1
U.S.
LABOUR EXPECTS
1.
MUCH FROM CONGRESS
War Hits The Brush Trade
الحمد
Philadelphia, December 31.
The American Brush Manu- facturora Association sald the Chiness civil war de have Ing very serious affect upon the manufacture paint brusńca,
·
"Chinees
bristles,
of
piga"
bristles, constitute the basic raw materiel out of which aur best paintbrushes art made." the Assoolation salg.
Associated Press.
Learned To Counterfeit
In Prison
Chicago, December 30 Two
und twe Japanese Japanese Americans, who sati they had planned to make lots of money from
what one
uf
them learned in prison, were arraigned today
feiting ebarges,
on counter
The men were seized, in a razi Jarre before they could print wad pics bogus altis Secret Service agents said they seized counter friting
equipment, ncluding plates for
bilt # US$20 photographie negatives for US$50 inils
were
The four
arrested men Isamu Honda, alias Fred Honda, 35. Yashio Kone, 31. Kyosh Endow, 45, and Kayoshi Hyeda, 45.
Agent said Kono and Honda were Americans of Japanese ant- erstry.
while Endow and Uyeda
wele
Japanese aliens,
Records here
Uyada served
Quentin Prison,
a alaying
showed that term at Ban California, on charge
agents and Was Once an
Washington, December 31.
The new U. S. Congress, which is to be convened next month, is practically certain to give or- ganised labour many of the things it has boon demonding.
Union leaders jubilantly are predicting better things for labour. President Truman promised it to them throughout the campaign. And they claim the new Democratic Congress will have a larger bloc of members favourable to organ- ised labour's objectives than any congress since the early New Deal days,
3) Revision of the T-Hart- ry Act. Labour wart outright repeal of the art tried by
"slave lab law. Unions be a
Here' hre
some of things | new law, if the unions and the the lawmakers are expected to administration "have
their way. will eliminate any ban on closed give labour;
or unton shops, eliminate ali but one or two of the union practices aufjawed as unfair by the Taft-
limit the use Harlicy law,
Injunctions anti-strike
to ma tional emergency cases and re- inove most restrictions on wel- fare funds.
But the unions undealterly will not all they want Mr. Tru- Beat non tants it repealed ton. even be wants à un taute jaw, re-macting some
T-11 jovisions,
Wage Increase
SE
The requireinent thest Wo Ble non-Communist statements i
kely to be extried to ployers.
Other Side
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1949.
Devotion
To Duty
Bhanghai, December 31.
Orders are orders for BomB Chinese soldiers.
And
William Severt of FT&. mont, lowa, Operations Chlet of Major. General Clair Air CIVIF Channault's Transport today told of soc- ing two dead soldiers two dead horses Just Inalde Palping gate when he was. leaving. He asked a guard at the gate what had hap.. pened.
The guard sald, "We had orders to shoot any soldiers trying to get out of the city. We They tried to get out. shot them."
.Sever! said. "How about those horsea?"
The guard replied, "They tried to get out too."-United Угова.
EUROPE SAFE
FOR PRESENT, SAYS BARKLEY
Pairs. December 31. Vice President-elect Alban W. Barkley ended an eight-day tour of Europe on Wednesday with the observation that he did not think the Coramunists were going to take the place even during 1949.
CHAMBERS GAVE VITAL GOVERNMENT RATION DISTRIBUTION
INFORMATION TO USSR
Washington, December 30.
House spy hunters today revealed that ox-Com- munist Whittaker Chambers had received and turned over to a Soviet agent at least 51 batches of State Department popors booring informationn about the United States' wor secrets and the Norden bomb sight. The acting Committee chairman, Representative Karl Mundt, said Chombers had at least 52 batches of secret papers stolen for him from the State Department and all except the "Pumpkin Papers" were turned over to Colonel Boris Nyko, Soviet military intelligence agent, who presumably had forwarded them to Mos-
COW.
Mr. Mundi also said the Com- mittee had obtained typewrit- ten notes to on insurance com- pany signed by the former State Department official, Alger Hiss. In 1937 and 1038. He said a typewriter expert had certifed that the letters written on the same typewriter |that hud prouiced some of the "Pumpkin Papers". The Com- mittee has still not found the typewriter.
Information Given
wore
to
to 75
pay
federal (2) A boost in
Congues is ex- minimum wage.
Tru-
The law is expected to carry go along perted to
tou strenduris 20073 has recominerade
flag forward -- without thes minion
m the opposition from wage
Jabour-provi sions boning Jurisdictional Parent 40 cents an
strikes anci SONIC kinds
Mr. Mundt's disclosures came cents. That wil
Crops are better, he said, living at a news conference called more than 100,000 | secondary boycotts, and author- increase fot
discuss the Committee's wurken in the user; brue-ty for the Inbour bourd to carve statinrds
latest wre rking, and the
Communist spying in kets. It also expl. la re- erafi units ut of big industrial Marshall Plan is working. These report on
the United States. contributed to
The report for one of the bargaining units.
things, he said, sufe in raises
A for By the
the minimum
Economie suid Chambers testers that |22,000,000 others voven
wage cermonie stability. dew when how are not at more and hour inw, the administra-
stability
brought poiltired stability, had received and transmitted to
Kurslan agents: tion 18
15 studying
or 20 "The mora stable Bovern, Thu 75 cents an hour
(3) Expanded
to raise the mini. ment la politically and econo. amendments 10021 202ur. ity. Most Democrats in Con
mum wage, expand coverage
Barkley said. mically." and deal with several other
"the better able it la to stop the greas seem to be th sympathy with the administration
issues raised in administration encroachment of Communism pro. gramme
of the law. social
or roll it back." Ife would no! addl.
predict that thane would not be a war between the the ted States and Russla be Cause, said, one could not pre- diet whit the Russians might rin
to extend
security to millions of
These changes are expected to tional workers and increase its modify some of the provisions benefits.
of the so-called Portal Pay Act which outlawed union claims of $8,000,000,000 for back pay for such activities as chang-x
"Mr.
Stranded Men Bored
On IcecapTM
Argentia, Newfoundland,
December 30,
Colebyl Major General Haynes of the Air Force, suld today that boredom was just about the greatest hardship 12 American afffered by the airmen who were stranded atop a Greenland Icecap.
He must he greeted the men at Greenland I base in- Western he
about 30 minutes Lifter They were snatched off the frecap two ski-equipped C-
days ago by
47.
General Haynes, who is com- | mandant of the air buse at Fort Popperall, Newfoundland, dis- cussed the reaction of the re-
(1) Information concerning new equipment being develop. (2) A od by the U.S. Navy.
AW metallurgical formula.
at of Intelligence
in the other nations States and naval reports.
A (3)
agenfa
United
intelligence scued flers in a telephone inter-
view with correspondents
Chambers Argentia. contric: for Washington The report ex-spy
The report quoted saying he was a Respy ring in from 1032 to 1038,
another confessed was Elizabeth Denticy.
Reorganisation The Lat-of 1047 bow Department. Laben secrè- tary Mattelee J. Tobina ask
ing work clothes, walking to the "But we are not going to move sald Endow
Jo extensive porgan on o
Joh site and other non-prodite out of Berlin, and there will be sald his department and grefer, con mate of Folsom Penitentiary
the no baking up from the position five services. The hun on over tim goveranel's la- They said Uyeda told them heu alfatrs.
back pay suits will retained, we have taken," he said,--Asso- Tearnest
how to make counter will give him
chiel Prast, however-United Press, of feil plates while
hile in prison and what he he ant others turned out quant-ck him, btils. States
sioner,
482211
VICH
feast.
4 great deal
asks and Jalur
most of th
will
way at
has
ties of counterfeit
The United,
Commis
Hul the Arst order at business Mr. Edwin, set bond of
when the new Congres conveng! US$10,000 for Honda and Konin January, as far a
omer is US$5,000 ach for Endow
concerned, will be reped of the Uyed. At Washington the Taft-Hartley Javw. Secret Service chief. U.E. pledged total repeal et Vie act. Baughman, Fi L the arrests. But he also promised vulėstitu- ipset the counterfeitin plot tion of a fair and just ferti before 管
uscles
way. Agents said that Kono, a pro- fessional photographer, - admited making the negatives for The plates.--United Press.
got
JAP RECOVERY IN PAST YEAR
Tokyo, December 31. Greatly improved economic conditions in Japun In 1948 have enabled her people to look
Watertight Anti-Spy Bill Proposed For U.S.
State and communications before during the war."
Paying For Spies
0111
Al
He said although the men હાઈ not "auffer much** they were more than happy to off the 7,800 foot lay plateau where some of them had been
be
marooned
ned for 20 days. He said the men generally in good physical condition.
Include the
they
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The Commitice said Chambers Congress probably
group operated during the period
were added: war and preceding the
It is likely Nazi Germany and Car of them suffered from a cut the head but it was no1 Japan may have known 02
♫ stitch," code erwugh tor Department secret
The group of rescued airmen and
will leave Greenland tony for New York where the air force SEE AND HEAR THE NEW MODELS NOW AT: promised them a hero's walconie
General Haynes
THE RADIO PEOPLE, 31, Nathan Road, Kowloon sald would
three men for THE TSANG FOOK PIANO CO., Marina House, Hong Kong It quoted Chambers as saying from the original group forced that the Communist spy ring re-down on the icecap on Decem-
OR AT members. crulled
primarily In
ber 9. He said the families of the United Sintes, for operations some of the men are in Green- in Japan, Germany, France, land and for that reason they
and other countries. will not relum
to the Chambers testified that on one States.United Press,
casion he took a money bei containing about US$10,000 tu San Francisco, for the purpose of Anancing West Coast spy operations.
Labour Wants Mora
Union
Washington, December 30.
The Justice Department is pressing for a quick go- ahood on one of the most severe anti-spy bills over proposed in this country, it was learned today,
measure is now before the Budget Bureau which wants to submit it to other government agencies for approval. The Justice Department, however, is opposed to this move on the grounds that it would delay Congressional
action.
The AFL and CIO at ser an- nual conventions spellet out in detail other specifle asiation they want from the Con- gress, These Include expanded social security
and erloyment The ervices, establishment a per- nament foir employment prae- fices commission, D.
workers education service and group medical aid plan.
officials are Nonfident
· take- that this Congress wi them off the defensive for the forward to the
year first time in more than ib
years. with greater confidchce, Lieu-Union leaders are convinced the
Department officials said At- fear of endangering civil rights. tenunt-General H. C. H. Robert-election hus reversed the trend torney General Tom C. Clark Department lawyers hope the son, Commander-in-Chief, Bri-and put them on the offensive. may possibly take the matter new bill will prove acceptable. tish Commonwealth Occupation; Sixty-aight Congressmen directly to President Truman in Force, told the Japanese people in a New Year message.
Industry has made raph strides in recovery, food short- ages have lessened and
many more buildings have been erect- cd, he said.
coming
who voted for the Tet-Hart an effort to have the bill ready ley were defeated on November when Congress convenes next 2. In all, labour backed more month. than 120 members of the new House and 12 of the Senators elected or re-elected.
The new Congress is expected
General Robertson urged the by labour to restore moy of the
Japanese people to follow the example af Great Britain. whose people, he said, are still induring great privation In order to concentrate on ro. covery and to help other coun.
trigs.
"It is by such unselfish acts on the part of people that nations show their true greatness of de- mocracy and give the great in- spiration to all mankind.
Wagner Act's provisions.
New Canal Proposed
Now Provisions
10
in the present
The measure is designed black loopholes The
espionage act. It
Madison, Wisconsin, December 30.
adoption of these principles posed that a canal be built in would be for all men and women Lower Mexico to provide an- (of Japan) to exercise their right|other waterway between the to vole at the next elections, Atlantic and Pacific Ocuns. and so ensure that their nex1 William H. Hobbs, University government is fully representa-
"The best proof of Japanes A geographer today pro-
in co-operation
was prepared with the FBI and intelligence officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Under its provisions: (1) The statute of present three-year limitations on espionage prose- cutions would be eliminated. (2) It would be a crime for any federal official to fail to report the theft of secret documents.
trained in (3) All persons espionage or sabotage by a foreign power would be 20- quested to reglater,
The Committee inid down a ave-point programme to protect be nation from Communist spy ing: (1) Communist control legislation. (2)
United
BRITAIN NEAR COAL TARGET
the target of 211,000,000 tons..
London, December 30. Britain's total coal output dur- 1948, with one week to go before the coal year ends, has Strengthening reached 205,818,000 tons towards anti-espionage. (3) Increase in the penalty for contempt of
This compares with 103,000,- Congress to a minimum of Ave
000 tons in the same perlod inst years in
prison and
US$5,000
year. fine.
Last week's output dropped 4) Study of the immigration from the previous week's record laws and passport visa regula- total of 4,585,300 tons to 3,820,- tions to determine what changes 1400 tons.-Reuter.
the recent disclosures of spying are necessary to prevent disloyal
They are known to feel that within the government may have elements from entering the coun- convinced the law-makers that try and remaining. (5) Con- the present law is inadequate for tinuance of the House Un-Am- the protection of the nation's | erican Activities Committee.~~~ internal security.--United Press. United Press.
West German Statute Up
For Discussion Soon
London, December 30, Talks on the future occupation Statute for Western Germany are now likely to tako place on Jan- uary 10, it was learned today from usually reliable sourcos.
Britain will probably
be 10-
(4) It would legalise the use of presented by the head of the
of Michigan emeritus professor, evidence obtained by wire- German Department
of the
after the elections some time next May.
Sir William Strong has charge
tive of a peace-loving and co-aid a canal of greater apacity tapping in internal security cases Foreign Office, France by her of the Foreign Office's German operative people."-Reuter.
and less vulnerability than the and would permit intelligence Ambassador In London, M. Rene Department until next
Dauntless Duchess
Madrid, December :30.
The pretty, suburn-haired Duchess
Panama Canal is needed.
agents to have access
month,
to now-Massigli, and the United States, when he will be succeeded by
In the absence on leave of the Sir ne Kirkpatrick.-Reuter. Ambassador, Mr. Lewis Douglas,
In a speech to the Nationalforbidden telegrams and gables. Geographers Convention fire, Mr.
Hobbs said a combined ops ditch Congress Cautious
und tunnel sen-level canal across
the Tehuantepec Isthaus in
Lower Mexico, about 1,000 miles
by the Charge D'Affaires, Mr. J.
The
conference will try to re-
C. Home.
Attorney General Tom Clark
aro tar
Europe Does
North of Panama; will much contends present espionage laws solve the two points of deadlock Much Better
less vulnerable.
of Valencia, 37, has been
sen-
powers
of
«
future
the
Paris. December 30. The United States Office of
for effective which have held up occupo- The new canal outlined by M. work against foreign spy operation Statute negotiations on.
Military Governor level, The tenced to one year in gool for Hobbs would run from the Gulf tons.
German writing anti-Franco leaflets, hold-at Puerta Mexico to the Pacifis
Despile Clark's pleas for Supreme Court in Interpreting the Economic Co-operation Ad- ing secrel Monarchist meetings at Laguna Interior, The Tehuan-
and the question ministration announced yester- In her home and general under- teper project would have twin tightening of the laws, Congress the Statute
act for whether the future West Ger- day that key industries in nining the prestige of the Franco waterways, each for (e-way has been unwilling to
man Government or the State Western Europe made marked reglme.
Governments will be responsible increases in output during Her collaborator, Jose Prado 2,000 miles from the Panoma
for collecting occupation costs. 1048. d'Almonte, veteran of the Spanish roule between, the East end West
trafle. His proposal would cut
which fought consts-United Press.
Bulu Division
against the Russians on the East-
six-man
SOLDIERS' LEAVE ENDS IN HOSPITALİ
Salisbury, December 30.
tho
urn front, was given 10 months' imprisonment by military court.
Both have already served most!
of their anlences walle awaiting trial.
RED BACKBONE FOR RUSSIAN
ARMY
Prague, December 30.
Liable To Delay
The coal industry produced 300 Until the occupation Statute, million metric tons this year-18 defining the powers of the Wes-million tons more than in 1947.
Nine ERP countries turned out tern Allies after the creation of
of steel a West Gormon Government is 40 million metric tons
Ingots and coatings—an increase Communist Party members as complete and, has beca handed Two 19-year-old soldiers who signed to the Army will receive to the German politicians (now 10 milion tons over last year. Electricity production rusO 10 had hoped to hitch-hite from higher instructions as army com drafting Western Germany The Duchess candidly admitted Cornwall to London E leave manders in the coming year, the Constitution at Bonn)
per cont during 1040.' the draft
Food rationing
has
caked having written antl-Franco pro-finished up instead in Salisbury Communist Party headquarters
constitution for Western
partly through ECA Imports and paganda and served notice that Iniprary today suffer from announced here today.
many cannot be completed.
partly through improved agricul- she would continue to do so, but bend Injuries. fracture Anid
The Allied fallure to agree tural production: denied holding secret Monarchist braken bones.
All Army officers will meetings in her home. She said They were riding in a furniture schooled "to increase their politi these were social gatherings and removal van when aver-cal consciousness." Communists "111 continue to invite guests to turned and the two soldiers and were told to make themselves my home whenever I choose."- the driver were delabad In the organising backbone of all Walted Press.
| hospital--Reuter,
Army C
be
Ger
on the terms of the occupation Western European families are Statute le consequently' flable not eating as much as thor, did to hold up the timetable which before the war, but there is maro forasses the establishment of = an their tabits this your thân last. West... German. Government-Reuter.
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