Page
THE
BLACK BOX CHINA
Radio Dept.
SEE IT, HEAR IT A AT GILMANS'
COMMENT
THE DAY
Glaucustre Arcade }
OF
Parliament And
No. 36144
Established 1845
TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1955.
RAIL STRIKE:
THE WEATHER:
Moderate 5.8.E, winds. Fina and warna.
Price 20 Cents
SAXONE
Shoes for Men Whiteaways
MADE IN SCOTLAND®
HONGKUNG E KOWLOON
COMPROMISE MOVE
The Strikes TUC Put Forward 5 "Summit Talks": Big 3 Propose
W and
THEN Sir Anthony Eden his government meet parliament for the first time since the election on Thursday it will be with the comfortable feeling of a reasonable majority behind them in the House of
Recommendations
Commons; and though the FIRST GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR
governments these last five years have not been deter- red from putting through difficult or controversin! legislation, in spite of the fact that their majorities were small, the present government must feel that much more assurance.
A SETTLEMENT
London, June 6,
The mediating Trades Union Congress announced to- night, after six hours of dogged inter-union discussion, that it had made the first compromise step which may lead along the road to settlement of Britain's disrupting railway strike. The TUC announced that it had made five recommenda- tem. A majority of votes in tions for a strike settlement which Union leaders have agreed
to discuss together tomorrow morning.
Achieving of a parliamentary majority is subject to some of the little curiosities of the British electoral sys-
IN
to
the country does not necessarily lead majority of seats in
31 the
House of Commons, But
this time the Conservative government... need feel no embarrassment 011 that ar effective
score.
It has majority, but not one large that it can steam- enough roller anything it cares
through parliament. What Sir Anthony will advise the
A major negotiating step was taken this afternoon when the TUC first talked leaders of the Associated Society of Locomotive Enginemen and Firemen (ASLEF) and the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) into sitting down together in an attempt to resolve differences..
Generous
Queen to say in the speech New Terms
of
from the throne must take the general account sentiment of the ration as well as of a happily victor ious Conservative Party...
N its very first days of life the new parliament will have to deal with the deli cate matters of industrial relations that the railway have and docks strikes brought up. And it is just as delicate a problem for the Socialist Opposition as it is for the government.
Labour MPs will find it in- cumbent to criticise the government for the situa- tion which has developed. but they will also need to. do so circumspectly, for if they argue that the govern- ment should act firmer than It has, they will run the
risk of antagonising the trade unions.
The
For Ford Workers
Detroit, June 6.
Major provisions of the new Ford-United Auto Worker contract were announced to day as follow Guaranteed ware payments" applemental ware payments trum a $55,000,000 fund which added to memployment bene- Bła will give a worker 65 per cem of normal take-home pay for four weeks, 50 per cent
the next 22. Higher pay-än annual raise of six cents an hour, or 22 Dez cent of base pay, whichever is higher.
Bigger pensionspensions will
build up at the rate of 2.25 dollars in monthly retirement
The ASLEF is on strike and the NUR is not. Their differences are a major key to the dispute.
The Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, appealed yesterday for the strikers to go back to work before negotiations begin. ASLEF today rejected the suggestion.
The TUC then stepped in to mediate.
Its five recommendations for a back-to-work formula are:
1. The conflicting unions first discuss among themselves the problem of wage differentials (instead of making separate demands of the British Transport Commission).
f
2. The NUR agree that the Transport Com mission start discussions with the ASLEF to settle the dispute with the understanding that the NUR will be (The consulted before any agreement is reached. NUR has warned it will ask for more
money if the ASLEF is given more money.)
3. That ASLEF agree to meet the Commission
in an effort to establish minimum increases, bearing on differentials, and
in mind proposed discussions
agree to consider returning to work as soon as a settlement emerges.
benefits for each year of 4. If agreement is reached on the above basis, The old rate was the TUC will approach Sir Anthony Eden and ask him to agee that negotiations begin "while the be strike is still on.
seniority. $1.75,
Better health insurance...
workers' familles will included in hospital benefits for the first time,
majority of British Socialists readily appreciate. that Sir Anthony Eden had Improved..
to request the Queen to de- clare a state of emergency; failure to do so would have been a dereliction of duty and responsibility to the general public whose inter- ests and welfare are so vitally affected by strikes.
ON
.the
the other hand, no demo- cratically elected Ad- ministration likes to apply stringent regulations which interfere with the re- cognised" freedom
cost of - living
5. The TUC would continue to mediate in an attempt to expedite settlement and speed an end to
escalator clause pay will the strike.-United Press.
Jump one dent
every time
the cost of living rises point 5 in the cost-of-living index. The old rate Was & Denny increase for every point é rise in the index. Improved holiday pay-holiday be si triple- now will time rate. Extra holiday--a seventh paid
holiday to be taken: half day on Christains Eve and a half a day on New Year's Eve-United Press.
of the London's
individual. It is acceptance
Compensation Paid For H-Bomb Test Damage
New York, June 6.
а
Marshall islanders who were exposed to nuclear fallout in the March 1954 hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific have been paid $6,869 in com- pensation for property claims, the United States officially told the United Nations today.
The islanders, all of whom have recovered from any
Acceptance Expected
Paris, June 6. French diplomatio sources tonight were optimistic that Russia would accept the Western proposal that the "Big Fou meeting of bends
governments should be held from July 18 to 21 in Geneva.
The sources said they be- Hleved the Russian Foreign Minister, Mr Molotov, would abandon his pre- DO
that the meeting should be held in Vienna now that the West had dropped the suggestion to bold the conference
Lausanne,
diplomats
in the
French Moscow believe that Romans will also agree to accept Genera as a venue because of the facilities the town offers for a big inter- national conference.
But it was not known whether the Russians were likely to accept the four- day time limit proposed in the Western notes. This question will probably be thrashed out when the four foreign ministers meet in San Francisco on June 20. -Reuter.
Son Of Car
Magnate
Killed
Cherbourg, June 6.
July 18-21
At Geneva
London, June 7. Britain, France and the United States today formally invited Russia to a four-day meeting of the "Big Four" top leaders at Geneva from July 18 to July 21.
·
The invitation was contained in identical notes handed over in Moscow by the envoys of the three Western powers.
Recalling the failure to reach agreement over the Western proposal that the "summit" meeting take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Soviet suggestion of Vienna as the venue, the note said Geneva had "excellent facilities for a meeting af this importance."
The Swiss government had already agreed to a meeting in Geneva, the note
suggested Lausanne, ments to be made with the
Soviet Foreign government
whereas the
** Switzerland
SOVIET EINT
Sources
sald.
The following is the text of, ments the Western note:
The Governments of France, Minister suggested Vienna, and which has informed the three the United Kingdom and the the Soviet government conarm-governments that the holding of United States refer to their this suggestion in its note of such a meeting in Geneva" on the dates set forth above is notes cf May 10, 1955 addressed May 26. to the Soviet government pro "In the light or the divergent | agreeable,"
with respect to where the posing at early meeting of the
meeting might be held the gov four heads of government.
"They recall that during their ernments of France, the United informal conversations in Vienna Kingdom and the United States, May 14 and 15, the now propose that the four heads four foreign ministers agreed of government meet at Geneva,
there
excellent upon the desirability of such where
mestiag
the three facilities for a meeting of this governments are pleased to find importance. this view affirmed in the note "The three governments ac of May 26 from the Ministry of cardingly propose that the four Foreign Affairs of the USSE heads of government meet in
Geneva from July 18 to July 21-1 inclusive.
сп
and
are
11
Diplomatic
already hinted Russia had privately that Geneva would be as he acceptable agreement could not be reached. a Vienna.
The decision to proposa Geneva as the meeting place is regarded by diplomats here as a minor concession
by the United States to other powers. With respect to the place for
Washington was reluctant to a meeting of the four heads of
hold the conference there be- government it will be recalled “An early reply would be very cause of the association of its that at Vienna the foreign much appreciated in order to name with the Indo-China ministers of the three govern- permit the necessary arrange-armistice which was regarded
in some quarters in America
as a Western "sell out" to the Communists
The note did not formally propose a prior meeting of foreign ministers as had been expected.
A. Foreign Office" spokesman ald tonight the three Western foreign ministers decided to dian GLENR_ The Arrangements for this preparatory conference with Mr Malotor when they meet in San Francisco later this month. All four
statesmen are going to San Francisco to attend the tenth anniversary celebrations of the United Nations.
The three Western fortiga ministers, MC Harold Macmillan (Britain) Mr John Foster Dulles (United States) and M. Antoine Pinay (France) are to meet in New York on June 18- to prepare for their discussions. with Mr Molotov,--Reuter.
Prisoners Riot
Ionia, Mich., Jura 6. Several prison guards were injured, two of them seriously, when a riot broke out-today ·În - the Michigan State Prison,
The warden of the prison called
on State police to help in putting down the riot which occtured in only one of the buildings of the prison and
Because of the rail strike London is suffering traffic chaos. In one peak hour 40,000 cars converged on the capital, and mile long queues piled up. Picture shows: part of
# bes queue stretching out of sight and the congested, roads. The people in the queue have finished a day's work. They allvolved alightly over 1,000 pri- had diffealty in travelling to the City but now more trouble awaits them. They have to get home. So they wait patiently at a bus stop, knowing only too well that if they manage to board a bus, it will take well over the schedule time to reach their destinations because of the chaotic conditions of the roads. -London Express.
Michael John Lyons, 25- Arrest Of
year-old son of the head of] Jaguar Motors, was killed
Sir Anthony Eden's hand) Hottest Day radiation effects, did not submit any personal injury near here today when a
of this which has stayed i
so far. The Prime Minister
London, June 8.
also hopes that the good
sense of the strikers will Today was the hottest day in prevail and that they will London since September 1 last decide to return to work year. pending the outcome of Tre temperature at 2 o'clock negotiations.
of
Fahrenheit.
claims.
Trek Survivor
Identified
Two "atolls in the Marshall Roagelap and Uterik group
were affected by the ex- plosions and the entire popula
The this afternoon was 71 degrees tion of 236 were evacuated.
Uterikese were subsequently Bright ounchine started and cording to the US report, "have
returned
10 their atoll and, sc- Truth, however, demands which Bared
up among 300 acknowledgment the square yards of packing cases
resumed their former entirely
and show no
Nairobi, June 6. slimness of that hope, and on the south side of the Thames pattern of life
latent radiation effects what Mrs E. Barnes of Spring the government will probat Greenwich this afternoon ever
Valley, Nairobi, said today the ably have to take stronger sending dense clouds of black
Peter Barnes who survived the action than" it has to date. smoke pouring across the river. The ill affects suffered by the ordeal by thirst in the Sahara Whether it can play a big- Fireboats Joined land firemen Rongelap population were desert Is her 17-year-old son." in tackling the binzing mass of entirely cleared up" within five ger and more direct part in leather cuttings and corrugated months; the report said, but they consul at Dakar for information She has called the British finding a settlement of the
are remaining on Kwajalein until about him. paper-Reuter. "disputes is problematical.
their home atoll is declared sale Plainly it cannot force the
for permanent occupation.
She said Peter joined the strikers into negotiations, truč particularly as it is
Foils Attempt On His Life
..
A
Jaguar he was driving to Le Mans for Saturday's 24-hour
Swedish Boxing
race was in a head-on coll. Official sien with an American Army
lorry.
sopers.
At last reports, the pedice seemed to have gained control of the situation, akhough the state of alert had not yet been lifted.
France-Presse;
£4,315
FOR YOU AT AGE 55
Men er women, under 15 by setting aside regular monthly, half- yearly or yearly amounts under the SUN LIFE OF CANADA, plan can, for example, receive at age 55 a lump sum £4,315 for men or £4,852 for women or a private income for life of £204 a year. Any accumulated dividends would be paid in addition. If you are somewhat older than 45 now, the fruits of your saving would come at, say, 60 or 65. 23,300 FOR YOUR FAMILY, If you do not live to continue payments regularly until you are 55, your family would receive
INCOME TAX SAVED. While you are saving for your later years in this way, you would be entitled to the proper amount of relief from any Income Tax you are now paying. SAFEGUARDS FOR YOU, Guaranteed safeguards promised by the Company would help you to overcome any financial dificulties A magistrate's court later to you might meet on the way.
Berlin, June 6. Helpers spent half an hour
West Berlin police tonight removing Lyon's
the from
announced they had arrest wrecked car. He died on arrivaled Mr Oskar Soederland, at Cherbourg: Hospital,
Police said they believed President of the Swedish Lyons was going to act as an Amateur Boxers Association, official observer for the Jaguar earlier reported missing. company at the 24-hour race-
•Reuter,
Police said he was arrested on Sunday morning for alleged offences against a law forbidding homosexual relations..
Seek Restoration Of Constitution
Georgetown, June 6.
two weeks ago
23,300.
day remanded him in custody on The aze of the cash sun or private income depends upon your a charge concerning a 16-year-wishes and the amount you regularly set aside. Adjustments can overland party in answer to an The moderate United De-old boy,
Soederland, 81, came to Berlin be made to suit your personal requirements large or small. By filling in and sending the enquiry form (postage 5" cents if It is hoped that their return advertisement by the organiser, mocratic Party has decided to
about
with Norman Cooper, 48, a lask for to Rongelap may be possible in Alan
the restoration of the Swedish team of boxers compet-unsealed) you can obtain full details suited to you personally. the near future," the report said.farmer
Guiana of Kapsabet, Kenya, British Casablanca, June 6.
Three Britons were to accom- which was suspended in Octobering in the European amateur You are under, no obligation if you ask for informations
championships which ended last | |----------isuuscam To K. A. P. Liddy mu #ANIMALS REPLACED French well - known
pany Cooper in his eight horse- 3953 during the government of night Better.
the People's Progressive Party
(Mandrer, Hong Kong) businessman, M. Jacques Reit-
Reuter.
that both the docks
and
rail stoppages are due to a
great extent to inter-union rivalry,
A
the
Nevertheless,
constitution
Election Gains
Palermo, June 6. The Christian Democrat Party
NEHRU BEGINS OFFICIAL TALKS
"The pigs, fowl and ducks of power car. zer, a leading member of the both
replaced groups were
Mr Cooper is believed to have real French community in Casa for animal in the suger made a similar overland fourney Bufferers the people are blanca, narrowly escaped death of 1854 by excellent new to Britain two years ago entitled to have the govern- when, taknown persons fired at stock imparted from Japan. and
Peter Barnes is Kenya-born, ment of the day make him in his window here last Hawali. All property claims When he feat the Prince of
Prague, June 8. every effort to bring about night.
were settled in full in April 1955. Wales School here he joined, a
Indian Premier Mr Jawaharlal a eettlement, and if that
Reltzer, à member of the
"No personal injury claims local construction company as has made strong gains from Nehru began his official round
an apprentice surveyor,
most other parties, including the of talks here today with a call action must be taken under fire of his axatients and either group.
returned were submitted by members of The
surviver of the Communists in diectious to the on Czech Premier V Miss Barxa Duthy 490-coat semi-autonomous Sicilian atented by Foreign Minister Ve the emergency regulations succeeded in driving them off, "In addition the people of 30-year-old Kenya zoologist, parliament, complete results David, to break these strikes which after they had placed a bomb Rongelap are being compensated was also a well-known amateur showed tonight,
Later, Mr Nehru visited the áre gravely endangering the under his automobile which for the lors ed their ecpra pro pint and a member of the Aero. They won seven new state in President of the Republic, welfare and prosperity of was parked on the street and duction at the full rate of three Club of East Africa, friends here yesterday's elections to bring Antonia Zapotocky--- France- the nation.
blown it up"-Fx
-Presse, tors monthly
their tofal to 37-Reuter,
falls, then the necessary French organisation "Con-
science Francaise
the
BaldinChina Mati. Special,
Presse.
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA 217, Gloucester Building, Hong Kong,
I should like to know more about your Plan 24 advertised, without incurring, any-obilration.""
NAME
(Mr., Mrs., or Miss)
ADDRESS
Occupation
Exact dzle of birth