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THE CHINA
BRITAIN'S FLEXIBLE LABOUR FORCE
By Dr. George Gretton
Π
to
change their jobs, from time to
time.
a
Greatest Problem
war.
men
the
It
unan-
A distinguished Swiss 1948 plan. For, fuit employment ments and about, 880,000 great, highly developed will enter industry from musician who has been visiting in
with *11 Industrialarmed forces. How will England asked me the other day: country
of some 20,000,000 done?, Why is it that Britain does not population
The Answer give every worker security In can only be achieved by multi- his job?" He can find very tenance of real flexibility.
answer to this ques-
The answer is: By no single complete
canbination of tion in the British Government's
measure but by several. The outstanding ense is Economie Survery for 1048 which
thee textile industry. There exists has just appeared. From this it
At the end of the energes very clearly that in or-greatest single-problem in Bri. the Control of Engagement Order der to guaranice *ccurity in tals was to re-organise the la-which gives-the Government legal job for almost all workers it is
bour force. In the first year of power in the last resort to com necessary for sume of them
peace something like 12,000,000 ne a worker to take up a parti. Jb changed hands, and unem-cular job if he becomes ployment was never more than played, This has beeen used very Britain's long term economic
about one per cent, of the total paringly indeed but it stands in planning i based firmly en
tabour force. Now it is possible the background as a final sane- Employment. foundation of full
to Lon. Secondly, there are induce. Ec-numic the
Survey in for
Priority has already been munagement Economie
state: "Labour is not at presentments. is 'Ü
to
tn amenities-especially Briinin t-day
means
and is unlikely to be in 1048 the given We sincerely thank the Coman end; the fullest and
miting factor in economie ac housing for workers in key in- the missioner of Customs, Kowloon
in- prosperous life for all
tivity. Instead, materials of dustries such as mining and agri. extende. nast 17istalet. G. N. Gawler Esq. dividual human beings who g.
vel the Administrative
Cento make up Britain's population various kincs are likely to be the culture and this can EST.. nf
Theming factor and so a further to other industries as required, missiner J. J. Palmer
Similarly, while the T.U.C. ha $1,000,000. nearly
general freezing of 17 be agreed to" Maritime Customs for Economic Survey atales clearly-though less widespread-switch Chinese
wages, this may be relaxed where carried out, the facilities they extended us and categorically what steps are of working population is und, als
this end. Commanders and necessary to achieve
To ensure the necessary coul recessary to make me occupa
attractive. And transport Officers of C. P. S. Hung Haing And a whole section. is devoted
and tions more and Teh sing for the help ren.
the implication for Britain's power, food and
more good deal has already been don 120.000 dered to nur K. Kien Sing when working population of
these shipping about Chi Link steps.
textile industry-drenry aground at she ran
The general development men are to be brought into these about one of the manin dimeultic!
industries,
the in the Fitt un Felz. 28th.. 1940 and 61 pr:duction in Britain is fairly basic
manufacturing group uf Indus-conditions of work in bld fashion. the subsequent days during which well known in particular the trics, further shifts will be made, ed mills. One of the basic prin they st od by und transported
stendy rise of coal production the greater part of her crew to towards the target of 211,000,000 notably an increase of about 110,-ciples of British ecnomie though: production Industeles.
009 in the manpower ci textile today is that the place of work 131 Kor
Luna, and of sicol
Thic and other must be worthy of the worker, and E. HSIANG SS. CÓ.
trom 12,750,000 million tons in
smaller scale switches, affecting new mills now being planned and SHANGHAI,
1947 to 14,000,000 tons this year
#1 abulis are totally different from - both figures, incidentally, re- perhaps 300,000 workers
Cutput, rough estimate, will go side by anything that has been gone be They provide accommodn. cords for British
been made site with changes en a different fire. What has further
In fnetorles most modern оле clear by the Survey is the plane: about 112,000 woman are tion comparable with that of the factory In one working ukely to leave industry for Lion-wide shift in the
reasin or another during 1048other industry. poulation demanded by the new
commit- which I saw being re-built two mainly through family
years ago, standards of lighting and ventilation were equivalen
the
THE FUTURE OF
HONG KONG
Lo
A Hong Kong which tradi tionally prefers tu let sleeping dogs lie will not seize enthusias- [tically upon the speech of the Lord Mancroft in the House of Lards, demanding to know what' Britain's attitude is towards the All' future of this Colony. right with the world, for the moment, or so they believe, and The
there is little inclination to cross dangerous bridges until there is nu choice in the matter.
Yet there is
a considerable
body of opinion, while it remains
steel
Within
Manchurian Call For Support
Shanghai, Mar. 18. Manchurian People's delegates, who passed through Shanghai en route to the north-west yesterday, appealed to the people of Shanghai for material as well as spiritual support.
as a minority, which feels exact delegates stressed
any
to those of a modern dwelling:
canteens,
drew
em.
an air conditioning plant off dust and moisture; rest rooms, Invatories and such amenities were of the type us Uully associated with clubs or pri vate houses, and an expert in in- terior decoration had been plyed to secure a lay out and colour schemes in the work roc.
restfulness mxumum providing and brightness, The rebuilding of very many mills on these lines will be a vital factor in textile production in Britain during the
next few years.
the back-
By Dick Turner CARNIVAL
វា
*ỒN, 1957 BY HEÅ SERVICE, INC. T. M. REEL, U, IL FAYDAY.
12-24
"Whaddaya mean, I'll be late for the office? I'm back for lunch!".
"Battles" On The
Beaches In S. China
By Margaret R. Bowes
Hongkong, Mar. 17. f Jalf an hour Inter, a proces- While international attention sion of men from the adjacent a focused on the Manchurian "territory" began filing into death-struggle between Chinese the hamlet where the boat was Nationalists and Communists, being held. Quietly, without a logger battles fought overy word to the vitingers, they took hour of the day and night in up positions on the whart op- the South go unnoticed.
posite the local bandit-leader's 15 triggermen. There were 50 These battles, for the most of them all armed--a walking nart bloodless, are waged be arsenal which included Brown- tween smugglers and officials in inga of 1914-18 vintage, Lee Canton, Macao and Hongkong Enfields, Sten and Bren guns, between smugglers and pirates; a number of Czechoslovakian- and, last but not least, between manufactured rifics and several Great Changes China's "local governora"-the imitations of these lust. At a press conference, the Manchurian situation, but urg-
gentlemen who control carefully As twilight deopened, so did the impor-ed the people of Shanghai to
All these means of re-distri- designated "territories" along the silence on the wharf. At of saving Manchuria support the Government whole-:
buting malpower are ly the opposite way about exist-tance
and from the Communist threat heartedly in the campaign to ground to the siftament in the the banks of the Pearl River and length, however, it was broken~~
soft padding of bara ing political uncertainties,
Lord and restoring Nationalist con- suppress the Communists. White Paper that "great changes and down the coast, at a by the
the village street will heartily endorse
Ho announced that he would have been and must continue to price guaranteeing safe land-fest along
the pattern of our ings to smugglers.
Three mon appeared, carrying *** Mancroft's insistence that "we trol over those provinces. If
the lives of many should state
publicly what our Mauchuria should full complete-approach the. Shanghai Winter be made in
hands, a Relief Committee for
Each of these glorified ban-three superchargers. Close be appro-trade and in policy is going to be and say we ly into Communist
new Government dominated by priation of a portion of the of us."
Most people tend to prefer tits jealously guards his dis- hind came the captain and for Man- are not going to be chivvied out Reds might be established, they Committee's funds
familiar although many will als necessary, as in a recent case, Then the smuggler's vessel→→→ of Hong Kong.",
warned, adding that once Manchurian refugees, totalling 300.-1 in jobs with which they are trict against his neighbour. If missing crew members
benefit directly from changes
he may even rally his forces to disappeared into the darkness ~~ Between these two actitudes of churia in lest, most of the 600,000-Reuter.
but the important thing is th
A amuggler-customer! up the river and the 50 armed mind there is actually no great 000 Red forces now tied down
Anal result. If, in the presen rescue
threatened by the competition. Lman allently departed from the gulf-there is only discordance of in that area would be able to
world trade crisis, not enough raw
One of these twilight-landors, wharf.-Associated Press. view on what the policy of the cross the Great Wall and in- may, when vade North and Central China,
materinis are available to guaran British Government
tee employment in existing occuit is said, due to a slight mis- pation, then full employment can calculation put his powerful Were Staling that the Nanking formally stated, disclose.
enly be secured by moving work diesel-engined boat in at the as authorities had discovered two
ers to new jobs. The old eternal there absolute certainty
Washington, Mar. 17.
truth expressed in the Scriptural wrong inlet on the river a few absolute as anything can contrive defects in their fight in Man-
The U.S. Justice Department paradox "Whosoever will save his weeks ago. Not detecting the to be that the present Govern- churia, namely neglect of using
control said on Tuesday that Italians life shall lose it," takes on a new error, he went ashore in a sam state, finally and the People's Militia and failure ment would
pan to arrange for profitable to strengthen their
Britain hopes in solving her disposal of his illegally trans- clearly, that "we are not going to
over the countryside, the de- who join the Communist Party significance.
rorted cargo, be chivvied out of Hong Kong, legates disclosed that the High will never be permitted to problems not to lose the full em- the great weight of responsible Military Command have decid-emigrate to the United Stacs.ployment which is basic to the A spokesman for the Immi sound economic life and socia opinion in the Colony would un-ed now to adopt a new strategy
and Naturalisation well-being of a great industria the doubtedly be behind an official and organise
People's gration Manchuria in the Service said that Italians hop people, For, again in the word
of the Economic Survey, declaration of policy, without re- Militia
Coming to enter the United States "Those changes are signs of pro- agulast the ference to possible immediate struggle
must consider this in choosing gress and are insignificant in re munists.
While admitting that the their political parties.-Assolation to the underlying strength Manchurian people have some cluted Press.
Government grudges against officials there, emphasised
consequences:
Particularly after the Falk- lands Islands sham-show and the Belize ballon d'esai. And parti- cularly after little Portugal's official announcement of the des patch of a motorised infantry ment, contingent to caution to maintain Portuguese sovereignty."
Macao as a "pre-
in
that
thu delegates the public
COMMUNISTS TO BE KEPT OUT
of our people,"
was not the least anti-Govern- BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
Manchurians, they added, are willing to co-operate with the Government in the defence of
their homeland.
Lord Mancroft gues, perhaps,
Echoing the appeal of the a, little far in suggesting that the residents of Hong Kong are an Manchurian delegates, Mayor anxious people at the moment.K.C. Wu said that he was not There would have been more pessimistic about ready agreement with his terms had he said 'unsettled' or even
the current
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
Not So Sure
ITALIAN ARMY MOVES
F
No sooner was he gone, how- ever, than the local bandit-chief
Rome, Mar, 18. always quick to detect any "unprotected" craft-sped out
Official sources said his motor-launch to Inspect the unfamiliar boat. With an ap today that regular Ita- praising, frankly appropriative lian Army troops will be nir, the self-styled "governor" removed into toured the ship, closely follow-
camps
cities
ed by the ship's engineer, near four strategic Com- sole crew member remaining munist-controlled aboard. Abruptly ho declared in North Italy before the that the vessel would have to
elections. to
.obviously .80
Proceeding to the
are to be
The first three elles are the big. strongholds in
be protected. Otherwise he April 18 TOO MUCH thrills out of winning finesses, which could not, speak for. its possible guard against any at...........
had been explained to him as devices TERRITORY
that gain but don't lose tricks. He fate. In fact, he was not eo tempt to seize power One thing the matter with many won the club Q lead in the dummy sure about that anyhow, alace illegally.
inoved from Terops generalization in advice to younger and then had the pleasure of try this boat was
than his
OWD Grosello and Florence, provinces and players is that they take in too muching, the spade finesse to see if he much better
from areas farther south into six. territory. The suggestion which could shut the K out of taking, weather-beaten launch." made to help them may be very trick.
Learning that the owner was camps now occupied by $,000 displac 'unstable. Certainly, the atmos- tivities, without any compensat
fine when followed at the proper West won with the K and led agahore, the covetous one decid-ed persons at Milan, Turin, Bologas phere is unsound, as it must being generosity of assistance in our time or times. But if it is obeyed on second club to the dummy's honoured to cut off escape by disabling and Cremona, when commercial decisions gener- real difficulties: these things, and every possible occasion, it is bound to East ruffed this with the spade S.
Italy. ally ignore long-term prospecte more of the same nature, come cause losses. One hist of that type That doomed the contract, as there his prey. And prolonged uncertainty is not presumably within his purview. is the one regarding a finesse-that was no earthly way to prevent the engine-room he indicated three Communist
of pipes and. ordered these re- troops will be moving to Milan bar- experienced performer clubs. calculated to effect an improve. The future of Hong Kong is, tight gain a trick, but carloster loss of one trick each in hearts and bulbous joints: in the network Sources said that a battalion of
nevertheless, a talking point of knows, that can be vintently untrue.
A more experienced South would moved by his henchmen. They racks by April 1, Bologns will be, have reckoned that y
Went probably were the boat's superchargers.next. Troop movements were From the Lords'.debate to the profound importance to every in-in many spots,
s. 1 10 7 4
had a six-card club nuit, so that. With theso gone, the speed ported in be restricted. Officiala 1. K9
East had only a singleton, also that utential presence in Hong Kong of Lord terest likely to be represented on
the Defence Ministry did not reveal the emuggling of D. A 76 Listowel, His Majesty's Minister Lord Listowel's visiting list, and
West probably had the spade K as circumstances may well
the shift. The Army altogether totals CAKI of State for Colonial Affairs, is in the
one asset on which he based bidding vessel was reduced from 60 to the number of troops involved in 8.3 6 A. K 2
175,000 men. South something like 25 m.p.h. at all. Figuring that way, That the issue command a certain priority...
Soon after bandit-leader nud
Sources sald that the Government, an easy stride.
1. Q-10 3 2 The February inue of "Em-H. J. 54
should have led to the spade A as
had reached which bas long feared a Communist should have cropped up at this
WED.J934
soon as he got the lead, and then superchargers.
plan which it 3 2 moment is purely coincidental, pire" commends the Minister of D. a 10
put forth another spader That if luna, 15 militiamen appeared coup, has prepared a the trumps of the opposition were the village dock, armed with believes will meet any Leftist attempt without being at the same time State for his new post as having 10
had the experience of presiding unfortunate,
divided, at proved the case, would pistols, shot-guns and a couple to seize control by force. The Gov have prevented any ruffing, There is much that Lord Li over the transfer, of power in Hardly towel could have discussed, and Burma, and India."
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COTTON YARNS FOR SOUTH
Shanghai, Mar. 19.
Steam
Meanwhile, on shore the amuggler captain had appre- hended his error, learned !-via The China Merchants the bamboo telegraph of events Navigation Compaby, yousel, Chikain aboard ship and at the am-left for the South Sea yehterday, with, bitions of the local bandit chief- 1,000 tops of: cotton yams and cloth tain. He also had discovered and over 1,000 tons of miscailaproua
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