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SOUTHERN EDITION THE COST OF APARTHEID In reply to a question by Mr. Brian Bunting, the Acting Minister of Health disclosed the following Statistics of the incidence of tuberculosis in South Africa over the past four years: 1948 1952 Europeans 1,609 1,422 Coloured persons (including w d v a a c e Asiatics) 5,478 5,715 Africans 15,681 20,942 Registered at tbe ADVANCE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1953 G eneral Past* Cfilce as a Newspaper PRICE 3d INDIANS NEXT VICTIMS OF IDENTITY CARD SYSTEM Registration Starts In Pretoria JOHANNESBURG. rpH E Government has now started the registration of Indians un- der the Population Registration Act, and they will, in all likeli hood, be the next group to be issued with identity cards. As with the issue of the new Pass Books to Africans (also un der the Population Registration Act) Pretoria has been chosen as the first centre for the inauguration of the system. A notice has been issued to Asia tics (in this group fall Indians, Chi nese and Malays) in Pretoria and the townships of East Lynne, Silver- A Message From ton and Pretoria North, requiring all Bucharest men and women over the age of 16 to complete a questionnaire to en JOHANNESBURG. able the Department of the Interior From Bucharest Mr. Walter to determine the citizenship oc all M. Sisulu, secretary-general of Asiatics. the African National Con gress, who was a guest of the These printed questionnaire forms World Youth Festival, sent an were distributed house to house dur interview to Advance in which ing August 12 to 21. They are also he stated he was vastly im Among the thousands of young people at the Bucharest Youth Festival were 44 South Africans, some available at police stations. pressed with the Festival, and of whom are seen here while leading the contingent in the Festival march»past. the wonderful spirit of the Each individual is required to fill youth. in the form and return it in person “I feel,” he cabled, “that the between August Q4 and 29. People, two things which must be done says the instruction of the Depart without delay in South Africa ment, must “present themselves in are to intensify the work of the family order to be photographed”. youth movement, laying espe “ FIGHT FOR PEACE’* Each individual must pay 2s. 6d. cial emphasis on cultural acti for his photographs and must pur vities of young people; and the chase a revenue stamp to this formation of a national wo amount from a post office before men’s organisation to deal CALL TO SOUTH AFRICANS coming to be photographed. with the issues concerning wo men. These two forces will be The questionnaire runs to eight the backbone of a future happy foolscap pages of questions. It re South Africa.” quires such details as grandfather’s date of birth; the date of the indi vidual’s father’s entry into the Big National Conference Plans union, details, numbers anil dates of such documents as letters of exemp tion, letters of protection, condona tion certificates, all permits, Trans Intensive Campaign vaal Asiatic Registration certificates Throbbing JOHANNESBURG. and all provincial permits. QOUTH AFRICA’S first national Peace Conference established the South African Peace Council in Headaches ^ Johannesburg last week-end. The conference expressed its conviction that mankind can avert the horrors of war, and went on to record its opposition against the use of Africa as a warbase. It de manded bread and social benefits, peace and disarmament rather than w^ar preparations and urged all South Africans to ensure that negotiation triumphs over attempted solutions by force, not only be Criminal Law tween the great powers, but also i n Africa and other parts of the world where foreign domination tried GO! to impose itself by force. Amendment Act Two hundred and seventy-five Mr. A. Fischer, Q.C., banned congress to spread the work of M a g-Aspirin Is better. It calms delegates from 3 provinces, repre from participation in any gathering, peace throughout South Africa.” Appeal Wins your angry nerves and gently senting 260,870 people, deliberated and in the Peace Movement, by a , A resolution from the floor pro soothes away those stabbing for two days on the causes of war; notice from the Minister of Justice posing that the Peace Movement PRETORIA. pains. Mag-Aspirin’s safe, seda the effects of colonialism on the served on him just two days before send a deputation to Mr. Swart to tive action has given thousands African Continent in relation to war the conference opened, beat the ban urge him to lift the ban on Mr. The Supreme Court upheld the drives; the effect on people’s daily imposed on him by recording a mes Fischer was unanimously adopted. appeal of Mr. Arthur Matlala of sufferers speedy relief from lives of the burden of war prepara sage, to which the delegates listened against his conviction on a charge backache, bladder pain, neuritis, tions and the tasks before the South in deep silence and emotion at the “BALLOT FOR PEACE” under the Criminal Law Amend lumbago, headaches, toothache, ment Act. Mr. Matlala was found African Peace Movement. opening session. Attacks on the Conference decided to conduct a sleeplessness, and rheumatic peace movement in the past have “Ballot for Peace” throughout the guilty of “soliciting money to assist Among the main speakers at the not prevented the movement from a campaign conducted by means of pains. Get Mag-Aspirin to-day 1 conference were Professor Joseph nation to obtain signatures from growing and spreading, said Mr. people everywhere for the use of unlawful acts” in March this year Gillman, Mr. Nelson Mandela (pre Fischer’s recorded speech. and sentenced to oen year’s impri sident of the Transvaal African Na negotiation to settle international disputes rather than resort to force sonment and eight strokes. The Su tional Congress, Dr. Guy Routh, “I have already given my answer preme Court ruled that the measure mnc-nspiRfn economist, Mrs. Jessie McPherson, and war. The target for this national to Mr. Swart in telling him that the ballot will be 100.000 signatures. was not law at the time when it is not ordinary aspirin who represented the S.A. Labour present attack also will fail to ob was alleged he contravened its pro Party, Mr. Debi Singh of the Natal struct the march of the people to Reverend D. C. Thompson, one visions. Mag-Aspirin Powders, 21- per box. Als® Indian Congress, Mr. Cecil Williams, wards peace. I know that my answer of the founders of the S.A. Peace available in Tablets at 2/6 at all chemists national chairman of the Springbok is correct and that the real reply to Movement, was elected president of His conviction and sentence of and stores. Legion and Mrs. F. Thaele from Mr. Swart will come not from me t\\$ 3-A. Peace Council amidst acla- £50 or six months under Proclama Cape Town. but from the determination of this (Continued iO page 3) tion 256 was confirmed. 2 ADVANCE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1953 3rd WORLD TRADE UNION Clarion Call Soviet Russia’s announcement Foreign diplomats and newspapers that she has exploded a hydrogen complained that the Communists CONGRESS IN OCTOBER bomb has given the Western world were practically running the coun a shock. The hydrogen bomb is try already. several times more powerful than and limited groups of militants. The the atom bomb. A few hydrogen The prospect of Persia, with its preparations for the Congress are bombs could wipe out the main oil, falling outside their orbit was the affair of all workers. Every one centres of life in the U.S.A. If it more than the West could bear. Stuggle For Peace, of them has his share in the re should come to war, what protec Hence the putsch which has de sponsibility for this work. By grasp tion could the United States Gov posed Mossadeq and brought the ing the idea that this is their con ernment offer its citizens? Shah back. Just who will get the Wages, Freedom gress, they will make this great in oil now is not quite clear. The ternational meeting in Vienna the Do you remember the sneering Shah has stated Anglo-Iranian LONDON. Congress of the men and women and scoffing that greeted Malen won’t get it anyway. So perhaps workers of the whole world.’* kov’s announcement that Russia it’s the Americans who have once rr\H E Third World Trade Union Congress will take place in knew the secret of the hydrogen more in Persia, as in many colo October this year in Vienna in a period of militancy and pro MASS MEMBERSHIP bomb? All the political wiseacres nial or semi-colonial countries gress for trade unionism, particularly in the colonial countries. The W.F.T.U. has a membership and press pundits airily dismissed since the war, muscled in on a The period between now and October is being taken up in most throughout the world of 80,000,000 the claim as a frightened boy’s British preserve. Meanwhile An countries with intensive preparations linking the coming Congress and is incomparably the greatest whistling in the dark to keep his glo-Iranian shares have risen to with the mass action, unity and social demands of the workers. and most powerful working-class courage up. The Russians could their highest point since 1949. Highlights of the trade union ration of Trade Unions has been organisation in existence today or not have discovered the secret, we movement at the present are the widely circulated and is being dis at any previous time.