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"NEW DEAL" FOR INDUSTRY
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S LATEST PLAN
FRANK EXAMINATION FROM ALL ANGLES
(By J. B. Firth)
It was incorporated, by a charter of Henry VIII. in 1587 as Guild of Archors and Handgunmen and has preserved its identity ever since...
novelty. New games, new re- the Guards In line through the The Colonel Commandant of the ligions, new books, new theories Cockpit Steps at Westminster. Mr. H.A.C. Is by custom a peer. Lord of life, new doctrines of political Lloyd George is a consummate de Vesci, Lord Denbigh and Lord economy, new parties, New Deals tactician. But it cannot be done,
The Worker's Place Galway have been the last three-they fail to each in turn...... holders of the post.
HOME people cannot regist, a manoeuvring a whole battalion of
The bolder the claims made the No Development Council could Lord Fortescue was in the Scots stronger the impulse of attraction. face such an Atlas burden and Greys during the war. Later be Previous disappointments are for-live. Where are these intellectuai became A.D.C. to the Commander- gotten. They succumb once more Robots who want neither food, nog in-Chief in India. He is a first to the spell of the magician. rest, nor sleep, but can simultaneous- class horseman and a vice-president Moreover, it is not everyone wholly reorganise the intricacies of half of the Olympia Horse Show.
}FALSE LEGEND'.
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can seize the polate-especially a dozen baffling industries like the missing points-of a prospec those rare masters of chess who Itus. Nor perhaps is it always in-can play and win-twenty games.
at once blindfold?
Cardinal Bourne "was not the poor tended that they should.
Admittedly, the prospectus of They do not extat In sufficient. boy of the popular legend who rose to be the highest of the Roman the New Deal presented so vigor-numbers to form a board and it i Catholic Church in England.
ously at Bangor, contained out idle to pretend that they do
Although he was never a social lines only, large, billowy, floccu- Grouped genius of such calibre, Agare like Cardinal Vaughan or lent outlines, the details of which even if available, would also be Cardinal Manning he came of good Mr. Lloyd George promises to All self-destructive. If Mr. Lloyd
in later.
George consults his own experience professional stock. His mother was, the daughter of a Dublin merchant. The Chancellor of the Exche of Cabinets, does it not corroborata His father, a high official in the quer has taken the earliest oppor-ja recent saying that "there is sel British Post Office, would have been tanity to promise careful consi- dom elbow-room in a smooth-work
A Na-ing Government for more than one knighted If he had not died at an deration by the Cabinet.
tlonal Government is better plac-will?" early age.
We are assured, of course, that Cardinal Bourne was inclined to counsel from one who rejoices to the Development Council would
ed than any other to accept sound be rather stiff in his earlier years have escaped from the "misery" of consist of persons drawn frem “in- but mellowed greatly with the pas
įdustry, commerce, finance, workers and economie thinkers." The are workers mentioned by Mr. Lloyd
Council's Autocracy
outstanding features
trade which British enterprise age of time. In his later years he party manoeuvre.
an entertaining dinner com- was has developed against every kind panion and talker. - of difficulty would be handed Bong_Kong, Thursday, Feb. 28, 1935. over in its entirety to foreign
shipowners.
If there is to be criticism of
Help In Shipping's Unequal Fight
Your Daily Smile!
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The Whole Truth
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'Plants and Weeds" "Emerson said that a weed was
say to the new Council, a scheme at Mr. MacDonald's selection of an of reorganisation for the mines, Economic General Staff to do some for cotten, for wool, for steel, for hard preliminary thinking for the Iron, for. engineering, for railways, Socialist Government. "A mythi
The bold spending and the all-impor- George could hardly be left out in tant place assigned to the propos-these democratic days, but as trade- ad Development Council. No limits unionists they are doomed by their Congress hasn't yet discovered who are set to the range of its aurvey principles to be in disagreement. the Government it should rather backing that blackshirt movement or to its authority to plan schemes with the eminent representatives. be of the inadequacy and the in America, hut we know it isn't the of remedy and reorganisation. of industry and finance, temporary nature of the aid it laundrymen.
Eminent political economists are It is to begin by providing re- proffers. Nobody now contem-]
Hef work for our 2,100,000 unem-also to be included, and since Now that the House of Com- plates a scheme limited to one
more ambitious economic problems will be upper- mons has given a third reading year or to a stated sum. Mr.what would this old oak my if it could is also assigned to it, that of plan- most from first to last that will
Sentimental Young Lady: "Professor, ployed. But a to the British Shipping Assis- Runciman has been endeavouring
seem alike reasonable and proper. ning a new industrial England. tance Bill there is some assur-by slow approach to the problem Professor; "It would probably say, "Give us," any Government But economists of what school? ance that British shipping will to stimulate. the shipping 'I am an elm.'"
Mr. Lloyd George poked his fum which accepts the New Deal will not be driven out of business by industry to self-help. In that subsidised tonnage flying foreign he seems to have succeeded. flags. The danger againat which The names of those who will belated action has been taken is serve on the Tramp Shipping plant the use of which had not yet
been discovered,” said the professor. no matter of imagination. For fif- Committee guarantee that it will "He might have added," said the for afforestation, for land reclama cal body" he called them. On the teen years British ships and ship. be a body with knowledge of all gardener, that it stops growing
tion, for agriculture. Take the contrary, they were exceedingly, owners have been left alone to the ramifications of trade in soon as its use is discovered."
whole field of British Industry for human. When they found that fight a losing battle, in which the which tramp shipping is engaged,
your province. Make the crooked their suggestions were turned profits of the war years have and competent to point out the been eaten up. British shipping, directions in which help is need-
straight! Help the lame dogs over down time after time by the stile. Show the Lancashire cotton Cabinet some of them threw in which was 43 per cent of the ed and can most "profitably be
industry how to overcome the com-their hand, world's tonnage, 'is now only 27 given. Hopes of practical results The Management of the Penin petition of Japan. Teach the Cabinet Of Five per cent. Tramp shipping. to from the international confer-sula Hotel advises that there will
Is there better hope, now? Why amallest and oldest equipped coal- which the aid now given is to be ences that are being promoted to be no Dinner Dance at the Penin: Selds how to compete with the should there be? Mr. Lloyd George confined, has been reduced from consider the adjustment of world sula Hotel on Saturday next as the newest mines of South Yorkshire. sumes that bia Council of ex- 10,000,000 tons to 5.000.000 tons shipping to world demand may Rose Room is reserved for the Fan-Show the Tyne and the Clyde how perts will reach agreement. Not If these changes had happened in be alight, but in these negotia-ling Hunt Bail on that date. a fair struggle. for business 'the tions British shipowners can
and where to get orders for newt is as "representative" as he aug- gasts, Ha ·assurés that the cane against shipowners that the utilise a weapon that they have
|ships.", Labour party endeavoured to hitherto been denied. Foreign typhoid fever and two cases of words, yet they are no travesty of mendatione favourably, and that
One case of diptheria, one case of These are not Mr. Lloyd George's Cabinet will consider the recom make in the House of Commons countries now know that if they meningitis were reported in the
the industries concerned will ac would have some basis. But the insist on continuing the wasteful Colony for the 24 hours ended them. battle has never been equal policy of subsidies British ship-Tuesday.
Then, while the Council is still cept the results for the sake of The figures of foreign subsidies ping will also be subsidised suffi-
covering that vast field, it must State assistance and subventions,
The story of the Coal Commis to shipping U.S.A. £5,000,000, ciently to enable it to continue in
also report with firm assurance on France £5,000,000, Italy £8,000,-competition: 000, and Japan £1,000,000-show on what terms British shipping has had to compete, and suggest
how inadequate the £2.000.000
now provided by the Government
may be in remedying the situa-
tion.
Socialist criticism in the Com mone seems to be inspired by an intense dislike of assistance to the shipowner rather than by' re gard for the welfare of seamen
SKIPPER FINED
Allows Cargo To Be Worked On Sunday
NO PERMIT GRANTED
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
A large attendance was present such questions as the raising of slon of ten years ago le full of
at the King's Theatre yesterday the school age, the age for workers warnings to the contrary. These afternoon to witness the dancing to retire on pension, and shorter Warnings are redoubled by what display by the pupils of the hours of work.
took place during the passage, of Dancing. The Misses Betty Pestonji there? No. It must also draw up winsters was to satisfy, not O'Keefe-Montgomery. School of
Do the Council's duties and the last Coal Mines Act in 1980, when the chief proccupation of and Daisy O'Keefe were two of the plans for the improvement of the outstanding performers, white nation's services, amenities Dawn Digby gave an excellent in-cultural and recreational facilities, the General Executive of the T.U.C. terpretation of the Spirit of for the better utilisation of our and the Labour party.
Youth."
Among the passengers, booked A fine of $125 was imposed on from Europe who joined the R.M.S.
and
resources, our credit and our man- ¡power."
Trying Too Much
Parliament and public opinion, but
Will-the-T.U.C-and-the-Labour party consent to take far-reaching schemes of industrial reorganisa tion on trust from a statutory body (Continued on Page 11)
or for those workers in the ship Capt. S. H. Loud, master of the 2,5,Empress of Japan at Vancouver, Anything else? Yes, the Counc Eyards to whom this Bill shoula Tchekam, by Mr. A. W. G. H. Grant-B.C. on February 28, are the foljell must report upon "the immense bring employment. Having la-ham when he appeared at the Kowlowing-Capt. Fred Langley, Mr.Opportunities afforded by our Co mented about the alleged inade-loon Magistracy this morning, Gaston Blum, Mr. G. Witthoeffi, lonial Empire. And in each case, quacy of the measures taken by charged with allowing cargo to be Mr. Harold Ogden, Mr. K. R.When wiadom's perfected plan is MORE CAUGHT. the Government. In the distressed worked on Sunday, February 17, Quick, Mr, H. A. Allan, Mr. Mo ready, the Council must "consider areas of the country, the So without having a permit from the Tano, Mr. N. M. MacRae, and Mr. the application of the national Police Guard New Exit cialist party endeavours to pre-
credit to the proper financing of and Mrs. G. B. Broadbent, pro Harbour Master. vent the most practical form of
To Railway Station assistance to those same dia of the Water Police Station, stated
its programmes, and harness that Prosecuting, Sub-Insp. Wright,
The R. M. S. Empress of Russia, credit to the enterprises it plans." tressed areas in the form of rethat the ship was working cargo at from Vancouver vio ports, ie duo All this, be it observed, is in ad- Another instance of using the munerative employment.Nos, am on the morning in question here at 7 am to-morrow. She will dition to providing immediate entrance to Holt's Wharf us an
body likes subsidies as a policy,
and least of all the Ministers at the Lalchikok On Depot. He berth at the Kowloon Wharf, and schemes of work "adequate to the exit from the Kowloon Station. who have to budget for the added that as it was in the morning will sail for Manila at 5 pm. money. They have been long a half day permit would have been enough in admitting how serious sufficient and that would have cost is the situation, and have resorted him $62.50.
an
vastness of the problem" of the in order to escape the notice of unemployed. The short-term pro- the railway, officials, was provid Pleading that the tickets were gramme and the long must be con- ed this morning when two Rus
sidered simultaneously; and the slans, Vladislav Mazurek, given her to carry by her sister, vision of the day after the day electrician, and Alexander Man- who disappeared when she was ar rested, Chu Wong, a 20-year-old spinster, charged with the Posses vividly present to the mind, jalon of po plu lottery tickets, was An eminent Victori remanded for seven days by Mr. E. scribed the too ambiti itics In Shiu-ho, alias Fung Ip-ahl, 1 Wynne-Jones at the Central tive attempts of a certain
to a subsidy only when finally convinced that nothing else can
keep shipping on the seas or en
able shipbuilding, to revive. The practical knowledge of the sea problem shown by the
may be judged by that subsidies
given to British
between foreign ports.
very point at which:
needed the Social that it shall be they had their way
WIDOW LEAVES $33.700
osal widow, later of No. 64 High
not be second floor, Hong Kong
October 28, 1994 leavi
the Probates In the
ost been" granted to
morch
woman and
acy this morn
after-to-morrow, must be 3 kert
by saying drive two through the
ches.
ko, a mechanic, were charged be fore Mr. B./1. Wynne-Jones, with entering the Colony with once de valid passports
Defendants were arr Ister Detective-Sergeant
alde the Star Fe mainland. They: from Canton on 1