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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1936
WAGE "REVOLUTION”
A
FOR WORKERS
(Continued from Page 5)
In fact, the abolition of ration-
FINE HAT
Continued from Page 9)
pensive. but also far the best men's
have done at one time to possess huts in Europe. What wouldn": I:
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My evidence about the hats was ing is by no means an unmixed what put the police on De Beers one myself! They are such hats blessing for the Russian working trail. The dead man was found class. When a whole list of rations with a cheap cloth cap still on his at privileged prices was supposed-not merely a hat, but a Sforhandling them for years, as I have. But you wouldn't understand. heal, but a few yards away there It is not until you have been to be available. though in fact
zanelli hat. many of them were not, the guilt
that you realise how contemptible) Storzanelli: What 20 was the State's. Now, with the
magical by comparison are all other makers nanie! semi-famine-period over, the goods wit masterpieces. The most ex-
What wonderful hatsitempin-at-hat making are all there to be bought freely-- lat a price lower by perhaps 35 per cent than the old open-market
Why, I did actually begin saving Jup for one. Ridiculous? Oh! cer! tainly. They cost more than I earn food prices in the peak shortage the public so pompously, within three weeks. Thirk what the year of 1983, but far higher than uniformed men at the big shop neared in one.
rest of the staff would say it I ap the old ration tariff. And if you doors. loud-speakers telling the
And what has this to do with the are too poor to buy them the fault customer on what floor the parti-murder? What, indeed? Only you cular sort of rubbish he requires see what I mean when I say ther But here is the
is yours.
suit,
In England. Sforzanelli hats are obtainable only through a single shop in Piccadilly; which means. in practice, through me. since I am 13 the assistant particularly in charge
of the Sforzanelli business.
6
The onus has been transferred is sold, electric lifts, and even are fine hats. back again from the State to the orchestras.
But here are some point. worker's pocket-just as in "those typical prices: capitalist conutries."
Ready-made men's
shoddy cotton and wool At the new official rate of ex-
mixtures [change · (24.59 roubles.£), the
Alleged all wool monthly wagesalary of 205 rou-ez's suit made to mea- bles promised by the Soviet in 1936 |
sures in mediocre Rus- is nominally worth £8 48 Sd sian cloth (equivalent to 88s 54 per week)——
[Shop manager told me he hopes soon to have Japanese cloth for the same price)., But in terms of food and clothing! Cheapest all-leather shoes. the real purchasing power of 205 men's roubles is less than a third of that Women's
a very creditable average level! indeed, even by British standards. |
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS of £5 4s 3d in London, as the fol Men's shoes slightly bet
5.3.
From
Tons Hong Kong
About
CARTHAGE RAJPUTANA ** SHUTAN
14,500 2nd May 17,000 16th May
CHITRAL *BEHAR
KANPURA **SOUDAN
BAWALPINDI CORFU *BURDWAN
RANCHI
NALDERA
*SOMALI
KAISER-I-HIND
RAJPUTANA
CHITRAL
EANPURA
RAWALPINDI
CORFU
CARTHAGE
• Cargo only.
Destination.
Marseilles & London. Bombay. Marseilles & London.
lowing list of standard Moscow prices to-day clearly shows. (For the sake of clarity I have turned! them into sterling at the same official rate of exchange. Moscow
of the
6,000 23rd May Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham Prices strike the average for all in- burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall dustrial centres
Union): Marseilles & London.
15,000 30th May.
€,000
6th June Havre; "London, Ham-Bread;
17,000 13th June Boules, Havre,
7,000 20th Jane
17,000 27th Jane 14,500 11th July
6,000 18th July
burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp
ter, but inferior lines in London Women's shoes.
to 10x.
inferior
to guinea articles in London
Women's poorest quality
wol frock Slightly thicker
Women's poor quality Slightly better
Colossal Badget
£11 4
£48 0
0
We sell comparatively few Stor- zanellis, although the wealthy and fastidious men who do buy them never go back to any other kind.
"Ah said the police, "you; doubtless get to know these men 3quite well." We do, indeed. In £$dition to this, the hat found on
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Wimbledon Common was evidently sfalmost new. "So," said the police..
"might we see your books? Who las bought a Sforzanelli recently?"
That was how poor old De Beer! was dragged in. For he, coarse as Oh looks, is devoted to these ex-)
quisite hats-always wears one.
300
£T 12 $16 0
01
You may remember some of the 12 10 questions put to me in the witness- £40 0 of box, and my answers, Together with the cashier, I was able to
Soviet!
Spring coat, ready made,
men's all wool
*** 0
d.
ib.
Blackest rye Grey-white White
3 0%
0월
Butter:
Fresh
Salted
burg, Botterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
Marseilles & London,
Londor, Eam- & Full Bombay, Marseilles & Lendoz Bombay, Marseilles &
London Marseilles, Havre, London, Harm. burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull, 17,000 25th July Bombay, Marseilles & Loadenz. Margarine 16,000
8th Aug. Bombay Marseilles & London.
Sugar: 6,000 15th Aug. Marseilles, Havre, London Ham-
burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall 11,000 22nd Aug. Bombay Marseilles & London. 12,000
Bombay, Marseilles & London. 15,000
Marseilles & London. 17,000
Marseilles & London.
5th Sept 19th Sept.
3rd Oct.
17,000 17th Oct· Marseilles & London.
Lump
Granulated Tea, pr. Inda. Potatoes
Salt Herrings
A British Socialist, Mr. John Prove that two Sforzanelli hats had 6 Brown, who visited Russia in 1934 within the last ten days before the
murder been sold to De Beer, and! when challenged to do so by Lord that a parcel had been sent to him Nuffield, noted in his book that skilled Russian workers' were then
at a Wimbledon address.
When De Beer was visited by: worse off than the British unem- the police, he could produce only ployed. While this is no longer one new hat. His story was that
1 true of the skilled workers it is he had bought only one, which hei
still fairly true of the broader was wearing when he left the shop. 14 Russian masses--but only
narrow material sease. workers have not yet got
S
55
3 10
I 6
22 1
2 11
Piut.
Sunflower-seed oil
0
Milk Eggs:
2
Not new laid
15.
Rice
Macaroni
244 16
of the
Beef, all cuts
3 2
Matton, all cut Veal, all cuts
3
14,500 31st Oct Bombay, Marseilles & London. 14.500 28th Nov. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
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BANTHIA
TALMA.... SIRDHANA SHIRALA
10,000 Sth May
8,000 27th May
10,000 6th Jane -8,000 20th June 8,000 4th July
APCAR
Singapore,
Port Swettenham, Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.
in and that the parcel merely contain- Soviet his old hat. But there was
back nothing to show that the parcel had j
again to the material standards of nor in fact contained both his old
Each. 1925; but in the interval a vast[list and one of the new ones.
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un-
Y!
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occasion.
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ats to the prisoner?" I was asked, i The Soviet State Budget.
"I remember serving him," I doubtedly the world's heaviest in 36% terms of the tatal financial income of our regular Sforzanelli custom- sid, and I remember him as one SAILINGS Pork, all cats
3 6% of the population, is after all thers but I do not remember whether Apples, desert Washing Soap
main key to the abnormal retail he bought more than one on this nailing someone else, who lives infsons why it may not point at you 1 2
Pint. Prices ruling here. And this fiscal Vodka
mushroom has for 1936 again 124
Wimbledon, but at any rate he is any more than the wire. This is If you are unable to remember blackmailing you. Gall. swollen by nearly 25 per cent. to exactly those things which no one
of course a great relief. Kerosene
1 878,000,000,000,000 roubles
So you go home to bed in (£3, would expect you to remember, the (Sole means
He orders you to meet him on Bloomsbury of Clapton or wherever of cooking in
120,000,000,000 at the new official jury is always impressed.
Wimbledon Common at night, you live, and your hat is found most households). The foodstuffs listed above are rate of exchange), mainly owing Now.just look at this piece of bringing the money with you. You next day close to the dead man. almost uniformly far below British to the colossal War and Political paper" (this was the next queso, intending to protest (this is the I said it was coincidence that put popular standards of quality.
(respectively tion), and tell the jury whether first time you have ever been black-De Beer on trial-the coincidence doubled and increased 30 per you recognise it."
huailed), but also to pay. Some Advantages
that he did his bat-buying a week cent).
"It is a carbon copy of a receipt] These price-lists do not tell the
Isn't it obvious, incidentally, or so before the murder. Ironical.. Now four-fifths of the entire made out by me." whole story, of course. In the first revenue of the Soviet is obtained
that he would not have ordered you wasn't it? Such a coarse-looking That is your handwriting?" place meals are seld in eating by the most primitive of all fiscal
to meet him personally if you were person, and yet suspected of mur- **Yes." houses attached to their places of
much stronger than himself? Must der through his appreciation of such means: a stupendous turnover tax, į
"And it is made out to the pri- got the man who killed him have fine hats. They are so exquisite, employment, to workers only, nearly all of it on retail trade. Aner, and it says that he paid for been a comparatively weak man, so perfect. working days only, at from 8dfew typical examples: The turn two hats?"
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EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
NELLORE
TANDA
NANKIN
7,000 7,000
7,000
Police Estimates
"Yes,"
.*
++
not one with a small head and huge You think I am exaggerating, upwards, a substantial plain din-lover tax on the sale of cheese is
shoulders, but perhaps rather the but if you had handled them os ner costing about is 6d. Children 86 per cent., on first quality toilet
"Are those the facts?**
other way round? Yet the police continually and as long as I have. fon school days may buy a light
They must be, seeing that I never thought of this. soap 69 per cent, second quality wrote this."
you would understand their facina. snack for about 48 (given free in toilet soap 72 per cent, on salt 66 The cashier coroborated
When you start protesting. hetion. I told you how I myself once cases of destitution).
per cent, and on real 66 per cent. He had stamped the receipt, and is rising; the night is pitch black. happened?
me seizes you by the throat. A storm saved up to buy one. But what Secondly, rents are proportion-More than half of the estimated between us we left the jury with ately much lower than in England, total financial incomes of the Rus-no doubt that De Beer must have at his mercy. But it, as I suggest-pose when you had got the money In the ordinary way he has you Put yourself in my place. Sup- about 8 to 10 per cent.
of the sian people go in turnover tax bought two Sforzanelli hats, noted, you happen to have learnt jiu- together and persuaded yourself
4s a alone.
You see, the actual money, jitsu, you have him at your mercy. that you could at last afford to buy- the whole price of two Sforzanellis, You may take it from me that your the hat, you realised how your hund so obviously been paid. relative sizes would not matter. fellow shop-assistants would laugh
wage-salary, or less than
week on the average monthly wage.
When there is more than one bread-winner in a household.
the rent is calculated on the high- SEARCH BY AIR FOR
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On the other hand, much of Moscow housing is at present at 5th June. Manda, Rabaul, Brisbane, dydney for near our alum level: filthy, in-
2nd May
3rd July
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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI' & JAPAN
TANDA
"SOUDAN
RANPURA TALMA RAWALPINDI SIRDHANA
NANKIN
"BURDWAN
CORFU
SHIRALA
7,000 30th May Shanghai & Japan. 7,000 12th May Shanghai & Japan 17,000 14th May Shanghai & Japan. 10,000 34th May Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. 17,000 28th May Shanghai & Japan
8,000 28th May Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. 7,000 4th June Shanghai & Japan. 6,000 10th June Shanghai & Japan. 14,500
11th June Shanghai & Japan. 8,000 11th June Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
ALL DATES are approximate and sub ject to alteration without notice. Al Cabins
are fitted with Electric Fans or Punka Louvre
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So, since De Beer had now only Well then; his hand at yourut you if you did such a preposter- one of these hats, and the poor throst infuriates you. You are ous thing. fool was much too vehement in his throwing him almost
Would you then give up the hat denial of ever having had more realising it. In a momen
you after waiting so long for it? Would than one, the jury could not but have him on the ground unable you not rather decide to smuggle it connect him with the crime. But, to move.
qually, they would never convict him without further evidence. We down his face so that he cannot you had to go on wearing an or As you are holding him, pressing wearing it elsewhere, even though all knew that.
Further evidence, of
there WIS-OL 50 the
faway and give yourself the joy of
shout, your hand by pure coincid-dinary cheap bat to and from the course,ence the police admitted this was shop?
police possible-comes in contact in the And to avoid discovery, would
sons to a room. The very credit-scientists are shortly to begin a able building programmes of the search for, the Tungus meteorite thought. For the dead man was darkness with a piece of wire which you not pay for that hat as you had Moscow Soviet have not been able believed to be the largest meteo-who for various reasons was sus-haps months before.
identified as an undesirable alien someone has dropped there, per-intended, but enter it in your books to keep pace with the growth of rite the world has ever known.
as having been bought by someone pected of having blackmailed some- population during the last ter It fell in the valley of the River one living in Wimbledon.
Would you not leave the wire else? round his throat after you hadj To make quite sure of concealing years. Tram fares are soout at Tanguska in Northern Siberin in This point, however, had to be strangled him, knowing that, the fact of your purchase, would the London level, 'bus and “under-1908 and was stated to have given up by the prosecution when wherever it might point, it could you not wait for the first man ground" fares rather dearer. devastated - an trea of 11,000 their evidence on it came out all not point at you?
whose head at any rate was the But against low rents and the square miles. Had it fallen on)wrong in court.
You stand up and begin to get same size as yours, whatever his relatively low public charges must London the entire city would have So that was the end of the ease your bearings again...
shoulders might be, so that you be placed the minimum 10 pe been wiped out.
against De, Beer. He couldn't be It then that you notice that could safely put down your bat on. levied on all wages as forced loan, Ita fall was accompanied by an convicted. Mind you, he couldn't your hat, a new one and a Sfor his receipt and pay your money to the graduated income-tax (2s. 6d earthquake in Siberia.
possibly. We all Imew it.
zanelli, has been knocked off, and the cashier with his? per month on the average monthly It is hoped that photographs Yet the police, the public, the you start looking for it—or rather, You know, nine men in ten throw wage we are considering here), taken from the air when the snow jury who sequitted him, still think more probably, groping for it, beaway the receipt for a cash trans- and many other small dues.
has cleared and the woods are stille Beer guilty.
cause of the absolute darkness action without looking at it. De }bare will show both the direction)
Merciful heaven where is that Beer did. ( To me the facts seem so simple. hat? in which the trees fell when swept Blackmail was the police's theory inch of it and miss it. It may be ence; with nothing diabolic about You may come within an I told you it was all a coincid- As to clothing and manufactur- over by the meteorite's fall and Very well, think of it this way, close to you, or the wind on, that it, and I don't want you to think ed articles, it is barely worth while fall details of the craters formed quoting prices, because, so far as by the impact of the meteorite.
leaving the hat out for the. mooper ground may have taken it anything unpleasant about me. know, low-grade ·
goodness, knows where. Someone De Beer and I just happened to are quite unknown anywhere in del suj
Someone sends you a blackmail- may have picked it up already. buy our hats, our beautiful Sfor- The horror of that frantic blini zanellis, a week before I received 2&O BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG to understand why the "World's
the British Isles. I find it hard MODERNISATION AT KARACHI ing letter about something which
you did years ago, something which search! To your dying day you the blackmailing letter. does not worry your conscience but would sweat at the recollection- Ebene 27721
State" turns
•De Beer still has his, whereas I out India's main airport at Karachi which might prejudice people wouldn't you? But while you are have lost mine and shall never be auch poor stuff and then spends is undergoing extensive, moderni-nguinst you. so much money presenting it to sation.
still desperately feeling for the bat, able to wear one again.
(THE END)
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