CUTS IN SOVIET NUCLEAR POWER PLANS?

played an active part in every struggle since the 1945 strike.

This article is written in his individual capacity, and expresses his own views. :

out of their labour, press forward cycle after cycle of wage demands. angering such magnates as John Gibson Jarvie, boss ef the £75 million United Dominions Trust, who last week demanded a showdown with the workers and their ‘claims for bigger and bigger wages’.

The fact must be faced that British trade unions are lagging far behind the employers in their preparations for the impending class battles.

Recent months have witnessed plenty of high-sounding Left talk by a certain type of union leader. But this Left talk, which wins applause at conferences, is not matched by Left deeds when it comes to a showdown with the bosses.

(Continued overleaf, col. 2) Drastic cuts appear to have been made in the Soviet atomic power programme, though they have not been explicitly announced, or discussed by the Supreme Soviet News. no. 3648, of May 18, 1957, announced baldly: ‘A powerful atomic electric station ... with a capacity of 420,000 kw (420 mega-walts) is expected to produce current for industry in 1960.

‘This is the first of a series of powerful atomic electric stations now being built....—as though this were some great new achievement, (Continued on back page)

SAYINGS OF THE WEEK ‘The [Oman] affair has done good if it has reminded us that influence cannot be won without involvement, nor respect without risks; nor a claim to world power upheld unless we have both the right kind of forces in the right kind of places, and the will to use them when necessary.—The Sunday Times, *Mr. Cousins in particular did himself credit by committing his personal reputation to an attempt...to get the men back .-. though it would be more prudent to see in his conduct merely a realistic appreciation of the fact that the strike... had been virtually broken by resolute employers.'—The Sunday Times, August 18.

‘One of the greatest things we have done in Britain, I would say, is that we have linked the name of the Communist Party and the Daily Worker with what goes on in the socialist countries’. —Alan Brown, Daily Worker, August 21.

‘The imperialists say our system is cruel, but our workers and peasants say the régime is not cruel enough.'—Mr. Kadar, al Kisuiszallas. August 20.

1957 HARRY CONSTABLE (Continued from front page)

Covent Garden has provided a classical instance of this. Rarely has a ‘Left’ demagogue been so swiftly exposed by