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Workers Laid Off In Coal Strike
Now York, March 12. America's railways have announced that they will ∙lay off 36,500 workman because of a two-week strike called in the coal fields East of the Mississippi River.
In most instances, those laid off are engaged directly in the handling of fuel shipments, which con- stitute the bulk of traffic on some railways. The Chesapeake and Ohio In Chicago, representatives of
Railroad today posted notices laying off 10,000 workers on Wednesday, as the Arst effects of the thrente ed fortnight's shut-down of most of the coun- try's coal mines hit the United States.
Some 400,000 miners in pita East of the Mississippi River, have
Lewis, the United Mineworkers Union leader, to stay away from their "jobs for two weeks slatting Monday..
Air. Lewis has ordered the shut-down as a protest against President Truman's selection of Mr. James Boyd as Director of the Bureau of Mines.
Other major strikes are threa- tenerl. In New York City, the Raliway Express Agency has al- most halted operations and 9,000 employees face a Joy-of,
the country's railways and 101
with non-operating unions, membership of about
one mil- Hon, continued offorts to settle an hourA and They
wages dispute. were reported to have agreed to all issues except on
Cubans Threaten Good News For To Lynch Drunken The Seasick
American Sailors
Havana, March 13.
An enraged Cuban crowd threatened to lynch three
drunken U.S. sailors aftor watching them do socrate the statue of the Cuban national hero by indecent acti.
The U.S. Ambassador apologised on Saturday, end-
ing a threatened international incident. After the apology, Cuban students called off plans for a "national day of mourning" at the affront to the statue.
All Havana was aroused. The
Good
of'rin attack of hives. She took it just before going for a trom ride, where she invariably felt I from the swaying-but not after taking this dramamine.
Report to Doctors
nows for you ""bad" saliors, and air travellers.
There IS a prevention and a curo for seasickness, airsickness an other forms of "motion" sick- ness from car or train travel.
It B a drug called drama- mine. To your chemist it is The fact was reported to two bela-dimethylaminoethyl benzo- doctors from John Hopkins hydryl ether
chlorotheo- University, Baltimore, America's phyilinnte.
No. 1 medical centre-Dr. Leslie, Gay and Dr. Paul Carliner-who' since the beginning of the war. had been trying to find n cure for seasickness.
Gls Tried It
It has been found to be 97.5 per cent. effective as a result of experiments anrried
They started giving dramamine
ness, with excellent results,
out by two American doctors to air travellers prone to sick- who tried it out, among others, on a shipload, of G.Is during a
of the Atlantic at
The drug was then tentatively at its led cut last yaape in the US
■Winier di a troop-|
luxury liner Americh, where ail- asked.:if behaved. they would care to try this new
Intensive Before Mr. Butler's visit to the the application of a 40-hour newspaper Alertax said the State Department, about 200 ml week.-Reuter.
nation's feelings were "deeply verslly aludents demonstrated be-- wounded". It published huge fore the U.S. Embassy in down
Ing an American sailor perched
"Fuera, Zanguis! (get cut Yun-TISKANTARIO for the ing passengers · Were on the head of the statue of keen" they shouted. Two stonesperiment because it Jose Marti, Cuba's apostle of were hurled through a window of like a "bucking bronco." liberty.
the Embassy entrance.-Associat-
Europe s Post-War Recovery
Paris, March 12. Western Europe is going into its fourth post-war spring with jobs for almost everyone ex- cept Itallans and Germans.
The crowd threatened to lynch the sailors, Police, who described the culprits as "rouring drunk," ared into the air to save them.
"Only excellent, prompt and effective works by the Cuban police avoided an extremely ser- ious riot," said Captain Thomus Cullen, Naval attache of the U.S. Embassy.
on Mart's statue.
ed Press,"
Donations To Salvation Army
Mr. Leung Yew, general manager of the Wing Wo Hing firm, and Dodwell and Com- On Saturday, U.S. Ambassador pany, Limited, have each Mr. Robert Butier placed a wreath donated HK$1,000 to the Sal-
He went to vation Army. the central park scene in company The full that of the latest danations with Carlos Hevia, Cuba's Minis-Jollowa (— theter of State, to whom he had ex-
Tretonly acknowledged #16,005; N.U, pressed "very profound regret at Better #10: 1. Skinner $50, Leung Yew the unfortunate conduct of several 11,00; Mr. and Mrs. F.3. Wakefield 20: sailors of the United States Navy
wor
Thousands are alrendy Idle in The worry is more about lack dispute over contracts between of workers then about
ивет- the Brotherhood of Railways and ployment, nn Associated Press Steamship Clerks Union (affiat-survey showed. With food con- ed to the American Federation ditions the best since the of Labour) and the company. And U.S. ald i assured,
average Western European looks Union officials have asked the forward to a better life as long President of the Union, Mas war can be avoided. George M. Harrison, leading the
Between them, Italy and Wea negotiations nearly a year old intern Germany have almost three Chicago, for permission to picket million jobless, official igures New York's two biggest railway say. Manpower experts see some statiems, the Grand Central Ter- hope that Germany will straigh minal messi the Pennsylvania. ten itself out. Italy, can do sa
only if a war The sloppuge began with
n way is found for some a 200,000 workers to
leave the "go-slow" four days ago as a country every year. protest against what the. Union
Only about 300,000 Britons are described as stalling in the
of work. The rest out of negotiations. The Union asking for
hes Joying # 40-hour Qive-day
casing of clothes week and wage increases.
retioning and an end to sweets rationing for the first time since In Detroit, the United Auto the war, Britain is even trying to Workers Union (afiliated to the Congress of Industrial Organisa-mport certain types of workers -particularly miners and textile tions) said that it would not hands. change its plan to seek pension Some 120,000 Frenchmen lack and wage demands for some job and the number is grow- 100,000 production workers for ing slightly but it la still less the For
Ford Motor Company.
than one per cent of the labour The Union President, Mr. forces. For the rest there is al- Walter P. Reuther, said that the most unlimited food and some of Union rejected the company's the prices are even dropping. claims that it could not grant the France, too, needs miners and demands and meet competition farm workers and has asked the in a buyers' market.
European Recovery Plan Or-
are en-
Mr. Beuther sald the com-ganisation to find some 300,000 pany's "pica of poverty was of them
unimpressive."
Press,
by 1952.-Associated
Elly Kaloorle and Sons $100: C.. Laung $25 W. Sillani 9ilk Store $25; Br... Macabe $20; British-American
There were 11 sallors involved Tobacco Co., Ltd. #200: Canton Over in the riotous proceedings. Ap-Trading Co $100: N.C. Chan 1100; Wenis parently eight of them were Just Trading Co. 329 A.E. Renardel de passers-by. Three of the sailors, Lavalette 10: Ganeral Amusements Ltd. all from the USS Minesweeper 1100; Mia Hot Moncrieff $20, Van Ree Rodman, cavorted around the kum Paper Lul, 1301 Hung Tal Bank statue while rage swept through 22531 0.3. Gimore 100: F.. Lel 3501 $100; Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltil. a watching crowd of Cubans,
Radha Kluboò and Ca. 160; Mr. O. Ektn- mer 180. R. Juhannesson 1500; Me, E. The three sailors were released Jobs #10: Annon. 310: F.A. 1 $10; by police in custody of Captain Maraman Hong Kong Chins Ltd 50 Cullen on condition they be dis-Hr, P.K. For 160: Jones and Co., Ltd. ciplined by the Navy. The sal- $103: Netherlands Harbor Works 125: lors are among several thousand Mr. Kite $50; A.W. Balter #20: 1.D. here this week on a carrier, three feath 855; Lodwell and Co., Ltd. $1,000. minesweepers and a tug visiting ships, with the offending sailors aboard, left Havons on schedule early Saturday.
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Let than two per cent. of the soldiers given the drug as a pre- ventive were scusick; in another group where the malady was al- lowed to develop in its natural why the drug falled in only hbout. three per cent of
the
cases.
cure, and most of them agreed, or the other whether or not they because they didn't care one way were treated as human guinea- piga.
Success of the America experi- ment was so promising that the two doctors decided to try it out on the Army.
4
It all began because "on un- They did, on some of the 1,370 named American woman wasn't G.1.s selling in the
troopship sick in a tram one day.
General Bailou during un XX- tremely rough crossing from Now She was given a capsule of York to Bremerhaven this win- dramamine to try to cure her fter.
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Out of 10 enses of sickness, ranging from mild to violent. spasms, 407 were directly cured by dramamine, and tn 11 was there only partial relief or fal- Jure.
"Careful observation was made," said Dr. Carliner, "for any unpleasant symptoms from this drug, but though thousands of
capsules have been älven there was not one case of illness or discomfort which necessitated discontinuance."
So now, after this experiment and others since carried out, the doctors feel sure they really have discovered a cure and a proven- tion to sen and other "motion" sicknesses.
-DOUGLAS KAY
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