VOLUNTEERS FROM EAST TO WEST JOIN IN DO OR-DIE

CRUSADE END H-DOMD TESTSLONDON.

P E O P L E from Ea^ and West Europe, as well as from various parts of Asia, will be on the Japanese ships which are sailing to the Christmas Islands in a courageous attempt to

prevent the testing of hydrogen bombs there by the British some time this month.

So great has been the world-wide revulsion against the continuation of nuclear tests that hundreds of people have volunteered to risk their lives along with the many Japanese who are preparing a last do-or-die effort to force the British to call off the tests.

Here are some examples of the volunteers.

# A woman engineer from War­saw, who is being sent by the POLAND Peace Defenders’ Com­mittee.

# A worker from Delhi, the capital of INDIA.

O Mr. Harold Steele, a 63-year- old retired poultry farmer, whose departure has deeply stirred the people of BRITAIN.

# A Buddhist monk from CEY­LON, the Rev, Udakendawala Sarankanara, general secretary of

FROM ONE BOMB

T>ETWEEN 10,000 and 15,000 people may develop cancer

of the bone as the result of the explosion of a large hydrogen bomb at Bikini in 1954.

This is ilic estimate given by a committee appointed by the Council of the Atomic Scientists’ Association in Britain in a report published last month.

What then is likely to be the consequence of the continued tests—those which have taken place since 1954 and those which are due to take place this year?

the Ceylon Peace Committee, who is going along with fifty other peo­ple from his country.

NEW VOICES

Meanwhile the number of voices being raised in protest against the tests increases by the day.

In Britain almost every newspaper has gone on record against the Tory Government’s stubborn insistence to proceed with the tests. The Man­chester Guardian summed up this feeling in an editorial last month: “There is some evidence that the British Government now recognises that some agreement is practicable —this was denied a year ago—and inevitable.

“ If only the Government had de­clared immediately to this effect, even before its bombs have gone off at Christmas Island, some life and reality would be injected into

NO . CHINESE

WARNINGT3ADIO Peking did not send

any warning to residents of North-East China concerning alleged radio-active fall-out from Soviet tests in Siberia, reports Alan Winnington from Peking, who made enquiries at the radio station.'

the proceedings of the U.N, Disar­mament Sub-Committee, now in session.

POISONED ATMOSPHERE“As it is, if the Government per­

sists in its present single-minded intransigence, it may find that it has poisoned the atmosphere in which an agreement on bombs will have to be made, as well as the air which we shall have to breathe for the next ten years.’’

Red Cross leaders from all over the world, meeting in Geneva, have unanimously welcomed the holding of talks to end the holding of nu­clear weapon tests. They were as­sembled in the executive committee of the League of Red Cross Socie­ties.

The Red Cross Societies of Bri­tain, the USSR and the U.S.A. were all represented on the committee. TTie resolution was proposed by the

ONLYTACTICAL’

BOMBSA DENAUER says he wants

only tactical atom bombs for the new West German army.

‘Tactical” atom bombs are of the size and type which were used to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

If those are only ‘tactical’ bombs, imagine how terrible the ‘all-out offensive’ bombs must be.

This Test everyone Ashes.’

“We Must Not Remain Silent”—says S.A. Peace Council

“ VATE must not remain silent. We call on the Big Powers of the * * world to cease all further nuclear bomb explosions, and to

meet together again to outlaw the A and H Bombs.

“The British Medical Research Council in a report published in June 1956 stated that a dangerous level of radiation contamina­tion will have been exceeded by 1960 from test explosions already carried out.

“Strontium 90 is the name given to the most radioactive sub­stance released into the atmosphere by every explosion. It affects pasturage all over the world, is consumed by animals and concen­trates like calcium in milk products. As a result of every test explosion a certain number of people including South Africans, who would otherwise live a normal span of life will develop bone cancer or leukemia.

“Testifying in Washington before the Disarmament Committee, Mr. W. Weaver, President of the Commission on Genetic Effects of Atomic Radiation stated that about 6,000 babies of the new generation would suffer from deformities as a result of such radiation.

“The ‘Manchester Guardian’ writes: “The Christmas Island explosion will cause some human deaths. It is not possible to cal­culate how many, but possibly the number may be small. The Government is unwilling to admit this fact in public.”

“Our Press recently has published a scientist’s estimate of the ghastly effects of an H-bomb dropped on Johannesburg.

“Because Uranium from our South African mines has un­doubtedly gone to m ake A-bombs and H-bombs, and is being used in those menacing tests, we bear a special responsibility to the world. We must not remain silent.”

Red Cross of India.In Germany the call of the 18

West German scientists for the ban­ning of the production and stock­ing of atomic weapons, and their statement that they would refuse .to work on their production, has evoked a widespread response amongst Germans of all walks of life.

The Social Democratic Party has called for a renunciation of atomic weapons by West Germany. Both the Free Democratic Party and the right-wing Refugee Party have warned against the atomic danger.

W. GERMAN TUCIn the name of its six million

members, the West German Trades Union Council has opposed the in-' troduefion of atomic weapons into West Germany in any manner or shape, now or in the future. At the call of the TUC, workers through­out West Germany celebrated May Day as a day against atomic wea­pons and for the peaceful use of atomic energy.

Also responding to the plea of the West German scientists were the members of the East German Physics Society who called on scien­tists the world over to urge their governments to stop atomic tests.

The latest initiative on a Gov­ernmental level to bring about a halt to the tests has been a Soviet proposal to Japan that the two countries issue a joint appeal to Britain and the United States for an asreemont to end the tests.

Muss Protests(Continued from page 1)

permits absolutely intolerable,” Mr. J. Gaetsiwe, secretary of the Anti-Pennit Committee, told New Age. “People have been dragged out of their beds from 2 a.m. on­wards and herded into prison. That is why the people have decided to send their representatives to discuss this matter with the head of the City.”

Under the auspices of the Anti- Permit Committee, mass meetings, attended by thousands of Western Areas residents, were held in So- phiatown and Newclare last Sun­day. The meetings received mes­sages from the Johannesburg Ad-

^visory Boards pledging full support in the struggle against the permit system.

A speaker from the Congress of Democrats, Mr. Goldberg, was en­thusiastically applauded when he declared that the African people had helped to build up this city, and that they were entitled to citi­zenship rights, including the right to live without interference in Jo­hannesburg.

Death of Mrs. Alexander

CAPE TOWN.New Age regrets to announce the

death last Saturday of Mrs. Dobe Liebe Alexander, mother of Ray, Dora, Gessie, Minnie and Isher and life-long supporter of the progres­sive movement. To her family we extend our heartfelt condolences on their sad loss.

NEW COALITION GOVT. FOR CHINA?

« LONDON.R E C E N T statements by Mao

Tse-tung and Chou En-lai have revived speculation that the Peking Government is con­ducting behind-the-scenes nego­tiations with the Nationalist rulers on Formosa for the for­mation of a coalition Govern­ment for the whole of China.

In a conversation with the Soviet President, Marshal Voroshilov, who recently visited China, Chou En-lai observed that the Kuomingtang and the Communists had co-operated on two occasions in the past; and Mao Tse-tung added: “And we are pre­paring to co-operate for a third time.”

The remark was reported by the official New China news agency.

The first period of Communist- Kuomingtang co-operation was in the 1920’s, when they united in a campaign against the northern war­lords. The second was when they formed a united front against the Japanese invaders.

In November last year Chou said in Cambodia that the People’s Gov­ernment was prepared to offer Chiang Kai-shek a high post (“a Ministerial post would not be high enough”) in the Peking Govern­ment.

Then in February and March there was a spate of rumours which “seemed to be inspired by Peking,” reports the London Times, that secret negotiations were being carried on between Chiang Chin- kuo, Chiang Kai-shek’s eldest son, one of the dominant Nationalist personalities, and Chin Ki, a Deputy Prime Minister in the Peking Gov­ernment.

This was followed in March by the creation at the People’s Consul­tative Conference in Peking of a special sub-committee of the Revo­lution Committee with the object of securing the peaceful liberation of Formosa. This sub-committee is composed of ten former Nationalist leaders who have thrown in their lot with the People’s Government.

Stealing Bread(Continued from page 1)

“The Laundry Union asked the Minister to investigate the industry in 1953,” he said. “The investiga­tion has not yet taken place. Num ­erous trade unions arc clamouring for Wage Board and other enquiries.

“No one should be deceived by the Minister’s claim that he is now ordering a number of investigations. With the present structure of the Wage Boards, in which unions are precluded from effective representa­tion, it is doubtful whether the workers can expect much from such investigations anyway.

“This applies particularly to the African workers. It is notable that the only role played by the Chair­man of the Native Labour Board. Mr. Mentz. in the recent Port Eliza­beth dispute was to bring in scab labour from outlying districts.

“ In any case, the 45 investigations ‘ordered’ by the M inister will, at the present rate, take at least 45 years,”

Two Sport Pieces in a good sparring match this week

SHOULD PRO. BOXINGBE BANNED?

"YES,"SAYS LIONEL FORMAN " IT S NOT SPORT, BUT

SADISMr

GPORTS Editor Robert Resha and ^ I are sitting in our ringside seats bored to death. Sure, this is a championship fight, and both boys up there know they’ve got to win. Robert and I are rooting for our boy—we’ve got our shirts on him —but the fight’s been going on for five months now, and its understand­able that we’re bored. You can’t even boo the ref. here, they’ll chuck you out—actually in—as soon as you’ve closed your mouth.

So when Robert leans over and says—after the news comes through that Jimmy Elliot is dead—“Take time off from writing up this thing, and write me an article on why pro­fessional boxing should be banned.” I take him on.

I know this Resha is fight-mad and only wants me to be a punching bag for him, because he wants to write about why pro. boxing shouldn’t be stopped. But I’m a sucker and I’m obliging. Anyway, I reckon I’ve got some arguments on this thing that will floor our Robert.

In fact there can be no answer to the case against professional boxing as it is conducted today in South Africa.

“KILL HIM!”Pro boxing is legalised sadism.

Two boys are put in the middle of a blood-lusting mob and paid to kill and maim each other. And the mob is not satisfied unless they do hurt each other. The mob roars its psychopathic pleasure when it sees blood. The mob jumps to its feet with excitement when one of the boys is smashed on the chin and nose and the eyes and the skull until he can no longer stand on his feet.

It is not “sport” to hurt a fcllow- man for the pleasure of others—and pro boxing is the only racket which dares to put on such sadistic dis­plays in the gui.se of sport.

“BLIND HIM!”Remember the Toweel-Cohen fight.

Cohen has a cut opened over his eye and the wound is bleeding.

Now when a man’s eye is hurt, everyone knows that you must be careful. The last thing you would do to him is to hit him on the damaged eye. He might go blind. But what is it Toweel’s job to do? What must he do if he wants to keep that job and get promotion and more pay? He has to keep on hitting Cohen in that eye. Hitting it so that the blood spurts. So that it’s a puffy mess. And the crowd squirms with pleasure and the com­mentator shouts his excitement over the radio and if the boy goes blind —or dies—everyone falls over them­selves to say that the other boy wasn’t to blame and the promoter wasn’t to blame and no one was to blame.

“PARALYSE HIM!”There is no getting away from it.

Every blow to the head is aimed at giving your opponent concussion and knocking him out. And if you get in a really good blow—a blow that these “sportsmen” tram for months and months to be able to deliver—you will be able to burst a blood vessel in his head and really knock him out and win your fight

If only twice a j m tfie other boy

dies it’s no one’s fault.And if he jumps up like the tough

fellow he is—doesn’t boxing have the great merit of teaching a boy to take punishment like a man?—and goes home with that burst blood vessel he may be able to go on box ing for weeks, or months or years —until something jars that blood vessel again and the boy is dead with a surprised look on his face, and his wife’s face, and his child’s face.

Or if our boy is really tough and successful and lives to fight often, takes thousands of punches to his head—then you watch him disinte­grate as his brain goes soggy and pap. Punchdrunk.

That’s professional boxing.Amateur boxing is quite another

matter. Where boxing is based on skilful footwork and speed—and the man who aims to maim is disquali­fied—as is the position with boxing in the socialist countries, then box­ing, like fencing, is a real sport.

SOLUTION ?Apply the safeguards employed in

the best amateur codes to profes­sional boxing? Make the gloves lighter? Wear headguards?

These are solutions suggested to make pro boxing into a sport.

But the whole point is that if you did this there would not be pro

boxing any more. Because the crowds go for the kill, not the skill.

Fencing is a good analogy. It’s a good sport. Develops speed and agility. But the crowds in South Africa will never turn out to watch fencers ping at each other with their foils tipped by buttons. If the re­sults depended on actually drawing blood with the unprotected blade, fencing would be as popular as pro­fessional boxing.

And if you got a bonus for run­ning the blade right through the other boy’s innards the queues would stretch from Wembley to Mai-Mai.

SILVERTOWN RESIDENTS PROTEST AGAINST RENT L E A S E S

Councillor Promises InvestigationCAPE TOWN.

A DEPUTATION of about 50 angry residents of Silvertown saw Councillor R. E. Viljoen on Thursday evening in the Glee-

moor Town Hall to protest against the Cape Town City Council’s drastic increases i n rents and the removal notices se rv ^ on some of the residents.

Cape Town SportsCAPE TOWN.

European sport in the Cape re­ceives very good publicity from the daily press in Cape Town. Unfor­tunately this is not the case with Non-European sport. So, in view of the great demand by our readers in the Cape, we are going to bring you a wide range of news on Non- Eurofjean sport in the Peninsula.

As from next week we will pub­lish fixtures and results in rugby and soccer, and will try to cover as majiy sporting unions as possible. Readers are invited to contact New Age at 6 Barrack Street with any requests in connection with the sports column.

"N O ” says Robert Resha. "Boxing Is A Mans Sport"

rp H E death of Jimmy Elliot after his fight with Pat McAteer for

the British title at the Wembley sta­dium, Johannesburg, recently, was unfortunate and regrettable. In fact it shocked the lovers of the game.

Jimmy was not one of my favour­ites, but he was a game, courageous, determined boxer. Boxing appeared to be his second religion. It is therefore not surprising that his un­timely death aroused a wave of feel­ing among the people of this coun­try. As a result of this incident some people are advocating that a ban be put on boxing—professional boxing that is.

The argument put forward by tliis schpol of thought is that boxing is a brutal sport. Not sport but ‘sadism’. And that “it is the only sport in which the contestants deliberately set out to injure one another.”

The Minister of Justice, Mr. C. R. Swart, said, however, that he was not prepared to abolish professional boxing. For once I agree with the Minister.

YOU HA’YE TO BE TOUGHLet’s get this straight. Boxers are

not gladiators. They are not just picked up in the streets because they are muscular and fierce-looking and ushered into the ring to fight.

Boxing, like any other game, is a sport — a skilful, scientific, manly sport. To become a good boxer one has to undergo vigorous training— developing of stamina, toughening of muscles, special body-building, good footwork and a selective diet. One has to learn the art of the sport and be physically fit at all times. One has to learn how to punch and how to defend.

What is more, boxing has rules which govern the game.

The approach of a boxer to the game is not different from that of a ruggerite and indeed even a cricketer —to defeat your opponent. It is the boxers who do not know the art who enter the ring to deliver a ‘kill’. Invariably such sluggers get hurt.

T p say therefore that boxing M

which the contest- set out to ‘injure that it is a ‘brutal lack of knowledge of the spoft. To is to be extrava-

the only sport in ants deliberately one another’ and sport’ is to show and appreciation say it is ‘sadism’ gant with, words.

LIFE IS NOT CHEAPMake no mistake. This docs not

mean that death in the boxing ring after the fight must be condoned. No, life is not that cheap. On the contrary, there must be stronger control of boxing, particularly pro­fessional boxing. Because profes­sional boxing provides a meal ticket for the boxer, trainer, manager and promoter, it is necessary to be very strict.

There must be a thorough medical examination of boxers before they arc allowed to fight. Boxers must be evenly matched, a boxer mu.st not be allowed to reduce until only dry flesh and bones are left on his body to enable him to make his weight. For such a boxer cannot be strong enough to fight an opponent who did not have to reduce to make his weight. What is therefore immedi­ately required is a revision of rules controlling professional boxing in this country.

OTHER SPORTSWhat, however, must be clearly

understood by the critics of boxing is that it is no more dangerous than rugby, judo and motor racing. No one has asked for a ban on these games, yet the rugby officials are terribly worried about rough and over-robust play in rugby.

Let boxing go on.

O PTiaAN SWolfson & De Wet, F.N.A.O. (Eng.), Qualified Sight-testing and Dispensing Opticians, 4 King George Street (between Bree and Plein Streets), Johannesburg. Please

note Change of Address Phont 3^3«34

One after another the residents stood up to voice their complaints against the Cape Town City Coun­cil’s housing schemes.

Mrs. J. Cole, of Overton Road, Silvertown, said that after living in a Council house in Hazendal for 13 years she was moved into a 3-room house in Silvertown for which she had to pay about 17 shillings. This amount had been gradually in­creased to £1 3s. by the beginning of this year.

In March this year the rent was increased to £2 2s. Because she finds it difficult to pay this high rental she has been given notice and offered a 2-room house in Bridgtown with a rent of £1 6s.

Mrs. Cole has three children, one of which, the eldest, is an invalid. Her husband only earns about £5 10s. In addition to the rents their very high expenses in bus fares must also be taken into considera­tion. TTiis is just one of many simi­lar cases.

Councillor Viljoen promised to make an immediate investigation and to stop the removal notices that have been given. His organisa­tion, the Gleeitioor Civic Associa­tion. also told the deputation that

they would investigate the matter and try to fight the increases in the courts.

PETITION

Since then the S.A. Women's Federation and members of SACPO have continued to hold meetings in the area and it has been decided to-draw uo a fjetition to be presented to the City Council.

.According to Councillor Viljoen’s explanation to the deputation, these hou.ses have been built by the City Council with money given bv the Government in order to facilitate the proclamation of Group Areas, and the increases in rents have been imposed by the Government. Because these housing schemes are built away from the industrial area the residents have to spend a large part of their income on bus and train fares. Under the circumstance's the people find it impossible to pay the increases, which in some cases amount to more than £4 per month above their present rentals.

Feeling is running high in these housing schemes, and it is the peo­ple’s hope that the Cape Town Citv Council will take note of the legiti­mate complaints of their tenants.

MILNERTON TURF CLUB

RACING AT ASCOT

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Castle entrance.

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