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15th November 1949, a daughter,
on
DECISION BY THE
BALLOT-BOX.
The free democratic system is usually seen at its worst during an election campaign
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1949.
TITO'S YEAR OF PERIL
Britain Does Work Harder
By JOHN BINGHAM It has been said for so long, and so often, that people in other countries, particularly America, work harder than the British that many people in Britain are believing it. Is it true?
I have been making a personal one-man investigation, and this is what. I have found out about people working in London, New York, and Paris.
One Fair Standard First, there is only one fair standard of measurement, name ly, the number of hours worked each week by people in exactly similar jobs.
It is not fair to compare out- put per man, because this de pends upon many things which may be outside the control of the worker-modera machinery or tecls, local conditions of work. crganisation, and so on
We are not comparing productivity but the number of hours worked And an bour has 60 minutes everywhere.
By ERIC BOURNE
only half
where he slept as a boy. the daily requirement is coming
at a brisk pace, as though their lives depended on it, ---
marshes between the
to take privades
war
Good Mir
These
sta
clouds.
So the Japanese attempt to invade the Australian athletic field has been Nipped in the bud Rudyard proved-prophetic.:
Maybe soon agala well hear of Chungking on the road to Man-
dalay..
Volunteer student and peasant brigades swarm in the same busy The tiny peasant cottage at and the strictest of utility cloth-fashion over the "New Belgrade" Kumrovec, near Zagreb, ing Winter is at hand, and the site, where in 12 months a new
Pacific ir, Belgrade where Josip Broz came into mising stringent action against into the
newspapers are pro- city, built on.
Fon deep piles sunk powered by warst this world 57 years ago, is now these to blame for delays and Sava and the Danube, bas begun the Filipino elections.
were only to be expected alter a national shrine. A statue shortcomings in the delivery of
repair Youth of him stands in the garden. household fuel and the serious A bust stands by the bed failure in the city's milk supply,
damage, make new reads, new of which,
railways, at present,
bulld dykes and bridges, provide. most of the The farm boy. balt-Slovene. in.
labour for new factories, houses, his closest followers a hall-Croat has become Tito-to But after two months in this flats, hospitals and schools, god,paradoxical country, travelling
They work hard, mostly with and the father of his people; to scross the rolling Croatian plain their hands. The question is: Can many more the driving force and the Volvedina and through they last at such a pace? behind an immense, effort to con- the hills and mountains of Bos land of old nia and Macedonia talking every vert a backward bars and warring peoples into where with university professors an advanced industrial State and and city workers, farm "co-op the hero of the most incredible leaders and poor peasants, I find drama of the century,
it apparent that the Cominform's After 15 months, it is still im-i-conceived campaign has built possible to foresee the outcome a new unity round this farm of Tito's clash with the Krem-boy-turned-dictator.
Only one thing is certain. The repentance or resignation Propaganda Had demanded by the Cominform are both out of the question. Econo
Its Effect mic collapse
direct from Moscow action inspired has a chance of unseating him Nothing else.-
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or tough,
Living Conditions
No Better
મ
Security Police Ruthless
and large, by
behind it
ner-fired the
1
to
bas
imagination of the balk
man
My deep thinking friend says boxing is the only game in the world where two chaps get paid. for doing something they'd get arrested for if they got drunk and did it for nothing
Raido H.K. 15 a headline. Wouldn't it have been casier to
Wille the US. rushes aid to
Formosa,
To rid the inhabitants of
the rinderpest, Some of them have been heard
io declare their main poser--
Is
not this disease but rather a quite different kinder.pes:?
Oysters are to be radioactivat- live on diatoms ed. But they anyway.
There is another side to the picture the remnants of the old Serb and Croat bourgeoisie. squeezed out of their bomes and unwanted except in jobs where ther can be strictly watched
on the There is the pressure on peasants who must join the co- say "wirless ops, or yield up big quotas
Plague of Nats. the state granaries if they are to When I was in Yugoslavia last get any consumer goods; and the
activities of the security
security police year a few weeks after the row
ruthless as broke, the Yugoslav's first re-as ubiquitous and action was one of rather hysterical
eise in Eastern Europe. support for Tito but,
ane Tito all. the bewilderment and rousness
han the Rus- was casy to
to see;
of the nation. The * This year has been a touch-
Since then, however painfully sians scered at as a puppy and-go year for Marshal Tito.
the situation
has developed for feeling so big that he's harking He has made no attempt to Yugoslavia, Tito seems to have, at an elephant" has proved big conceal the grave effects of the become the master of it and that enough for the country's present Cominform blockade, applied in has been the big factor in the crisis. His defiance of Stalin turn by the satellite States steadying of rational morale. has steeled his friends and ralli- however reluctantly, for reasoTIS Some of those British officers ed around him many of those of self-interest. by some and who parachuted into partisan who opposed him before. Let us first take a postman.
a imposing cumulative
strain territory
during the war
By and large he bas given the letter-box in much the same stretched
through upon who pokes his letters
already have visited this summer have Yugoslavs the feeling that right dangerously near to been impressed by the similarity is on their side in this.
is struggle between the Yugoslavs temper with the Kremlin. way in London as his opposite breaking point. numbers in New York or Paris. But on the whole, Yugoslavia
Within this country's rich te which dedicated everything to sources are something like 20 summer in easy
better shape the fight against the Nazis. That, out of 25 of the world's strate- than most observert a year ago of course, is precisely the atmos-gic metals, The Russians wanted phere Tito's propaganda har ser the Yugoslavs to mine and sell expected.
of the people, out to
and it has, to 2 these cres to the Soviet at prices create living conditions are no better, very large extent, succeeded. far below the cost of extraction
The
Late the other night I watched but
Molybdenum, for example; so brigade at primitive are the Yugoslav mines hopes for improvements in the a volunteer youth midway stage of the Five Year work on a building site. Electric that it cost something like £2 Plan have not materialised.
People are poorly clad. Theravghts blazed from the scaffold-000 a ton to mine. The Russians are venturing out only in pairs.
ing. Workers hustled along the Yugoslavs say.
wanted to is little to buy in the shops, apart duckboards with barrowloads of buy it for about: one tenth of from rudimentary pots and pans bricks which others were laying that.
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economy
and
and at its best after it is over. That is true in particular of the general elections in the Does he work as much in Leg- has come through this tense, un-way and that of the Resistance, Philippines. The contest was a conflict of personalities ra- ther than of programmes, and of past records rather than of future performance.
don as in the other two capital cities? Here are the figures:
London
48 45
hours
พ
Paris New York.. 40 Consider another means
40 40
hours
hours .... 48
AS
48
For the mass
no worse, than then.
Back Come The Clean Loaves
Japan is said to be the first occupied country to get isotopes for medical purposes. But didn't Britain get some a while ago?:
Cleave to me only,
"The lovely white blouse at the top of the hill i open once more..
The intensive campaign by Bri ash customs officers is said to making smuggling a very dan- gerous game. In fact, it is re- ported that at some docks nylons
•
Nervous little man to psy- chiatrist: “My wife has develop- ed an inferiority complex-what can I do to keep her that way?"
A Bea-circus owner explained in a letter to his creditors that his show had one to the dogs.
One of Myrtle's girl friends was saring the other night that she al- ways drives her car with the emergency brake on, just as a pre- caution.
Campaigns of this sort are communication, the telepbone. invariably bitter, and that in An operator or a private switch the Philippines was no ex-board in the offices of a big com- ception. In the provinces gun paby works the following hours:
London fights between rival factions,
Paris and deliberate outrages New York, against individuals, caused What about waiters? Their serious less of life. Manila work is much the same in lead- itself was free from blood-ing hotels in the three cities, even shed. The carrying of fire though the food, they serve may arms was forbidden in the differ. What do we find?
London Paris capital, but similar control was lacking in the provinces. New York. 40
Polling-day in Manila was But these, it may be argued, an object-lesson in good be are comparatively limited cate- haviour and discipline. The series: What about the broad day was observed by every of workers?. Let us extend of its sale and distribution which theezes of the common cold as
the survey. Let us consider bank have so deteriorated since before well as more serious ones). body as a holiday. The only citrks. There are plently of the war.
Shopkeepers and their assis traffic on its normally con- them about, and they do much For the first time since October tants are to take all such steps gested streets was limited to the same work. This is what we 1941 bread can be delivered in sealed wrappings of waxed paper. the task of carrying the voters And:
London ..... 43 hours An extra charge of d. per 1402. to the polling-booths. The
Paris
45
i is chargeable, bringing the price docks were silent and desert-
New York. 35
of the wrapped 14. Ivat up ed, all offices and shops were What about the saleswomen.in from 5 to 6d closed, and the people made holiday in high good humour. They rejoiced in the right of a free people to exercise their vote, and to determine who should speak and act for them in the next four years.
This a red-letter day in the, shall be clean and have clean. Ofear of the Ministry of Health, campaign for cleaner food in clothing and must not be suffer suggests that some of this appar
ing from any communicable disent increase may be due to Britain.
Two weapons are put in the seases (though such diseases are better system of notification.
They should ctr- hands of citizens which can be not specified.
to include the
Even allowing for this he puts! used to improve the conditions tainly be held
as up to three times what it was Honeymoon hazards, the prevalence of food poisoning before the war.
**
a big London stores ("No_ny- lons today, madam")-in a Paris stores and in a New York stores
("How
many
pairs do
you i
want?")-how do we compare?
45 hours 48
..
Bakers Protest
Many bakers protest that they are unable to do it at this rate.
By MONTAGUE SMITH
last week."
•
"Mr. and Mrs-who:. were And no account is taken in marred at the registrar's oce these oficial Agures of the in- reported cases of Siness in the home due to bad or badly served food.
Up To You, Too
The shops are not responsible for all the cases.
The vast majority of those which come under oficial notice are the pro- But others are already wrapping as may be reasonably necessary duet of insanitary conditions in London
their product. In the end all will to protect the food" from dust, the making of "manufactured Paris
ng doubt be compelled to follow dirt, mud, fith, dirty water, meat" products and still more New York .. 40 By a fortunate coincidence we suit. The public will insist on it animals, rodents, files, insects, and due to filth and lack of care in The closeness of the vote in
Before the war 35 per cent of other sources of contamination." restaurants, cafes, canteens, and can broaden the survey still fural bread was sold wrapped. The That should certainly be a other Manila itself tells its own
comrzunal feeding-places, story of freedom of choice. her, and still obtain a highly ac idea of it being exposed to all the warning to butchers and fish-in which, It is estimated, one in curate comparison, at least be dust of the road in a roundsman's mongers who display food in every two of the population now The Nacionalistas led by Dr. tween Britain and America.
basket or left on the doorstep was shops open to the dust of the takes a daily meal, Jose Laurel headed the poll
is a Ford worke
repugnant then; it should be road, and to bakers who put un-
These also are now being of- in the city by a substantial Dagenham, and a Ford works at
protected pastries where flies canally investigated by working Detroit, U.S. For the French cre so now. majority over President
gorge on them.
parties" of the Ministry of Food. The more important of them, un- Quirino's Liberal Party. Re-comparison we have inquired at
der Sir William Savage, dealing ports from the provinces,
with conditions in restaurants, however, indicated an equally
etc., will not, it is believed, report substantial majority for the
until the summer of next year. Liberals.
Meanwhile, says the Ministry of Food, progress to cleanliness must be by way of education."
There
at
Here
the great Citen works. are the hours worked by a me chanic in these three works:
Dagenham works, England 44 oen works, France .. 48 Citroen Ford works, America.... 40 To sum up this information- obtainable by any of Britain's critics had they cared to do so
Smoking Stays
Today, too, the Ministry of Food is sending to all local au thorities a set of model by-laws which the authorities are invited to adopt to regulate the "hand-
- Some traders who deal from Ting, wrapping, and delivery of stalls or barrows will also have food and sale of food in the open to take precautions; they are air
specially referred to in these model by-laws. One thing that specially affects them. (as it does also all other shopkeepers) that there must at all times be sufficient light, natural or other- First criticism of them will be wise, to be sure of cleanliness. In 1 that they are permissive, No local other words: no dirt in dark.
dark-core authority is obliged to
adopt pers them-necessary as their very production shows them to be.
It is rather as if local author ties had been "invited" in the
The division between city and country looked at first
No Compulsion sight rather alarming. But
These are the joint product of the Liberal vote was split by it seems that in a very wide a conference of health and food the quarrel between the Pre-cross-section of workers people officials and trade, representa
fewer hours tives., sident and the dismissed Pre-work considerably sident of the Senate, Jose in New York than in London er
Paris.
Avelino. The two Liberal At Same Speed
factions, in their aggregate poll, outnumbered the votes
is
No wrappers or containers are to be Esed for food which are not It will at once be said that the
clean of which are liable to con cast for the principal opposi-Americans pack more work into their shorter. hours than their
taminate it. This would certain- tion candidate, Dr. Laurel British or French counterparts. past to adopt by-laws enforcing ly seems to exclude the use of old a statesman of outstanding in The argument is superacially the rule of the road for traffic. newspapers, whether brought by tegrity and intellectual gifts attractive and has many sup-
themselves or customers Some local authorities Guild the whose controversial wartime porters
sides of the ford has set a notable example otherwise obtained. When examined it are already to the fore in entore record as President under the Atlantic. Japanese has ever since been does not stand up in all cases to ing clean-food qules.
close inspection.
Others, whose names have bees
may
on both
keenakan
(Continued At Foot Of Next Coly
made many shopkeepers indiffer ent to customers' rights.
CRIPPS
Oh, Mr. Spinnit, we've had.
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mada last-trisk.”.
But I've got one radio set
So why should I buy another?"
The advantages of having two radio reccívmá“ Aare not for to seek. Hów torful a second set ..., is when two, members of your family want different programmes; when somebody is ill
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When better supplies of proper wrapping paper are available the Ministry of Food says it will pro- a serious handicap to his poli-Even an American walter can noted in the Ministries of Food pose another by-law compelling tical ambitions.
hardly tell his diners to hurry and Health, are notoriously back its use in all cases:
show Rules for shop assistants President Quirino continues up so that he may serve more ward. It is now up to their in in office with the greater people than his British or French, habitants to bring them into line them the contant necessity f
can a sales moral authority that derives counterpart nor
to force their elected representa-washing their hands, employers hustle from direct election, and with Wo
woman.
her customers tives to adopt these health safe- must provide ample means for when they are making their
this and display prominent ad- guards, a. majority in both Houses choice of goods; nor can a tele- In essence they are really very visory notices: One omission in Made BX 295U so here (the in bed; and so on. There's no disputing tha that is expected to give the phone operator cut short, the con- simple no more really than com the by-laws will, however, be Administration firm control versation of his employers so mon decency requires. But as noted. There is no specific pro-nt and medium works, and has and Radioplayers in your home is a very ja ohc. "spread on: 19 and 25 metres. The set is Due to special Frulips bandspreading, these for its term of office. That is that he may plug in more callers experience shows, "common de-hibition of assistants smoking
based záth 5 Rimlock vahie undid loop magnificent receives bring exciting, jew serial for medimutitoonų reception, 59, shortwave programmes from, all over the good for the Philippines and Possibly a mechanic in Detroit cency" in the handling of food while handling food.
artworld ne musily as ordinirý focal broadeísta: fasten more bolts to the has been forgotten in many shops *** in the light of the growing hour, though here again we touch since the take it or leave it Anxious' Minister
"And, of course, bring. Philips they bitare absolinelý dependable.” crisis, for Asia as a whole." upon organisation and tools, but attitude of war-time, scarcity
The people of Asia are
Finally
there are such rules as caught up in their vital resur
one might expect as to the clean- by the two rival
liness of counters and delivery systems of free democraty and with intense interest over a
vans" and the segregation of 're- fuse. Communist totalitarianism. great part of Asia. We be- Briefly, the proposed new rules
The Minister of Food, in an ac They watched with intense in lieve the verdict will be a
that every person who companying letter, says. ht handles, wraps, or delivers food inostranxious to see terest the great social changes favourable one.
zapid im brought about by the Labour But it can only be clinched
provement in hygienic conditions Government in Britain. They by the way in which the new it is doubtful if an American in the food trades.
he. Indeed, are still watching events ly elected Administration sol- bank clerk counts furiotes, any may well be so there. But more and more ves the great problems that quicker, or a Transatlantic-bank According to the latest official his, cheques any figures the number of reported they are shifting their atten- still face the country. Manila client writes
Laster.
outbreaks of food poisoning tion to the way in which free has achieved a miracle of reWhat, then, roay we reasonably any one of which may have in- of people rast democracy works in the coun- building and recovery, as all think of this constant suggestion volved scores tries of Asia which have gain, who have seen it recently will that the British do not work as trom 150 in 1938 to 964 last year and and this year that record figure ed their freedom and in testify But much remains much as the Americans? dependence since the war. to be done, and it can only be We can say that it appears to will almost certainly be found The Philippines were the first done through genuine and be engendered by ignorance, and st Inast doubled, of these, and it is certain the patriotic co-operation by all that to some cases it is notirish upward trend has recently been.
ed with spite and propagated sharply accentuated Wa elections there were followed factions.
with malice
say
Keeping It Clean
', the
Dr. T. Conybeare, Medical
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