THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 14, 1937.
LARGE SCALE LABOUR WAR IN CANADA NOW ENVISAGED
General Motors
Prepare For
"Long Siege"
Oshawa (Ontario), To-day.
The automobile strike in Canada has forced General Motors to turn over rush export orders for cars to its United States affiliated companies.
REDUCING RISK Clydeside
OF ICE
TO PLANES Strike PERFECT DEVICEHopes
SEARCH
LONDON, TO-DAY.
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS' A MORE HOPEFUL ATMOS-
STATEMENT
PREVAILS ON PHERE CLYDESIDE, WHERE THERE Recently some of the Imperial ARE NOW 12,000 ENGINEER- ING APPRENTICES ON Airways services from London were cancelled owing to the danger of ice-STRIKE, FOLLOWING INTER- VENTION BY THE INDUS- formation. Foreign air lines and
MENT OF THE MINISTRY OF de- MR. HARRY CARMICHAEL, VICE-PRESIDENT OF GEN.inland British air lines, operated TRIAL RELATIONS DEPART-
LABOUR. ERAL MOTORS, YESTERDAY MADE PUBLIC A TELEGRAM with machines equipped with
Imperial Air-
At the request of the apprentices" SENT TO THE CORPORATION'S OFFICE IN ENGLAND RE-icers, left as usual. GRETTING THAT THEY COULD GIVE NO DEFINITE INFORM-ways machines on the Continental
are considering the situation in all ATION AS TO WHEN THE GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA services are not equipped with de- representatives, Government officials its aspects, and will place a pro- TROUBLE WOULD BE SETTLED.
posal, at present unrevealed, before the ship-building employers and the engineering employers Federation.
icers.
Foreign Monoplanes · The foreign air liners referred to are monoplanes, with wings of deep section, and it is undoubtedly the fact that de-icers on the leading
THE TELEGRAM ADDED THAT ANY ORDERS İMME- DIATELY REQUIRED WOULD HAVE TO BE OBTAINED FROM UNITED STATES PLANTS.
MEANWHILE, MR. MITCHELL HEPBURN, PREMIER OF ledge of wings of this kind are more ONTARIO, HAS ASKED THE CABINET AT TORONTO TO SUP-effective than PORT THE POLICY OF OPPOSITION TO THE C.I.O.. OR TO “RE- machines. - SIGN."
GENEVA BUSYBODIES
CRITICIZED
Sir Henry Page Croft Makes Protest
internal
on other types
.
The main bone of contention is
the refusal of the employers to re- now not an increase in wages but cognise the Unions' right to nego- tiate on behalf of the apprentices- Unless the employers agree to a conference with the Unions
by Wednesday, there will be a one-day strike in West of Scotland shipyards on Friday, involving 100,000 work- era-Reuter.
of
Imperial Airways' air liners still Demanding united support in use on the Continental services from the Cabinet, Mr. Hepburn are biplanes, and the wings are of section. The declared that the forces of Mr. comparatively thin John Lewis (the American La-de-icer, which consists of a rubber bour leader) and Communism strip capable of pulsation by alter- were marching together.
nate inflation and deflation, there- "We are going to hold back the by breaking up ice as it is form- spread of Communism in this Pro-ed, is not so effective in their case. crashes on the Continent due to ice- vince as long as I am here," he de- The new fleets of land aeroplanes formation on machines which were eared.
and flying-boats now being acquir-equipped with de-icers.”
+
to
ed by Imperial Airways are all Ice also forms on propeller blades, "It is high time that a halt should
STRONGER POLICE FORCE
monoplanes, but an official stated and many foreign air liners are be called to the activities of the
The Premier added that he had that the fitting of de-icers has not equipped with a chemical apraying Such Geneva busybodies in the
prevent it. affairs of the British Empire," de-arranged for augmentation of the yet been ordered, and that until a apparatus
emergency police force in Toronto satisfactory de-icer is found will equipment would be equally valu- clared Sir Henry Page Croft,
able to machines of all types. addressing a meeting at Boscombe. after the discovery that "Commun-not be ordered.
were ready to
"Must Be Infallible"
The compulsory fitting of de-icers "If British taxpayers realised," ists from outside
take an increasingly active part in "Such a contrivance, if it is to on all public service air vehicles has he said, "the immensity of their
be relied upon, must be infallible,' "been urged. Failing that, a schedul- losses owing to the actions of the the Oshawa situation.”
When the spare parts department he said. “Unfortunately, there have led run in ice-formation conditions League in the last two years, both owing to the provision of defence of the Oshawa factory opened yes-this winter been at least three bad must be cancelled. forces in the Mediterranean and to terday, 48 employees reported for
the loss of trade, more especially to
work and were hooted by 3,500 South Wales, I believe there would strike pickets.--Reuter.
be a revulsion of opinion against the interference."
MORE WORKERS JOIN C.I.O.
New Kensington (Pa.), To-day, He called attention to alarming
Delegates from the country's ten emanated statements. which had
principal aluminium plants, repre- from Geneva. The Secretariat of
senting 12,000 workers, have sever- ed their the League had prepared certain
affiliations with the proposals for the Committee
on Raw
American Federation of Labour Materials, and some of those pro and have formed a new Union posals appeared definitely to inter-affiliated with the Council of Indus- fere with the administration of the
trial Organisation.-Reuter. British Colonial Empire.
SUGAR CONFERENCE CONTINUES
London, To-day..
"One proposal," he pointed out, "attacks the whole principle of im- port quotas and preferential agree- ments. A second interferes with
The Bureau of the International the right of Colonies to grant pre- ference in favour of the Mother Sugar Conference met yesterday Country or other Colonies within afternoon. the Empire orbit, and criticises the
An official communique states trade arrangements made between that it took note of the progress the self-governing Dominions and made in the work of the subcdm- the British Colonial Empire at the mittee entrusted with negotiations with the delegations for the pur- time of the Ottawa agreements.
third transforms the British pose of fixing the basis of agree- Colonies into mandated territories ment. These negotiations will con-- and proposes that all countries tinue for several days yet.-British should receive equal treatment inWireless. all markets or at least in all Colonial markets, which appears to suggest that all territories under the British flag should become the playground of internationalists.”...........
"If," Sir Henry concluded, “the whole unity of the Empire is to be the Empire, then indeed it will be- | impaired and its fiscal principles in- come a question whether the League terfered with by countries which of Nations has not become a centre have no possible connection with of intrigue at our expense."
Two cases of meningitis, both in Victoria, were reported to the Health Department in the 24 hours ended at midnight. "
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