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The China Mail. the guidance of the tripartite con-
ference the International Labour) Office prepared a volume of fact and
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1933. argument which leaves anrebutted
A Problem Of Hours.
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
The Last Political Agnostic
The death of J. M. Robertson at a great age removes the last repre- sentative of a type which WOR familiar enough in the nineteenth century. The political agnostic.
Bradlaugh was of course, the most prominent of them 08. àn agnostic, since he fought and won the great battle over the oath. Mor. ley was another, and he found in
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933,
WAGES MUST BE KEPT
UP IN 1933
THE END OF THE CRISIS IS COMING
DANGER YET TO BE FACED
(By Lord Beaverbrook.)
All through the years, every, am not in a position to make am period of depression has been ac-appeal to the co-operative organica- companied by a wave of wage re- tions. The politicians have their ductions.
hands on these enterprises. They more than one constituency that the
The tendency to reduce wages is are exploited for political purposes. local Liberals were unwilling to most usually seen towards the end
Unjustified Cuts. of the crisis. It is one of the last adopt a candidate of his views.
I know how big is the body of manifestations of a depressios, opinion in the co-operative socie- When Robertson was not engaged
If we are going to see the end of) ties that wants to throw off the In politics or the championship of the present depression in the year control of the politicians. But free thought he devoted himself to 1933, we must also expect to face a that opinion cannot be mobilised. formidable movement for the reduc-[There are no paid officials to take proving how little Shakespeare
tion of wages.
an interest in the unhappy lot of wrote of what gues under, his name.
And, indeed, we ought to Bee those who wish to be clear of the end of this depression before political influences. long. The normal, duration of a It will be very difficult, then, panic of these proportions is five to prevent those cuts among the
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His Novels and Playa
His erudition and his Industry Years. Already three years of this co-operative workers this year. were terrific, but to my mind hdepression have passed. suffered, as textual critics times do, from an inability to un-
some-
Aid To Industry.
Already there has been trouble in Scotland. The cuts were opposed Now if you want to bring this strongly there. As a result, they derstand how poetry is actually depression to an end you must re-ten per cent to two and a half per have been modified from more than solve to do everything in your pow-
written.
cent.
•
There is no justification for these cuts. I have been told by those
He once confessed that be hadfer by word and action to oppose written novels and plays in the be- wages reductions this year. Hef that he would make money out
Why?
of them. Whether they were ever The reason is plain enough; The who defend the wage policy of the produced one cannot say: he cer-first essential of recovery is to co-operatives in Scotland that they tainly did not acknowledge them in maintain the purchasing power pay better wages than the great where this can be done. That is
London stores. his later years.
It is not true. The the way to stiffen resistance to the Wages levels of the co-operatives slump.
are not comparable with those of great London stores like Selfridges that and Barkers, and the condition of
Your Daily Smile.
SWEET CHARITY, FATHER: What have you done the criticisma alike of the practic- with that money I gave you? ability and of the efficacy of a LITTLE BOBBY:"I gave it to a forty-hour week as a cure for un-poor woman— employment. The problems of idle- FATHER:" That's a good boy,
ness can be so stated and so treated
BOBBY:- poor womAD
*
who
Where are we to confer purchasing power?
living of. their employees is not so wage favourable. If we
We must give it to the earning and salaried class. do that, the benefits will radiate misled Fight against the cuts if Co-operative workers, do not be through the whole structure of inthe fight comes this year. dustry and commerce.
I have a certain following intaken the responsibility of protest- As for the railways; there I have this country. I do not claim that ing against wage reductions. It is a large one, but I do not ad- mft that it is small. That follow. But you cannot justify wage re- The railways arc. doing badly.
A highly important conference as to have little relation to indus-sells ice cream cones. was held recently at Geneva when trial recovery. It would no doubt representatives of Governments, em-be possible over a large field of Sorry, Sir. Floyers organisations, and trade industry to divide forty-eight hours "Many years ago barbara pracing is not recruited from the wage ductions to a level which destroys unions met to examine the technical of work between two or even three tiaed a rough kind of surgery with earning class, I am sorry to say. It the standard of living, no matter
are still comes in the first place from the how bad business may be. problems of the proposal for a forty-men and then
Thero La declare that all blood-letting." hour week. The report of this were employed. Sharing the work, plenty of old-fashioned barbers youth of the land, from the farm- tripartite conference is to be an the men would also share the pro- about. item-t may be by far the most ceeds of the work, and In the long important item-of the agenda of run they could share no more than the next International Labour Con- that. Trade unionists, however,
SHELL STAY SINGLE,
A girl was asked if sho had pro-
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SHOULD HAVE STOPPED.
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B
ing community and the small shop. keepers.
policy of high wages.
Their Obligation. Capitalists who invest money in
AGED CHINESE BURNED TO DEATH.
Last Night's Fire At Kowloon City,
It is to these that I want to ad. an undertaking are under an obli- dress myself now. I want to make gation to give an economic reward ference in June. Extreme urgency maintain that for the forty hours' posed to any man during Leap Year an appeal to them to accept the to those they employ. In good times they are permitted to make ia indicated by an arrangement work a man must be paid at the "No fear," she said. "I'm not which abbreviates the usual pro-rate he would now receive for forty-fool enough to propose to any man farmers to refrain for just a little must be willing to stand the loss.
I know how hard it is for the good profits. In bad times they cedure of the International Labour eight hours. The LLO, publication who'd be fool enough to marry me time from taking action in relation It may be that the changing con- Organisation; and in fact the hope recognises the impossibility of an And it's no use proposing to the of the sponsors of the forty-hour international regulation of wagea, pihers."
to agricultural wages. They have ditions of transportation are bring- week is to obtain within six months By general consent, therefore, a
been bearing a burden a depression ing the rallway industry to a crisis. a draft convention. Unemployment shorter working week can only be
that is both intolerable and unne. That will be very bad for the share- is an infliction so severe and wide-accomplished by international agree- "Did your wife say 'yes' the first Cessary. But I ask them to hold holders. But capitalists must, take the rough with the smooth, the bad their hands. spread that no one will deny the ment, und by official admission It is time you proposed to her?"
We have driven the Government with the good. It cannot be roses existence of an international emer-impossible to make such an agree- "No. The second, I've only Beney. Nor will
anyone question ment as would prevent a general myself to blame.".
very far already in the direction of all the way, Protection. We shall get them (Continued on Page 11.) the necessity for international ac-reduction of hours from vitally
much further before long. In the tion to restore trade and manufac-changing the basis of international THEN SHE OPENED UP.
meantime let us be patient. It] ture to health and prosperity. Any competition. That is a fundamental contribution which the ILO. can difficulty, and, although it is ecan- "Henry," said the nagging wife, may be that the day is not far off make to this end should be sought amle rather than technical, It as she prepared to retire, “is every- when our industry will be firmly established in prosperity again, and applied with energy. It should cannot be left out of consideration thing shut up for the night?" also be tested with care. The pro- even
by a technical conference, "That depends on you,” mutter and the danger of wage reductions
will be banished. posal of a forty-hour week is The avowed purpose of the forty-ed Henry. "Everything else is."
I have had some contact with the brought forward as "a remedy for hour week, be it remembered; is to unemployment,” and apparently the remedy unemployment. How will it|
OH, YEAH?
butchers lately. It has been rather real nature of the remedy is 're-do that? · Of course work can be
curious-kind of contact. They] FIRST GIRL: Tom said` that I
were about to be made the whipping garded in different ways. Its ad-shared in the manner already in-was the only girl he ever loved.
An aged Chinese male mendicant vocates argue 'variously that it is a dicated, although that will only re- SECOND GIRL; Oh, and doesn't boy for the Government. They
were attacked in the House of which broke out at an unnumber- was burned to death in a fire permanent means of redressing the sult in a greater amount of un-he say it beautifully dear?
Commons and in the newspapered hat in Tong Tau Village, Kow- balance between production and con-employment. One construction put
It was said that they maintained sumption and that it is but a tem- upon the proposel is that it would
unduly high retail prices for meat o'clock last night. The mendicant. loon City district, shortly after 9 porary expedient, which must be permit the working of five weeks of
It became necessary for some readily removable when economic|forty-eight hours followed by a recovery is sufficiently advanced. week's rest. That week's rest would
one to reply to these attacks, Taim On, aged 86 years, was the Between these two sues of thought not be unemployment, but only an Currents of electricity generated had some part in doing so, When sole occupant of the hut.
The flames were extinguished by there is a gulf, and the two argu-accumulation of leisure; and it in human akin by emotion and dis-the critics of the butchers were villagers and police, who were ments may produce sharp conten-would not entitle the resting em-ease can be measured by a new called to account the attacks cens tion, because in the one case the re-ployee to unemployment benefit metre designed for diagnosing ill-jed. duction of hours of work is regard-Germany bas already indicated that;
But the butchers know all about Police Station. The body was re- od not only as a means of providing she would require elasticity of that
hard times. There is an intention moved to the Kowloon Mortuary.
16,000 private idle men with work but also as a kind, and the rest would not differ
Russia ranka second to the United to wipe out the remedy for the industrial depres from our short-time working in, States for length of regularly de-slaughter-house This will have Personal Pars. alon which is the cause of their way, the cotton industry or mining yeloped airplane lines, which by the grave effect on the butchers.
And what of the great auction| idleness; while in the other case the except that enforced idleness would end of this year will exceed 84,000
Members of the St. Joseph's marts? Are they to be confiscated College football reduction of working time for the be called leisure and It would have miles.
eleven. which too? If the private alaughter-toured Manila, under the manager- individual is no more than a means no income. It is beautifully simple.{ of sharing the present amount of But, although an arrangement of
houses go, the need for the auction ship of Mr. C. A. Goldenburg, T6- The fittings of a Paris cafe re-marts goes with them. employment which would become this kind may be a palliative, it is semble those of an airplane and a
turned to the Colony yesterday handicap to progress as soon as the not a remedy for insufficient e-moving paporama on one well gives
Spoiler's Hand.
morning, arriving aboard the liner revival of trade makes possible ployment. How far it would go to diners the illusion of Rying, from Further, the polley of limitation Empress of Asia. larger scale of production. The mitigate the circumstances of the Paris, to New York.
of foreign meat imports hy' quota choice of remedies for unemploy- shipbuilding Industry with sixty-
Tives new power to the monopoly of Captain E. Alkman was a pas {mcat will depend upon thù view three për cent, of unemployment, or taken of the causes, Difference in of Iron and steel manufacture with
An Instrument has been invented the South, American importers, and senger who disembarked from the is very dangerous to the butchers. Empress of Asia, which arrived diagnosis will dictate difference in forty-eight per pant, of unemploy.by a University of Utah scientist to
All these are battles to be fought from Manila yesterday morning.. treatment. If the reason for unerment, the figures themselves show, measure the Influence of punishment
[in the coming, year," kata
[and hørthed at the Kowloon Wharf. playment were wholly technological But, say the trade unions, the forty pon learning, especially among
the result of increase of mechan-hours of work must Field every man young children.
Ical power then the remedy might the wage he has received for forty-
Facts You Did Not Know.
nesses.
The butchers should do nothing
summoned from the Kowloon City
to reduce wages. They should as Mrs. J. A. Fandray, accompanied
an alternative policy persuade their by the Misses P. A. and E.
be the harnessing of more man-eight hours. Presumably therefore the forty-hour week should extend employees to co-operate with them Pandray arrived in the Colony power to the machine, provided this the Industries which : have already to agriculture, and, since some of in protecting the butchers' privata yesterday morning aboard the could be done, équitably, and a organised short time would have to the deep causes of the world depres- property from the band of the liner Empress of Asia from technical conference, such as that advance their wage rates. The slop are in the agricultural coun- spoller. The butchers are in graver Manila, now in session, would suffice to ex- wage costs of production would in- tries, it is not easy to sas how their danger of evil consequences from] = tamine and make proposals for the crease by twenty par cant; com- pandition or indeed that of manu-Socialist massures at the hands Dr. and Mrs. M. O, Pfister left the removal," of difficultim.. Unfortun; modities „would to that extent be facturing, countries (could be made of a Consaryutiyé Government than Colony to-day by the sa, “Birdhana” ately there is no single or simple made dearer and the result, in bet
of any other section of the communi- for Calcutta, and intend touring Cause of unemploym
be ty
remedy under, dimensali
"of real wages and the stan-} man
Morerver 10% fs not suggested that more
ode. Trade
tere India - before proceeding to Europe the two would be made: still. The employees of co-operative on, long lays, "They will return to
atores are also threatened. Bot "the Colony in December,
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