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BRITAIN EXPECTS A
TROUBLED WEEK-END
WORKER ADVISES
STRIKERS
London, June 2.
London, June 2.
97 The big wave of industrial unrest sweeping the country threatenad Britons tonight with their most troubled holiday week-end since the Labour Government came to power in 1945. Top-level, officials of the Government, the rail- ways' and trade unions sweated over plans to keep the nation's railway network running in spite of the vows of locomotive crews to continue their "token" strikes for the third successive Sunday.
The Communist Daily Wor-
ker, in its report on the strikes
in London, today encouraged the unofficial railway strikers to ignore appeals to return to A
work.
Bir Stafford Cripps met leaders Congress, of the Trades Union lending executive body of Bri- tain's 8,000,000 unionised work- ста. The meeting was held be- bit closed doors.
ed
The TUC chiefs were expect-
for to press
cuts in prices and private profits, a continuing sure point with
price
prospect of jammed railway stations, abandon- ed journoys. and concellod excursions looms before millions of Whitsun Solidaymakers. Another cloud In the holiday † decided against strike action but
of n continuation
to continue to boycott a Cana- skies is the
8.000 dian vessel in the port there. dupute which har brought dockers out on strike and 'crip- pled the West Coast ports
and Liver- Bristol, Avonmouth
them, as the
poon
fields
wago
of using their influence agalost widespread
mands.
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Sir Btafford angored the domanda TUC by defying its for purchase tax cuts and by raising prices of four foods in hla budget two months ago. Industrial unrest has increas et since then and small unom- cial strikes have been frequent. Associated Press.
U.S.--CANADIAN WAR INDUSTRY
Washington, June 2. The United Statca and Canada are taking steps to dovetail
industry their war plans, as they have their overalt military strategy.
re-
production, Manpower, sources and other problems which each would have to face in the event of another confllet are to be tackled co-operatively under arrnogements made yesterday by new joint Industrial Mobilisa- tion Committee.
Officials prodict that the ar- rangement will largely reator: the Industrial partnership which existed in the fine)
stages of
World War II. Since 1042 the two nations have had a perman- ent Joint board
of
Cargoes Pilo Up
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Now York, Friday. Nothing has changed in Now York-on the surface.
The city looks sleek and pro- sperous, freshly scrubbed for the summor, brightly dressed, healthy, and sure of itself.
The streets are perhaps more crowded as tourists pour in from the West and Middle West, block- ing the sidewalks, gawking at tall buildings, meamerised by the lavish window displays.
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BUYERS STRIKEE
The traffic seams more gealed and Irritable much ferociously than over with Con- noisier and more impulsive than gress, London's.
There are three or four dazz- lingly white new buildings where there were only scaffoldinge, and girdere six weeks ago,
And certainly not Congress itself, which doesn't know whether to pump, prime, or economise.
New York doesn't know what to do, Washington doesn't. The Mid- Bonfire Blaxo
die West doesn't. And the Far Mith-avenue, the boulevard of West doesn't. Wall-street and the hand-exports, of course, haven't an the great stores, la even somer than I recalled 1, and idea.
bonfire Broadway's
blazo la a The US is going through a noon conflagration, stupendously confused and confusing transition in a perplexed state of mind. And Avonmouth, bright and blatant. ht Bristol and
The town appears everything it is looking around for a com- troops drafted in last week-and
Tho Trouble came also to the coal-
British bo panion in misery. discharge that it proclaims itself to to continued 2,000 today of strike with a
cargoes. The the biggest, strongest, wealthiest, naturally, have been selected, food and general
When I sailed home for my miners at Blaenaven, Wales.
decided to fastest, most modern, most spec-
all were cheers Govern dockers committee
the great holiday there Gravely-perturbed
of the two tacular metropolis in
round for the British recovery ment and Labour Party leaders hear representatives
the wide world, involved in Blackpool rival unions
The people appear everything miracle. We were the toast of the prepared to leave for
dispute the Canadian seamen's
that they нау they are the town and a target dor tribute. We International Union Seafarers*
aren't now. Seamen's amartest, slickest, luckiest, most und
Canadian
go-ahead, industrious, audacious, Union.
energetic folk on earth. their caser. After considering
Certainly
never 1 have for will vote
or
and nore Bniartly groomed against a return to work.
elaborately dressed women; more At Liverpool, more than 8,000 neatly manicured, pomaded, razor- dockers ara on strike today and
sharp men: more glossy, chrom export cargos are piling up on
lum-trimmed cars; more terrify- the quaysides.
ingly tall towers. Mr.
The
in the Midlands, where next week Conference the Party's Annual will try to diagnose the causes of this new industrial rosh.
The strikes bit hard
the dockers of the Government, par- presence the
railways, conl
and docks are now undertaking,
at the
nationalized
And the fact tim
sil are unofficial is a blow to the
authority of the
Trades Unton Party's the Labour
Congreful wing
new
most
railwaymen demand the The
schedules withdrawal of
that some tocuro- whlett mean
occasionally have to tive crews spend nights away from home.
Mr. W. P. Allen, Labour Relat- the Railway Officer of lon
agreed today to meet Executive, tratie union leaders to discuss the whole principle of these so-called "lodging turns." The date of the meeting remains unfixed.
Fraight Yards
Sida by elda with the Bunday striko
#low" threat is a "go movement, disorganising traffic at same of Britain's most Im.
portant railway freight yards. which shows no sign of abating | tonight.
Using this method to press a on defence to demand for an all-round 10 shil-
carry out strictly military planings a week increase for all rail-
ning. Reuter.
Algiers, June 2. Threo thousand troops cm- lurked here today In the steam- er Sentry for service in French Indo-China, Reuler.
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an-
Isaacs told Parliament
to
are being made that efforts spread the disputes but the Lon.
a
Britain 'Stubborn' For every editorial about a possible American depression there are two about a British Bnancial crash. For every speech about a possible American economic crisis there are three about British catastrophe.
Now This is the newsreel of
We are being chided for not devaluing the pound-the cam- York'n skyline come to life, cellulold fim turned into reality.paign for devaluation is colossal
we are being condemned for high don
this dockers
But behind the beauty and the morning did
for prices and low production, muscles and money there's ach not fail for this. The Government
There are formbed having too many plans and for has made it clear that the dis-Ing anxiety.
not havin- a plan. pule in Canada is net a mattering in the House of Power.
When I left New York the da
being called Inflation which should concern workers in He added that this this country.
recession is is also the view of both sides of recension. Now the
being called a mild slump. the industry.
Americans aren't people to be Mr. Willam Gallacher, Com-
the frightened by wards, and tiring of munist,
that suggesterf
double talk they're admitting striking British dockers deserve bluntly and honestly (and inter- commendation for their "comminably) that the slump is here. rudely loyalty" to the Canadian Not a depression, certainly not
Union. Seamen's
a crash, but a slump-slight and Mr. Isaacs replied: "It might | mild, but most surely a slump. be. It everyone knew the action
Perhaps because of this plain roal facts of this union and its association desire to face o to with a certain political organisa- trouble will be avoided. tion they might want to cundemn IL"--Reuter.
PI CONSULATE
IN AMOY
te
advice.
Railway Executive The nounced today that it will meel
Manila, May 2. delegates of all railwaymen's un-
President Quirino of the ions
tomorrow afternoon to re-
officially Philippines was open negotiations on the claim.
Mr. ported today to have stated that The Minister Parliament the retention or closing of the George Isaacs, told today that he is hopeful of a set- Philippine Consulate in the tlement of the decks dispute South China port city of Amoy which has put over 8,000 dock will depend upon the Chinese workers out of work and crippled | residents there. West Coast
west
ports.
He said, the report added: "We Consulate which was colablished
few hours earlier, 300 Lun- i don't want to close the Amoy
Sales Are Down The New Yorkers aren't kidding themselves. Their newspapers are tentoring articles with typical old- fashioned titles such as "Adrift in Business Scas": their magazines are printing columns headed "How Many Will Be Jobless? Signs Point To 4,000,000"
Their radio commentators an- nounce that department stores sales are down 16 per cent. from
a year ago.
Thero's no doubt that business is slipping, prices are falling, jobs are shrinking, but not to a dan gerous degree.
Most salient fact in the entire economic picturo is the public's spond increasing reluctance to money. The people aren't fossing
away their dollars recklessly and
extravagantly. The millionaires of the Chinese along Park-avenus and the house- there but if the Chinese do not wives in Brooklyn are waiting to want our Consulate there we | see what's going to hapmen. will close-it,"
don dockers attended an unoffi- cial open-air meeting to hear for the benefit delegate from the 2.000 Bristol and Avonmouth dockers, who have refused handle the cargoes of Canadian ships manned by the The President was commenting' Seafarers' International Union, on press reports that Philippine About 50 men voted to give Consular cials in Amoy are Anoncist hacking to the West being threatened with bodily Country dockers: no' vote was harm by Chinese there, thousands taken against the proposition. of whom are applying to como to the Philippines on the ground Another Bristol delegate ad- dressed dockers at the Scottish that they were former residents port of Leith, where a meeting in this country--Reuter.
Ex-Red's Story At Perjury Trial
Now York, June 2.
Whittaker Chambers today testified that in Decem- bor 1938 he tried in vain to get Mr. and Mrs. Alger Hiss to break with the Communist Party. The pudgy ex-Communiát cour- | On cross-examination, Cham- ler, testifying at the His per-bers promptly admitted that he jury trial told of his four-year had been gulity of perjury in friendship with Hiss and charg 1937 and at that Ume he was ed that Hiss had kept him sup an underhanded enemy of the plled with Government documents United States. for underground Red agents,
However, he spld, in 1933. after 14 years in the Communist Party, he told the Hisses ha was breaking away and begged them to join him.
They replied that they would not break, he continued. "His said he had been informed I was to be given a more import- ant post if I went back and made my poace with the Party."
Earilar,
he Identified two strips of the famous pumpkin, shell microfilm and 47 GOV. arnment documents which, ho said, had been given to him by Miss.
He also testified that in 1937 Hiss agreed to furnish Govern- ment secrets to a Russian col- onel to help the Soviet Union defend itself against Fascism.- -- United Press,
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CHURCHILL IN DELEGATION
London, June 2.
Winston Churchill, a leader
Sir Stafford Cripps is being alven the full treatment from both Democrats and Republicans, Britain's Socialists Are
being assailed.
There's niso
to D tendency blame Britain for America's troubles. We are being stubborn and pig-headed and old-fashioned. There's no real anger in these arguments directed at us. are America's most trusted and esteemed Ally ("Thank God the British," say the Americans when they think about Russia). but we are being an irritating drag on the economie front.
That's the general picture. You should know about it.
We
for
Plenty has been happening in politics while I've been away. Franklin D. Roosevelt, fun, the
image of handsome spit
father, is being hailed as a future President on the strength of hin Now York Congress- election as man on a Liberal ticket.
Russian Jitters
The dreadful litters about Rus Bian
still intentions naturally plague Americans.
The Post Office is being so' thoroughly investigated that soon, no doubt, you'll have to prove
stamp. you're not a Communist to buy a My own first week back in harness has been mainly occupied with remounting the merry-go- round. I've
with talked Francis Evans, the British Con- su-General, and British Informa
Sir
tion accompanied Her-
bari
and Anna Nearlo to see the Amerkan preview or the winning Daily Mail film "Spring In Park Lane," entertained Deborah Bartley, at my
apart- drink with Mr. ment, had Churchill's daughter Barah, who is capturing enormous publicity here for her film "All Over The Town," passed the time of day with Frank Sinatra and Arthur Trenchor, ment a message of sym- Greer Garson, I in a pathy to Hollywood hospital, written and dietated 163 replies to readers.
Briton Is Star
There has been strenuous check- ing on the entertainment altuation. So far as Britain is concerned the altuation is good, Vaudeville has been reborn at Broadway's Palace Theatre, due to the brilliance of Lancashire's Norman Evans, Without Evans it would have been stillborn.
Shaw is thriving as a result of Welshman Maurice Evan's revival of "Man and Superman," and the British film "One Woman's Story," starring Ann Todd and Claude Raine, is a smash hit.
The tale of two cities, London and New York, in that British stars are as popular here as Amaricans are there.
Best thing I've read since I got back was Lane Norcoti's biting satire on my shipboard diary in last Wednesday's Daily Mail,
Footnote.-Only 61 weeks bo- his fore my next trip to England,
Syrian--Lebanese Relations Easier
Beirut, Juno 2. Syrian-Lebanese ́relations eased today with tho raloase of Captain Tabbara and three other Syrian Army officers as ordered by the Egyptian-Saudi Arabian arbitration Com-
mittee.
The Syrian officers were in- have now been lifted.-Associal- dicted for the murder of Husseln ed Press. Kamel in Lebanese territory on May 12. The Syrians claimed Kamel was a spy for Israel.
The indictment has not beca withdrawn and presumably the officers will now be tried by a Syrlan Military court.
The release of the officers
in the movement for European came a few hours after a Syrian unity, has been appointed one half a mile into Lebanese terri-
Army regiment had penetrated of the 10 members of Britain's tory.
withdrew The regiment delegation to the first Counell after the Lebanese called the at- tention of the Syrian Govern- The Prime Minister, Clementment to the release order that Attlee, announced the names of had been issued the day before. the British delegation in the House of Commons.
of Europe.
Government sources here said The Council, in effect a Cabinet that there is no connection be- and a Parliament of Europe, plans tween the penetration and the its first 10-nation session in release of the officers. The bor- Strasbourg, France, in August. der violation was a mistake, they Members are Britain, France, say, caused by poorly defined Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxem-boundaries bourg, Denmark, Sweden, Nor-
way, Italy and the Republic of The Press Director in Le- Ireland. Turkey and Greeco also, banón, Fayez MaLenim, said that travel restrictions be- have asked for membership and border will probably be admitted at the tween Syria and Lebanon, result- first sessions.—Associated Press. ing from the Tabbara incident.
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