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THE CHINA? MAIL", THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1948, 7.
LIFE IS GRIM
Ir Fear- Haunted Germany
In this article a special correspondent; recently Editor-in-Chit-W. J. Restek returned from a tour of Germany, describes how, the people are living and quotes a Control Commission Asst. Editor:Jan Mackenrie
authority for the statement that 30 per cent, of the population-are virtually starving.
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work, seethingly, is often¬taking) Record-place to the task of grow- ing food
These miners, in the Ruhr area at least, have had the advantage of such new hating schemes a Are in operation--and naturally. wey get the rations of the heavy
workers.
Empty Shops
BACK TO 1926 BUT
NOT THE SAME
Brain put the clock hasketa tantamount to a vote of no con- 1920 when Mr. Attlee, the Social Adence in the boards of the State- * Int Prime Minister, announced the owned industriezienu ju proclamation of a State of Emer-It had the support of a great
gency.
political. conatituencies.
Tronically
9th July, Friday, Business Manager: W. H. Nolloth
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THE Germans.accept the British lack in numbers they made up
occupation with varying smo-¡ in general, noise and energy. Reporters & General Office 32312 tions resignation on the part of | General Gir, Brian Robertson,
No such step has had to be number of the delegates from the taken in tinte. of peace sin
since the (four lines)
the incipient, revolt the apatheti, rollet on the part the British Military Governor, has the application of
wts s German industry covers very life of the nation was threa
by Mr. Will Lawther, AB Subscription Rates:
the part of those seeking to ex- the C.P. to
its name to the and as Marshall Add:boghis to tened by the General Strike. Party of Gerflow the shop windows w Administration, an industrial up- Transport Workers' Union.
How is it that, undex a.Socialist Arthur: ·Deaking: chio! H.X.$18.00 ploit the political situation
Fearful?
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of the fearful and restuiment, on 1 Just tagad pre- j'and, output is then expected):101 hosvai Impels the-Government–101. Then Great Dock Strike was - a..
H..$38.00 H.K.$72.00 people. Insofar as it resulta. in
Socialist
brei described to me as rise ateeply.
.
the Russians arriong, the German the unthinking into Join as the best incentive of all: it 1 emergency powers of war-time?
make
These
fear of
camouflage," designed to Full shop windows aro regordod put into operation the drastle
Their Own Union
Consider
Reds Not Strong
It marks a major step forward
self-government.
The
part at least
What, I wondered; would the effect be on production at home if goods flawed more freely into the shops?
Careworn;
By
the
of the
own
The Dock Labour Scheme pro vides for joint control by the workers and the port employem. The union, representatives must agree to the rate for the job, and to any penalties that are imposed for breaches of discipline.
LESLIE RANDALL What They Forgot-
Such an
threat to the system on which the Government have treatly relied for the maintenance of industrini the acceptance of our administra ing the Communist organisation may digreas for a moment I would
peace the system of “joint con- tion and a reasonable readiness to and especially to attract the small give the opinion of one or two
trol" by employers and employ- co-operate with us these appre-trader and the professional class British businessmen 1 met cross-
are not without advan-es.
the words Ing Belgium about the causes of hensions
ofv. Mr.j.ed.. delegate
Conciliation
exists Of course the Russian policy in that country's comparative pros- Harry Constabio,
of
machinery take.
stated
the London unofficial dock strike providing for consultation with Communists Berlin, as has been bluntly
perity. Mr. Keith-Hardy's frank But the German
miners in each pit and right be made his this fettr. by our own Ministers, is to make capital but of Rotary exposition, at the
They are undeğinking a door-to-❘ things uncomfortable for the other to Americans, one said, had committee,when
pay for their "occupation" of hysterical appeal to the Liverpool up to national level. On paper, Club of the problems con- door canvas, I was told, during occupying Powers, but the British Belgium while the Germans were deckers that succeeded in spread a miners strike just should not fronting broadcasting in which they tried to calolo citizens Administration in Germany firmly being rolled back and the pay- ing the strike to the Merseyside: happen, but the men, at many a |Hong Kong needs to be taken into joining the C.P., on the pro- adheres to Mr. Bevin's declaration mont was made, in Phase filled have the boot in our guts. For of the Coal Board and thei."
"We are on the floor, and they colliery have come out in deflance in conjunction with the dis-mise that their members would that "We are in Berlin by right by American goods.
the shops and automatically pro-|- God's sake, help us.”
union. closure of plans for a strik-Be safeguarded when the Rus- and we clay."
alons come.
OUR authorities have been tre-duction by Belgian workers rose ing Improvement Instudio se extremists
make great
mendously impressed by, the as they sought to increase their arrangements and organisa-play, too, with the aim of Ger-stounchness of the anti-Commun- wage packets. tlon by transfer to Electra man unity-an objective which ist Germans in the capital,
The more responsible German House, when that building must, of course, be one of the
main planks in the programme of politicians will, privately,, wel- has been completed. One
Como the Six-Power agreement every German party, of the principal new features,
A unified Western Germany for for instance, will be a con-
ender a constituent assembly, for cert hall with an audience
THESE Germans are not a towards
But capacity of 120, while the How strong is the Communis they will not do so publicly.
happy-looking race. Not sur- studio lay-out. will be ex-
They would be risking politi-prisingly there are carewomelines amined for flaws by BBC of the highest authorities in the cal suicide If they were known on the faces of the women, andi Who are they the oppressors the men's features are often sel. Mr. Constable denounced in such mensuro which experts before ZBW is fina!- Central Commission assured me to support any
and did not had
children did But the The whole make much headway At every basis. Further, by marking their a severed Germany as ils
extravagant terms? Not the tapis ly committed.
animation.
talists. The port employers are of two floors and part of an- where else, he said, what
they
I looked for litlessness such a not the villains opposition they might hope to other will be available to
kain greater concessions from the ZBW; thus, eliminating many
Anglo-U.S.-French controllers. - of the present-day handicaps to first-class results caused by cramped quarters. None of this, however, is likely to benefit the listener greatly unless the Government is prepared to go one further stage and provide the staff- and the facilities for pro- gramme Improvement. To some of the existing weak- nesses, Mr. Keith-Hardy free ly confessed. He could do no other. All that can be said
· movement in Germany? Onel
that it was small
Italian Strike Spreads
not
tack
-Tho
was But
arrangement thought to be strikeproof.. because, a gang of 11 dockers would not agree to the rate agreed by their own reresentatives for loading bags of zinc oxide, the “
rat. Post of London was
brought. to a standstill.
* The factor, that has been over- looked in all the elaborate struc- warkdustrial unrest is the human clo
"disinclination of the name, was
dockers were: striking and Imposed
tions and limited diversions might; against 9th of their own re raised to guard against:
upheld by!
own.union and the Sociallet: Gov
seen to have failed, that is that. childrenly clothed as our own away, full employment or a
The dockers' are
now
guaranteed.
mant-the
rose who spring from their own accept orders and discipline from
Tanks,
The plain fact is that the dock-
he'
ers would not submit to the drack
younger generation on low fa- be expected to have. Slow Recovery:
On the contrary, I found bright Transport and General Workers kiddies, adequately dressed. The Union USR the word "controllers. It school children with their inevit- what, in Heaven's would cluse quite sinile able satchels and the little girls wrong with these dockers? Onght more turbulent trade unionists to among a lot of Allied omoists in appealing with their pigtails, were they not to be grateful to their Germany who find their orders to
quite
-Q.happy, throng. advise but not to dictate a little In processions. marking. religious ernment? frustrating.
Authority In ad- festivals through ruined streets of The bad, old aystem of casual ministration has
Doen given to citles, they looked n healthly and labour at the decks has been swept the Germans and, until it is us
of the whip from Mr. Arthar, Den- on bigh days in Britain.
kin and other paid offeints of a their union. Rome, July 6....
Economically, Germany is re- Were these superici! impres 11king wage: The Italian Army today took covering, although alowly. Coal sions? A high" official in tho
When Ernest Bovin formed the COD
Why should they turn on those huge organisation 20-years ago it over the distribution, of petrol production rose to 300,000 tons-trol Commission sadly assured me who have conferred such great was that he modelled it on in Roma as the strike of petrol the lowest possible total to allow that they were. There were many benefits upon them?i Make the great American labour organi
threatens to of any exports. The tar workers, which
wished likely
to have taken part in treme length of a calamitous studied: GO' R in praise of ZBW at the mo- paralyze air and road transport, / 100.000 tons, and larget was many, children-who would have! What made them go to the ex`aution,;, whose structure he had visit to the United to be reached. But alas, it has those processions, but were un strike, that threatened Britain's States. entered its seventh day.
Most tankers arriving in Ital-fallen back to about 270,000 tons able to do so because they were
shaley: economy!
The general secretary is elected fan ports with petrol given free The reason? Well-one contribu-il, had no shoes, ar had no suit-
Superficially, the London dock by the United States under the tory cause is the assiduity with able clothes. Thirty per cent. of strike was a coinlet betwn by the ballot vote of the mem-
But, once
once elected, the fob European recovery programune which miners and their families the people are in a found, the dock desorted
are tending their allotments and way-are, in fact, virtually star~ |
nt, their/amlani¬But its Their ordinary | vinga na police small-holdings. In Leghorn yesterdoading. the apparent limitations. took over the work of
ment is that considering the amount of the vote which the Government provides for its ammual expenditure, it rises at times far above
But if this satisfles the Gov- ernment, the listener falls short in enthusiasm. He is almost unanimously in favour of early morning pro-
The strike 14 part of
of a general labour agitation for leveling up of labour salaries to meet the cost Confederation of Labour has ́or- of living. The Italian General
a week's programme of
grammes, which he does not eased akes, beginning today,
get. He wants musical pro- with a strike of chemien! work- grammes on Saturday and ers. Tomorrow, electrical work- Sunday afternoons, if onlyers will strike and on Thursday
steel workers. to lull him into blissful sleep. The Trade Union Council What is more he realises that threatened "still more serious' new services will cost money. measures" if the present strikes: Apparently, authorities who are not successful in bringing
about a general pay increase.— bother to enquire Rouler. about the public reaction to. increased liquor duties or stamp taxes are tremulous about raising wireless licence. fees. This should be the least of their anxieties. An
never
Bent On
increase from $12 annually. Ike For
to $20 accompanied by ex- tended ZBW programmes would be cheerfully accept-
ed.
Bathing Dangors
President
Boomed
really bad rommelblą malowatents and the Fís this for Hits · Ha: can be depos
"za-much deeper,dhan -train/ sd-one for the baking who
AMAZING SCENES IN PRAGUE PARADE
Prague, July 6.
this was; really::the: first big ebble position." Other paid offl
Colt of the rank and file
scale revolt of
-And Now The Test
So Mr. Arthur
Mt. Bavin, is in an luinas- the trade union movement als ere appointed, not elected: against the labour leaders, who The milliant section of the rank have risen to power by: the pro and flerare inclined to look on mison of the Glorious Sociallet them as the creatures of the hier Commonwealth
Aarchs at Transport House Signs of discontent, hayo.... bòan ≥7) apparent fare:some i time:
The spate, p2 unofficial strikes in the coalfelds testified to the growing resentment of the minors Col the methods o the National Coal
Joss of Maffience and pres Uge or the leaders of the Trang, largest trades unson in the worldy
ort and General Workers Union.It has 25,000,000 in the kitty. was demonstrated by the unofficial
Only Ernest Bevin could -stoppages in the meat márkotá
control such a conglo effectively and the road transport section of meration of diverse interests. No wonder the present leaders ope accused of having become From the rank and ale,
Board.
The
Cheers for Marshal Tito and Yugoslavia rang out
in Prague today as thousands of - Czecho slavakian gymnasts marched through the rain in a parade climaxing the 11th Sokal games. Extra police wore on dutyans, refused to participate in this with the announced purpose of Congress handling traffic, but anti-Com- The parade was led by a Rus-,
slan contingent carrying a huge | the union. munist Sokol members mented that the police would Soviet flag surmounted by a portrait of Stalin... Flags" were be handy in case against the dipped as the marche president stration was made against the
platform Government, .-
-The
* games
'and'
com-
...
Inass
Their Own Control"
for industries and sprawls over ay minor tradbe. 7:With a mom- berhip of 3,300,000 It is th
The union, covers' a 'dozen ma«
No one has been *more ed and shocked thán Mr.
by the
surpri
Deakin
the collapse For. his authority The testing time of the man Bruld Britain's trade union empire at hand,
who
Kleinent
Gottwald and his: Cabi- Disillusion over the rtmaing of net were seated, but the, cheering the nationalbed industries almost manoeuvres, in which some 20,- and waving of flags had stopped shattered the facade of unity of 000 persons have taken part, Just before this port the Sociallat Party conferences at
of small paper Ameri- Scarborough. have attracted thousands from Scores:
The harsh facts: of the situations In the parade. Two of the biggest unions in demand (self-restralat and; "disel❤ other countries.
Craved by individuals and cheer the country-the National Union pline from the rank and flap and
The Sokol organization's ed by spectators. One group of of Railwaymen and the Amal the trade union chists now have
Ignoring the latest Leadership-/ was: purged after the youngsters carried, the American gamated Engineering Unione put tho stern task of rallying the rank
February coup in which the Com dags gloft past the platform, des
munists seized power in Czecho pile orders from leaders to downward resolution which was and fle slovakla. Many of its members such bhaners at the polat-Asso
aro ardently anti-Communist elated Press,
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