aj | | PETE SEEGER IN CUBA HAVANA—When folk: singer Joseito Fernandez walked into the immigration department room at the airport, Pete Seeger was waiting for him. José shook the visitor’s hand and said, “I want you to feel at home.” Pete Seeger answered, “Please ex- cuse my bad Spanish, but you have my wholehearted affec- tion.” rage Peter Seeger picked up his 12-string guitar, looked at the people around him and said, “It‘s a great honor for me to sing La Guantanamera in front of Joseito Fernandez, the author, and of Hector Angulo, the man who taught me the song.” He launched into the song, to the delight of his listeners, while the Cuban musicians joined him. The atmosphere of spontan- eity which characterized the meeting prevailed throughout . the time the US. folk singer re- mained at the airport. Seeger is in Cuba as a guest of the Nation- al Council of Culture. He was accompanied by his daughter Mika and his son-in-law Emilio Rodriguez Vazquez, a Puerto Rican, both of whom participate in progressive movements in the United States. “I’m very- happy to be in Cuba, where I’ve come to learn and to help the Revolution as much as I can,” Seeger said. “We all know how to wield a machete. I’d like to cut cane and sing for the people in the small towns and, above all, for the young people. “This’ song proves that the music of the people can go . around the whole world. La Guantanamera is the most uni- versal song I’ve ever sung. Not only is ‘the. music loved by everybody, but also the words are basically important. There are many songs that say ‘I love my country,’ but the important thing is that Marti was really a sincere man. “T’ve been singing for Vietnam for seven years. On November 15, at the time of the morator- ium in Washington, I sang ‘Bring back the boys from Viet- nam,’ and half a million people joined in the chorus. It was the biggest audience I ever sang for. “These songs never reach ra- dio or television in my country, because they oppose the Penta- gon’s aggression against Indo- china and we know who owns those broadcasting stations.” “Have you accomplished your purpose by _ singing these songs?” ‘Tl answer that when the United States withdraws from Vietnam.” —Granma Correcting errors Changes made in Polant By CONRAD KOMOROWSKI Two broadcasts to the nation were among features of the 8th plenum of the 92-member Cen- tral Committee of the Polish United Workers Party (PUWP) held Feb. 5-7. The plenum was held to evaluate the unrest and violence that occurred in Decem- ber and to chart a new forward course. Election of Alternate Stanis- law Kuzinski, head of the Central Committee’s Light Industry, Trade and Construction Depart- “ment, to full membership in the Central Committee, indicates a new and increased emphasis on meeting consumers’ needs. Rys- zard Jendrzej, a crane operator in the Pioneer Agricultural Ma- chinery Factory in Strzelce Opol- skie, and Franciszek Wisznew- ski, an electrical assembly work- er in the Northern Shipyard in Gdansk, were also moved from alternate to full Central Com- mittee members. The plenum removed from the Central Committee Wladyslaw Gomulka, former first secretary; B. Jaszczuk, economics expert, and Zenon Kliszko. Removed from the Political Bureau were Ignacy Loga-Sowin- ski, trade union leader, and Stan- islaw Kociolek, who had been first secretary of the PUWP or- ganization in the Gdansk area. A. Walaszek, who was criti- cized by workers in his PUWP region, was dropped from the Central Committee. Kociolek’s demotion was also due to his be- ing criticized by workers. The television reports to the nation were in line with the pol- icy stressed by the new PUWP leadership of strengthening ties with the working class and over- coming the crisis of confidence which had developed during the past year or longer. Stanislaw Olszowski, member of the Political Bureau, in a broadcast stressed the PUWP’s new style of work, based on broad consultation with the Soviet aims in next five years . By BERT WHYTE MOSCOW — The draft direc- tives of the 24th CPSU congress for the new Five-Year Plan (1971-1975) published in Prav- da at the beginning of this week, lays down that “the main task is to ensure considerable enhance- ment of the material and cult- ural standards of the people’s life on the basis of high rates of the development of socialist pro- duction, raising its effectiveness, scientific and technical progress, and the acceleration of the growth of labor efficiency.” Tass: news agency summariz- ed the key tasks set by the direc- tives as follow: e@ to comprehensively improve and expand the Soviet Union’s economic, scientific and techni- cal relations with the socialist states for the further strength- ening of the community and developing consistently the eco- nomic integration of COME- CON nations; e@ to expand economically jus- tified commercial, scientific and technical relations with the in- dustrially advanced capitalist countries, The draft directives envisage: e a 37-40% increase of the country’s national income in the next five years; @ an approximately 30% in- crease of the per capita real incomes; e 42-46% increase of indus- trial production; e@ a 20-22% increase of the average annual volume of agri- cultural production; -@ not less than 195 million ton increase of the average annual gross production of grain. As defined in the draft direc- tives, the 9th five-Year Plan will be an important stage in the further advance of Soviet so- ciety along the road to com- munism, in the building of its ‘material and technical basis, and the consolidation of the coun- try’s economic and defence ca- pacity. The draft directives provide for the further raising of mini- mum wages. Commodity re- sources will be expanded con- siderably to ensure the growth of the population’s real income. The markets will be provided more fully with the necessary range of high-quality goods. The volume of public services will be expanded. It is planned to ensure the stability of state retail prices on consumer goods and to carry PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1971—PAGE 102 ! i \ out reductions of prices of indi- vidual goods as the commodity resources accumulate. It is also planned to expand public consumption funds by 40%, and to use this increment . for improving public health ser- vices, developing public educa- tion, training of personnel and bringing up children, raising of pensions for factory and office workers, for collective farmers, and’ increasing scholarships. Measures are planned to im- prove the population’s housing conditions. It is envisaged to narrow down substantially the existing gap between the earnings of collec- tive farmers and the wages of corresponding categories of state farm workers through the raising of labor efficiency in collective farms. To accelerate the rates of scientific and technical progress and. ensure the implementation of a uniform technical policy, the plan is to create and intro- duce basically new instruments of labor, materials and produc- tion processes, showing a higher technical and economic perform- ance than the best present Sov- iet and world achievement. party collectives, non-party act- ivists and representatives of various sections of public opin- ion. a Within the PUWP conditions have been created for correct methods of party work, observ- ance of party rules and Leninist norms. Gierek’s Speech Speaking at the end of the second day of the plenum’s ses- sions, Edward Gierek, the new first secretary, expanded on these points. Gierek said that the workers’ demonstrations on the northern coast were orderly in the begin- ning. The authorities did not un- dertake to have frank talks with the workers, and tension increas- ed. As a result, the events spilled into the streets and got out of hand. The workers did not want that, Gierek said, but were unable to keep the situation under control. On the wave of the demonstra- tions,. anti-social elements took to the streets. The destructive aspects of the December disturb- ances were a side-effect of these developments. He concentrated attention on the social character of the events and said that the use of force in response to the workers’ dem- onstrations not only failed to solve the crisis but led to its aggravation. Not Consulted Gierek said that these attempts to solve the conflict within the working class by the use of force were made by decision of the Gomulka leadership of the party, contrary to the judgement of the majority of party activists and without consultation with the whole Political Bureau, and even without informing the Cen- tral Committee, which debated the situation on the coast on Dec. 14. Gierek stressed that the work- ers’ demonstrations on the coast, like other parts of the country, were not directed against the-so- cialist system. A total of 45 persons were killed during the disturbances; 1,165 were injured, including 531 militiamen and 70 soldiers. Food Prices Gierek pointed to the increase in the prices of foods announced at that time and new incentive- wage proposals as the sparks that set of the explosion. But the main source, Gierek said, was the weakening of the links between the Party leadership and the working-class and other strata of the working people over a period of time. For a long time, dissatisfac- tion had been growing because of economic and social policy and the manner in which Party and governmental affairs were being handled. This dissatisfac- tion turned into a crisis of con- fidence in the Party and govern- ment leadership, Gierek told the nation. Not enough consumers’ goods were turned out, Gierek said. The average annual increase in real earnings was less than two percent, and some workers even suffered a drop in real wages, Gierek explained. Other social problems played their role also, chief among them the housing problem. The role of central planning in the management of the economy was weakened. Bureaucratic Methods On top of this, the attitude of the government was passive. The leadership of the Party, los- — - and those concerning “Sheepdog (Children’s Cif? y ing touch with the mem? imposed administrative ™ of leadership. The ‘corret lutions adopted at the 5 gress in 1968 were nol mented. ; The situation was mad by the development of ! ner-circle leadership” of a few persons, bur and autocratic methods. Gierek said that an ev” of the role of Gomulké take time and that i present both his short and personal merits and® to'the Party and state. | The new first secrel# turned to tasks to be | out. The basis of implls he said, is the develop® production and growth productivity. These PU women and housing, 4% worked on by committee perts, and improved aPE will soon be announcet The plenum accep evaluation of the } events and recommen@s” energetic working out 7 for 1971 and the next ™ period. It agreed they congress of the Party oe convened earlier than — e() Singalong Jubilee. ! e@ Wed. 17 Feb.—8-9.F @ Wed. 17. Feb.—9:10) Stranger Was Me (The Fars A boy in foster homes. fi 10-11 PM—The Forest a @ Thurs. 18 Feb. — 9 The World We Live In. a .— 10-71 @ Fri. 19 Feb Sumi Forsyte Saga. Indian Forsyte. . @ Sat. 20 Feb.—1-2 PM , tish children’s film from i Kathleen Fidler. uff 6:30-7 — Galloping 6% —7-7:30 — Zut! « 11:40 — Compulsion” t Fleischer’s 1959 US film an ties murder case, with OF making a_ stand agar t punishment, presumably tablishment. eM @ Sun. 21 Feb, — 3-415 Gilels in Recital (World ih The great Soviet pianist P Bach, Prokofiev 4 — 7-7:30 —Adventures! Country. : O10 — The Manipulattg officers and all that, from ait —11:40 — Soldiers ‘cal beautiful film from Soviel yt unfortunately, available “oll viewers, The drama Oi War 2 stars Sergo Zakhey/ @ Mon.-Fri. — 4-4:30 loping Gourmet. 10: @ Mon. 22 Feb. — The Sight & Insight (Man At df Physiology and psycholodg @ Tues. 23 Feb. — ar Take 30. Walter Gordon if Clelland discuss econo™ dence for Canada. To —8:30-9 — Telescope al Veronica Tennant, Nation Canada’s prima ballerin® 4p @ Wed. 24 Feb. — (rol The Endangered Arcti¢ wil —7:30-8 — Singalong OP —8-9 — The Deal of f (Somerset Maugham). or9-10 — You And Me | : ily). 99:3) @ Thurs. 25 Feb. — 2 Gil The System (Program “ict lawyer defends an and! cae —9:30-10 — The Whalé We Live In). pM @ Fri. 26 Feb. — 1015 i Forsyte Saga. In Chance?”