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LABOUR TO DISCUSS ELECTION PLATFORM
BRITISH LABOUR UNREST
Londen, June 4. Hopes of settling the "every Sunday" railway
strikke
41.
Blackpool, June 4.
The Labour Party, jolted by setbacks in recont local elections, opens its annual conference hore on Monday.
It will approve a platform for its fight to retain sontrol of the Government in next year's gen-
eral elections.
Organisers
fitact delegates instreamed
Dware Into Dinckpool North and North East England that the next 12 months will be in time for this week-end's crucial period for the Labour swept inte holidaymakers regime which was Whitsunde were finally dashed today when power in 1945. leaders decided to continue their strike at midnight to night, for the third consecutive Sunday.
Strikers' delegates met at York
dispute, to discus the
begua when new schedules were intro- duced compelling engine to spend nights away from home
crews
on.
After the three-hour meeting, the Chairman announced:
TO- is definitely night's sirike We have re-affined our decision to strike on Sundays until the railway executive gives us some Indiention that they will revert to the position before the new lodging turns were introduced on
May 23 and to resume negotia- tions from there."
After three years of unbroken electoral successes, the Socialist movement ran into two biller de fents in mal
etections In the past few months.
ACTRESS WAS WED SECRETLY
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1040.
Resolution Against Conscripition
its
Ballbury, June 4.
today are the abolition
The National League of Young Liberale approved at here Annual conference
resolution calling for of compulsory military service in Britain.
The resolution declared the fallure of conscription is self- evident. I
for Also called substantial Improvement of long term volunteers.
The conference voted pro- posals for a 15 per cent in. crease in pay for all Service ranke, equal pay for Bervice- women, and for an immediate Improvement in barracks and barrack equipment. Reuter.
Gold Fever Grips Stock Exchange
Johannesburg, Juno 4: South Africa's “Littio man” scraped together his savings today to join in the gold fover which gripped the Union's Stock Exchange following yesterday's report of a fabulously rich striko on an Orange Free State farm.
Crowds blocked the Exchange entrance as typists, secretaries, clerks, telephone girls, all tried to get in on South Africa's latest gold boom. Mining experts' caution over Dhe significance of the And had Htle effect on the hysterical buying.
KACHIN LEADER A SMUGGLER
Shares of the Free State Gold
who Areas Company,
hold an option on the form. trebled in
Rangoon, June 5. value in 24 hours the noon que- tation bring 40 shillings com-
Duwa Zaw Rip, chairman of Counell, was pared with yesterday morning's the Kachin State price of 15/3d.
arrested on Friday by excise au- With
the thorities at Rangoon airport for it announcement of the find, busi- allegedly smuggling oplum, nesmen and option hunters be- was officially learned on Satur- sleged the village of Hennenmen. day. five miles from plead with
few hours of
London. June 5. The veteran clot. Oscar Hemolka, and the actress, Joun Tetzel, left on Saturday for a undis- Some party leaders profess to honeymoon trip to an see nothing simileast in the set- clored part of England.
Their marriage In New York a others are bocks, but
worried that
before boarding the Mr. Winston Churchill's few hours hard-ghting Conservatives are liner Queen Elizabeth was dla
cloxed by Miss Tetzel in a trans- winning back Important ground.
atlantic broadcant on The conference this year.
Friday the view of these
night. lenders, must nation the
The ship left New York on May with the impress
and virility of the La-29 and arrived in Southampton necessity and bour cause, and must win even
property owners. on Friday. Homolka is 50, Tetzel Both played in the Brond- ils policy of 27. wider support for
capital of Mingaladon. and way run of the play "I Remember of industry nationalisation
Mamo."-Associated Press, expanded social services.
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Thus, there are reports that the Labour Party platform for the period. 1950-1955 may be forced to a vote.
The delegates will meet again in York next Thursday, he said.
The present plan is to stage a Hundreds of Whitem travellers,
debate on its Contents two-day knowing tomorrow's traffic was!
and use the arguments presented uncertain, left early from King's to mostify it if the party exeative Cross, London terminus for the considers this necessary. North East.
Labour delegates
Soni
feet
Before the railwaymen's decl-that any changes should be made sion was known, British Railways on the spot. had already cancelled 28 holiday
trains, due to run tomorrow,
The "go slow" policy enforced at n number of railway Roods depots this week s D protest
the delays in against
awarding wifge increases of 10 shillings per head weekly, continued today despite on appeal by trade union leaders to the men to resume Bermal work-Reuter.
GUN BATTLE
IN BERLIN
Berlin, June 5, Soviet sector German police to night captured a father. moller
and 18-year-old son after a gun
Botter Wages
The platform was embodied in #booklet "Labour Belirves เค early in April.
was published Deltal," which
NO STANDING WITH THE GIRLS Douglas, Isle of Man, June 5. Explaining difculties in recruit- ing British men for scavenging jobs, Buningham's Deputy City Engineer, Mr. D. G. Bevan, told municipal engineers' conference
scavenger, here: "To be garbage can emptier or a sewer cleaner does not give a man anv standing with his lady friends."
-Reuter,
ITALIAN LABOUR WAR CONTINUES
Rome, June 4.
Italy's labour war continued today with anc-day Northern centres, general strikes in two Forli and Rimini.
farm The strike at 1,500,000
its workers entered
18th day while Government officials strove hard to prevent a threatened nn- tional walk-out of 500,000 build-
One of it themes is that "Bring workers. tain cannot trust the Tories."
Its major sections call for
1.
tion;
A drive to increase produc-
A work-for-all programme Nationalisation of industrial Insurance, the cement and sugar Industries;
4.
A
nt
manufac-
Itellan motorcar turers reported that production had dropped by 30 per cent na result of the industry's three monthe old "go slow" mavɗ- ment
The Northern one-day strikes This, they said, led to a delay wern in protest against the ser- of several months in delivery. lous injury of woman picket Consequently, new cars are be Yesterday
Forli, whereing sold at over-the-list prices.- workers, attempting to return to | Reuter, a strike-bound engineeing shop, clashed with pickets,
RAMIE MILLS Scattered incidents still marked the farm workers' strike
Orlando, Florida, June 5. A mill for national
established three wage agreements which has,
far, have cost the years ago to produce ramie-a
Encouragement for private a seientific enterprise, including council to assist industry:
8. Better wages, technleni nid and assistance to rural England, of three people and injuries strong lustrous fibre, said by
and
battle in a Berlin flat.
6. The family were part of a gang
Continuation of the drive wanted by the police and police for increased social services. headquarters sold "veritable The booklet boasts that before arsenal" ol small-arms were the war there were 11,000 peo found in the flat.
ple who had incomes over £3,000 Seven other members of the a year ufter taxes Now the When figure is only 250-United Press-
Kiuig were arrested later. the police first approached the Rouse the father and son shot al them from a Arst storey window. -Reuter.
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will be among the features of MAS Melbourne, Australia's serond aircraft carrier being · built in Britain, according to the "Sydney Sunday Herald" today.
The newspaper said that other the carrier-to cost features of about A£7,000,000, will include rmlor devices to chart the course of hostile ships and aireraft from greater distances and with great- er accuracy thun hitherto thought possible.
A direction-finding bear will also be installed to detect and follow the movements of sub- marines.
control devices and
No gunnery will allow rapid, accurate concentrated fre on invisible tar- gets. The carrier is expected to be ready in 1952.-Reuter,
Paris, June 4.
The Lorraine descendants of Mathias Slebert, who emigrated America in 1872 and died there 12 years ago leaving $700,- 000,000 to be divided among his family, have learned that another Jarin expatriate, the brother of Ma- thias, has just died in America, bequeathing $420,000,000,-Reu-
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LIBERTY
to ab
about 200 others in clashes some to be superior to cotton between strikers and non-er rayon. has been sold at strikers.
public auction. It was Ramic
晶
No strike has yet been called Mills lof Florida Inc., and was in the building trade but the sold for US$186,827, National Builders Federation C. B. Moak, agent for the buy- threatened on Thursday to renew er, said that Ramie Mills has the agitation province by pro- more than 600 seres of ramie vince, beginning today, if out- under cultivation and arrangement standing problems (wages) are will made to contlaue production.
not settled to its satisfaction, ---Associated Press.
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to the farm. formers and
other Erdfeel Farm is owned by Mr. J. Van Rensburg, a rich, retired option on the 4,200-acre property for about £220,000,
farmer. He recently gave
Im
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The arrest was made as Duwa
Zaw Rip stepped from the plane arriving from the Kachin State Excise authorities sald 10 packets of oplum worth 8,000 Rupees were found in Rip's lug- Rage. Rip served in the British
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Exports Cautious Mining experts way that the rich strike must be considered conjunction with cartler borehole rosulla
the pro- perty--Erdfeet
Farm,
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