FRENCH LABOUR CRISIS DEEPENS AS FIGHTING RENEWED IN ASSEMBLY Paris transport workers vote to strike indefinitely
Paris, March 5.
The French labour crisis deepened tonight as fighting broke out
in the National Assembly arena again and Paris transport . workers voted to strike at five a.m. tomorrow for an inde finite period.
The morothon debate on the government's anti-sabotage bill, interrupted by a Communist charge of Right Wing benches, was resumed at 4 p.m., but Communist deputies continued stalling tactics with long- winded speeches from the tribune.
Israel may
start war, Arab says
The decision to strike, which followed the completo breakdown of negotiations between union lead- ors and the Transport Ministry, was taken at a mass meeting of 30,000 subway and bus employees hero who claim higher pay and an interim wage bonus of 3,000 francs a month. Communist, Catholic and So The Communists have ordered cialist transport unions backed their followers not to handle m- The strike - move, to litary shipments-to-French-Indo- China where the French-sup- ported Buo Dai 1s struggling against the guerillas of. Moscow- from trained Ho Chi Minh-or the United States or other Al- lantic Pact nations.
Free-for-all fighting broke out ค 49 gain in the Assembly 1st-swinging Communist deputies charged the Right Wing benches during the debate, Assembly guards quickly. blocked Commu- mists trying to cross the Assem bly floor, but the helmeted secu- after the Premier, Georges Bid- Arabrity forces were trapped between
Cairo, March 5, Israel-realising that she must expand or collapse--was preparing for a new agress- ion which may come at any time, Azzam Pasha, Secre- tary-General of the League, declared today.
He said that Israel was receiv- ing large quantities of arms from Czechoslovakia and other coun- trles, and now had "a modern army. if anything better equipped than the Arab forces."
that having
"The Jews know started on a course of aggression they must continue," Azzam Pasha continued. "If they stop the new State will collapse,
Men and being pushed into the Hittle bridgehead that is Israel, and expansion has become for the Jews a matter of life death."
money
or
swaying masses of shouting de- puties-Communists shoving to- ward the right and Right Wing
pushing toward deputies
Leftist deputies.
the
No one was hurt, but elothes A Socialist deputy were turn. sounded the sirens for evacuat- g the chamber and the session was suspended until tempera cooled. One Communist who tried to bypass the line of guarde by leaping to the stenographers' table beneath the tribuno was stopped by a flying tackle.
Led by deputy
altack Was Antonie Gras.
Azzam Pasha continued: "The remainder of Palestine is the
The Communist Jews' immediate goal. They are now awaiting a new opportunity led by Deputy to attack. Experience shows there who jumped over his bench and is nothing to prevent the Jews ran for the Right Wing deputy, who had from Routing International autho- Alfred Coste-Floret, rity and presenting the United just shouted across the Assembly hall at him: "Shut up, you com- Nations with a fait accompli
mon criminal!""
"Modern history is encouraging to aggression. There is no single cuse where the United Nations has taken decisive action to deter an aggressor.
"Aggression in Palestine was started by the Jews, while the rofe of the Arabs has always been, and will continue to be. purely defensive.
"In the event of a new Jewish aggression, the Arabs will, course, fight."-Reuter.
1
FIRE KILLS SIX IN AMERICA Campton, New Hampshire, March 5.
of
The Assembly still had to dis- pose of some 22 amendments to the 'anti-sabotage bill and it ap- peared the resumed session would continue well past midnight. Communist deputies had held the floor during most of the afternoon' in an attempt to shout down the bill..
The Assembly met a few hours
sult, faced with the most serious labour crisis in two years, pro- mised the lower-salaried workers
remedy for injustice but said the national budget must
be jeopardised United Press.
not
Offensive planned by rebels
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1950.
Thanks, Mao
says to Joe
The
London, March 8. Chinese Communist lendor, Mao Tse-tung, has cabled Premier Stalin thanks, for his "warm and kind hou: pitality" to the Chinese dele. gation which concluded the Bino-Ruselan treaty In Mos. the New China' nawe agency announced today In a broadcast from Paking MRO arrived In Peking on Satur-
that Mao sent the following cablo as he and his Chinese deta gation returned to China:
Dow,
dah brondonat sald
"Comrade Stalin, We are nearing the border of the UBBA and the People's Re public of China. On leaving the great country of the Union of the Boviet Socialist Ro publica, I wish to express to you and all responsibie com- rades in the Govlet Govern. ment my deep gratitude for your warm and kind
hos. pitality and wish for UA- bounded strength and pro-*
Soviet Union sperity to the led by you."
The Premier, Chou En-ial, Bovist cabled thanks to the Foreign Minister, Mr. Andral Vishinsky, the brondomst vald. -United Press.
Veteran Red
slain in Prague
Prague, March 5. A veteran Slovak Com- munist, Ezidor Tausinger, was murdered in his office on Fri- day, the Slovak Communist Party newspaper "Pravda" reported today.
Radical left wing has fallen in line
on nationalisation
London, March 5,
The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attles, has par- suaded the Radical Left Wing; of the Labour, Party to support his decision not to attempt further nationalisation of industry in the pro- sent Parliament, political quartors reported tonight.
| Labour Leftists, led by the Health Minister, Aneurin Bevan, were in a rebellious mood over Mr. Attlee's decision to go slow on Socialistic legislation because of Labour's tiny seven-seat majority in the new House of Commons. However, it was reported on the ove of the formal opening of the new Parliament that the Loftists were persuaded that to get tough, with the Opposition would only mean trouble.
Britain's Parliamentary battle Mr. Crossman said Mr. Bevan of the century opens tomorrow was far too shrewd to rock the when His Majesty King George | boat. reads the
#speech from the "The Left Wing of the Labour Throne," a statement actually Party, just as much as the Right written by the Cabinet outlining Wing, appreciated, the leadership the Labour Government's legis- of the Prime Minister during the lation programme. It is reported election and trusts him to time authoritatively that the spooch the next election wisely, mean- will make no mention of further while to on genuine So- nationalisation schemes.
The measure nationalising the great iron and steel industry has already been enacted, but it will not go into effect until next January 1, and because of the small majority Labour won in the the February 23 élection there will be a new election be- fore then.
Tory offensiva
King's
It was reported today that In the debate on the speech, the Conservatives may take the offensive and try to force the government to make some declaration on the Iron and atoal plan.
By means of an amendment to
failure"
the King's speech, the Conserva- tives may "deplore the
of the government to promise to cancel the iron and steel pro- gramme entirely.
to-
cialist adoration," wrote Mr. 1-
Crossman,
He said the main task of the new government was "not-pass--- ing new laws but running in the brand new planned Bocialist economy and removing its many obvious defects."
Cut in U.S. aid bill proposed
Washington, March 5.
"kill" the
рто-
The Senate Republican floor fravda gave no inkling as to whether the slayer was caught.
leader, Kenneth Wherry, to- The Prague press also an-
Winston Churchill, as the Oppo-day urged a 50 percent cut in nounced today that the Czecho-ition leader, was given the final President Truman's request slovak Journalists Union had ex- draft of the King's speech pelled Vilem Novy, former night, so he could plan strategy for a US$2,950,000,000 third- and tactics. Early clashes arayear instalment on the Mar- editor-in-chief of the Communis: organ "Rude Pravo," because he sure on the national health ser- shall foreign aid plan. had been "unmasked as an agent government must ask and on the Vico appropriations for which the
However, the Democratic lead- in the service of imperialists".
Novy spent the war years in budget for the fiscal year start-, Scott Lucas sakl such a re-
duction would ing April 1. London, San Francisco, March 5.
where he becamo a The Vietnam rebel radio, i friend of the Czech Foreign
An indication that Mr. Attlee gramme and predleted that Con- commenting the
Loft gress would approve the new ECA Minister, Vladimir Clementis, af- had won over the Party's .recent
grant requested by the
Ad- general mobilisation order is-ter the Czech liberation in May Wing was given today in an ar
ministrator,
for Paul Haffman. Sunday Rude Pravo
and sued by Ho Chi-minh's chief 1945, the Communist newspaper ticle in the newspaper
Pictorial by Richard was revived,
The Senate Foreign Relations Crossman, of staff, said the move is intend Navy became chief editor: He
Committee
bit hold a wpg cd to hasien the start of a
was also a deputy in Parliament
closed hearing on the ald bl general offensive "before the and chairman of
this week and may send the mea- the Foreign international reactionaries have Affairs Committee.
sure to the floor by the week- The Committee chairman. tine to regroup and strengthen their forces."
predicted that it
on
The radio sold the move is intended
A to strike
decisive blow. It emphasised the necessity of an all-out drive for food pro- duction for supplying Ho's rebel forces. A Communist attempt to reach
The broadcast was reported vin had the Rightist benches
Peking. thwarted in the afternoon.
charged that Peking also Throughout the session, the Com-leader of the overseas Chinese in mumists interrupted-with-bang- Northern Slam was murdered a ing of their desklids and cat fortnight ago by
agents of the calls, Insults were flung from
been
ail sections of the Chamber after
Thailand secret police.
a
He was purged from his foreign affairs post at the same time that he lost his editor's job in Novem- ber, according to the official an- nouncement, although he had dis- appeared from this post some weeks before,
Old line Red Novy was an old line Commu- nist. Before the war, he was a prominent newspaperman and wrote Czech Communist literature prolifically in pamphlets and books,
On the murder of Tausinger, It said the victim, Ting Pao-"Pravda" said today: "On March A Bash fire raced through an the Popular Republican deputy ching, was slain by fusillade shots 3, 1950, Comrade Izidor Tausinger isolated dwelling in this town Pierre Dominjoin, defending his Ared through the window after fell under the hand of foul late on Saturday night killing a amendment reducing the penalty the murderers pulled the switch murder."
for sabotaging military aid ship-throwing the area into, darkness. father and his live young
The paper sald Tausinger, an children. The flames levelled the monts from death to imprison-
The Siamese authorities to- old Bolshevist who had been with ment, said: "People who would cently were reported to be per-slovakia since it was founded in the Communist Party of Czecho- single-story four-room house where Charles Smith, aged 34, stop these shipments are not trat-
turbed over the steady influx of tors. They have just fallen and his chlidren ranging in age under the influence
Chinese and enforced a number 1921, was "slain by the murderer from three to 12 were trapped. propaganda."
of Russian of restrictions against Chinese while he was at work". It reveal- other details about the The mother was visiting in an-
schools, businesses, etc.-United no Press.
kiling. other section of the town at that
(Continued On Col. B) time.
The authorities believed that the overheated stove started the blaze.-United Press.
→
Moderates and Rightists want the penalty reduced because the government would not sentence violators to death but probably would put them in guol.
Leftist leader.
$1,500,000,000 should be trimmed Senator Wherry told a reporter from ECA funds as the start of
(Continued From Col. 4 "Pravda" said Tausinger fought end. with the Red guards at Leningrad Tom Connally, pre during the Soviet revolution and would be approved. later joined the Czech Party. He worked as an officer until 1939 when the Party was outlawed by the Nazis. It said he fought in the underground during the war
general campaign to reduce all by Federal spending and bring the and was gaoled three times
budget into balance. He said on- the Nazis.
should be "Immediately after the liberation other $1,000,000,000 he became active in reconstrues cut from other foreign spending, was slain-by-the-murderer for Europe-programme, United tion work and never missed a day, with special emphasis on the arms
while at work.”—United Press. Press.
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