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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1952.
I
Lisbon "Cats
Textile Markets Slump Lady Dead
Leads To Grave Crisis
In French "Lancashire"
UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES GROWING
· Paris; Aug: 7. :
A crisis in France's once-busy textile mills in the north has caused the most seriouş unemployment situation to hit any branch of the country's industry since the war.
As honte and foreign demand for textile goods, to reach a swift solution. But slumped during the past year, factory after fat-for the Government, beset by
"
9 An About 50 cals at mow- Jag sadly around the body of Senhora Ana Joaquina when neighbours broke in to find her dead. In her solitary Lisboa home,
Bonhora
We know
old indy
aged
the
Ahe
apent her time colitel- food for them.... in
poorer parts of tile, clly."
Cats trooped after her wiikrever she went. Keuter,
Whale Tooth Presented To
Gen. Templer
Singapore, Aug. 7.
tory in the French "Lancashire" has gone on to lema, has not reacted. short time and in some cases, closed down entirely.
SIX POINTS the main points at their pro- An estimated 70 per cent of the 500,000 workers posed programme are: in the trade, the bulk of them concentrated in the 1. That all textile imports be triangle Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing in the industrial barmed and import duties
Pre-1
The Fijian Battalion in Malaya north-east, are, to a lesser or greater degree on reduced | viously removed to check high, today ceremoniously, welcomed hours or idle,
domestic prices be re-imposed.
3. That market is a Gi cat Chleftish the High |
General Sir Commissioner, Of als total of 350,000, about faintly or if his income from be given to products in Gerald Templer, when he made 15,000 are unemployed.
other sources is more than 8,000 the country's overseas territories. his first
visit to the Battalion 3. That existing stocks bicaquarters at Balian in Negri The crisis, which has brewing since 1950, has reached for a bachelor or 0,600 francs orders increased from the aimh- is pink during the last six (about £0, 128,) for a married months. It in caused mainly by man.
ECT- industry and State the
decrease in exports and the wave of imports of manu-
goods factured textile France since 1950,
Exports of cloth and fabrics,
been franen (about £8) a fortnight chased by the army and sing Islanders, stripped,
ititu
of 2,432 tons a month in the
ment vices.
turers.
the
When
traditional manner
the ceremony was com-
5. Preferential tits for rask and importence. coal, electricity phe transport used in the tics for export.
-000
Unemployment pay amounts
to the waist, prestated General to 225 francs (about 4/0d.) a day credit facilities for
4. The provision of easter Templer with an ancient polls:-
manufac-d plus 100 francs. (2/-), for each s
whatc tooths, nn honour dependent, avaliable, only after
reserved only for those of high the worker has been registered which reached the record figure syed for 10 days,
need more than the It first quarter of 1031, felt sharp- natural Ingenuity of the French ly
to 800 tons a month in the housewife adequately to feed i first quarter of this year. The family of three of 850 tennes slump was largely due to re- (about 117-) a day-the price of strictive import programmes four mutton chops in Paris to +brua
particularly in Britam day. stil -Australla, and to the high price of French products.
High prices result from heavy production costs which in turn dre binmed to the use of out dated machinery and the pay- ment of women workers on the same basis as men:
ANXIETY GROWING.
the
The people of the industrial black country" are a dour race. They are not demonstrative or vociferous, and except for imots of idle men gathered id the streets and squares and tho long, silent queues outside the IMPORT DÉLUGE
labour exchanges, distress in the ares is not immediately obvious, Spokesmen for the industry,
But every day the signs of de- however, put the major blame
pression are increasing, for the crisis on the deluge of
grocery bills mount up and Imporis of texile goods which reached an all-time record of pawnbrokers shelves.
goods sccumulate on household 2,110 tons a month in the first In the smoke-begrimcḍ quarter of 1852, or almost ten cottages which line the narrow per cent of home production. cobbled streets anxiety is pow-
30
Foreign countries, experiencing lest the crisis te not solved ing domestic selling difficulties before the winter.
and helped by the French trade The textile manufacturers liberalisation policy with other have made drasile proposals to members of the
Organisation the Government in an attempt tor European Economie Co- operation (O.E.E.C.), flooded the French market with goods at competitive prices.
In the three textile towns, where. 80 out of every 100 workers are einployed by the milla, the net result has bien a 40 to 45 per cent slow-down In production since last October. A recent survey by the Assu- ciation of Textile Manufacturers revealed that of 450 nctories, 32 per cent were waking the normal 46-hour week; 23 per cent, between 35 and 40 hours; and 40 per cent less than 35 hours. Five per cent have
First hlt when laying-off notices are handed out are the 6,000 North Africans employed In the industry. Next in line, are the Belgians from the border region who, in times of labour shortage, help to fill the gaps,
HARD LOT
Barter Deal
With Peking
Was
Too Big
す
Ko us to
on
production pl lex-
pleted. General Templer 6. A reduction in superlax their "great mart" in operations
gratulated the Battalion leave enough proft against Communist. terrorista. over for development and re- and praised the men, for. Uw placement of out-dated machih-manner in which they associated ely by modern equipment. themselves with the interest of Reuter.
the local communities.-Reuter.
Police In Bangkok
Declare
War On Naklengs In City
Bangkok, Aug. 7.
The police of Bangkok have declared war on the city's hoodlums —— krown here as "naklengs."
Ever since the end of World War II, güngs of these tough young hooligans making an easy living off Bangkok's peaceful citizens, have been on the increase.
The naklings have engated in Some observers here believe Athost everything, from amea that they are largely a product robbery to protection rackets, of the Hollywood flim of They have operated brazenly | violence. and openly and, until naw, with Films with plenty of shooting, contemptuous Indifference to Brut preferably will: corpses and the police.
other, casualties lying about, are popular in Bangkok.
in recent months, the nakletigs have:
The suck, gangster type, and Held up buses in the main his over-dressed moll fighting it streets of Bangkok in broad day-out against the law are familiar light and systematically robbed the passengers;
2. Seized lorry loads of im- ported goods on their way from the docks to the city;
Agures on the Bangkok cinema
вствен.
Traditionally, violence is rarò in Thailand. Even revolutions
Bonn, Aug. 7. The West German Economies Ministry turned down an agree men, bet verd Communist China man-firm and providing for in exchange
Many of these crimes, have out is a new disturbing pheno- goods worth 160 million marks been committed amid crowds of menon in this city of 1,000,000 both ways, a Ministry spokespeople and often within people-Reuter
a man said today.
make less commotioni usually than a good-sized Chinese fire- 3. Robbed and beaten up pedestrians in central shopping. The hodilumn now being sought
cracker,
of
The Ministry, he said, did not permit the deal because it was too big for one single firm, There was no firm in West Germany which could risk 156 themillon marks, he added.
tho
Then comes the turn of women and guts from nearby coal-mining area who travel to and from works dally by train. Last to po are the local inhabitants of the three towns,
areas,
stone's throw of police box,
The nakicngs have also
in most forms of engaged extortiou
Although people Hving in residential areas already have watchmen Lo protect theic helsey
from theft, they are "We had the feeling that often asked to subscribe to a this deal went beyond normal night patrol of the area, commerelat scope,"
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To reluso would mean ¿éttain Government authorities said trouble, from the naklengs. Thia
Washington, Aug. 7. In these days of sonring food the deat could have been Householder pays up. But he is
President Trutnon said today out prices, the lot of the unemploy-carried
under orily
aunlikely to see a patrol more that he was considering calling ex, worker is a hard one. He is regular trade and payments than once or twice a month. not cigible for à dole if there is agreement between West der-
a special session of Congress to The parkling lot ticket, com- another wage earner in the many and China, which how-mon in many cities of the East, deal with the rise in prices,
ever, doas not yet exist.
is another of the naklenga" lines
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he had made no final of business. Until such
decision, 10 agreement At public parking places, was concluded, the
President Trumman såld that Economics there are usually he number of
had Ministry was said to be willing self-appointed attendants who consideration but he would have the question - under approve barier deals In lovy a foo on cora left there. special cast-Reuter,
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Refusal to pay may mean to wait and see if he thought it deep scratches in the paintwork Lecessary. He decllied to com or possibly the theft of head-ment on reports that the Price
tyres
Stabiliser, Mr Ellis Amall, bad lamps, movable parts.
resigned or was planning to Associates of Mr The ordinary Bangkok, cllizeň resign. LOGS not like frouble and has Amall had said that he had put up with die hooligans with planned to quit on September 1.
President Truman gave no only ari occasional mild com: pipint
dichlor regarding when he Some people who have been might cho considered it call a special session of and, perhaps foolish Congress
been necessary. "beaten up.
Meanwhile, Mr Arnall's sinto- Many of the naklengs are ment yesterday, that President cali dandica In Truman might have to
installed in the Pakistan. Gov 10, prolest have
ernment's all demonstration factory at Rawalpindi to boost
the country's silk produce-flashily dreezed
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partment is making arrango-coloured shirts, wide trousers
ments to develop cocoon breed and sharply pointed shoes.... ing throughout, the provinca: to Too lazy to work, they pro supply the factory's raw mate-fer to take an easy way to easy riai. Reuter.
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