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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1947.
America Faces New
Wave Of
In the early months of 1947 there will occur in the United States the greatest WAYC of strkds in the history of America, if not in the history of the world,'
Strikes
took the microphone and called on unionists to raise a ten to twelve million dollar war chest with which to fight the indus trialists.
But older, wiser Philip Murs ray was quick to deprecate this kind of tough talk. Of course, union leaders are thinking of the difficult months immediately ahead, but the fundamental crisis in American labour can- not be met by short-term lac- tics. Pablic support must
Murray is a forher Scotsman and still speaks with a notice- able Scots accent. He has thin- ning white hair and black_eye- brows, a kindly smile, Scots courtesy and Scots dignity. He is a devout Catholic, makes fre- These strikes will be waged quent references to God and in bitterness and violence | man in his speeches, but is, axainst the most powerful op; nevertheless, a master of micro- position that has ever faced phone technique at these kinds American labour. Beside them of gatherings and can be very the strike wave of 1946
tough with those who kick seem a mild memory.
against his Scota discipline. He is deeply, respected in circles. won and held, there must be no far beyond those of the C.1.0.; threats from labour and the was sim- initiative in all strikes must be ple: Because of the abolition of left to the industrialisis." almost all price controls in the United States the average
will
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Murray's message all-weather
having spent the last few days I make this prediction after at the convention of the Con- gress of Industrial Organisa- ions at Atlantic City, a seaside resort a few hours from New York.
C.L.O. is an aliation of American unions, counting al-
together 6,000,000 workers, or roughly half of the organised labour of the United States. The other half of American fabour is joined together un, der the rival American Federa- tinn of Labour. which includes the coalminers, but these C.IO. generally more unions, are militant than all the unions, and, being organised on bugis rather than upon a craft basis.
modern industrial they have great power wherever the mass-production lines roll.
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By GODFREY BLUNDEN
worker's wage, which in March this year was just over 56 dollars, is now equal to only 49 dollars in purchasing power
Murray served notice on the employers of C.1.0, labour that the unions would ask for wäge increases up to 25 or 30 per cent to balance this loss.
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President Murray is thinking of far beyond mon contracts 1947. Ile, is thinking of the presidential election of 1948, which will be American labour's carliest hupe of obtaining a new *New Deal.”
. He is thinking also of what can happen in the world be tween now and 1948 and after- wards as a result of reckless the American garbling, with industrial economy.
not?
CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner.
3773
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COPS, 1944 TY BEA STANG
"Let this be a lesson to you, Hennessy-NEVER give u ballet dancer u hol-foot!"
Refused
Who Have Leave!
Buffs Man
To
to get eigarettes—and even then
Action in China and the Philip pines aiming at an standard of safety in air travel that will answer the severest tests, should serve Hong Kong's authorities as a reminder that this Colony, too, has a part to play in adding to margins of safety for large aircraft, by providing modern landing facilities. The de- ficiencies af Kai Tak aerodrome have been emphasised and re- emphasised since the liberation. Time and again planes have been tumed back or diverted because of the serious risks involved in attempting, a landing here under the prevailing weather conditions, contributing indirectly to more than one air mishap elsewhere. Bangkok Singapore Manila The topography of the country
Marray planted responsibility animediately surrounding Kai Tak
for the increased prices firmly" San Francisco
renders it quite unsuitable for
on American industrialists, He by
further development as a modern Fateful Conference
said that labour had an under- airport, far mor only does it com
standing with President Rocke- iplicate the problems of approach, |
included in these C.1.0.
velt that when the time come A rangy military looking man Cpl. Britain, as he then was, muster: "At no time has he hat it tends to increase the severity unions are almut a million auto-
for reconversion from war to with the stubble of an Incipient decided that was reason enough shown any disinclination to
which moustache of fog conditions, the airport be mobile and aircraft workers. peace-time production,
the impossible in on his Hp, in his and immediately began to let attempt
stores".. But it obtaining necessary blanketed our
nearly a million steel workers, involved the laying off of hun- ing ten
own words is "mooching round his moustache grow. when
a million electrical dreds of thousands and half visibility elsewhere in the Colony | trades workers, as well as hun workers and the loss of over. He has three claims to fame; off occasionally, so he made it cover a multitude of-methods. of C.IO. Londen wondering what to do."; does a moustache good to be eut "Attempt the impossible" can comparatively reasonable. Redress of thousands of workers time to millions of others. first he has more continuous a practice to shave off hia! And yet Lieut. Britain is cent mishaps in this part of the in the smelting, coke, chemicat; labour would receive a 24 per service in one battalion
by shopping in than moustache once a year, just be daunted world point to an urgency in this oil, glass, rubber, farm equip cent rise in wages.
any other soldier in the British fore Christmas, and to let it shortage-stricken Britain - "I matter which, on the face of nent, food, paper, packing- things, the administration seems house, clothing, textile, boots, Roosevelt had had statistical Army; second that he has put grow again we.f. ist. Jan, of have to go on my bended knees hardly 10 appreciate. It is nearly leather, fur, and shipbuilding surveys made which showed in more continuous service than the New Year. The actual date
year since abandonment of the industries, and such vital ser- that American industry. could any other soldier; and third, His name is and stand such an increase without that moustache, Pingshan scheme, on Air Minis vices s railways, ships
Arthur Ed- try condemnation of it as inade- communications, and a host of raising prices because of the Lieutenant (QM)
of the quate to meet the long-term re- Smaller unions down to beauty profits made during and out oward Britain, M.B.E.
re- Buffs and he joined the quirements. It is eight months culturists and newspapermen.
President Truman, however, giment 21 years ago as a 17 of the moustache-shaving has since Government Rave an 3-
had failed to carry out the year-old stripling. For 18 of surance to the Hon. Mr. Landale
Roosevelt policy and his support these 21 years he has served always been kept a close secret, but in 1946 it took moustache
Lieut. Britain's periods of that a new project, which could
of the union programme earile, with the 1st Bn. of his regi fans by surprise-it took place service reads like n' Cook's ▼ he completed in thirty months,
this year had been ineffectual ment and for 19 of the 21 in October, in honour of Lieut. tour-India, Burma, India, was under close consideration,
The result of Truman's ineffee-years he was continuously over Britain's return to Britain. Palestine, Egypt, Palestine, that Government were fully con
tuality said Murray, was that seas--in the Far and Middle The treatment seems to have Egypt, MEF (Mersah Matru, scious of the need for pressing on
industrialists, emboldened by East, French
Africa done the moustache good, for in with the development with the urmest speed, and that an early decision might be expected. Those thirty months have already been stretched to 38 months, without the slightest official indication. Living promise that they will not finally be extended to 48, 58 or 168 months. If as we imagine, responsibility for the prolongedness, and, if I am any judge of man Administration to abolish team-anyway, it was only local-from Private "(6 years) to delay in reaching a decision lies in London, that does not absolve Hong Kong from blame. There is such a thing as the judicious use of a prod until results are forthenning. How necessary it is If appearance 1 found them that Hong Kong should provide indistinguishable from small a modern airport, whether in the American businessmen or com- Deep Bay area or elsewhere, has mercial travellers. They wore
and been further suggested by the an- well-pressed suits Bouncement by Sir Ralph Steven-brimmed hats, Every-Weinesday & Saturdayson, the British Ambassador, nowy spectacles, smoked cigars, and, showed that the total profits of
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Thus it can be seen that
joint strike action by these unions could paralyse Ameri- can economy, And it is the fear of this, and the consequent effect on the world's hopes for pence, the resumption of inter- national trade and stable cur- ters and observers from all over
repor rencies, which brought the world to this C.1.0. conven- tion.
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North
By RICHARD ELLEY
the fact that their 1945-46 Italy and Greece and during full bloom it is 11 inches from the war Administration, and take any leave. pronts were guaranteed under those 19 years he refused to tip to tip and in its desert days that they faced a market
it was one of the glories of unprecedented short supply, Once indeed, he did put his Eighth Army. Not unnaturally had forced labour to strike for name down for leave, but the its owner is "Tachy" to his. These thousand trade union its demands and had used the battalion had a rugger match friends. delegates met together quietly ensuing confusion and loss of just then, so he decided to give Before being commissioned, and promptly, without demon-production to induce the Tru- up his leave to play for ita Lieut. Brittain held every rank strations or afterhour rowdi-
price controls.
| W.0.11. and many of his jobs pro The country was new in the The story of the moustache have been "Q" jobs of various grave | grip of inflation and labour had started when the King, after kinds. The citation for his
to protect its workers.
his coronation, said he would MBR laconically hints that he But, Murray maintained; in like to res moustache cultiva has that outlook which is the creased wages need not pushion become an Army tradition. essence of a good quarter rising prices farther upward and they could still easily be absorbed by the huge all-time high profits of American cor- porations. In support of his flick-ccntention he quoted from a wore rimless Government bulletin which
these things, they were foundly aware of the issues before them
Flags And Medallions
If there was none of the bon-all American corporations, after homie which one associates with tax had been deducted, were Rotary the Kiwanis, there estimated at sixteen billion doi- ! was that large piece of bunting lare for 1947, an increase of five and bronze medallion in every billion dollars, or over 40 per buttonhole without which cent above profita in 1946. Americans never convene.
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority on Authorities":
KNOWING THE LAW of turn, South tad a lot of up- When East made that lead out
· PAYS
it's Turkish," he says. That is one reason he proposes to get back into the Army and over- the seas as soon as he ean;
are other is that his parents dead and his friends in Britain are few and far between. Не feels more at home in the Army.
NEW ATOM BOMB?
London, Jan. 16.
The "Daily Express" today published an article headed "New Atom Bomb from Gas Mantlee." The report said a method of producing atomic explosives from the United thorlam had been perfected in States called uranium 233.
The report said extraction
be
of uranium 233, after thorium-- carried mit simply in a series had been treated, can
of chemical baths, Full manu- facturing details have been carried out in America while the British Directorate of Atomic Energu. is carrying - out research on uranium 233 *for
power production.
Tunisia), Tunisla-Algeria-with- BNAF, and Naples, Anzio, and Rome to Trieste, then Greece -- vice he has been victualling to England. During his ser-
But in some special war-cx-
tions, as follows. (1) He could agent, company's clerk rations panded industries these 1946
Part of the all-around player's condone the lead. (2) he could clerk, trooping clerk, Orderly the face up on the table, which would ment clerk, CQMS, RQMS, and creases on 1945 profits (in the
good working knowledge of pulp paper industry profits in
ismalte him duminy and North QM He took his Army 3rd. important laws, This more 1946 were 113 per cent above especially pertinent when an op. the declarer, (3) he could call Class Certificate at Canterbury profits in 1945, while in the ponent has committed an ir that card a penalty card, ta
in March, 1926, his 2nd. 'at food and chemical industries regularity of a kind which allows left face-up and played at the Barriely, India, in 1928, and his
They met every morning in profits represented huge in-winning equipment should be a jput three or more of his cards Room clerk and sergeant; equip-
the ballroom of the hotel de- 51 corated with the flags of nations. On the first day someone stole the USSR flag as a joke because Communist
be
during the sume period profits you the choice among several first legal opportunity. (4) he
59 penalties. Even knowledge of the could let East pick up the card 1st. in Rangoon,
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such and compel West to lead a par 1932 Said to have seen more None of this surprised dele- circumstances. The player should ticular suit, which he did, and. (5) Continuous service in any single Bh. than any other soldfer in as I know, was the only act of gates, for there has been
no also know how to exercise bis he could let East pick up
of a the British Army Lieut. jcvity during the whole meet-wartime regulation of industry judgment in the matter of select card and forbid the lead
Britain's parents are both dead in America compared with the ton go as to produce the outcome particular suit by West.
With the spade ♬ marked in and his friends here are few stringent control and self-dis-, which the offense justifies,
East's hand by the lead, South and far between. That is on- cipline exercised in British
would have done better by select other reason why he elects to countries.
ing 1, 2 or 3, in the latter case stay in the Army-"I've gɑt no causing East to play the Q on the home here, though I suppose, | A and then finessing against the when I do come out, I shall the come back to this country to marked, J. In fact, 3 was wisest, as in the beginning South | settle down." One doubts. If wasn't sure North, had the.
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According to union delegates foreign
correspondents President Philip Murray, flank- here last night that the questioned by smaller but still hugely spoke with, American indus- trialists have emerged from the of the two action against the visible portraits "foreign ambassador" involved Vice-Presidents. Beneath these war determined to
spy portraits sat the C.IO. execu-union gains made under Roose in the Count Grocholski
velt's benign Administration: the President trini was a matter for the live, including
The recent Republican cleep. 10 4° and Vice-Presidents, looking government concerned."
The Count and two others like tiny animated miniatures tion victory, which will result c. 10 7 2
in a conservative or reactionary of their own portraita, were sentenced to dealth in
Congress and Senate, has been, Just Warsaw
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The delegates heard many taken by the industrialists as "spying for a foreign power." celebrated people talk. Zion's a mandate to break labour, they In the evidence it was mention- Rabbi Stephen, wise on racial say
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(Dealer: South: East-West vul for whom the accused WOB on the Jews was the spearhead
|nerable.) aleged to be acting as a link against the unions"). General
South West North. with the underground, was Eisenhower, on national secur- How would labour meet' such
AD caught by Security officials ity ("We will not tolerate inter- an attack? That was what 3 D Pass
4 D. picking up a parcel at the ference by another nation with every delegate was thinking,
FD Count's home,
our internal security"); "Secre Nor was there anything ab- What a risky vulnerable over- The witness was rebuked for tary of Labour Schwellenbachstract about their thinking, for call by West, who was lucky his inadvertently using the words ("I hope nothing is done in the these men here: In this beflag- opponents didn't have doubling "British ambassador."-Reuter. next few months which will ged ballroom would be the men material. He was doubly lucky d lead to trades unions being tied who would have to face mililons moment later. East led the spade Washington, Jan. 16. down with legislative straps"), of restive workers, organise Q-out of turn whereupon South It is reported that the Saudi and French and British labour picket lines, produce strike pay, without hesitation, said: Arabian Crown Prince, Amir leaders.
and might themselves be gool-gives me, the right to call a leadnerable.) Baud, will take part in discus→
from your partner; lead, a dia
What card should West lead siens with the four Amerieda But what they really care to Walter Reuther, young red-mend."
So West led a-diamond and the after South bids 1-Spade, North oil companies connected with hear was G.IO. policy as stated hended leader of the Automo the Saudi-Arabian nil deal, dur- by President Philip Murray, bile Aircraft Union, expressed contract was set; as South had no 1.No Trump, South 2-Hearts, ing his stay in. the United head of the powerful Steel some of their concern for prac-way to avold the loss of two tricks North 2-No Trumps, South 3-
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