| SOVIET POWER PROJECTS : _ St. Lawrence, Fraser _ Mackenzie all in one By JOHN STEWART KAHOVKA, UKRAINE Imagine the’ difference to Can- ada if, in addition to the St. Lawrence River power project, Canadian workers were damming the South Saskatchewan, build- ing power sites on the Columbia and the Fraser, harnessing the great Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories and_slic- ing the Maritimes for the Chig- necto canal. Then multiply that by 20 to see what the Soviet Union is doing with its hydroelectric power potential. As of this moment, 62 power projects are underway in the USSR, from the Crimea to the Arctic ocean, employing directly in construction over 500,000 workers and engineers. And believe it or not, in this country of nearly 200 million people, they still need more workers to handle the tremen- dous projects that are the foun- dation of the new Communist society. . . which is why every- one greeted with great joy the announcement that 640,000 men were to be released from the army this year ... and why the Geneva conference was so en- thusiastically hailed. _ xt bos x I have just visited one of these new power projects in this brand | new town. It is far from being one of their biggest — a mere 300,000 k.w., compared to Kuiby- shev’s 2 million (the same as the St. Lawrence). Neverthless, the Kahovka project on the Dnieper River-in southern Ukraine near the Crimea and the Black Sea, is typical of most of these under- takings. ’ We came from the oldest city in the USSR, Kiev, jewel of the Ukraine, some 360 air miles to the newest city—all gleaming _ white, flowered and treed on the - banks of the Dnieper. Living here are 20,000 work- ers, representing 22 different na- tionalities — and what a way to live! Everything is sparkling new; in the four years since the town was first started, about 15 miles from the old town upstream, they’ve built not only homes for the 15,000 con- struction workers and_ their families, but an opera house, garden, park of culture and rest, rts stadium, cinema (outdoors and in), administra- tion building (we would call it a city hall), broad paved avenues lined with trees, an airport (in process) and a dozen and one other things for better living. When the project is finished next April (four years after it began) most of the workers will leave for other similar construc- tion jobs. Their places will be taken by 6,000 electrical workers, for a big new industry is to be built here to manufacture elec- tric’ motors and other electrical | products. Such is socialist planning: bo xt * ; I visited the Kahovka project with its director, Sergei Niko- leivich Andreyanov. There in the setting sun, I saw the mighty This picture shows the St. , Site. | Andreyanov supplied all the ‘pertinent factual data about the project . . . how it will have six generators . . . about the amount of sand removed and concrete laid . . . about prefab concrete work to save timbering .. . the water reserves, and so on. A big area of land will be flooded land 7,000 houses in old Kahovka removed, e. (There’ll be no court cases re- quired here as along the St. Lawrence: every family will be provided with new accommoda- tion plus several thousand rubles for rehabilitating wherever they want to go.) We walked along the high dam and the adjoining locks for shipping and talked with work- ers—many of them women who came here to work with their husbands—and read the slogans: {“Our gift to the 20th congréss jof the Communist party is to set in operation the first generator by September 1955.” They will; Lawrence ship channel dammed ‘ near the damsite at Iroquois, Ont. The town of Iroquis, which will country for two weeks. He was ‘be flooded when the project is completed, is being moved to a new h it is nearing completion. And as the tens of thousands of lights came on for the first of the two night shifts (three daily shifts work nine, eight and seven hours respectively, with extra pay for night work), the director led us back into the town through the garden walk along the riverside. |. We stopped for a moment at an outdoor cinema, seating about 300 people. Then a lovely walk to the opefa house, passing by groups of workers playing chess, singing as one played his accor- dian, out walking with the girl friend... ya; What a wonderful thing it would be, Andreyanov and I said to each other, if Canadian engineers and _ construction workers from the St. Laurence could visit here and a group from here visit the St. Law- rence. “I think perhaps what happened at Geneva will speed the day,” the director said. One of British Columbia’s out- standing labor leaders, Max Erenberg, passed away last Sat- urday in Vancouver General Hos- pital following a long illness. He was 66 years of age. For many years Max Eren- berg served as president of Local 69, International Printers, Press- men and Assistants’ Union, and was widely known and respected in trade union circles, both in his home city and throughout the country. For eight years he was a mem- ber of the Winnipeg Free Press staff before coming to Vancou- ver in 1919. Since then, over a period of 36 years, he had been on the pressroom staff of the | Vancouver Sun, in recent years tas assistant foreman. During all these years both in! “Winnipeg and Vancouver, Max Erenberg was an active worker in Jewish cultural and educa- tional circles, evincing a deep interest in all activities for the ‘advancement of his fellow work- i in ‘cranes against the skyline across, rs, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. the wide river—symbol to me of the new society coming into be- ing before, our eyes. And there, standing out bold- ly on the highest girders in huge red letters—which were brightly lighted at night—were the shin- ing words: MNPY—MNP, mean- ing “Peace to the World.” In his own union he enjoyed’ a wide popularity and respect. He served on numerous union committees and delegations and for many years represented his union on the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades and Labor Council. He was a long standing mem- Outstanding unionist, Max Erenberg, dead MAX ERENBERG | ber of the old Communist Party of Canada and a foundation mem- ber of the Labor-Progressive party. Born in Russia in 1889, Max Erenberg came to Canada _ in 1911 at the age of 22, and from then until his death gave his best for the organization and wellbe- ing of his fellow Canadians. He is survived by his wife Sarah, a daughter, Beckie, and two grandchildren. Funeral ser- vices were held in the Schara Tzedeck funeral chapel. i {ing with his mother’s uncle in a} Continued from page I will become part of history in a way that the jurors cannot un- derstand. For there is a ter-, rible anger in the hearts of every American Negro. Every city has seen great mass meetings of protest, in Detroit, in Harlem.:: * Fifty thousand , mourners wept and shouted in: the streets of Chicago, and there have been sermons in every | Negro -church with a_ single’ theme: “Enough! Enough of such murders and such verdicts. .. .” Millions of white Americans have followed the news in the press and watched the courtroom scenes on television; more than half a hundred special reporters and camera-men had flown into Sumner, The proceedings have been fol- | lowed in othér countries, too — iin. Europe,. in. Asia, in Africa. There is a universal feeling of horror and humiliation at an outrage which exposes the can- cer of racism in U.S. life. % % tt It was a hot summer in Chi- cago, and young Emmett Till’s mother wanted him to go to the er only son. His father had fought in the Second World War and was kill- ed overseas. Young Emmett :wore the ring his father had ileft, and his mother was proud. | “What a big boy you are getting to be,” she said. _ Having been born in Missis- sippi 33 years ago (she was tak-| en to Chicago as a baby) she had’ forebodings. As she said in the courtroom: “I told him to be; very careful how he spoke and/ to say ‘yes sir’ and ‘no m’am’ and not to hesitate to humble yourself even if you had to get’ down on your knees.” What happened in the gen-' eral store where Emmett Till went to buy some chewing chum on the night of August 24 is not clear. ; Roy Bryant said that the young boy “wolf-whistled” at his wife. She sat in the witness-chair, her lips made up in crimson and her head down as she twisted her fingers and testifed that a “Ne- gro man” had tried to “catch her hand” and came around to the cash register and “put both hands to my waist” and taunted her and said, “I’ye ... with white {women before . . .” and when she came out to get her pistol, the man “wolf-whistled” at her- But Emmett Till’s mother says that he had had. polio in his childhood and spoke with a slight whistle in his voice . . . who could believe that a 14-year-old boy would molest a white wo- man in Sumner? ; Even Judge Curtis Swango who occasionally sipped Coca- Cola in the courtroom, refused to permit Mrs. Bryant’s story to be told to the jurors. . . x Se og No matter what happened in the ae store, there are wit- nesses for what ha nights later. ree Young Emmett Till was stay- i cabin near Sumner. Five men came just after midnight on a Sunday morning, and said: “We iar that boy.” The old man—he was called Moses in the coe and never Mr, Wright—said he was sure that J. W. Millam was among the group, for Mill threatened him. an & . “You don’t know anybod 0 ; od. here,” the white man bat ala. | ‘No, sir,” Wright told the court he had. replied. “I never saw you before.” “How old are you?” iene had asked. “Sixty-four,” |Teplied old Uncle Wright. “AL right, then, if you ever tell any- ,body who was_ here tonight ‘you'll never live to. be sixty-five.” They dragged the boy from his LYNCHING iwere shaking as he spoke lreached the point in saying, “That's the one .- ‘% the car drove away. ° aa One witness, 2 frighte eS Negro field-hand whose ®t court, testified that he saw lam and a group of men truck later that same mo and somebody in the truck moaning and hollering. _ - The witness said he saW mett Till in the truck and heard cries of pain from barn. . . What did you do? the frig ed field-hand was asked: i I went home and got reagy go to Sunday school,” he But he identifed Millam a? fact that Emmett Till was i truck, and he stuck to his %™ % 3 Me Emmett Till’s body was foo two days later in the TallahateM River. He had been shot thro! the head above the ear; § crown of his skull was b in, and his body had been / ed up with a wire, and We 5} down with the iron pulley ° as ; Jor map cotton-gin. When the funeral-par in Chicago was asked to ope? coffin, he hesitated, for he been unable to restore the ©” and head of a human beinf iy “Oh, God, Oh God, ™Y, out, boy,” the mother had cried ; as 50,000 people stood paneh the Church of God in ee “Open it,” the mother shove the ie before she fainted. “Let th to | HC ple see what the lynchers : the child. I-want the peoP™ » see what they have to fight -*"— Heo ee B The mother—Mrs. Mamie ley, who re-married aftet é husband died in battle S. a rad - sents something new in the oh ae ete Shee ie of of the the new Negro. fice worker in Chicago; her cousins is chairman Steelworkers Union, Loc@ When she entered the ner, Mississippi courtroom ‘and carried herself with dignity; ‘ed all the correspondents re ie how different she was 1, the field-hands crowding arqune the Confederate monument 17 courthouse square. uae as She came to Sumner. Negro congressman from — Rep. Charles Diggs-- -: plantation owners £@P© ae they heard the “newspaPe gress” speak to him as “Mr. Coe i man.” _ Ses Pea The verdict was prought In Mississippi, jurors are ‘ from the lists of voters: groes do not vote. In fact, since last Negro leaders—one °® de Baptist minister — 2 "op tty” murdered in MississipP? vol ing to assert the 18: 25, ade The murderers of the bes t ers, of course, have es apprehended. : - “peer ther? Will Negroes of the Be vot? industrial states continu whee for the Democratic a main pillars lie in such pas Mississippi? This quea ‘yond already been raised. $a, j will such cases 80 wes i ed by either the sta ‘ federal government? ple ane” is clear: there is a tert mt in the U.S. today. |. if, WL William Faulkner bimSt ig 2 understands this, we saying in Rome: will find out now a are to survive or 10” — the purpose of ie ee tragic error sae native Mississipp! v adults on an’ afflicted ethe child is to prove to ae ; or not we deserve to SU b cause if we in ate culture when We der children, no matter i dot! reason or what colo? or deserve to survive 28% © WOM cre.” |bed. A woman’s voice was heard Ace PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 30, 1959 — < het 1 39 sum of course, by an all-white, awh 1