THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 11, 1937.
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STRIKE CRISIS IN LONDON
Entire Transport System May Be Paralysed
BOARD'S OFFER REJECTED: TUBES MAY SHUT DOWN
London, To-day.
The industrial outlook deteriorated yesterday evening as a result of busmen's and mining confer-
ences.
At the conclusion of the bus conference, Mr. Ernest Bevin, the men's leader, stated that the bus- men had overwhelmingly rejected the offer of the London Passenger Transport Board.
BY 47 VOTES TO 3 THEY HAD DECIDED TO CONTINUE THE STRIKE AND TO REFER TO THE UNION EXECUTIVE THE QUESTION OF EXTENDING THE STRIKE TO OTHER SERVICES.
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THERE ARE NOW PROSPECTS OF A PROLONGED STOP- PAGE WITH THE ADDITIONAL DANGER OF 12,000 TRAM AND TROLLEY-BUS WORKERS JOINING IN THE WALK-OUT.
The efforts of the Minister of Mines to end the colliery dis- pute at Haworth were
SALVATION ARMY LEADER Commissioner McKenzie
Arrives
German Warships
For Spain
Berlin, To-day.
The German battleships Deutschland and Admiral Scheer, together with the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, left Wilhelm- shaven yesterday for Spanish waters.
They will relieve the Nuren- berg and
Leipzig. Ocean.
Trans-
FILM ACTRESS
AND MARRIED MAN
Part With £2 To Get Letters
BLACKMAILED BY EX-CONVICT
A film actress, referred to as Miss 243/F¶]||36|###[434338TER| X, described at the Old Bailey how she parted with £2 to a man who
which she had received from 3 married man,
GEN. HERTZOG'S promised to obtain some letters
DISPUTE WITH SON
Harold Armitage, 40, an ex-con- vict, was sentenced to three years' penal servitude for demanding money with menaces from the actress..
Quarrel Over New Miners' Union REQUEST TO RESIGN [«»
DIRECTORSHIP
Miss "X" said that for some time: she had been friendly with a Mr.
a married man. In March Armitage flat, saying that
at.her
also pute between Gen. Hertzog, Prime Robinson,
the huwished
The existence of a political dis- protect her · from
Mr.
man
named of a woman
fruitless, as the Nottingham col-Minister of South Africa, and his formerly in her employ. He said kery owners and the local so-call-son, Dr. Albert Hertzog, was that Robinson – had
re-
some letters ed Spencer Trade Union have vealed in the Union Parliament which had been sent to her by declined to agree to an uncondi- during a stormy debate. tional meeting with the United The debate arose out of a pro-a Mineworkers' Federation.
posal to reduce the Prime Minis- The Federation thereupon decid-ter's salary by £500 in consequence interesting personality
ed to tender notices on Saturday of a statement by the Transvaal arrive in the Colony in the S.8.for a strike on May 29,-Reuter. Chamber of Mines. Taiping this morning was Commis- sioner W. Mackenzie of the Salva- tion Army.
An
to
SERIOUS ASPECT
He promised to get these letters for her and asked her to give him to get his suit out of pawn. Thinking that there were some let- ters, she gave Armitage £2.
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The Chamber of Mines, in an at-
Shortly before midnight he tempt to ensure a long period of turned to the flat, and said that peace in the minefields, issued a Robinson caught him trying to get Commissioner Mackenzie was
London, To-day. statement that from June 1 the the letters. In the meantime. she known સવ
"Fighting Mac” during That the strike of busmen is not mines will enforce the "closed had telephoned for the police, and the Great War, when he became only not likely to be settled before shop" principle. No worker will she detained Armitage until they famous with thousands of the the Coronation festivities begin,be allowed to be a member of any Australian Expeditionary Force but will probably continue for ae-trade union other than the recog- He served on the French, Egyptian veral weeks and bring the traffic nised one.
arrived.
Prisoner's Story
and Gallipoli fronts as Military of the metropolis to a standstill, is The recognised union will be the Chaplain to the Australian Infan- the conclusion of yesterday's even-South African Mine Workers' try Forces and was decorated with {ing newspapers.
Armitage in the witness-box- Union. The decision is a blow at stated that he came to London from the Military Cross and later the The position has assumed a the rival organisation, the Afrikan-Huddersfield about eight days be order of the British Empire.
more serious aspect in view of the Mynwerkersbond.
fore he saw Miss "X," Included in his 50 years service fact that tramwaymen and trolley- In the debate in Parliament Dr. with the Salvation Army was three busmen, whose vehicles run mainly Van der Merwe, Deputy Leader of if he wanted to make
He met Robinson, who asked him.
some easy years, from 1937 to 1930, as leader in outlying suburbs, now threaten the Nationalists, accused Gen.money. Robinson said: "I know of the movement in North China to strike in sympathy.
Hertzog, as owner of a Transvaal a lady in the West End-a filmi and he is now returning to the field: The employees of the Under- | Afrikaans newspaper, of forcing actress. She has just got my wife of the latter part of his missionary ground Railway, who from the his son to resign a directorship on six months for stealing money and work.
beginning of the present trouble the newspaper because Dr. Hert-cheques, and I am out to get my have shown a strong sense of zog was the organiser of the Myn-own back at any cost.”. solidarity with the busmen, are werkersbond. also now demanding a strike. Were this to come about, Lon-
Commissioner McKenzie is leav- ing immediately for Canton and will return to the Colony on May 14 when he will be welcomed at a meeting to be held in the Europeandon's traffic would be brought al- Y. M. C. A., Kowloon, to be presid-most to a complete standstill. ed over by the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. [Trans-Ocean. North.
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PROVINCIAL SETTLEMENT
London, To-day.
strikes
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All the provincial bus ** have been settled. Reuter.
On May 18 he will address the Rotary Club at their weekly” tiffin and on the evening of the same day will attend the meeting of the Salvation Army Home for Women and Girls, presided over by Honour, the Chief Justice, Atholl MacGregor.
Premier's Reply
saw
Armitage said that after his visit to Miss "X's" flat Robinson suggest- ed that they should see Mr. "X" at his country house, but he refused to Gen. Hertzog replied very vigor-
go. Robinson offered to sell the ously, denying that he was against letters for £3, and he again the union. He explained that he Miss "X." and told her about this. had refused his son money to start Det:-sergt. Baldwin anid that the union, and said he had asked Armitage had 19 previous convic- his son to resign the newspaper tions, dating from 1913. He was directorship, not because he had still on licence when he was arrest organised the union, but because, ed. His real name was Loughans," he had made a speech against the and he was a native of Yorkshire. His For driving car No. 1498 in Government, which was improper Sir Queen's Road Central on May 2, for the director of an organ sup- Sir Holman Gregory, K. C., said Passing sentence, the Recorder,
without a licence, Thomas Gaston, porting the Government.
that Armitage had a dreadful Among prominent members of the of No. 3, Ngau Tsun Wan Road was Mr. C. R. Swart (Nationalist) car movement who met Commissioner fined $5 by Mr. W. Schoffeld at the told Parliament that he had receiv McKenzie were Col. Rolfe, in com- Central Magistracy this morning ed an urgent telegram from Gen. mand, South China, Adjutant Lem- while on the charge of driving the Hertzog's son saying: "The Union mon and Adjutant Cheung.
car without. due cara
and caution members, who are three-quarters; the mine-fields. defendant was fined another $25. Afrikanders, are at present handed The whole of the Jeppe branch of over to Jewish Communists." the Nationalist Party, one of the Mr. R. H. E. Marks, acting A.S.P., The recognised union, the South strongest branches in the Rand, Wong Tɛoi, who was yesterday was complainant before Mr. W. African Mine Workers' Union, has has resigned. The members alleg- charged before Mr. K. Keen with Schofield this morning when Ngan endorsed the Chamber's statement, ed that the Nationalist Party was the theft of a wallet from Sergeant Ling was summoned for driving car and advised the men on strike at behind the activities of the Myn- Edward Morgan of the Military No. 779 without care and caution the Simmer and Jack gold-mine to werkersbond, which they describe Police, was this morning sentenced in Queen's Road East on May 2. return to work. The strike began as a dangerous organisation which to six months' hard labour and re- Defendant admitted the offence as a protest against attempts to lis threatening the solidarity of the commended for banishment.
and was fined $30.
form a purely Afrikaans union in workers.
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