THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1948.
WAGE-PRICE CONTROVERSY WHIPPING UP WAR
Engineers' Application For Increase
STABILISATION
POLICY
London, August 31.
Political observers said tonight that they wondered whether the Labour Government has torpedoed its own wage stabilisation policy.
The Government has agreed to raise substantially the wages of nearly 70,000 engineers in its employ.
The award has been offered and nccepted by the unbons, while the country awaits, the decision of the Labour Minis- try's court of enquiry into an application of the 2,500,000 en- gineers in private industry for similar me FUNZ which
thek. employers, refused by who said that they would cost
£90,000,000 annually.
Wete
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Thi statallad on policy An gouneed a Feb, mary was designe- ect for ball further sterol ereisa in personi lettres part of the renommie recovery
Ministers have varned that if the Increuses écifinued, inflation would develop, priers would rise and the export drive will be en- dangered,
The policy har resulted in chrek of wiege incremen „ng for,
:
heart to
for the spokesmen the millions of ather workers who have protested that, their. wades have not kept pace with living costs.
T.U.C. Debate
Unions representing shipbuild – ers, alwaymen farm workers, tobarets workers, shop assistants, evil servants mpf zurses all think that their WPR have been stabilked at leven too low. Thes
argue that what cast dune Tar Government engineers en he tone for them,
The whole question of Fedjustments and national In- ferest wall be Grbates nt the Dades Union Congress Assembly at Margate Rex: week.
wate
Atom Experts
To Meet
or the
London, August 31, Represent ulvre .Atomic Energy Organisation of Britain, the United States and Canada will meet at the British Atomic Energy Re. search, station in Harwell, Barkshire, between Septem ber 6 and 9, the Ministry at Supply announced today.
The
The purpone of the meat. ing
to redonelder' The boundary between the work about
whict information may be released without eni dangering national security. the information which must remain restricted in cle culation-Revter.
and
Photos Confiscated
New Delhi, August 31. The New Delhi police today sized from three American Time and Life men undevelop-
If the Government is unable to | ed rolls of film with rare close- stow its engineers were a special | ups of the camera-shy Nizam of gose and that living costs will Hyderabad, Robert Lubar,
under strily control. Time correspondeni, said. The Index of wegkry wage the whole policy will be in dan rates at the end of July stoodger because the support of the
Litbar said CID officials, with a warrant from the at 106 compared with 105 at
Chief Magin- trades unions is considered CS-
trate, look possession of a packet the end Af May, 104 insential to its success, -Reuter,
containing alns of the February
and 100 In June, 1647.
Prices Up
under
The Government com criticism of the unworn and others who said it had Lalled to impose
a similar check on Iving costs, The index of retail prices in June stood at 19, two points above
Rumanian
Catholics
Bucharest. August 31.
· The Catholic Archbishop of
Muy at 10 above the base ligame); | Bucharest today denied that the
for June, 1947.
When the policy was annotine-
Governmient
Rumanian Government has
action 10 left aaken
expol non- mcreases native Catholic clergy from uld be grantei in specifte casis Rumania.
Chat
WARO
where #oon carons were forth.
No such general measure has been taken and ho C:L-es art
The Londrits Times, however, wald that in the jest the Govern-known, except one or two isolated
TL』,:༥ 1 the Rumuniais-Fluss-
ment has tende! to follow pela frontier, the Archbishop vate industry's lead on wage in- told the Associated Press.
creases.
erament to take the Initiative
In those uces Some Catholic
In granting creurs is a noveltyPriests of Hungarian nationality had cifficulties in renewing thes permits to stay but experienced no trouble on religous grounds.
In declalon
instances, Catholic
for which no doubt special cir- cumstances are responsible." the Times ulceri
The Government's
SODO
on its own engineers will give pricats audiers at Confessiona
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Now Delhi, August 31.
The Home Minister, Sardar V. Patel, told a cheering Parliament today that India is considering what to do about Hyderabad.
He said action will be taken sideration of the government of "before the patiener of the India." members of Parliament is ex-
"He added that "india cannot Afford to look with hausted.".
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Hyderabad. a Princely state in estimated there are 300 British, all-American unit
pro- the centre of India, is ruled by Australian and Carnelian eltizens gramme rule effective on Octo-|Mostema but is, akvedominantly in Hyderaund. The United States 11 R}¢} the Security Embassy said there are approxi- Council to settle its dispute with mately 50) Americans there, most- The rule, announced today by India. India hos maletaine! Biatly missionaries.-Associated Press. Eric Johom, President ut the
Hyderabad Motion Picture Associatium America, will require that Bri ti-h exhibitors who desire to use # American picture by the Jop
ber 1.
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se an American nude the for the second feature,
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fer British nude films. Associated Press,
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ment today that the Allies huve suspended the dismantlog of 34 plants produeing urgently ureded Zone State of North Rhine-West- mining materials in the British
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