-DATE- 19700727 -YEAR- 1970 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- SPEECH -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- TASS REPORT ON SPEECH -PLACE- CUBA -SOURCE- MOSCOW TASS INTL -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19700727 -TEXT- TASS Report on Castro Speech Moscow TASS International Service in English 1920 GMT 27 Jul 70 L (Holiday of the People of Cuba) [TASS heading] [Text] Havana, July 27, TASS--TASS corresponds U. Romantsov and V. Mironov report: The people of Cuba celebrated on Sunday their revolutionary holiday--the day of the national uprising. A grandiose meeting was held on Jose Marti Square in Havana. The meeting was addressed with a lengthy report by the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government Fidel Castro. The speaker warmly welcomed numerous foreign delegations, which were present at the meeting, among them the Soviet delegation led by K.F. Katushev, secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. Fidel Castro paid tribute to the memory of heroes, who stormed 17 years ago Moncado Barracks. Then he spoke in great detail on the problems of the economic development of Cuba. The battle on the economic front, he said, is the most difficult of all battles the the solution of national economic tasks requires a long time, but we must win this battle and we shall be able to win it only through the efforts of the entire people without weakening, in doing so, our vigilance in face of threats and provocations from the enemies of the Cuban revolution: The Prime-Minister noted the high class consciousness and revolutionary enthusiasm of the people of Cuba, which were vividly shown at the first finished zafra of 1970. As a result of it the country has for the first time produced over eight and a half million tons of sugar. Special consciousness towards labour and interests of production was displayed by the working class. It is in this, said Fidel Castro, that the practical lesson of Marxism-Leninism consists and the correctness of the assessment of the proletariat's role is confirmed. Fidel Castro stressed that after the victory of the revolution every-day attention has been devoted in the country to the improvement of the living conditions of the working people. With every passing year the state allocates increasingly greater funds for the needs of public health services, education and social maintenance of the population, the construction of apartment houses, and everyday service facilities. -END-