| Greek students demonstrate

_ These Greek students clashed with police when they demon- °

_ Strated outside the British embassy in Athens demanding self-
determination for Cyprus, British island colony in the Mediter-
ranean which is being converted into an armed base now that
British troops are being withdrawh from Suez. Union with Greece
has overwhelming popular support in Cyprus. :

U.S. H-bomb test explosion

the effects of the fallout, as orig-
inally reported, and not from
jaundice, as claimed recently by
Dr. John C. Bugher of the US.
Atomic Energy Commission.

This statement repudiating the,
U.S. claim was made by Dr. Kazuo
Miyoshi, Japan’s leading ‘specialist
on radiation sickness, in ‘a report
to 2000 doctors attending a medi-
cal congress at Kyoshi last week-
end.

Dr. Miyoshi was one of the doc-

tors who treated the crew mem-

Women MPs appeal for

ban on

By PETE

A succession of women

H-bomb

R FRYER
LONDON
MPs appealed to the British

House of Commons last week to ban nuclear explosions for

the sake of generations yet unborn,
‘moving a Labor motion for a

while Dr. Edith Summerskill,

Members sat in silence

Conference of American, Soviet, British and French scientists

to investigate the problem, quot-
€d from the reports of various
Scientists, “4

She pointed out that the Japan-
Se victims of the U.S. H-bomb
€st at Bikini were found to have

tween 100 and 700 sperms per
Cubic millimetre. A normal num-
ber was 50,000 to 100,000. Various
abnormal types of :sperm were

Seen,

for

heme of the fishermen might
ave been rendered sterile for life
and there was a danger that ab-
Normal children might be born.
Pregnant woman, exposed to
waly a moderate dose of radiation
oe the risk of aborting or giving
Irth to a stillborn. child.
adio-strontium from Hbomb
€xPlosions could fall out at great
vovances, later to be eaten on
fsetables by humans and iby
8tazing animals.
One has a special attraction
Padio-strontium. The human
eta was highly Sensitive to
Clation, The human _ foetus
Might be destroyed by milk drawn

from cattle that had grazed on
affected areas.

In an H-bomb war abortion
and stillbirths would become al;
most universal.

Dr. Summerskill quoted Dr. Ed-
gar Adrian, Nobel Prize winner,
“one of Britain’s finest and most
famous scientists.” —

He said an H-bomb war “may
well lead to a degree ‘of radio-

World appeal signed —
by 355 million Chinese

PEKING

More than 355 million Chinese
have signed the World Peace
Council’s appeal against atomic
weapons.’ The detailed figure re-
ported by the National Signature
Campaign Committee at the end of
March was 355,675,907.

This already exceeds the total
of 340 million signatures to the
appeal for a five-power peace pact
in 1951.

Singapore votes for new policies

tions, ‘Singapore’s first popularly

© election held April 2, voters of Singapore (the city’s w

© conservative Democratic and
numb:

t

Although its powers will be

elected government is expected to

limited by British contro! of foreign affairs and other vital fu

fests

activity which no one can tolerate
or escape, and thus end the hu-
man race.” ~~.

By now, said Dr. Summerskill,
everyone in the world harbored
in his body a small amount of
radioactivity from H-bomb tests.

“Can we afford to ignore this
volunie of evidence of the in-
herent dangers of atomic radia-
tion to the human race?” she
asked.

Another Labor MP, Mrs. Bar-
bara Castle, charged the Conser-
vatives with being so busy wag-
ing the cold war that they would
not even look out for the oppor-
tunities for peace.

Amid Labor cheers, Mrs. Castle
declared: “Some of us opposed
the making of the hydrogen bomb
because we believed that the ther-
mo-nuclear race, whether or not
it meant war, meant death for
mankind.”

If the nations were not to co-
operate here, for heaven’s sake
where and when Were they to co-
operate? :

They, were always told the gov-
ernment had peace: and disarma-
ment at heart. Where and when
did ‘they start breaking down, the
tensions?

Always when it came to action
the government evaded it.

nc-

follow a progressive policy. In

aterfront section is shown above) rejected

Progressive parties to give the Socialist Labor Front the largest

er of seats in the legislature — 10 of a total of 25 seats. The three seats wo
“Seple’s Action party give it the balance of power. ~

e

\

i

n by the left-wing

\

Aikichi Kuboyama, radio operator of
the illnamed Fortunate Dragon which was
showered with radioactive dust from the

March 1 last year, died last September from

U.S. CLAIMS REFUTED
Radiation sickness
killed H-test victim

TOKYO:
Organisations,

at Bikini on

bers of the Fortunate Dragon and
he ‘conducted the autopsy on
Kuboyama.

“Since this is the. first such
sickness to be observed, we
hesitate to state any final de-
termination before making more
observations,” Miyoshi reported
to the congress. “But all find-
ings thus far available indicate
that the death of Kuboyama was
caused by the effects of atomic -
fallout.”

Miyoshi supported his _ state-
ment with charts and records on
all crew members of the Fortun-
ate Dragon, among them micro-
scopic color pictures of the blood,
bone marrow and kidneys of the
patients. He also presented an
analyst’s report cf the radioactive

substance present in Kubyama’s
body.

The fact that: the crew mem-
bers of the Fortunate Dragon were
wearing rubber clothing when the
atomic dust fell on their vessel re-
duced its external effect, Miyoshi
added. But in the two weeks it
took them to reach port they ab-
sorbed the dust internally by in-
haling it. :

“Thus, it seems evident that
their sickness was caused by both
external and internal , radiation,”
Miyoshi concluded.

S.A. unions
form centre

CAPETOWN

A non-color bar trade union, the
South African Congress of Trade
Unions, has been formed in Johan-
nesburg, according to New Age,
South African progressive weekly.

~ The congress was inaugurated
on March 6 with 42,000 members
from 34 trade unions. It united
European and non-European work-
ers on the basis vf absolute equal-
ity and for a common fighting
policy. It opened a new page in
South African ‘working class’ his-
tory. ;

Objects of the new trade union
centre. are to coordinate the activi-
ties of the workers of South
Africa; to organize the unorgan-
ized workers; to oppose discrim-
ination in employment; to oppose
legislation detrimental to the in-
terests of workers*and the trade
union movement; to support legis-
lation that is in the interests of
workers and the trade union move-
ment; to advance the democratic
rights of the workers.

The preamble of the constitu-
tion adopted by the South African

~|Congress of Trade Unions states:

“The future of the people of
South Africa is in the hands of
the workers! Only the working
class in alliance with other pro-
gressive-minded sections of the
community can build a happy
life for all South Africans, free
from unemployment, insecurity,
poverty, racial hatred and op-
pression — a life of vast op-
portunities for all.”

&

TOKYO

The Federation of All-Japan Women’s

headed by Raicho Hiratsuka,

vice-president of the Women’s International
Democratic Federation, is taking a leading
part in organizing a petition for banning

hydrogen and atomic bombs which
has .already been signed by 20
million Japanese.

The petition campaign is sup-
ported by reports from Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.

In Hiroshima alone there were
120 deaths from atomic diseases
last year.

“A medical survey of 11 women
who were pregnant at the time
and living within two miles of the
explosion site, showed that only
one of their 11 children examined
at the age of five had a head of
normal size and the other chil-
dren had heads the size of a one-
year-old baby,” states an appeal
issued by the Federation of All-
Japan Women’s Organizations.

The appeal also reports of the
plight of the surviving crew mem-
bers of the Fortunate Dragon.

“At present, these fishermen
are under medica! treatment at a
national hospital, and they show
very serious conditions with slight
fever, lack of appetite, loss of hair,
and ulcers. However, the most
serious aspect of their condition is
connected with the injury to the
hemotopietic organs, which - are
the blood producing organs, such
as the bone marrow.

“Modern medical science has

\found no remedy for the disease.

The patients lie in bed, unable to
see any of their family, and have
been told they have to be under
“medical treatment as long: as
they live.

“Fourteen out of 22 patients -
are bachelors, who have lost the
desire to marry, because they
are afraid of having deformed
children affected by their radia-
tion diseases. . . .”

Reflecting the widespread fear
the U.S. H-bomb tests in the Pa-
cific have created in Japan, the re-
port continues:

“The hydrogen bomb tests have
created unqualified anxiety, and
menace both the lives and food of
all Japanese. ;

“The Japanese people depend
upon fish almost exclusively as a
source of albumin in their diet. It
was a great shock to them when
they were informed that many
kinds of fish caught have been
found to be affected by radio-
activity.

“The source of this radioactivity
is not from the radioactive dust
showered upon the fish, it comes
from the water, and from radio-
active material upon which the
fish have fed. ‘We are terribly
afraid that the reproductive cells
of the fish will be affected by ra-
dioactivity, and that the final re-
sult of this will be a great reduc-
tion in the number and kinds of
fish and a'loss of fishing grounds.

“Vegetables, fruits and drinking
water also show strong radio-
activity and we are uneasy - about
touching food.

“Fishermen ‘have to throw away
hundreds and thousands of tons
of tuna and other fish, after exami-
nation by the welfare ministry of-
ficers with geiger counters. Many
people have refused to buy fish.

“Because’ of these inexpress-
ible experiences, the Japanese
have expressed their horror and
‘indignation towards hydrogen
bomb tests and the very ex-
istence of the H-bomb. Out of
their horror they have raised a
powerful and indignant call for
stopping the manufacture, use
and experimental tests of hydro-
gan bombs.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 8, 1955 — PAGE 3