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Jobs Take Hours Instead Of Days
London, Nov. 30.
Polar Medal For Greenland
Expedition
Labour
Shortage Will & Hit
s Plans
Germany's
Frankfurt, Nov. 30,
A shortage of labour is beginning to loom on the horizon of West Germany's still expanding economy now that plans for rearmament are taking more definite shape,
London, Nov. 80. The Queen has awarded the Polar, Medal to the 30 The proposed army of half a million men and members of the recent Bri- the partial switch in industry to military produc- tish North Greenland ex- tion will bite deep into the existing labour force pedition who spent two and become a severe drain on the
manpower years on the frozen roof of supplies, which will dwindle progressively, any-
1
a total of 16,830,000 workers
the world. Metal "surgeons" have carried out operations
This was
revealed here last way owing to a falling birth rate. on the battleship Vanguard and other warships. Duke of Edinburgh attended the 822,500 unemployed in a total population of 49,000,000 night when the Queen and the By the end of September, 1954, there were only Their work in confined areas where the naked ecture by the expedition's flame for welding could not be used has saved the leader. Commander C. J. W and compared with
Simpson, at the Royal Festival employed. Hall. Admiralty thousands of pounds.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Al- gernon Winis, Chairman of the Expetition Committee, said the award had been made for the work of the men in trying to discover the depth of the leecap between Queen Louise Land and
By employing keys which machinery, the "surgeons" make unnecessary to Fift out e "co-worked" into slots cutit
metal fractures in sections of machinery
ncross
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SCAR ON METAL
In one warship, five steel plates would have had to bo cut through M the new repair method had not been used.
Work that might have taken days Is being completed
hours.
Aflei
shoes Bazaar,
Capliol
FOUND
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the operation. on the metai
a scar
PEARL KARBING Sugene Count
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10,000 FEET DEEP Members of the expedition said on their return to Britain that they had found ice 10,000 feet deep in places.
The Polar Meda) was insti- ! tuted in 1904 for the 1901 and
expeditions,
conditions
of the
Medial
for tite were
would be in May it was stated it
be conferred on all those who take un active part in an
When rather award of surgical stitches.
Teams of
have operatora been down to Hongkong and Apply Secretary. South China Mory Singapore to carry out urgent Foul Comfort Tag Port Service Telephone Hinute, (Mezza-
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expedition which makes notable advances in the exploration of the polar regions and who in so doing unde go the hazzres and rigeurs set by the climatic con-
to life and ditions
movement by land,
air."China Mall Special.
EXCL OF
on
and steel Industries. It is Ühese Industries, together with coatmiring, that almost all the
Only 481,000 of the unrm ployed were men, and of thes about 40 per cent live in the three states, Schleswig-Holstein, | other industries depend. Lower Saxony, and Bavaria, According to official statistics, which border on Communist there were 126,000 unemployed Erst Germany and where much metal workers at the enİ of the industry bus
but only $2,000 been August 1950, strangled owing to the artificial at the end of August 1954. The partition of Germany, and the umber of unemployed techni-
01 cutting of
the etaris and engineers during the resultant
sume period fell from 20,575 to economic hinterläni,
7,598.
UNWILLING
German Jabour aflieres estimate that nearly half of the unemployert ከሎ። Вго unwilling to take up any regular work. capable of doing so owhig to parilal disability or frall health, or above the
which *he found
be
work can readily
them.
Many of them
for
have also stated that they will not accept a job awny from their home towns,
While four years ago, there were styl 13,875 unemployed stone masong, There were only jnst September-not rough to allow for a further expansion of building
2.568
big
nellvity.
At the same tine, there is a constant trend towards
more 10
skilled men in proportion unskilled labour owing to Introduction of more machines
more complicated produc- tion processes. To take one of these men away would often of wonen, The employment
mean to lay a host of others for excopt
for Jous
which idle, women are better suited men, is being discouraged the Government's largely
family Signor Catholic
polley
Bologna, Nov. 30. A veterinary surgeon operated on a nine-year-old boness here
her while
trainer, Moustler, hypnotised her.
Whenever the lioness moved
the her mouth towards goon's hand the trainer gently prodded her head back with a stick.
The
the
Sur-
vet stood outside Honess's cage with his hands inside. It was impossible to tie her down for the operation, for a dangerous abscess. China Mail SpeciaI.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
BONG
THE ALARM BELL. QUICK, NARDA-UNLOCK THE WINDOW.
I CAN'T
--I'VE
EQUIL
LET'S MAKE A WISH AND SEE WHO GETS THE LONGEST
PIECE
DON'T BE SILLY, BANJO I ONLY CAME HERE TO GET SOME PAPERS MY SECRETARY FORGOT TO BRING!
WAIT... SOMEONE'S COMING! COULD BE MY ELUSIVE PAL HAZARD !
DON'T MAKE A SOUND,
CONTESSA/
YOU WIN
HI, BO35/ MEET ANGELA, THE CONTESSA'S SECRETARY/
TRIED.
MANDRAKE'S ON THE ROOF!
THAT'S AN
IMPROPER INTRODUCTION, GIFF! ALLOW
MB
GOOD--WE'VE GOT]
HIM TRAPPED! LET HIM TAY TO WRIGGLE OUT OF THIS!
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
DOG CATCHER
POW
By Frank Robbins
ANGELA, MEET THE REAL JOE
BANJOY
than
by
pro
and
through tax proposals which would work to the disadvantage of familles where both husband and wife are workbut
Lo The new army, which is be highly armoured and mechanised, will need is propor- tionately large contingent of men with considerable mechant- cal or trade skill. But a short- age of such labour is already beginning to be felt by the Iron
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
| AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
*TER JAM THAY MADE TASMANIA FAMOUS”
BLACK MAGIC
ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
this situation
calls for
San Miguel
SKILLED MEN
Yel the new army
armaments Industries meed
a large tumber highly skilled men
and will of
Among the metal workers of today's peace-time Industry, for Instance, are tens of thousands of skilled aircraft builders whom Germany, had by the end of the war.
Many of these as well as
tank, cannon and other workers skill dating with specialised from before and during the last
eventually.. war will certainly flnd their way back into VIN→→ ments production or into new forces,
*Tho
employers'
tho
lust
association during has stated that SUMMET 37,500 vacancies for be skillet workers could not filled. Even in the winter of 1953-54, when unemployment reached
of more than a peak of
2,000,000, there were about
lack
for
which
по
80,800 jobs open skilled workers could be found About 17,200 of these were for men and the rest for wome
The association stated a dire of skilled labour was being
by the reported
merchant nigo un There was marine,
univer urgent need for more sity-educated
and engineers chemists, as well as teachers and scientists.
Dozens of new barracks and other buildings will have to be built for the new forces, but it has already often been im.. possible in North Rhine-West- phalia, West Germany's main industrial region, to complete building projects in time owing to the shortage of labour.
In comparison, when Hitler decided, in 1936, to form 38 divisions and to begin arma- ments manufacture on a larger scale than permitted under the
Versailles Treaty, - there · wero 0,000,000 unemployed in Ger- many. The steel-producing In- duntry was working only at one third of its capacity, wherens in West Germany today it is work ing at about 90 per cent .of capacity.
FEWER
At a time when the de mand for labour, will ver tainly be Interisliked, the number of youths released from school will fall owing to the declining birth rate. Ofelst estimates are that about 920,000 youths WILL Jeave school This
year 890,000 in 1955, 730,000 La 1957 and only 580,000 iri 1980. After that, it is bas Hoved that the fall will do Jonger bo NO pronounced and might even stop. Officials of several Ministries, including the Economics
and
Labour "Ministries, • have slated that the Government would not reintroduce any form of con scription or affection of labour as existed in Hitler's Germany. Miller into in the wher hard, believe that there will, in the end, have to be some sort of direction in vital and sensi-- ilve fields of production.---China Mail Special.
Tokyo, Nov. 30. Tokyo palico today detained 23 boys betwoba the ages of 18 and 20 for stealing and welling parts of a railway: Urack,
polibe said the boys tuid,
600,000 tin
m Genorth of daringo: by: (500) stogling rail chalwa (Giuris
The
which hold rails 'to' shdo porg)56) "They said the Boyr gold the chair to scrap from merchant
The policei kopt: eight of the Hays in burody, The therotisme14) did sold think