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SERIOUS SITUATION IN BRITISH LABOUR Unrest In Industries Threatens To Spread
'GO SLOW" MOVEMENTS
London, May 31.
The tide of unrest which has brought Britain into the most serious labour situation since the war tonight threatened to engulf now sections of industry.
Trade union leaders, employers and Government officials are trying to hold
in check a series of unofficial strikes and "go slow" movements.
The latest report showed:
RAF PUT ON A SHOW
Salisbury, May 31. Air Attaches from all coun- tries except Eustern Europe saw a demonstration of the falest United States nil British
lyndte the cargo of the steamer | Fromore, whielt 'had' deels diverted On the State-run Railways, from strike-bountl Avonmouth. 2,600 workers are refusing to do ¦ Efforts to get work resumed, col- overtime an pfceework in "M, lapsed today. slow" ctles at two of the coun- Ly's key freight depot-Nines The men deviled to maintain the strike til ja grantee is ms, nour Lord, and Lonelin
given that the Framore will not Hond, Manchester.
he worked while she is the sub- feet of a dispute.
In the docks. 4,700 men are on atrike at Avonmouth, Bristol and Liverpool because of attempts to discharge cargoes from Cobodion vessels manned by crews of the Senfarees International Union,
THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1949.
Japan After Asia Markets
Calcutta, May 31..
Taro Matsuda, Coumellar at the Japanese Ministry of International Trade, said hers today that Japan wishes to revive her markets in Asia, particularly in South East Asia, but that problems like the conversion of Sterling In. to dollar are a considerable obstacle.
Mr. Malauda, one of seven Japanere dalogates to the Infornational Labove Office conference, is passing through Calcutta on his way 10 Qenava.
Japan, ho declared, has lald the foundation for s now #iberal labour polley.
One significant development is the growth of genuine trade unionism in the country, he added. Reuter.
Australia's Right To Decide
Canberra, May 31.
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Cominform Said At Work In Portugal
Lisbon, May 31,
The Cominform is trying to recruit as many young mon as possible in Portugal, according to the sami-official papor "Diario da Manha."
The action, the paper says, follows the heavy losses suffered by the Communist Party after the arrest of its general secretary, the lawyer, Alvaro Cunhal, and Professor Jose Silva Mar- tina several weeks ago..
The paper, quoting the Con- among various other aliases, le tinental News Service, considers known as Jono Carvalho.. that the Cominforin considers Carvalho enteres Portugal last Portugal of first close importance February and has been active st as an observation point from which Oporto. Although he reached this American Marshall Ald supplies country from Sao Paulo, Brazil. can be watched carefully an they his headquarters are in Mexico. are disembarked and Беспило It was Jono Carvalho, accord- Portugal will be a key-point in ing to "Diario da Mantio," who,
under any future war.
the orders
of Colonni Furmanov, Soviet Fifth Column Portugal's currrency Is stable head for South Ameriet, and as- markets aisled by Miguel Pavlenko and fact Luka-Belamaria, organised the
Brazilian spy ring.
and foreign Currency here are unrestricted, which is of interest to the Soviet Economic Department, who And It favourable for the purchase of foreign currency,
than
Portugal would also be a more The Australian Prime Minis- convenient base for the control
Communist ter, Mr. Joseph Chifley, said in of Spanish the House of Representatives through the Pyrenees,
In January, 1949, the paper here today that in conversations
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Com- with leaders of the countries to munist, Paulo de Morals. Portuguese the north of Australia he had of the Cominform, Captain of the agent learned that they offer no ob-
Red Army
and
friend jection to the Australian right General Cordon, commanding the to say who ought not 10 be military organisations of the Spanish Communists in France. allowed to live in Australia.
He was answering a member was sent from Marseille to Tan of the Opposition who asked fler with large sums of money. administration of This money was deposited at »
The 7,100-ton Gulfside, Ite at Avonmouth for two months be cause of the Canadian seamen's dispute, slipped out of port early today, pulled by tugs operated by whether the
her way to Canada. the lock gntes. She is now onartur
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of
Bghter and bomber techniquo try on the Eastern outskirts of dock office staff, who also opened | the Minister of Immigration, Mr. Tangler bank and credited to the
at Old Sarum, neur here, today. Royal Air Force, Royal Navy and United States aircraft pro- virled the display before sentor officers of the America, and Brl- tish Services.
who are attending
At the great Ford motor fue
London, 2,000 men have been suspended because they had begun a "go slow" movement.
Ofeinis of the Railway Execu- leaders tive and railway union met today to consider the North East Englund "Sundays only" un 'n curve at the School of Land-offcial strike which again disor- Ale Warfare.
ganised week-end traffic. The bighlight of the exhibition. The London district of the Na-
tional was a demonstration by Mosquito
of Union
Railwaymen, Royal Air
representing 49,000 workers, to planes from
bombing day decided to hold a mass rally bases in Germany of
on wate claims of 10 shillings under vndar control.
weekly. but the National Unter Four Mesquites, each carrying of Railwaymen announced later one 500-pound bough and eight that the Railway Executive ha 25-pount bractice bombs, drop- agreed to negatinte on the union's pea th
fonds necurately within clains, and bad said that they the fam
# from control would put forward alternative) point 24 miles away.
proposals,
over
bad Sovlet Economic Department. Arthur Calwell, is making felends for friends
Australial with Northern neighbours,
umn
Carvalho, the paper concludes. is now secretly recruiting, with the help of seven others, among the dockers at Oporto,-Uulted Press
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Mr. Chifley added: "We have
media throughout the refused to open for her when a crew from the Seafarers interna- heard a lot about Malays. When Beveral weeks after the ar world. began its first meeting tual Union (to which the strik-I visited that country I' found rival of Morals at Tangier, the of 1949 here today.
Malayun ing 'Canadian Seamen's Union is that the
Government creation at the Vila Real de i The Convention on Interna- opposed) was flown
from hud imposed a complete prohibi- Santo Antonio, in the Bouth tional transmission of news and Canada to take the ship to Mon- tion on the migration of Chinese of Portugat, of a clandestine right of correction was adopted treat,
anel Indians,
Cominform bureau for the dia by the General Assembly during "Similar festrictions
Junve
Another of Communist pro-its session just ended.
frecklom of operated in other Northern coun
In- In Spain and Portugal convention of tries, each of which makes FL was revealed.
formation is to be discussed by The Ford Motor Company an- nouneed today that nearly 2,000 Australia retains the right.
clear that it retains the right, nå
The
responsibility for this the fourth men have joined the "go slow"
to buren, however, appears to have Assembly session of the General who decide
shall be atlowed been in the hands of another The present movement at
Dagenham entry."-Reuter. their
Portuguese Communiat,
will receive who, works. The remaining 10.000
from legally people in the factory are working He ununt. The 2,000 men have suspended without pay. hern thigh no one has been dismissed. The Executive have hitherto re- About 658 men, engaged on the Force fuser to begin talks tmtil the ennstruction of a new £8,000,000 | technique In supporting Innd (union's present claims are with- | power station !at Bremboroughs.
Force
Six United States Air Force
B.29 Superfortresses from
England base
strategic Alr
North ntrated
forces.
deman.
Jet Meteors and USAF-4.80 jet aircraft demonstrated high CX- plosive tracer stealing on a the ol emply vchletes, und RAF Spitres nut Royal Navy Sea Furies and Fireflies carried out
dive rocket altacks on aircraft, Reuter.
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Efforts Fail
Ford Troubles
Cheshire, struck work today be-
The National Union of Rail-cause of the alleged non-payment waymen appealed to Manches- by two workenen of arrears of ter and Nine Elm workers totinion subscriptions, amounting to
working resuma normal
so; less than £3. that the negotiationa will nat be prejudiced,
At Liverpool Docks, where 2,700 parked dockers are on strike in support of the men who had refused to
Withdrawal From
Korea
By U.S.
Washington, May 31.
The State Department is expected to issue a state- ment confirming the United States intention to withdraw virtually all American troops from South Korea within the next 60 days.
At the same time the statement jorders. On the other hand, they will ensure the Korean people believe an all-out effort at ag- that this dory not mean they ore (gression against South
Koren heing abandoned by the United from internal sources will sure- States,
ceed whelher American
This is the third time in lesa than six months that strikes have held Up work at the 'station.
Dynamite Used In Mines Battle
La Paz, May 31.
Striking minors hurlad dynamite sticks from hilltop rodoubts today in a battle with Bolivian troops trying to keep order after the week-end of rioting in the Andes tin minos,
A 'state of siege has been de- Two mines and a railway are
In the House of Commons to-clared through Bolivia following reported to have been closed in day, the Labour Minister. Mr. the strikers' action In bringing the Catavia aron, 15 miles away George Isane, declared: "We can- about what a Government spokes- in the high Andes.
not countenanco the action that Jan been devirled, upon hy the workers in Nine Elmas und Man- chester."
At Ning Elms, normally Brt- lain's busiest goods depots, the acceptance of all goods except perishable food and export freight was suspended today.
Workers' Decision
London, May 31. Workers al the Ford Motor Company's Dagenham works, where nearly 2,000 were suspend- el without pay for adopting "go slow" tetics, tonight decided to resume normal production.
forces
A mass meeting of workern con- are there or not. For that rea- firmesi a decision by the suspended no necessity in men to get back to full team
The statement will probably beson they see matte by the acting Secretary of langer delaying withdrawal.-nhead at the works immediately.
State, Mr. James Webb, at his United Press.
weekly press conference, and is expected to confirm that by the end of July all American forces in South Korea will have been withdrawn except for about 500 officers and men who will remain as a milltary advisory roup.
American forces' in South Koren are estimated to number somewhere in the neighbourhood of 7,000.
The official statement wil{ make an effort to place the with- drawal in its proper perspective. It will point out that the United Nations 1947 resolution provided for the withdrawal of American and Soviet forces from South and North Korea respectively after an independent Korean Government had been set up through demo- cratic elections supervised by n United Nations Commission.
The American #tatement will attempt to liny Korean - fears, It is expected to point out that the United States is providing South Korea with a substantial amount of assistance, under, the Economic Co-operation Adminis tration aci during the coming
azaist
year and also expects the mill- tary advisory group to greatly in Increasing the efficiency of the Korean army and police.
The United States' attitude is that the Korean police and army aro suffiolant to handle the law question and will have ample equipment from surplus the United States forces withdraw.
The State Department has been under pressure from Army: offt- clals for some time to agree, to withdrawal of troops." The Army contends that the South Korela police and army are competent le desi with any internal dis“ |
the company announced.-Router.
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