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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1955.
Singapore Faces Economic Disaster
ARAB-ISRAEL
TENSION
IRAQ CALLS ON LEAGUE
TO DISCUSS SITUATION
Bagdad, Aug. 1. Traq has approached the
other member states of the Arab League with a sugges-
tion that they should meet to
ever the Arab-Israeli ders.
MAJOR INDUSTRIES
MAY HAVE
TO CLOSE DOWN
Singapore, July 31,
Labour disorders, a series of disastrous strikes, and the greatly increased Com- munist influence in trade unions has al- ready had repercussions in business here,
seven
Last week alone two major industries announced that they might close down, and another cancelled its plans for a discuss the present tension million Straits dollars (about two and a hor-half million US) expansion scheme because of what they called "blackmailing" and the Frang Pasiga "ridiculous" demands. Smaller factories hald were also in difficulties-especially one thes agree on elective rumasure to
shoe factory whose employees met get by for small
"struck" in a most ingenious fashion, by
Klaking fie antsatzeement, a 221 Idad
Wan also
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of which was sent & Say making only left shoes.
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that t as
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a duty to call Lates HX. Pa
sveling
of water the Boge's Patical Comumter rit The
Collective
to study the
issue and to decide on nasi do Paran Escued to lepr once angl De all her angiveive detivities. and to respect. The Base Terms." |
Taking Advantage
"Israel is taking advantage of t3is』Itcs54#a? Tamily maider- į standing AION
of
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Tyre and Rubber Company and The Mayan Wire Mesh and Fryeing Company, after re- longed alriken and labour d tephen had production to a vir- lank stundell.
is
The two industries cantern- De delted because expenses are Firestone to high Top the owners, and une owner coinined, "The writing 10 t wall. It is up to the Government to malise that the 1 blen
urgent there opproximately 15 million dollars in revenue at stake."
Meanwhile a strikes broke out. The Singa- pore City Council Labour Union this week delivered a 14-lay sirike other, and will call out 119 10,000 workers unless its de-
4. it was
GIVEN
Hume Industries, it was understond, is still consider- ing moving operations from Singapore to Australia, wid has given up plans to builch a plasties factory here and expand its existing concretr pipe factory, also because of strikes and general labour troubles.
کردم
Arab states to force her way intr eerthin areas of the Arabo letris buces by slaging raids and well- The
Firestone manager prepared attacks by armed Tyre and Rubber Company said forces ingainst the Gaza strip m his head office in Ohio, USA) the Jordan Conser villages. were considering closing down if this
process continues un because it had become "ecatin abated our common enemy will mically impossible to meet the be encouraged and my under-demands made upon the com- take further netbutt.
Collective
pany, amounting to mereasts of security and defensive measures 50 to 60 per cent.” The Fire- are, therefore, met essential." tracy, it was stated, has ready offered Bypt full military support to help Egyptian forces 1 Taser
aggression. any kravli Actorting to official quarters | here, the
Wire The Malayan
Mesh ha.. Tran approach berza welcomed by the Company said that
all
strikes had
skateg member
of the Arab already cost them $60,000 this Lengur who have asked the year nnd "there is no point in Secretary-General of the League
atong workers were called out un June 8 by 1 Singapode Factory and Shopworkers" Union, which has instigated t backer many of the strikes.
continuing operations unless the
#
Government gives s the prom tection we are entled to." spokesmart sald
mands nouneest,
new wave
LIGHTERMEN
Four hundred fightermen went on strike in the
busy karbour. and the 3,000 members of the Singapore
Employees Government Union are to vote this week on the kirike Issue if their demands are not met. Even the coffee shop employees are organising a union and putting forward their de- mands,
of
D-
The bus compames are in des- pt rule struts. Employees of the Tueto Singapor
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GENDARMERIE CHANGE OVER
With the newly granted freedom of Austria, the "B" Gendarmeria has been tran4- ferred from the Austrian Home Ministry to the Ministry of Defence to form the aucibus of the new Austrian Army. Their uniforms are similar to those of the prowar Ausician Army. Ploture shows: the scene as men of the Austrian "B"Gendarmeria pass over from the Home Oillee to the Defence Ministry in Vienna.-Express Photo.
London Whispering Campaigns
Anger Danny Kaye
And "Sir" Douglas Fairbanks
ever
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Another colonial problem near settlement
SUPPORT FOR NEW BUGANDA CONSTITUTION
Kampala, July 31. The National Congress of Uganda, an African organisation, announced today that it supports the new constitution for Buganda, and also the new ministerial government for Uganda which will take office on August 15.
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The British Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, announced in the House of Commons in London on July 22 the terms of a draft agree- ment which, when accepted by the Buganda Lukiko (parliament), will permit the return of the exiled Kabaka (King) of Buganda, banished in 1953 on grounds of non-co-operation with the British Government.
He may return six weeks Mr Joseph Kiwanuko, Vice- fifter the appointment of President of Congress, sald "we Buganda ministers and Buganda have been asleep because wo representative members of the did not realise that the Legiala- Législative Council (lower five Council was the Uganda house) of Uganda,
of which governing council. We thought Buganda forms the most im- it belonged to the Governor. portant province. The ministers But since the Kabuka's deporta- will take over responsibility for tlon, we have realised it be- public affairs from the 30 years longs to us."-Reuter. old ruler, who will thus become a mere constitutional monarch,
The Congress President, Mr I. K. Musizi, told e meeting hero today that he ae- cepted the right of the Gover nor of Uganda to appoint whom wished as ministers in the new Government, and also ne cepted Buganda participation in the Uganda Legislative council.
he
BEEN ASLEEP
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Public US To Speed
Immigration
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"We must accop! ponsibility given to us," he sald, adding that Buganda Lukiko should accept without tho now constitution, delay which will enable the Kabaka
London, July 31. Two Americans Danny Kaye and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., — are discovering that royal favour is not without its perils. They have run up against jealousy none the less powerful because it is anonymous. Kaye is making the headlines | Fairbanks is producing tele occasionally meets him socially
This is a distinction few local His staff, at Rev London Palladium. He is visiom
achlove and clubmen fellow
show people ever the most
magnetic attraction friends,
practically everybody who comes many an old school the practically to return. this
hay femoris house
likes and goes in contact with him
up in flames when the "A boukod. Within hours after an respects him.
redhead's pentiemeer Brooklyn
Name "a credit to the nourbement of his current eight | inch
United mentioned, they say. weeks reason all the seals wore States," Gold.
But against both of these stars there is a whispering campaign under way. About both you can hear ancedates which are thinly disguised slurs. Some of these ever find their way into print.
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Punch On The Nose
Recently a published anecdole said that Danny addressed Prin- Margaret as "honey", a
TRAIN BEATS
A face
HORSE
New York, July 31. between a horse and an "Iron
horse"-highlight of scores of wild West Nims and
On the night of July 4 at his request the 2,000 or so people In the theatre Blood and sing "The Star Spangled BanMAT" with him. Nothing like this has
Danny's offenço seems to be piece of effrontery that apparent-books-was run in real life at ever happened before. Audiences must love a man to follow him that the Royal family not only ly left her "limp". "I'd like to Rosenburg, Oregon, todny,
Compa!Y are clamang age increases of 100 to 130 per
cent on their present salaries, plus yearly bonus of one month's salary, 63 days sick leave year, tayo weeks
annual leave, one week this way. compassion te leave, arch 15
cent trousing allowances despite an agreement signed in February 1954, granting them buy increases, In which they Meanwhile, Alexandra Brick-had promised to make no mort summies resorts as a venue,
shelved The fragt spokesman
seven | Gemands said: works, Lad.
on the company
fur Te "We
We hope, by this muve, to im-million dollar extension seteme
two years. The pitment the collective
the collective security
on the grounds that there were workers arc
demanding also phet of the Arab League as well
many onvertninties" in that the company should pay half the fines for traffe offences as 1. give the Arb leaders on Singapore's political and recone- opportunity
their mic situation. ได discuss
committed by the drivers. own affairs and the unhappy
hurse Even
racing-Singapɔre's misunderstanding among their "Third * industry”—has
to arrange the menting.
**** Lebanese, Government has offered Beirut or any of Ra
suffered
A bus company manager said these "fabukais demands" would respective governments und to a serious setback from strikes, drive any bus company out of settle this for good. It is not in after the syces
and stablebys business. the interests of the Arab peoples struck for higher wages. Horse
Land values ere that this unhappy misunder- slanding Abould continue."- Ruler.
revenue - producing Industry. Already sixty horses have had to
general manager unxi director of
said that
likes him as an entertainer
but
Headhunters Told To Behave
India Warns Naga Tribesmen
New Delhi, July 31.
cess
Of Refugees
Washington, July 31. The Amerden Government has doelded to try to speed up the rate of immigration of re- fugees into the United States, it was teamed here today.
As
it
ne
ilist move, President Eisenhower has called a three- duy meeting with prosentatives from 38 Ameri- can slate to be hold at the State Department beginning on Monday morning.
The
US Congress in 1983 adopted the Eisenhower re- fugee uld programme, which called for the Immigration of 214,000
the refugees into Stales over a three-
United
year perio
And
the
Application of this programme was confided to Mr F. Scott Mcleod, Director of Security Services the State Depart- mcnt.
that
Action, notwithstanding, punch the guy who sold
stormed right on the
train woD. nose," Danny. And off he went to a
Civic groups hero and at Eugeno party at which the Royal arranged the challenge to back family were present.
that the up their contention Southern Pucific Railways, 50 Application of the refugee pro-
Danny does sometimes overstep called "Night Crawler," is 30 the formalities with the Queen slow that horsemen could beat or Its me of two hours 54 minutes or the Duke of Edinburgh Princess Margaret but it is only for the 75-mile joumey. in his role as entertainer, "Court Jesters always had a lot of loc- way," he points out,
Danny is tough and can handle his troubles himself but Fair- banks is sensitive and hurt by
the stories. You hear reparts
ndid President (then
The Indian Government has refused to treat lady with the fierce Naga tribesmen unless they re-that he likes to hear himself racing is the third largest falling Mr Lim Chuzo Gook,
to referred £4.9 "Sir Douglas nounce violence and give up their demand for in- one of the oldest auctioneering dependence, a Government spokesman announced so he concerns in Singapore,
Eisenhower,
that ho over a million dollars' worth of today.
showed up at formal functions more decorations property here was now awaiting sale-wil buyers so wary that The Nagas who occasionally headhunt--blazing with
than a
a Russian marshal, that he even the best bargains are left
the tipped
that inhabit several thousand square miles of unad-
newspapers untouched, in the wake of riots, strikes and political unrest. He ministered wilderness in the state of Assam's north- Queen Elizabeth was dining at his house. And there you have said that the loss in investments east frontier area, near the Burma-China border. already amounted to "nillions
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SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Actor: 3 Shatters, 8 Relate, #Repeated, 11 Tarentior, 12 Urge, 13 Strow, 18 Biros, 10 Avid, 22 Destined, 24 Sentence, 20 Armado, 20 Taciturn, Down: Crate, 2 Flore, 3 Straits, Hood, 8 Tier, Entire, 7 Buckim, 10 igwer, 14 Ripon, 15 Woslern, 18 Basnet, 1/7 Pimic, 29 Knead, 21 Icloed, 22 Deft, 23 Scar.
into
of dollars," as the demand for There, nearly 800,000 tribes- property dropped and speculators men. belonging to 12 major showed less enthusiasın for tribes, lead a primitive existence, puthing money
Largo governed only by centuries-old investments here,
tribal customs based on super- The crux of the situation lies stition and witchcraft. in the trade union movement here. In the 3 and G
half
months the Labour Party has bcen
there has 151 power here, been rapid shift in the plexion of the trade unian movement, leftwing lenders inaltrated the older established unions, started new ones, and now threaten
For several years past, the Nagos have been demanding an independent "Nagaland" outside Indian rule.
NOT ENTERTAINED
The
Eyes Bigger Than His
Stomach
Leicester, July 31.
more
the jealous Inspiration for most
of the legends about Fairbanks.
Even one visit by the Queen would make any hosters famous for a lifetime and here is an American whose home she has visited more than once.
Loose-Jawed Guest
Fairbanks naturally won't dis- cuss the Queen's visits but you can take it from an unimpeach- Ernest Milla, 330 lbs, Lelees-able source it was not he but a Covernment spokesmanter's fattest man, was tonight loose-jawed guest who tipped, sald today "any demand for so challenged to eat 14 pieces take over the to
of the papers that the Queen was' ntire Beld of labour activities. called independence cannot be
fish and 9d-worth of chips--or at his house on the one night The formerly strong and in-entertained by the Government
pay the bill. fluential Singapore
nor can it be discussed by them. Trade Union
Bachelor Ernest, 65, looseneder visit was publicised. Congress,
with a moderate
He has never been called "Sir "As long as the Naga National the belt round his 64-inch waist policy and conservative methods,
(the organisation and ctarted to tuck in.
Douglas except facetiously. He finished the, chips, but had Every modal suffered heavily. Its leaders Council
he wears was namit
privately that the union demanding independence) does
not openly and publicly condemn to give up at the third piece of honourably won for war and is a bad state and unable to the use of violence, there can fish.
in
post-war services, Lace the bid of the leftwing obylously be no common ground unions who are taking over between them and the Govern many of the Independent labour ment." groups still remaining.
An Indication of the way the The Assam Government has wind is blowing (i,c. towards reported recently, that despite Moscow, or at least Peking) is "sporadic nets of lawlessness" in
tho fact that
new and the border area, the situation red-tinged Factory and Shop-was now quiet.-Reuter. workers Union increased from about 1,000 members in April,
the
to 18,000 by mid-July.
LEG. CO. MEMBER The union secretary, Lim Chin Stong, is a Legistative Assembly member repre- senting the People's Action Party, which supports all the radioni labour demands. There are sull about 14 "moderate" unions, fatal- ling about 20,000 members. The
question is, wil Frent they ally themselves
with the conservative TUC or will they rush to join the Red unions?
answer must be made elpar within a few months, and in this anewer may to the whole futury, of Singapore -France- Presso.
The
"I have had too much drink," ho moaned to the Both Kaye and Fairbanks watching crowd in a hotel yard. admitted they knew about the both made practically "Any other time I'd finish this stories,
comment: I'm used lot and be hungry two hours. the same
to it but i must be terrible for later."
(or Danny)."-United Press
The bull Emeat pald: 10s 9d. Doug →Ching Mell Special.
ASTRO - NAUTICAL CONFERENCE
Copenhagen, July 31. DELEGATES from 10 countries
meet here tomorrow to dis- cuse problems of spaco navi- gation at the sixth Inter- national astro-nautical confer- ence.
Extra splee is added to the talks by this weekend's announce ments liat Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union are to probe 'outer spacờ with rockets and "earth untoliliem."
Japan, the United States, Italy
Spain
Denmark, Germany,
Norway, Egypt Sweden, Yugoslavia, Switzer- Land South Africa, Brazil, the Argentine and the Binterlands, But there will
Sub-
tween the Bla Three. Jocts included in the addresses are: space journeys within 30 years, the physiology of space Travol, rocket propulsion, cosmic ray effects, and power- ed fight by long rango rockola.
Soviet beaver Mr L 1. Salov, one of Flamin's top The conference has been con-
theories OK
vened by the Danish Inter- Society, ·whose planetary Interplanetary travel. Delegates
President 18. Mr E. Buch include engloreys, nechitects physiciate astrociomer
Anderson, an engineer. (moderan 'syeditora, t
ent
But no Iron Curtain anteoriauts: The conference hall will be
swiat
buzzing-"WELH talk of tho.
baconderrig Courlasör: ræglewwersback
Hero,
going oni ben!
An other engineer, Mr Froderick Durant of the United will preside at the
States,
Donferenca.
Some 75 fast ponies and ex- perlenced riders almost proved the town's point. The train won by seven minutes.-China Mall
Special.
gramme came
under fre carlier
this year when Mr Edward Corsi, assistant to Mr Mcleod, resigned in prom test against Mr Mcleod's ap- pilcation of the programme which according to Mr Coral, "placed obstacles in the way of Immigration."-France-Presse,
NASSER WELCOMES SOEKARNO
President Ahmed Bookaro, of Indonesia, kas serived in Usiro for a five-day State visit. He was received on bis se^ rival by Prime, Minlater Gamal Abdel Namer, and merübers Clotshol Picture showw: of the: Revolution Dommnið. President Boskarno of Indonesia, was decorated by Prime
·Minister Naseer with the Colier of the · Order of the Nile, * Hot" in Nammer handing over the box containing tho. Collar
to the President-Express Photo,