromhu ndreds of thr oa ts. "W e' ve cometo tell yo u we don' t want passes!"

In the meanwhile the po lice had

The kwela-k(:~: :f ~~:db:~~tw:.~e:o::~~=~j:i~bb:~~ts;ta~ocfuO:;tec~~:S"Wo men

"We'ld Rather Go To JailThan Take Out A Pass!"

N AD TACTICS

(Continue d from page 1)pass office to th e Alexandra bus­stop in Noord Street where 850women who had gathered in thetownship at daybreak came to townto protest agains t the issuing ofpass books. Th e po lice order ed the irar rests after two loudspeaker warn­ings to dispers e.

Up to late on Mo nday afternoon,the police were still coun tm g andlisting this la rge batch of arrestedwomen.

A pa rt from the Noord Streetarres ts. two ba tches totallin g a bout200 wome n were a rrested outs idethe G overn ment pass office duringthe morn ing. Still further arrestswere reported from Bez. Valley.

Among women fr om all town­ships arrested are:

Mr s. Wmifred Mand ela , Mrs.Maggie Resha , Mrs. V. Notswe ,Mrs. Albertina Sisulu , M rs. Nziba,Mrs. Mole le (mother of twins ), Mrs.Pil iso, Mrs. Motsa bi, Mi ss V. Mn­goma, Miss Ra thebe (W its student)and Staff-Nurse Greta Nc apa yi.

On the way into the protest, th eAle xand ra women composed a newson~ with the words "The enemyof the African is a pass."

WAAR 'S JOU PAS?

The issue of passes to Africanwomen has bar ely begun, yet al ­ready some women hav e beensto pped by police in town and theirpasses demanded. When they saythey carry no docum ents they aretold to "ge t them ."

The police cla im tha t despite theprot ests 3,000 pass book s have al­ready been issued to J oh an nesburgwome n.

As in othe r urban centres theNAD got to work first am ong do­mes tic serva nts, whose employerscan be blud geoned int o puttingpressure on their domestics to takeout the pass books. Figures of thenumbers of pas s books issued arethen hurled at the township wo­men , in a bid to undermine theirresistance against passes .

LAS T WEEK UNIFO R ME DCO NST AB LES IN PAIRS WENTFROM H OU SE TO HOUSE INSO ME SUBURBS HA NDI NGHO USEHOLDERS THE OFFI­CI A L LEITE R WHICH TELLSTH E M WHERE TO TAKETH EIR WO ME N E MPLO YEESFOR THE PASS BOOKS.

Women who had already beenissued with pass books were also I---~~~~-~­dri ven home in police vans. (Continue d from previous column)

Such were the desperat e measures rnonstra ting a group of their lea dersto speed up the issue of books to were p lace d under arrest. As theywomen. were lo aded into the police van the

SOPHIATOWN EFFORT hund red s ar ound them roare d thatOn Tuesday, October 21, women they should be arrested too.

of Sop hiatown, the stor m cen tre in haf~ ~~fo~e ~ll~~~ ~~m~~u~o~r£ b:

~~r n:h~yG~~:~~~:na:p~~~s'offi~e°i~ loade d int o the police vans drivenFer reirastown. Their aim, they said through the cordon.was "to see who are the se women Bezuidenhout street, betweenwho are tak ing out pas ses," and to Mar ket and President stree ts thenprotest to the Native Commissioner beca me the scene of daily women 'sagainst their issue. demo nstra tions .

Apparently tipped off by the THE TALL Yp olice PUTCO buses at first re- On the Tuesday the numbersfused to let the women ride, bUI arrested were 335 in town and 249eventu ally the women hire d some in Soph iat own .bu s transport and oth ers made their On We dnesday there were 133

wa()n~ 1~~~ O;o~~\ever reac hed onaq:~s~~day 54;the pa ss office. Police armed with on F r iday two batc hes of 48 an dplstols, sticks and batons sur- 22.rounded them and ordered them todisperse. When one group tried tocontinue towards town the y were Th e wom en appeared for formalsurrounded, herded to the side of reman d in the basement of thethe ro ad and then load ed into Mag istra te' s Court. No cour troompoli ce vans . could be fo und big enough to hold

A lmost simultaneously hundreds them and the women's gaol wasof women were gath ering outside severely tax ed on T uesday night tothe pass office. Co rdo ns of armed accommodate them. These womenpo lice an d plain cloth es men had the ir first meal of the da y atequipped with r io t s taves and 9.10 p. m. , the Fort kitchens h avinglengths of rubber hos ing were sta- had to cook overtime.tione d at bo th ends of the street. Congress food, welfare an d de­When the women insisted on de- fence committees are spr ingi ng up

(Cont inued in next colum n) ~om~n~~de~h~rr:S~~blems of the

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"Heavens, ~hat do I. do now?"- A European employer with hertwo domestic sen-ants In tow rea ches the pass office to find the street

blocked by women demonstrators being put into police vans.

T he scene of operations. Bezuidenhout Street, between Market a1!.d President Streets, is cordoned offas the vans take away the arrested women, and crowds of spectal ors gather at bot h enm to look on.

TRANSVAAL A.N.C. CON­FERENCE TH I S WEE KE ND

JOHANNESBURG.The conferenc e of the

T ransvaal Afr ican Nation alCon gress takes place thiswee kend on Sa tu rday andSunday November 1 and 2 atthe Orlando Conunun al Hall.

Chief A. J. Lutuli will openthe con feren ce.

EW AGE EPOALSO A88ESTE

did not ma tte r ; the pres age offre edom was in the air in the post­war years and constit uted theironly historic con tent. "

The Old and The NewAmong much that was said in

the langua ge of par ab les duri ngthe unf orge tta ble afternoon withPasternak, he sho wed hi mself astri ct realist on one point at least.Asked wha t he thought wa s themost im portant achiev eme nt ofthe Revolution, he rep lied prompt­ly : "The destruction of pro per tyrights. This made us a ne w na­tion."

Pasternak does not fit into thepattern of a Sovie t writer of thegeneration of Ilya Ehrenbur g. Hehas one fo ot firmly planted in the19th century . He be longs to thesame sch ool of salon re vo lution­aries as the wealthy Chr istianuncle of Zh ivago in his no vel.From his refere nce to "artisticcrisis " and "art istic despe rat io n",I ha d the fee ling that Pasternak-now 67-was trying to tell ustha~ with his impr essionist, sym ­bohst poem s an d translations hefelt he ha d stood aside for ' toolong from the realit ies and su ffer­ings-oft en the bru ta lities-bornof a rev olution. Dr. Zhivago isthe answer .

But it is a comforting th oughtthat Past ern ak exists a nd wri tesand has don e so ever sinc e theRe volu ti on. I am assur ed alsothat Dr. Zhivago will so on bepublished in the Sovi et Union.

Paste rn ak would now be in theUnited States , had it not been forJohn Foster Du lles. He an d an ­other Sovie t pro fesso r were tohave gone to the U.S.A . this yearto lecture in U .S. uni versit ies an dtwo American professors were tocome to Moscow, as par t of anagreement on cult ural exc han ges.But the State Department killedthe scheme.

[A rev iew of Dr. Zhiva20 andlate r details of the cont rov ersywill be publ ished in New Age assoon as possi ble.-Ed.]

should be the same as that pub­hshed in Moscow. Pasternakcab led F eltrmelli, but the latte rsaid he was going ahead with thepublication. A representati ve ofthe Soviet Ministry of Culturewent to MIlan - but Feltrrnellirefused to dela y publication.

"D id you agree with the pro­posed cut s?" we asked Pasternak.

"Yes, I did.""Would the cuts harm your

book? ""N o, they would not ," he re­

plied ." Do you regr et that the boo k is

being pub lished in ItS presen t for mabroad? "

"I regret all the noise th at hasbeen mad e about it a broad," hesaid, and add ed : "Most peoplethat have wn tten about the boo kha ve ne ver read it. They hav equoted a t most three pages out ofa book of 700 pages. E very erniethat wn tes about It abroad, quotesthe same few phrases. The quo testhey use do not give a true pictureof the book. Without all the fuss,the book would ha ve been pub­h shed here with a few pages lessand the correct version would havebeen pub lished abroad."

"W as the work autobiograph­ical?"

"No. But ba sed on the lives andexpe rienc es of friends of mine,writers, art ists, professors, doctor s."

"D o the characters exp ress yourown Ideas?"

"There cannot be one ness inart ," he replied. "Works of artare very complex, they mu st notha ve a single aspect . A book hasits own existence . Characters init say right things an d wrongthings . Eve rythi ng they say ca n­not express the beliefs of theauthor ."

"Is the book an indictment ofSoviet societ y ?"

"No," he said very emphatically ."It deal s with episodes in th e h is­tory of a fam ily. It does not dealwith an era."

New SpiritLater, during toasts and snacks

in the dining room, Past ern aksai d : "I am grateful that Sovietwr iters ed ucated me. Before I wasan esote n c, a symbolist. N ow Iam a realist."

"A socialist realist? " we asked ."N o, but I am grateful to the (Continued from pag e 1) tro ubled me greatly to see thosesocialist reali sts that they ma de me room with other pass defaul ters an me n " packing away" the few pre­a realis t. And I am grateful to my African polic ema n came running cious th ings that would br ing con ­country and to our society. Be- and said that the orders were th at solation to them in jail.cause everything that I am was 1 should be handcuffed. "W hy It was more heartbreaking to re­made by them. " don 't you do it yourself," said the call the rea sons why they had been

Rep lying to quest ions as to his other African police.. In fact they arrested, for lack of a mere docu -own fe elings about the R ussian refused to have any th ing to 00 With rnent, a pas s. .Re volution, Pasternak sai d: "The my case. I was ke pt there for a I was not locked .m for longRe volution has achieved its goa l. couple of hours until . a E uropean when a Eur opean policeman cameThe age of proclamations and de - constable came to fill m the charge to fetc h me .and told me I ~ad beenclamations is over. There is a new sh~,ets , . . granted bail. Wha t worrie d him

:g~ritai~~r?;dth;°t~e~:nw~~h ita~~ tak~he;ict~r~~~,t ~;S~~j~. W~~e~aj ~~~pug~it~ah i~ea~a~~:h~~l,~e~eb~~kfn~~d:~: , ~~b~rab:i~h~~r~~ gff~; ~~~~~~da~~ ~,~:l~~~ ~~~e~hr~~~en:::~ ~~e~he~~hrgem~tp;ce·heDogr.~:r~~~ l~everywhere" two bast ards. laughed .loudly and told him not to

Wha t th~ new spirit was, he did I NTO TIlE VAN be ch ildis h .not say , but among the closing . The. charges made ou t, we were I~~~~~~==~~~ Iline s of his book, the re is per haps piled IOta a pohce van, mysel f ~nd

a clue to wha t he meant. Th ey ~h~~g~t~hr~rt j~ur~~~ fa ft~~I~~tl~~

~hi~~~dst~~a~~~ern~~hr~hn:e~~~d ~ii~S~et~l aC~:~~i~k~ ~?~~t~he~ti~~fc~iidh~ h~~ e~~~ri:~~ede:f~~~I~~: ~~:~r ~~c~~s~o~~~~ his

n t~~s~a~ii~stres s and storm of revolution, and of shoes . The yaw ning sal e of theafter the Second World War: shoes was a perfe ct hid ing place for

"Thou gh ~ e . cla rificati on and his tobacco and brown pap er.free dom that were hope d for aft er I knew that I would not stay longthe war had not come wi th the in the cells: someone was bou nd tovict ory as they ha d tho ught, this come an d bail me out. But it IL,;;;;========~ I

AK EL S WHY HE WROTE"DR. ZHIVAGO"

PAS

Delay AskedThe manuscript was also given

to Feltrinelli, head of a Commu­nist publishing hou se in Milan.Pas tern ak continued that he wasasked to request the Italian pub ­lishe rs to delay publication by sixmonth s since it would take atleast that time to ed it the work inR ussia n.

At the end of the six-monthper iod , his Moscow publisherasked h im to get the manuscriptback from Italy because certaincuts would have to be made andthe version published abroad

A T pl~~:sd b~~k~~~ l~~ece~:~~~RUSSia. Snow-covered pine slopes .H orse -drawn sle ighs tinkling pastthe lane which led to the double­storied log cabin with snow thickon the roof. lhe appearance ofBoris Pasternak himsel f, his mas­sive head covered with a mat ofgrey-white hair. His excited greet­109 in French, German and Eng­lish almost simultaneously until heestablished the nat iona lity of hisguests . The semi-mystic nature ofmuch of the con versat ion seemeda century removed from the Mos­cow we had left for a 40-minutednve to Peredelkino, the villagewhere Pasternak has his countrydach a.

We were five correspondents,come to hear from Pasternak him­self the story of his nove l, Dr.Zhivaga , It had caus ed a minorsensation m the West, because anItalian Communist pub lishingh ouse decided to go ahead andprin t it despite Moscow requestsfor the return of the manuscri pt.

Why He Wrote ItOn the walls of Pasternak's

spacious study were originals ofhis father 's illustrations for T ol­stoy's Resurrection. Among thefew books-he expla ined that hislibrary was in his Moscow home-was a large copy of the Bible,Melville's Moby Dick, Virg iniaWoolf's essays , wor ks of Dickens,Schiller, Kaf ka and others.

As for Dr. Zhi vago : "I foundth at as far as I am kno wn abroadat all ," Pasternak said , " it is as awriter of esoteric, Impressionistpoe try . I was ashamed of this. Iwanted to write something serious,a prose work, something thatwould cost effort, work -and whok nows what. I was in a crisis andwan ted to get out of it. Anartistic crisis, " he ex pla ined in hishalt ing English. (fhroughout ~ISin terv iew he fumbled around Withwords and phrases in four lang­uag es until he found the exactformulations he wanted in Eng­lish .) " I ha ve never been involvedin politics ," he added , "but J wasin a state of cr isis. From artisticdes peration sometimes comes artis ­tic inspiration. And so I wrote mybook."

He had started wr iting it beforeStalin's death and finished it abo ut18 months ago. (On a very br oad

~~d~~' t~e an~~clrt~rai~~ ae~~~~~in the lives of a multitude of per­so nah ties of different origins andeducat ion. Zhi vago , a doctor ofmed icine, is the central figure.)

Pa stern ak said he submitted itto several publishing houses andliterary revie ws. In one Moscowpub lishing house ,it was acceptedand an enthusiastic young editor,"a Communist whom I like verymuch ," Pasternak said, agreed toedi t the wo rk .

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~N=E~W~A~G=E~,~T~HURSD~, O~OBER 3~ ~~A controversy is raging in literary circles on both sides of the iron curt-a-in~si-nc-e-t-h-e-----~~~~~~-~~~--~-~~- --~~~--~~~-~~--::~=--:::::-~-=-=-=--=::..:-:.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

publication in the west of the novel Dr. Zhivago by Soviet poet and novelist Boris Pasternak.~he ~w<!:rd of .the Nobel. Prize .for literature to Pasternak within a few months of publica.non IS VIewed m the So.vIet Union as a ~elib~r~te western propaganda move and appears toR:iv~o s~~~~~v~~~dU~~~n~lew of some Soviet cnt~s that the book itself serves a purpose harm-

CHEi;th;:p:fscl~nw:~t~~t~~i~ ~~~ho~h~u~~~:~~°fn ~~igr. Zhivago WILFRED BUR·

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*W E'VE got noth ing agai nst the

Afr ikaans language, bu tmu st T he Family of Man betrans lated into Meuse deur dieWereld? What's wrong wit h theword " fami lie?"

wom en gett ing fed up with pass eshe seems to have said the firstthing tha t came into his mind.It' 3 the commies! Th at line is sureto go down with the hard-headedNats and wou ld have givenBlackie Swart an excu se to blo woff some hot air had Parliamentbeen in session, but we doub twhether reasonable citizens havefa llen for it. General R. pr obabl ypicke d up some stock excuses onh is American visit. After all ,blam ing the Red s is an Americanpate nt.

But let's face fac ts, Gene ral.Th ose girls ju :>t don't like passes !

*Y ES, that is me you see behin d

the peepers. But it doesn ' tmean that I'm taking a dim viewof th ings like the old la dy whotold me that now that we have anunder-minister for Bantu E duca ­tion , and anot her character forthe Bantu Administration Depart­men t, every th ing is ~oin~ to BEBAD.

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University Ind ian Students' Bursary Committee

Applicatio ns are hereby invited for four (4) bursaries

for study at any South African University. The bursaries

are available for students wishing to read for one of the

following degrees: B.A., B.Sc., B.Com. (Preference will be

given to candidate s who intend to teach.)

Application forms must be lodged with the Secretary by

12 noon on the 10th December, 1958.

Forms obtainable from

The Secretary,

P.O. Box 106. Vreded orp,

JOH ANNE SBURG .

FOUR BURSARIESFOR NON-EUROPEANS

THkfr~~~~sCh a:~~~the~~om ;~Ii~~ :g~eG~~i::tcr;u~xi:e~~trJo:~seems to be be~oming unbear- from a tour of Rhod esia and Eastable in UNO. Even the U.S. Afnca. T he ir spon taneous andwh ich has been si tt ing by for uninhibited singing rel ieve d theyea rs witho ut moving a finger of boredom of the Karoo.critic .sm, had to vo te, for the firsttime , for the resolution con demn- Good luck on your E ur opeaning Verwoerd's po lic y of racial- tour next year , boys.ism.

Th e continued su pport of theAf ro-A sian peoples fo r the libera- Tg~nanofns;~~~~ o~Ot~-:~.it~Sut s~C~U;l~ °l~ey;: -~~ngot~~~ej~~ers~~~:not get the idea that our sal va tion able to give an y account for thecome th fro m the Gen era l AS3em-bly of the U.N. W e've got to dothe real job ours elves.

It is significant tha t fo ur of thefive votes agai nst the reso lution

~~ea~I°:::'v~h~~::;~f:;a::tlf~~:~s By *ALEX

LA GUMAA ~tj~~~lY:..~~~e:ri~:v~~~~:x~ *One of their seamen who wasordered out of a resta urant herebecause he was u nder the influ­ence whim pered: "Y ou' re on lythrowin~ me out beca use I'm anAmerican."

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I~0~1~~d~ut-t~}C~~~ ~~~~Ie~e~~vote in their first election. Newsreports tell us tha t pygmies in G­str ings pitched up at the pollingbooths to make thei r crosses. Nodoubt our Nati ona list friend s andot he rs will look askance a t thistype of elec tion where "rawkaffirs" are all owed to vote , butit help s to give the lie to the ex­cuse that our own non-whites ar enot civil ised enough to be gran tedthe franchise.

If the pygmie.> of Ug anda areable to go to the polls the re canbe no argument ag a inst inhabi­tants of an industrialised andmodern society b eing abl e tochoose the govern ment they wishto see in power. .

I ~~;u~~e~t ~~: s~e;~h d~~:;~i~~of well-wishers to Fuehrer Ver­woe rd,

Do you rea lly expe ct mercyfrom a pal of Hitler, Iochen-in­koppen?

Hell Let Loose inthe Transkei

- NEW AGE, THURSDAY, ocrOBER 30, 1958

DELEGATION

Mr. Mokhehlc in his speech said:"We stand against incorporationinto the Union. We stand againstrule by the British. We sta nd for

~~~;.~v~~:es~:ii rC;~~heo~riti:~ ,as our friends are misg uided. Mr . Mok hehle speaks to the

"The reside nt Co mmission er and dele gates .o ther disruptive elemen ts in Basuto -land are tryin g to bre ak the un ityof the Basuto in the ir deman ds forself-gov ernme nt. They try to divi dethe chiefs from the people. Theysuggest the prop osals do not comefrom the peo ple, were not properlyadopte d by th e peo ple and tha tCo ngre ss is not the ir true voice. PORT ELIZABETH.

" The Basuto nation must close Trouble between the Gov ernmentits ranks against · this divide and and the people flared up in therule polic y. Basutos m ust loin th e Transkei last week when an Afric anforward march of the peop les of detec tive was killed and a constableAf rica towards freed om and inde- inj ured in the Eng co bo districtpendence." where Chief Kai ser Ma tanzima is

The hall thundered to cries of tr ying to enforce the Ban tu Autho-"Sekoelc" (Sotho for M ayibu ye). ri ties Ac t.

In an exclu sive in terview with Acco rd ing to the sca nty reportsNew Age, Mr. .Mokhehle said t~e which have trickled thro ugh, a largeBasutoland Afr ican C ongress wJ11 fo rce of police is combing the areamake a stand tha t there be no dis- and a numb er of peop le hav e beencriminatio n in the repr esent ation of arrestedall races in Basutoland and th at .nation aliti es other th an Basu tos A man who arrived from the areashould accept Basuto na tional ity recently desc rib ed the position as:under the Paramount Ch ieft ainess " Hell let loose ." I''':;;;====== = = ==== = = = ====:J

M r. O. P . Pho folo, the TransvaalPresiden t of BAC , told the confe r­enc e th at a delegation of five chie fswould accom pany Basu to land'sParamount Chie f. the Residen t

a Commissioner and Pr of. D. Cowento london . Th e Basuto land AfricanCongress was not re presente d in thedelegati on , he said.

T he confer ence pas sed a resolu­tion to send a delegate. It did no top pose the official dele gates, it said.bu t felt there should be a delegat erepr esent ing the Cong ress.

A coll ection on the sp ot raise d '£119 towards the deleg ation .

AGAINST INCORPOR ATION

Mr . O. P . Pho folo, TransvaalPresid ent of the Basutoland Afri­can Congress, addres ses the coo-

ferenc e.

member of the official delega tion ,but will lobb y British M .P.s andoth ers and place the views of theBasu toland Congress before official­dom and the publi c.

Th e imme diat e demand of theBasuto s was for self-go vernment,Mr . Mokhehle said. But self-rule

Basuto land Co ngress toSend Delegate to London

The conf erence rises to its feet to sing the national anthem.

"We Want Freedom and Independence"JOHANNESBURG. cou ld not be limited onlv to the and the n be granted the franchiseoVfl~ked '~~~m ~~~u~art:e~ert~: ~~~~~~ ~\lla~v:tte;:ea~~~i~~s :~~ g~o;k. equ al basis wit h the Basuto

Transvaal to a conference o f the mer ce and administrat ion in Basut o­T ran svaa l region of the Basutoland land , he said amidst gr eat ap plau se.Af rican Congres s on Sunday " Th e reso urces of BasutolandOctober 19 to raise funds for the mu st come unde r the control of thesending of a Congress delegate to peo ple."l o ndon where the constitutionalpro posals for Basutoland are to bediscussed on November 17.

Th e ch ief draw at the meetingwas Mr. Nts u Mokh ehle, P residen tof the Basutoland African Co n­gres s.

Mr. Mokhehle will no t be

SYRIA has banned the Ameri-can Menhall Prospecting

Company and the Syrian -ArabianOil Company from further opera­tion and frozen their bankdeposits.

The Government said the mea­sures followed several violationsby the two companies, which ob­tained permission to explore forgil in 1955.

"-There were a number of Africans among the huge crowd whichthronged Peking's streets to celebrate socialist China's tenth anni­versary. Prominent in the background, huge portraits of Lenin and

Stalin stand side by side.

French Prepare to Elect l.- - - - - ­

Sha w arliamentWI~V:~~~ ~j ~::u:;~ ~~n~ t~ac~iI~&~ :: r:;re~~; . ~~es~oin against the reactionary par-

general election campaign is al- lnnge d~~~~.i date, the others stand- m~~~ h~:in:etoc;,~:;eonG~vNr::ready in full swing. vember is the anti-Communism

Voting will take place under de PREWAR SYSTEM which grips even sections of theGaulle's new single-member con- In the second round the candi- Left opposed to de Gau lle.stituency law which is patently date who gets the largest number of The new system completely re A NEGRO Communist leader iug US el f H '11 t daimed at red ucing the number oC votes will become elected. jects proportional. representation~ M B . . J D . h ' in the' ~or~~nlgO_~~SS :Ia::en: :~_Communist parliamentary deputies. A similar voting system brought which the Communist Party advo- r, enjamm • avis, as .

In the new delimitations Cornrnu- about the Popular Front Govern- cated as the only democratic system been nominated as candid ate for trict ,

~~~d~~eodnf~~l~~h ~r~va~e~~~to g~;r:~ C~~mu~sts 1:~tR~3i~~IS ;~~~al~~i~ ~~lf~ie~o~~tI¥ra~~~ as many political the New York senate in the com- th~n C~~~~~I~~t ~l~dto t~he ;~~i~in large ann-Communist middle- 3,000 signatures from voters in theclass and rural voting blocs • F -. district. They succeeded in getting

SHADOW ASSEMBL~ 0 Ye 01 ure 5,8~~~re is also a full IndependentThis will, in any case, be little Socialist ticket of candidates,headed

more than a shadow of previous by Corliss Lamont for u.S. senatorelections, for the new National •• and John T. McManus for Gover-Assembly is, under the de Gaulle e OU e nor.constitution, a body with greatly re- MIlLIONAIRESstricted powers. McManus is opposing two 11]11-

pr~~e~:~~h~n j~~ J~eGa1~8~~~~ Discuss Algerian Terrorism in France ary ~1r~he~~e7~ tryin~ t~. alert ~~~a~~R~;~bl~~:~ ~!~~I~ R~~k~~;~b~~ ~~~ewft~c: s~~o~~n~~~d~~ THE Communist Party began Ifault," Thorez pointed. out that :tis~ke.•o~~on~o~ F.ai~U:m~ ~~~~r. ~;~ t~~~~~li~~c~ti ~~p~~;~ltm~~DN;~r; 1~ ' ~~ nh~~~art different _ its elect ion prep arations :n~le s~~;{c~:~~~ f~rt~~~y P~~;~ ht~!e' ~e~~~~:rt:It~rovi~ing too ~c t~rrf~ mar~in to~ 1~,~9~ vhte~.electoral system from France, with w.lth a two-day confe ren ce to activities, the opportunistic. argu- easy excuses for a~tlO~ against AI- m~na:ed70eKle

n2~~41 ~fl~;~u~es f~~larger constituencies voting for dISCUSS .and analyse the wea k- ment..completely forgets obj ective !:~~~~~ t1~norsezm~~ltd'be ~~1d f::;-t~h~ their right to be on thegballot, andseveral Deputies at the same time, nesses III the left mo vemen t conditions, C I C g . h I II as most of their support comes from

ger;~ ~~;:ri~~sen~n: :Jm:~:n:h whic h pe~itted the recent pa:gurca~h~~J ~~~~hf~fiU~~~~ ~g~ alin:~~ts ~t;:~~~~Io~~ ~:~in~t °u~ ~~e gemocrat~ , ~ is expe~t.ed th11settlers "e.lected" there under overwh~lmmg succ 7ss . for de relatio ns bet~een the class forces, (the Communist Party)." doeevee~h~~atlcoss~b\~ ~ac~~~e~t~~earmy surveillance. Gaulle in the constitutional re- influe nce their development by en- FIGHT FOR UNITY validit of t~/S . r t . ti.In France's othe r colon ies, voting ferend um . lightening and orftanising. the On the Party's policy now that in an ~ttemPt t:ck: : ; th~~I~ffl~h~

ti~~arer~;r:~e~t~~~~t1~~~f ~~o:po:d S,u"!minJ: up .that discussion, ~~ss~1eta~a~~ybYal~~~r ~~r~~iili:; ~~~e~e i~b~lIfo;~fi~~t~fnt~:~o~=~~ ballot. . .in France. Maurice Thorez, "ete.ran leader of abo lish these class relationships, nor Thorez said the Party still held to .~e Com~~ms!s, while .they were

the French Cornmu.DJst Party, .last turn them and make them go in its view formulated in 1946 on the wllling to lOID lD a 1!nJted front

Here i~~:: :: e ::~t::~iIl work ;:~~k':;tl:;~e t:;\h~ ':::rke::n::: anot~o~~ecl~~~ed that the ~~~t~~ of peaceful ways to ~~~~lt~u~~o~i~ fh~rI~;de~~:en~t

in France: up t? now had voted for the Com- Party stands for "peace in AlJ:Co- The Communist Party did not re- Soc iallst tl~ket because It 1~c1udesConstituencies, based roughly on mOD1St Par?' .voted for the de ria throuab negotiation and the nounce its intention to change the the Trotskrl sts, who, they pomt out,

one Deputy for 93,000 inhabitants, Gaulle constitutien, establishment of new relations new and thoroughly bad Constitu- are an antl-workIDft class movement.

ar'b~~a~~mS:~ t~P~hich do not have \Ve~e p~~i~nr~:~;l~'sf~es{~ee f~~t: ~:se~ig~~, in:::en~e:t:l e~d~~ tiofn t~~~Ug~0~~~b~~er~~tio~~lP1~_ Syria Bans Two~i:ug~illnh~~~~~~~~I:s~r ~~~ ?:~ ~~~"J:' o\h~i~la~~~agy ~h:e:~tha~r~ tages," FLN TACTICS ~a~t~I,~ e~~~~tl~sns~er~n d;r~~cheve~: 0 ·' Firmswhich generally favours the re- of the Algiers coup, the desire for But, referring to the tactics of the thing to reduce its representation,actionary parties, as these Depart- peace in Algeria and illusions that Algeria n National Liberation Front the Party would struggle all-out forments are mainly rural. . de Gaulle would bring it, the fact which had launched a campaign of unity.

Any candidate who gets an abso- that the "No" forces were not able terrori st bombing attacks inside "In the second round of voting,lute majority of the votes cast in to achieve unity. F rance during the election, Thorez we will do everythina to unite thethe first poll on November 23. will Thorez warned against both sec- declared: republican forces against reae-be elected. Because of . the large tarianism and opportunism now "The methods used by the FLN tion," he said.number of French parties, this is that the Constitution had been in France have not, it must be said In the struggle for unity, it waslikely to be rare. voted in. qu ite clearly, served the just cause now vital to work at the base: per-

Then comes the second round Dealing with critics who say. of the Algerian people, who have haps in the past the Party's tacticof votin2 a week later. It is here "Things are going badly, we have always had the understanding and stayed too much "a taetle at thetbllt the anti -eo • pard suffered a ~hook. it it th Party'a political support of 1h revolution- summi.... •

T HERE has been a very important change in the programmethe Cyprus Liberatory movement. Until this month the demand

was for noth ing less than enosis-that is, union with Greece.Now Archbishop Mnkarios has put forward a plan which calls for

independence from Britain instead of enosis. And the Communist Partyand labour movement in Cypr us arc backing him.

The Cyprus working-class leader colonialists, too, had exploited theEzekias Papioannou at once declared negauve attitude of the Turks.the new proposals of Archbishop UNITY PROPOSALMakarios to be an "inevitable and Cyprus lacked a real nationalnecessary retreat" from the libera- liberation front, he said.tion movement's final aims. A decisive effort was needed to

Announcing the movement's sup- frustrate the partition plan whichport for the archbishop, Mr. Papio- held the menace of ruin for theannou cited several reasons for the Cypriot people. The Makar iosretreat, among which was "dicta- proposals offered the British Lab-torial insistence" by the British our movement an opportunity toGovernment to enforce its own exert pressure on the Govern-plan for the partition of the island, ment.ignoring Greek Cypriots. On the question of unity, Mr.

He blamed the Greek Govern- Papioannou proposed a meeting ofrnent 's unreadiness to advance the representatives of the Cypriot peo­Cyprus question by "decisively, pie under church auspices to formgetting rid of the ties of Nato," a common front and plan "massive

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NEW AGE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1958

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TheLecturer, Mr.H. E.Abrahamse, willdeal with such questions as

The RepublicThe ProtectoratesThe Portuguese TerritoriesThe Rhodesian Federation andThe Nations of Southern Africa"Racial" Status and ClassihcationThe "Africanists" and"Africa forthe Africans"

Chairman: Dr. A. DavidsThe Lecture will take place undertheauspicesoft heW.P.PressAssociation

Imperial Cricket ~~~: of~~a:i~:~g~~~;t ~~h~,~~~~~:A MEMBER of~~ l~~N~as ~;e~t~~ers~ii~a~~~t f~~ :::~:it~ ~e~~ Conference- Equal ~~i~orG~rii~~lco~~~r~kekt~~~·

• sacked from his job in ~e sons." • • Fazal Mahmood and H~nif Maho~

, ~~:0;:~~~/'!~~~~r1~ckie~:n~!~her On tO~~f ~~~~:'AJquza was Membership . . ~o~dth~rr~. loss is South Africa's and

N:U~~,~an; ~~l~~~\n; ~:n;:~~al :: t~aa~ ~~neceve~~b:: ~~r~~~ ~:~ toT~ee ~~~~~ ~~~~bed"~~tetShese:x • •authorities 00 the S A.S. Simon Van titled to pay in lieu of leave not mission o.f countr ies such .as the New Cncket Mattmg~:~ni~t;.l ;~e~si~:s ar;JPk~~;II~g f~~ ~~~~e~~~ng the time of his em- ~:~ iena~~~d a~af~.tt;~eJ~~Jam:~~ re~~~l;o~~~ric~sfri~;~: wa~~good order the ship' s guns. After In an interview with New Age bers of the. Impen al Cncket Con- unanimous in their views that we

Mr. Nquza. ~w~J,~~~u~~t wI~~ t~~ ldt~O~~: ar~ k ~;. Jt~~~a v~~ ~:: ~~:l ~~ta~~v~~ ~~r:~t~i~s ~~lh~V~o~U:!ar~~:es~~~: ~~t~f~g a~hfch ~~uldiC:eet~tt:j~:~~Lee-Warden. M.P.. the Naval Chief made any complaint about his work tion oftwo members, like .England, tage to both bowler and batsman.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ______ _ _ __ I and had personally informed his Australia and South Africa. Pre- The former would not have to.. I W k F· h F s!1perIors of his satisfaction. But viously the former countnes had deliver his balls in pot-holes, as is

unlClpa or ers Ig t SInce Mr. Nquza had founded the only one vote each. . now often the case, while the bats­or Simonstown Branch of the ANC I! was In dia who submitted a man could take his stance on a levelEuropean members of the crew notice of motion demanding equal surface. Furthermore, spiked cricket

CI f U· under whom he worker had spread representation .at the Imperial Con- boots would have to be replaced byean-up 0 nlon the . word that.. he was organising fere':!ce held 10 July. and ,It was rubber or crepe soled ones.

_-- ~i~~~J t~n~is ili~~i:sal.°mmunist." w~~df~yN~tt~~or.~u~d~~m~~~r~~.X ty~ef ~fU~~tti~~ cc~~~~ent~t ~~s d~e.:

I. h· It was. only after Mr.. Lee-War- has. ~ther belatedly attacked this overnight, but would take someNew Eections t IS Sunday den, African Representative for the decision taken about three months time, if our administrators favour

. . W~stern Cape, had made ~~presen- ago. . ... this suggestion, Probably Mr. BobCAPE !OW~. A campaign to democratise the tatrons t~ the naval authorities that Wh.at ,:n.akes hi" comments 10- Pavadai, manager and president of

~~:~~~~n~fo~~~~e:~~i;i~~~~; ~~i~fi~~ti~vnor;e~~ ~a~;e~h~t bl~a3~~: ~:d ~~senl~~:~~da:b:

tS~~;it~i~k~ ~~r~~~~ta~~ $:srl~d~~tI~~i~e~~d ~iil S;~~~~~~dt :~:r~ o~isC~~;~~~ :will be held this Sunday (November ship of the Vigilance Committee Mr. Nquza has. a WIfe and 5 New Zealand .as JUlll?r Test playing and he, in his position as national2) 10 elect .a. new Genera,1 Coun~i1 last year when the officials refused children and lIves 10 Retreat. I cou~trIes , while he 1O~lu.des Sou~~ head, can be responsible for itso,r the M UniCipal Workers Assecla- to call a constitutional general Afnca as one of the Big :rhree . Implemen.tatlOn.n on. . , . meeting in order to hear grievances B~t Norman Pre~ton, Editor l?~ " The.. .six-ball . over is another

The meetings Will be held In ac- of the members. The executive also "Towards a Modern WI5den, ~he world s most authori must In our cncket, our cricketers

~~d~~~ri~ l W~~g~t~;:e~t~de ~i~lmt~t: ~~~b~~~l~d u~ea~~n~r:r~tc;~~~c~~ ~~~ ~~t~~~ri.~:\C~~~ei~n~~~\I~~~~:sor~~~ insist. •place after a long dispute betwec~ union, allegedly .upon !nstructions S.A. Patriotism " ~r~l~~r(~) ~h~"~~st~r:k~~'(4\2~~~~~ We Hear It SaLd ...~frt:~~:et~~~:~~eb~n~h~ffi'c~~~:~f from the Industrial Registrar. A Leiter to Peter Dreyer tan, (5) South Africa, (6) India and • That on No.vember 8 and 9, when

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Association. WORKERS LET DOWN in reply to Ken Louw's+ ~)r. N~~o~:;!:n~~l f~~Su%~~er~i~: ~~~~AAfri~ke~irlob: ~:i~~~~The Vigilance Committee also say criticismsof the draft manifesto of third place corne into the pic- waiting to hear the outcome of

that the executive let down the of the BusAparthe id Resistance ture? Mr. Preston goes further in Mr. "Checker" Jassat's report onworkers on the question of wages Committee commenting that South Africa and the proposed West Indies tour.

:n~ej-~~a~r~;i1es~~Se;~,ena~~a~~~~~~ by K. J. Hendrickse ~~t:~ fi~ ~~~hod~,c~ncit~~~~~~nth~~ ~e~l?~i~~tl~it~Si~h~ ~~:~~~~ib~~mended apartheid in municipal em- Price 1/- Postage Free cricket is a game. par ties. At the same meeting

plCZ; eernt;~d~~nIsnd~~~ia~ T~~~ti~~ Obtainable from W P. Press beF~:~~e~~~dth~l~ t'~o~i\n~f~~~iO':: ~~' re~~~t ~;E~~iAf~i~.submitssigned by hundreds of workers had Association, P.O. Box 14, Claremont cricket. because India and Pakistan • That. the Maon controversy isbeen ignored by the executive, an -Assoclate Editor, "NewMercury" have never been oart;cularlv friend- causing concern both in Southannual general rneetlna was finally Organof "Democracyof Content" lv towards South' Africa. On what Africa and New Zealand. Whatheld in Athlone in December la..t Johannesburg basis this conclusion has been start ed as a personal protest byyear and at this meeting members formed it is indeed difficult to a muns ter has become a nationalof the union refused 10 adopt the fathom. I can only conclude that issue, The Maoris are standingminutes and reports, electing instead BUILDING CONTRACTOR Mr. Woodlev is looking at things firm, and even if they arean emergency committee to lake AND REPAIRS !'~~~ee~i~~li~~~,1, a;o~:. i;nd~nfaTe~~ r~~Hidh~;: th~; 1~~n!~Ube~~ni~OVThelhe:e~~~ii~: h~~~:e;'l~~f~~~~o::; ~a~isf~bti~ono ~~:~~t~~d ji6' t~:ebit:: cricketers have alwavs admired Will most decidedly be the last

~i~~e~ver to the emergency com- HB'amA~ltThonORmOaasd' , CTlealreePmhoonnet. 7-7858. :~~i~ ~:l!e~i~~~;s 1)1~~rl~gb~~~trIt?~ ~~~ ~v.::s~~s ;i~~~~~ :~~~,ef~~find England. Their only regret they will not tolerate this in-

REGISTRAR CONSULTED I is that they could not play fer ior status any longer.The vice-chairman of the erner- RUSSIA against such great exnonents l e That since winning the New Zea-

~ri~VtoC~~n~~~~e:hewI~sd~:t~~altoR:ci~: - ~hatca~eit;e~ s;n~~n. M;~kis:~iod~~~ ~dd:~t~~etgo~f!~y~it~e,,,~~1~:~=trar, and subsequently the President ArRICK West Indian c£.lcketers h.ave ever cast" Maori, has posed a prob-

~===-=============~ I~asth:u:~s~~~ti~~, t~' rif~~ion;:i and the 'RI..-tu l'e- ~a~d~ S~~thAf;i~~I~tictt~~~~.eH~~ ~n~r w~~~~ h~~u~;~d s~~l~_ Inspector of Labour in Cape Town. .. U can sportsmen, if they are t~ue Africa for a ruling on the colour

MILNERTON TURF CLUB ;oh;:titu~i~n;t~l:;.i~~~t:~ o~~e.hold Public Meeting h~~~dme~~d eill~fee~f~~ :~~~~~I:~ ~~~~~u:~lfnt~~n~~~:nfi~~h~=According to the Vigilance Com- fellow crtcketer. be he hlack. white duled to take place in Johannes-

mittee these elections were not held GANDHI HALL or blue? No. sir. ~ood sportsmen burg in November 1959

~~~~h~:~~oi~st:~~l l~~:sJ~t~t~~~eaf~~ 50 Fox Street, Johannesburg :~~th~~a~~thi~~l~:de~ff tl:~hfi~id~ Racing at Miine~onthe whole Executive was called to SATURDAY NOV. 8th iust as Basie Viviers's rul!by Spring-the officeof the Divisional Inspector bob did in New Zealand two years Last week Damon tipped four'1nd were once more instructed to at 2 p.M. ago 'Yith the Maoris. . • winners an~ three second places.hold elections as laid down in the Speakers : It IS.really the admmls!rators of These are hiS tips for this Saturday:constitution. I S.A. cncket who are unfriendly to- 3·Year-Old Handicap: AVON. Dan-

APPOINTED : ~~. pY. ~~~:~ ~~d~~~~I:V cs~~:::'i~~d~~~n~o~e~: D~~~r~a~:n~~~~ IRISH THUN-According to the Vigilance Com- Indies who, I am positive, would be DER. Danger, Nonchalance.

mittee 21 ex-councillors from three • Mr. S. Saleh only too glad to have a South Ascto Haodicao: KING'S LYNNbranches were apoointed by the • Mr. D. Maternan African team touring their country. Danger. Time to Shine. .oresident to the General Council It is South Africa's negative attitude Progress Five: ROYAL CHEFinstead of proper elections being also which has prevented such a move Danger, Overproof. .

he~he Vigilance Committee finally Exhib lion 01 fr~o,b~~~~~o~l;;~l~%~r fears are Mq~ea . P~~~g~~3~~:~~;ce~?N-1:k~~e1nt~~~e~h~o°h~~ec~~b~~/~I:c: Spu tnik ~~~::n~i ~e~rep~ii~i~oti~~du~~~ M~~~~e;,lai[e~~~~.IMMACULATE.:~~n~nidu~r~flll~~~i:r~sr ~~ i~i:~~~~ Phologl'aphs ~~~oe. t~: l~~:e~a\h~c~~\h~oh::d jug~?~rit~.late (C and G): Thedirectly and conseauently meetings Auspices : of affairs act in the true interest of Juvemwill be held under the chairmanship SA Society For Peace and sports. Neither India, Pakistan nor --

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