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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1948:
AMERICAN PROGRAMME FOR
1
CHINA CRITICISED
CIO Asks For Wage Increases
Washington, Mar. 9,
The Congress of Industrini Organisations called today for "substantial wage increases" and 'offered figures to prove they are justifled,
A wage studly made public pictares a las of 15 per cent to wage earnings in the race between prices and take-home- pay since January, 1945, What is celled "real wages" fell that far behind, allowing for tax deductions, the CIO economists said in a report to CIO Pre- sient Philip Murray.
Murray, who also hends the Steelworkers (with 800,000 memta rx will be negotiating for "substantin!" wage in creases from US Steel Corpora; tion and others beginning April 30. Muras rls wants a pen- alon plan.
The 10 President will notL
Washington, Mar. 8.
Clarence Gauss, former Ambassador to China and
now director of the Export-Import Bank, to- day told the House Foreign Affairs Commit- teo that the American programme for China might be "Operation Rat Hole" If restricted to economic efforts:
L
He said the problem in China "is a hundred times as great as the problem in Greece. We are starting out upon a programme (in China) that will take years for fruition and will cost a great deal of money," adding that It may cost billions.· ́`
"Economic aid to China will not p****************** he effective unless there is beside it he A strong military programme," declared. "Until you have a military solution in China you can have no success with economic all."
Correspondent Injured
Jerusalem, Mar. 8. Hugh Astor, 27-year-old son of the Hon. J. 3. Astor, owner of The Times, was wounded in the leg when Jowa af
opened fire an
the Haifa road near the Carmel Station, Jerusalem.
Gates paid that North China "is fast falling into Chinere Communist hands. A great dead will have to be done in China-1 believe “kome pea- ple call it liberalisation of its Gov.
rnment to get the confidence the people." Referring
to the Reds, he said he was told by friends just back from adopting China that the Reds are
He said radical Marxist reforma." he had heard of instances where the Red were executing landlords. Causs asserted that there is question at all but that the Com: muniers have received outside for which they will have to through the nose. inter,"
Great Debt
nid.
Re-
be the first to try for increases He said the United States owes m this spring, however. The Pack-great debt in China because "of the ing House Workers, hended by blanders at Yalta, in which part of Ralph Helstein of Chicago, are Manchuria was ceded to Russia." poised to strike on March 16
At this point the Minnesota for a 29 cent hourly pay in presentative Walter Judd comment- led he would rather the Chinese hast crease. That figure was chosen "blown the (Yalta) thing sky high on the basis
of a Bureau of rather than have submined to giving Labour Statistics study, which away their territory." Helstein says showed a three
Basing his opinions on
31 years member family needed 20
ervice
Gauge said in China,
sup- cents an hour more than the "National Government should
porta liberal democraile programme average packinghouse worker
directed particularly to the agricul. was receiving.
sural population. The Guvernment should concern itself with
pro- gramme to recapture the support of the people."
Increases
.
No Assurance
tem it."
the
Mr. Hugh Astor was the newspaper's special corres¬ pondent in Palestine Reuter.
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Huge Haul Of Pure Morphine
New York, Mar. 9.
A Federal Narcotics squad today seized US$1,000,000 worth of pure morphine hidden In flour barrels, cracker boxes and the galley oven of the steam- skip Maripe Martin, after it docked.
Collector of Custom
shortly
Harry
being
Durning all the drug was smuggled by a ring with headquar- ter at Le Havre; France. He dicted that this lose would "break
followed the back of the ring, I smaller seizures in the last few nientis,
"
No arrests have as yet been an- nounced. One searching squad of the Customs
Department, headed by Deputy Surveyor Herman Lapsk, bosteled the ship for a regular routine Inspection' shortly after the Ahip
and arrived from Le Havre Southampton, The officers were par- ticularly on the lookout for narcotics the breause of the walling point of American ship.-United Prem.
Arabs Draw Up Their Battle Plans
(By Seaghan Maynes, Reuters Special Correspondent)
At Samarian mountain H.Q. of the "Arab
Liberation Army” Mar. 8. Battle plans for the Arab Liberation Army's war against the Jews in Palestine were drawn up tonight in this closely guarded mountain- top village, now serving as temporary head- quarters of the Arab Commander-in-Chief, Fawzi Bey Kawukji, who crossed into Pales- tine from Syria with armoured cars and jeeps mounted with machine guns.
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Asked what he believed the result The Arab Commander-in-Chief | headquarters to receive instruc- Include the United Electrical Workers, and Walter Reuthera might be of falluren ait China. tonight got down to work with tions on points and the disposi
The replied: "Very unfortunate for a his local
commanders, poring tioning of the forces for all-out United Auto Workers. Reuther time. The Chinese people are just over maps and receiving intelli-altacks.-Neuter. opens negotiations with General not given to Communism. I don't be gence reports on
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and personnel of cent hourly increase, and al- gained control, could make it stick. Jewish settlements against which ready in bargaining with Chrys- we had a Communist China nose, the full force of his trained men, been invited by the British
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When I reached the mountain of Tangier, the British Embassy headquarters
after passing announced here tonight-Reuter through several check points and romį blocks manned by disciplined Arab uniformed troops; Kawukji told me. "Our men will be or- dered into netion when the baille plans are completed." streams of vehicles
All day and night, endless been have
govern it."
Action by the Export-Import Bank Workers are permitting money earmarked for negotiating with General Elec- Chinese loans to go named, he said, tric and Westinghouse and have was prompted by inability m confined their demands to a "an
sever of assurance what never "cost of living" raise of about payment."—Associated Press US$13.23 a week.
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of Chief has asked the churning up the mud un the 1946, retail food prices have Gold Coast Colonial Office to apartly flooded mountain roads, The film from "down under" that's the "tops" risen 42 percent, clothing is up pelut a commission to enquire inta following the torrential rains. 22 percent and rent has in-the recent incident when police used errand 6.4 percent.-Associated force in dispersing a parade of Prego.
servicemen. The situation remained
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