OUR FINANCES.
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WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
TODAY'S LOGISLATIVE COUNCIL VOTEŠ
WRECK OF THE "PERLIS."
FULL DETAILS,
VESSEL FOUNDERS IN A STORM,
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Penang, August 22-A messige
SHIPPING.
SHIPBUILDING SLUMP.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WORST PERIOD FOR FORTY YEARS.
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With the extension of unemploy has been received by the Easternment insurance to cover practically Shipping Company stating that seven all classes of workers, both manual of the crew and the captain of the wrecked "Ferlis" have been picked up in a boat near Prarbara.
A later message says a Chinese passenger has also been sared. These with the six survivors brought by the "Lian Choo" on Saturday, make the total of saved fifteen. Thirty-three
Included in the 27 financial minutes recommended by H. E the Governor *t this afternoon's meeting of the Legislative Council were the follow ing big sums-$68.000 on account of the Police Department (special ex penditure, purchase of steain launch "Shun Lee" and building nt a new harbour launch): $50,000 for ms cellaneous services: $37.000 for different P.W.D. Works; $30,000 for police clothing and accoutrements; are missing. $30,000 for police passages and bonuses in lieu of passages; $30,000 for the erection of a temporary school near Gap Road; and $29,350 for the Canton-Kowloon Railway The minutes are given below ----
$2,000 on account of koyal Obser vatory, special expenditure, instra ments for upper air research.
$10,700 on account of Public Werks, extran dinary, Hengkong, buildings, conversion of the eld cinema shed at Wanchai into a fire brigade sub-station.
$400 in aid of the vote Royall Observatory, laboratory expenses.
$650 is aid of the vote Medical Department, B.-Hospitals and asylums, other charges, upkeep of
X-ray apparatus.
$1,000 in aid of the vote Governor. other charges, furniture.
$50 in aid of the vote Kowloon- Canton Railway, special expenditure, additional hydrants and main fer Kowloon Station.
$1,403 in aid of the vote Public. Works, extraordinary. Hongkong. miscellaneous, (32) motorlarry and motor-bicycle in connection with maintenance of roads.
$37,800 in aid of the following
recurrent, water
Voles
Public Works, works:-
(20) Maintenance of Shau
Miscellaneous
kiwan, .......................
(22) Water
account
(meters, etc.),
800.00
6,000 00
(34) Typhoon and rain-
storm damages. ......... Extraordinary, water works (38) Additionalrising mala
to the Peak,
6,000.00
Total
25,000 00
37 800 00
$10,000 in aid of the vote Pabi Works, extraordinary, Hongkong, miscellaneous, (24) Aplichau, Re clamation Scheme.
Several of the Company's ships have been instructed to search the sur rounding,islands for survivors.
The Perlis" left Trang on Wednesday at 10.55 am, with a crew of 37 and eleven deck passangers nearly all Malays. The weather was stormy and squally with heavy seas.
At 2.15 the vessel began to take in water. The captain saw the ship was doomed and ordered the issue of lifebelts and lowering of boats These, except the lifeboat, became waterlogged. Everyone got clear of the vessel which foundered about 3 p.m. The captain made for the life boat to which several people were clinging. One of the crew reached Pulo Pisang at 11 at sight, Next morning four others came ashore. On Friday morning a Chinese saller reached the island in an exhausted condition. At 7 pm the "Lian Choo" was sighted and they succeeded in attracting her attention.
TYPHOON WARNING.
The telegram quoted below was received by the local American Con sulate General from the Manila Ob- servatory.
and non-manusi, the official figures published by the Minister of Labour each month in the Labour Gazette now provide a very true reflex of the state of employment in the United Kmgdom.
The position which the figures disclose at the end of May is most alarming, and shows that the per centage of unemployment has now reached unprecedented proportions. To find anything approaching the position of affairs which now exists one has to go back as far as the year 1879, when it was only 114 per cent, The number of persons now insured under the Unemployment Insurance Aer is about 12 millions, and the num- berregistered as totally unemployed at the end of May reached the huge total of 2,109,654 or 17.6. unemployed, as compared with 15 per cent at the end of April, and 11.3 per cent, at the end of March, 1921. The corres pending percentage for May, 1920
was 2.68 per cent., so that unem-
Similarly, the unemployment It is obviously impossible to attack figures of the Boilermakers' Society at once the whole field which will may be said to indicate the position eventually be covered. Such a code of the shipbuilding and ship-repairing would have to grow gradually as industry separately, and their figures uniformity is reached in different for unemployment are 35,082, or parts of the subject, and it is therefore * preliminary equal to a percentage unemployed of proposed that as 33,14
The corresponding figures measure, the drafting of an interns- for May 1920, were 3,454 memployed, tional code of seamen's articles of and a percentage of 526, so that agreement should be taken in hand. their unemployment is ten times as much es it was a year ago. Taking the percentages recorded for the last 50 years, according to the Board of Trade figures, the boilermakers' highest previous percentage was 22.7 during the memorable slump period
in 1908.
The International Labour Office now asks the Governments of the different States to inform it what measures have been taken for the establishment of a national code, and what suggestions they wish to make in consection with the inquiry into articles of agreement,
The Ministry of Labour also gives
Anappendix contains some interest. details by districts in regard to the ing notes on early maritime codes. number of unemployment books and Some of the rules contained in these cut-of-work donation policies remain-codes sound strange to modern ears. Ing lodged at the Labour Exchanges For instance, in the "Ordinances of at the end of May, and in the ship-Trani" (quoted in "The Black Book building trades, Yorkshire division, of the Admiralty") only four causes has the highest percentage of unem of justifiable dismissal are recognised ployment. viz, 53.91, Wales being next with 49.85, London 51 11, North- Past Coast 39.33, and Scotland 28 47. The lowest percentage of unemploy ment is recorded for the South-East counties at 16.52, but in these districts there is not a very large number of men employed as compared with the big shipbuilding centres. The figures for Ireland are better than any of the other big centres at 27.7 per cent. The foregoing figures taken from official Government sources or from trade union data, confirm up to the hilt the statements of the shipbuilding account," and engineering employers regarding The medieval seaman was allowed the lack of orders, and the necessity only one meal a day if he had "drinks going." and was
blasphemy against God (Which would, no doubt, bring divine vea. geance on the ship), quarelling, theft and excess. 'No master," say these ordinances, may beat a mariner. but the mariner ought to escape and pass from the bow to the chain of the rowers and ought to say: 'In the name of my Lord do not touch me." three times, and if the master should pass the chain in order to beat him, the mariter ought to defend himself, and if the mariner kills the master, he is not to be banished on that
ployment is now nearly seven times greater than it was a year ago The official figures as at 10th June, just published, show that the numbers of unemployed are still increasing.
An examination of the ficures refor securing greatly reduced coming and
after the Franco-Prussian War in the seventies.
NEED OF WIRELESS.
lating to the three iron and steel labour costs before any improve, forbidden under severe penalties to industries--shipbuilding and shipment in employment is to be looked undress except when the ship was in repairing, marine and general en for, or buyers encouraged to place winter quarters. On the whole, the gineering, and boiler-making, an orders which will absorb at least a medieval seaman enjoyed a fair iren and steel manufacture-show few of the huge number of men, now measure of protection as against em that the state of affairs is much seeking work. The numbers of players in all countries. International worse than the general overhead unemployed are no doubt swelled protection for the seaman, indeed, is percentage. These three industries temporarily as a result of dismissals by no means a cevelosment of the which are closely connected and in-and suspensions due to the disastrous twentieth century, but can be traced terdependent, are at the present time coal strike, and the shippard joiners back as far as the oldest medieval suffering a period of acute depression, strike, but when these two strikes are codes. the like of which has rot been ex- terminated it is likely that it wil te 300 p.m. August 31. Cyclone or typheon over N. China perienced since the years immediately many months before the shipbuilding. Sea developing.
engineering, and iron and steel industries resume activities even on Official information relating to
a seriously curtailed scale. The employment in the iron and steel damage has been done: the buyers' On July 22 notes of the Binque industry, which supplies so much of confidence has been shaken, and the Indo Chine to the value of $500,000 the raw material for shipbuilding, is slump having intervened with a con- were s'olen from the Amiral given in the joint memorandum nosequent downward tendency, both in Fouricher. in Saigon harbour. They the present position of that industry, regard to wages and materials, were part of a consignment of prepared by the National Federation buyers are likely to hold off until unissued notes for Haiphong, and of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, re- they think costs of production have naturally the thieves had no chance. presenting the employers, and the reached an economic limit from their Within an hour or so some of the Iren and Steel Confederation, repre- point of view, notes were presented at the Saigonsenting the workmes, which was office of the Bank to be changed into presented to Mr. Lloyd George Te. smaller denominations they were all cently.
The cashier Te
$5.500 in aid of the vote Public
notes of $100. Works, recurrent, Hongkong, mie cognised that they were part of a cellaneous, (19) Dredging Foreshores. series totalling two millions and a half $100 in aid of the vote Attorney then arriving from France and not Gentral's Office, other charges, inciyet issued; and he promptly sent for dental Expenses.
the police By the end of the month most of those concerned were vader arrest.
$170 in aid of the vote Treasury, special expenditure, furniture.
$28,350 in aid of the following
Votes:
Kowloon-Can on Ralway Locomotive, carriage, and wagon expenses, other charges:-
Coal.
$i 2.000 00 Loading Coal.......... 350.00
Total, ......$ 28.350 DO
$68,000 on account of Polsce De partment, A-Special Expenditure, purchase of steam launch "Shup Lee," and building of a new harbour launch
$13,400 in aid of the following
voles
Public Works, extraordinary, New Territories, drainage: (78) Training nuilahs: (b)
general works, ......... $ 9,700 00 (79) Miscellaneous drain- ange works. (a) Kow. loon City Reclamation sewerage scheme......
Total
3,700.00
$13,400.00
$130, in ald of the vola Colonial Secretary's Office, special expenditure. document presses
$7,500 on account of miscellanecus Services, in aid of expenses incurred by the promoters of the South of the Island Development Scheme.
$2,000 in aid of the vore Sanitary Department, special expenditure. exhumation at Kai Lung Wan Ceme tery.
$30.000 ca
account of Public Werke, Extraordinary, Hongkong. Buildings, Propceed erecting of a tmporary schoo! near Gap Road,
$60,000 in aid of the following voles
A.-Police. Other Charges - Clothing and Accoutre
ments, Passages and Bonuses in
lieu of passages,·
services.
motor cars.
Total,......
$4.000 on account of the vote 4 -- Fire Brigade, special expenditure, electric plant and searchlight for No. 1 fre float.
votes
It states that compared with a year ago the number employed at the end of April bad fallen by 78 per cent.
with disastrous results upon the economic position of the work- people and the employers.
AN INTERNATIONAL CODE FOR SEAMEN.
SOME QUAINT OLD LAWS.
At the second session of the Inter- national Labour Conference at Genoa Combined figures regarding trade last summer it was decided that the union membership for the shipbuild-International Labour office should ing and engineering trades show the undertake investigations in order to position at May, 1921, to be as establish international sea- fellows
men's code. The same session also adopted a recommendation that each of the members of the International Labour Organisation should embody
Total number of members, 541,610, of which 159 030 were unemployed, equal to a percentage unemployed of 29 4 per cent.
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THE FORCE OF PUBLIC OPINION.
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The typhoon has not failed to pro- duce another example of the im perative need of wireless on all ships. Captain W, E Kent writes from on board the RMS. "Empress of Russia": "I have been nut in the recent ty phoon and last night (Saturday) down the coast I met a steamer who asked by Morse lamp where the typhoon was. After we had told him, he came back with the remark that be wished he had wireless. She was a fine coast boat and, of course, should be fitted. We were lying to at the time waiting for the storm to pass which was between us and Shanghai. otherwise we could not have given him the weather report by Morse lamp; there would not have been time" Our readers will not have forgotten Captain Kent's letter on the wreck of the Hong Mob" on the Lammocks last April, when the vessel standing by her could only
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GENERAL NOTES.
vessels Ninety-seven
called at
in a seamen's code all its laws and signal to passing ships by means of When these figures are contrasted regulations relating to seamen. In Morse lamps for help, and was ulti- $30,000 00 with the corresponding figures for order to facilitate the accomplishment mately compelled to leave her in order May, 1920, the full extent of the of these two tasks,he International to get proper assistance. As we 30,000 00 | slump which has come upon Labour Office has prepared and pub-pointed cut in commenting on that these industries can be apprelished a volume entitled. "The Inter-letter, the number of ships travelling $60,000.00 ciated. In May, 1920, there were national Seamen's Code" (Interna-up and down the China coast has the war, but the total now comes to only 8,953 men anemploy.tional Labour Office, Geneva, 2s 64), usually been suficient to bring only eighty-seven. A gimilar tendency $750 "in aid of the vote matelae, or a percentage of 17
The which gives a comprehensive history help within a few hours where is visible in the number of workerk
The German steamer Flil" is a wreck actually occurs. But At one neous Services, other miscellaneous number of men unemployed has, of the steps which led to the pro-
time there were as is but a therefore, increased by over 150,000, posals and of the course to be this fact, which
slen-many as a hundred thousand workers laying two and a quarter millon $2,400 on account of the vote Bar, in other words, for every man un followe
der hope at best, breaks down while at present forty-two thousand meters of cable between Macassar and Fire Brigade, special expenditure, employed in the industry a year agt Unlike workers in many other altogether in respect of a typhoon, are still surviving. With the future Donggala in Menado.
there are now 18
fields, is pointed out, seamer must where the whole essence of safety retrenchment of yards, further dis The percentage is now almost often their work in several coun- lies in getting information well ahead. missals of employees will be inevit twice tbe highest figure retries, in each of which it may be Under conditions prevailing in the able. Since this year, the Uchida rded in these two industries since necessary for them in know some Far East, there is no means of com-and Toba Shipbuilding Yards have 1871. the highest previous figure thing of the law as to their relations pelling shipowners to install wireless closed their doors. Even well-estab Belawan during July. Of this total $3.300 in aid of the following being 153 per cent, in the year 1879 with their employers and their fel-on all their ships, trat the force of lished yards for want of shipbuilding 11 were Dutch, 62 Netherlands Indimo.
Unemployment among the mem laws. Even when not in other coun-public opinion must ultimately force orders have been constructing bridges, 22 English and two Japanese. Medical Department, other chargeshers of the Amalgamated Engineering tries, much of the seamen's work them to do so and every fresh and shipbuilding would be at a dis- Bedding and clothing $1,600 00 Union may be regarded as a very fair must ce done on the world's high instance of a ship not having wireless count altogether but for Japan's naval
The Japanese Consulate General Cleansing materials .............. 350 00 guide to the extent of unemployment way, lar removed from the usual and Ending herself badly in need of expansion. It is remarkable however, Furniture and repairs... 65000 in the engineering industry alone. reach of public authorities.
it is to be emphasized accordingly. that new tonnage keeps up pretty well at Shanghai has received an official Lunatic Asylum.
owing to the few ships built being of telegram from the authorities in other
and here the official Agures issued by Moreover, on the ships of most | N. C. Daily News.
large size. During the days of the Tsingtao to the effect that quarantine charges, bedding
the union show that at the end of countries the seamen are frequently and clothing
350 00❘ May. 1921. they had 112.319 mero
economic boom, the majority of the is to be imposed on all vessels arriv al many nationalities. It is not un-
hips under bers unemployed. or equivalent to usual that the seamen on a ship
construction were Victoria Hospital, other
ing at that port from Shanghai on and and charges, bedding
freighters because shipowners were after August 23. almost 30.5 per cent. of their mem nelther speak the language of the clothing
350 00 bership, compared with only 4,442 ship's country nor understand its
Japan's shipbuilding trade to-day is very solicitous of obtaining bottoms men unemployed in May, 1920, or 25 laws. Seamen form what is, indeed, but the shadow of its former self. to carry cargoes. Over ten of the -$3.300.00 men unemployed for each one unem- an international community, and as Especially since the current year have ships now under construction, how
ployed a year ago. The bighest such they have many relations on new orders diminished while even ever, are either gennine passenger | wo." flying a very large red entiga. previous percentage of unemployed which it would greatly redound to previous agreements have been can ships or passenger and cargo ships was heavily fired on below Singti for the Amalgamated Engineers was their advantage to have applied to celled, says the Japan Chronicle. The Launchings of over 100 tons during from the north bank of the Yangtare, in 1879, when it reached 106 on the them a uniform law whatever flag be dockyards, which totalled afx in 1913, the first half of this yeaf stood at 20 last week. A Chinese was killed and average, so that with this union the flown by the vessel in which they increased to Efty-seven during the vessels aggregating 144,200 tons, some Chinese were wounded, while percentage unemployed at present is ship. Such a uniform law can be war, but have now decreard to compared with 60 vessels of 283,755 | the hull was pierced. The "$ientan” three times as high as it has been at secured only through common inter- twenty-six. There were. a hundred tous in the corresponding period of was also fired on, but no damage any time since 1871,
national action.
was done. and fifty-seven-ships building during | last year..
TotalAN LARRY
$1,000 in aid of the rate Public Works, extraordinary, Kowloon, mis cellaneous. (61) Chinese cemeteries: Laving out new areas $1,600 in aid of the vote Fublic $50,000 in aid of the vote miscella Works; establishment, other charges,neous services, other miscellaneous
services. Incidental expenses.
1 BOUGHT YOU A NICE BATHING SUIT AND I WANT YOU TO 4ORIGHT DOWN TO-THE-BEACH;
CAN'T. 1 WAIT UNTIL SATURDAY
BRINGING
BY GOLLY. THIS SUIT MUST HAVE BEEN MADE BY AN AWNIN' COMPANY
UP.
SHIPBUILDING IN JAPAN.
FATHER.
DON'T MOVE OR BY HECK./ I'LL SHOOT - DON'T TRY
NONE OF YOUR TRICKERY
WITH ME I'M THE
CONSTABLE ·
The Indo-China steamer
SAY-MAGGIE - COME DOWN TO THE JAIL AN GIT ME. "OUT"-- "THE SHERIFF THINKS
I'M AN ESCAPED. !CONVICT -
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