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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1956.
World Copyright by arrangement with the Slangbeater Guardian
In the third article of this series,
LIFE
WITH
ALLEN
A TESTING TIME
THE notice in the small window of Jou's Cafe reads:-
T
By Gerald Allen-
national Incident, Marilyn Mon- roo'y future, a cricket match --- may lead to an exchange of views between the regulora
Lucas and I were having
A little man, who had beeri
"Not this one, you haven't," listening, broke in-
replied the little man, quito, unabashed. "Only those in the "It's easy to say Bo-and-so secret trial and Fred himself and somebody else should be know about it." picked, but how d'you know
how do you know?"
"Well,
as
mack lunch at Joe's recently, they'll come off? There's such a asited Lugas. and some of the patrons were thing 03 temperament, and "They had to inforın, me, FRESH-CUT SAND. growing positively garrullous there's factors that the general WICHES (VARIOUS) over the selection of the Eng- public know nothing about. Myofkin, in case Fred got Lynched by the Australians, brother Fred land feam for the coming series
nearly Well, the long and short of TEA. COFFEE. MINERALS.
but was that Fred trained in secret of Test matches, Opinions were played for England once. widely divergent, one enthusiast it wasn't to be. Remember the all that winter and all the next The sandwiches are fresh pressing for tho democratic Australian team that came over spring. Then at last, all Eng-
here and really enough,
the ideal of ten amateurs captain- her although
mince lund's best batsmen made meat of us? No, you wouldn't, sembled sworn to secrecy, and on- variety is a little limited. ed by a professional,
A lot of you would have been course-at other (a Bradford-born man)
A famous country The coffee is good. Ten is pleading that,
twinkles in your fathers' eyes house. for the sake of
I can't mention names, nover quite ready, nover England's prestige.
at the time. Nineteen-let's see but tire entire
the place belonged to -nineteen twenty-one it would well-lenown has been, never will be. We Yorkshire team be selected,
sporting be. It seemed nothing could stop There's a lovely pitch have given up asking for coffee any-
ten. We'd
way.
Kut
The customers are more varied than the recta, mind it's not at all unusual to soe comparative Micces and abject failure stand-
A third insisted that with eleven bowlers in the side (the wickelkeeper must be able to
.
kinder.
"Fred had been ordinary club cricket the year
playing in
before. He was a fastish bowler
were
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SPRUDISTERIO TRADE MARKS
SANDEMAN
SCOTCH WHISKY
The King of Whiskies
A
peer. in the
WHISKY
the Aussies thai year und grounds. and an eleven com- nothing did, though Fred might posed entirely of crack batsmen. have done if only Fale had been faced an eleven comprising Fred, hts lordship and staff. Fred bowled at both ends and
dis his length was erratic at first, missed the cracks for forty-six
bui he was unplayable later. His but very strong. In one Satur- Ave, and the stars baited again," made twenty- day afternoon game, he hnd difficulty in keeping his footing but atte His after a shower of rain, Three or four times the ball flew out of his hand as he slipped when
ing side by side, drinking coffee falce a turn with the ball) the with an awkward action, clumsy Lordship's Icum
Lune
or chewing a fresh-cut andwich (Various). A Rox half of Jues clients, however,
offer workers, some of whom seem to have been eating there, five days a week, for years.
There is little general cutver- sation but, on decashal, a matter of world import such as the H-Bomb, football pools, an inlet-
PAUL EINZIG answers the question:
D
baiting could largely look after
itself,
Lucas talked quietly knowingly on the subject. brother knows a man who is a member of the MCC, at St John's Wood- can't re- member which int airily refers to him friend at Lords."
or lives bringing his arm over, Twice, "Just a moment," someone
the ball went straight up in the guid. Lucas
air and nearly caught the bats- "My
man on the head, The second straight up into the air?"
B3
MUST AUTOMATION
BRING
OES automation
necessarily
Li
UNEMPLOYMENT?
unemployment? anything that exists 11 the
one
1931
14
CAMPAN
peuticut, the redundantling
elisarflakkenery
Opinions are sharp- United States. according to theordi Jy divided on this qui stoon, evidence given before the Con-
m1 plesalonel Sub-Comunhiee hand, Op the
D J Dayli trade unionists firmly la. Automation by Mi
at the exreatives of the lieve that they must resist
Alter Company. or delay automation in or
1955 der to avoid "trehnologiend unemployment."
On
Best
ol
Ꮨ
time it happened. the balsman trod on his wicket.
"There was a County oMelal wulching
"How did your brother keep a length, if he bowled
"Fred's length was upwards Instend of longways," explained the little man. "Anyway, ha played himself into the England team that day"
"But you said---” The little man ignored the "Fred bowled his
ties днат and he interruption, offered Fred a trist. But when best. Sometimes, the ball almost my brother turned up the disappeared from View STIC
found
County ground, he wasn't any ordinary trial: was a very bush-hush
AP perently. this official was wel in with the Test Selectors and had an idea of turning Fred into a a special kinasl of bowler, something new altogether. This chap was a wonderful talker-."
"So's syncome else."
ht
wan
u voice.
mur-
seemed literally to drop from the
of the clouds. Only one famous batsman had stood up to him in the first kunings a play- er whose name is still mention- ed wherever good cricket is dis- cussed, He'd carried his bat in the first knock.
"Fred was anxious to get this great man's wicket, so he fairly hurling tore up to the crease, the bail heavenwards.
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There
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Ave
Fred
dictabl The Renault pretence on ferias onder when
by the resolution passated-bit it took him all his time was 屋 mean werks he Paris are supposed to
Executive of the Amalgamated to be worthwhile for Rods
moment tense be even more adv need thank fine to intru larg expenditure The conclusions that erreges Engineering Union 121 April to explain things to Fred B stretched into a tease minule...
utomatic equipment-but from what has been said above 1956. They decided to pul for-to make the Selectors swallow and then Into a tense
abstabang from doing that the effect of automation ward a wage elatin amounting his scheme at the same time. min
minutes. They brought ang Ting which ward prevent on fmployment depends over- to something like £150 million Briefly, the idea was that Fred, another ball, then another, and
drny matomation
and So long whelmingly on the probly of
year
to demand
the
pecullar bowling another. He hurled them all up the need for drastle adoption of a 40-hour working action, could be trained to tose and then broke down, know- a whole chvieting DAN
the the ball very high, almost per ing The Aussica So week which measures
would
would never kurkers can podle and employ. king fis prices remain reasonably industry
pendicular, another
* that it would have la face him. Janckus trip shots, the Goverment will not £120 million
At the came down in the vicinity you
"How do you mean?" Lucas the buisman's head-a sort uf frowned. not ever he
allow industry to go abrat same time, they put forward a mly The ukhustries.
fut will even peinand that workers must a high-velocity donkey-drop," " Jul. 5771 741 #Temurage to dy en It is no piruumstanjevs be dismissed bely if the expansion of pro- through redundancy but must cnction ** accompanied
by be kept at full pay. growing
Indiation that the Government nuust feel impelled
L
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The M
Get Buy, tan, benefiting by tivest for rehundling itidistrus that were destroyed yah
It-
1. +
Any
their staf
Is
Demand Down!
other tak, enthusiastic Fermented thing an after
supporters
to
b
of automation the war, is adopting the later
it equipment, Soviet Russia ridicule the idea that
known
moking will reduce employment.
spectacular progress in automa- Both camps are inclinal ta
lan see only one side of the org ment.
Trade unionials full to reall: that technologluai 1313
mem may trige not ohly should
redundancy but
obsolescene.
un
If, as a result of the alutude Pl
pHE extent to which the effect
of organised labour, automation be delayed In Britain. must mean that British ex- And Lots will lose their overseas
also
to step in, and to take measures
is
as a result of which automation
able to lead to unemploy ment
those who reject the suggestion markets. This woukt necessarily that pestud the Austin Motor the remedy is in their handw
automation
through
that progress. may reduce the number of púa meat, hose
their
opinion the
ridedly on the boom-like pl-
war conditions.
The recent
of
number
-
the
.1
tilstndsval of workers by Stardard Motor Company as result of the installation of an Bolomatic transfer machine in
their Ignetor works gave rise to a strong feeling of hostility to words automation among organt:od labour.
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That feeling always been there beneath the surfact, even though trade union spokesmen
seldom mis
an opportunity to pay lip or vice to the need for technolo itical progress.
Acute Form
large-renje
unemploy meat. not only because Tes would be sold abroad but also because balance of payment dimeuities would force
Чте Government to restrict credit at KORIC
N
New Jobs
*
IS
concerne
Cutting Costs
conceivable that
thesu
responsible for these resolu- tions did not
the realise that creation of an additional pur-
ul.
& nulomaatian ou employ- me depends on the gYDİ
II the workers and their shown by ceutyunie" ellmate is
unions are anxious to avoid un- The expericneo
the British color industry during 1954-50
emplayn:eat through redun- chasing power of £270 millon duncy resulting from automail-
Ryear would compel the Govern Company
iment to butomate
reinforce considerably By modernting their wage de- #repler!
the disinflationary mcasure transfer machines, es result of
mands they
the con remove
It ready laken? necessarily which it was able to increase main enuzo of the Inflationary
if. notwithstanding means that weekly output from 3,500 to
that sooner or later these measures, employers were pressure 5.000 units. In spite of thi
this no
the Government to no must for
to proceed with automation, they resort workers
were dismissed, be-
disinflationary
could only do so for the Lasse owing to the expanding
measures So long ts waga of cutting their costs. nemand I was possible to and demands remain moderate. clayment for the industry is able to proceed with raductive me displaced by the automatic automation unhindered. machine. This experience was stared by the Ford works. in Britain,
the alber hati. so long as the economy as a whole prosperous, ww mployment through redundancy is bound to the
And alternative
Du the other hand, by 1930
elimate evonorte
jobs.
when
effort to
Com-
10
to
full advantage of the labour end, they would have to take
suving effect of automatic equipment by diamissing the workers who have become re- Cundant.
In such circumstances, a ban on redundancy dismissals would necessarily meon automation.
ban on
there would be no
No Moderation
INDEED, wage Increases are be temporary Provided that changed as a result of the credit
essential in order to ensure labour is sufficiently Bexible,
squeezes and alre-purchase market for the additional out- the unemployed can easily and strictlens imposed by the put socured through automation. If the unions moderated thetr
Lit Government in muickly
The poraisivat rise of prices in wage claims to check inflation This will not be the case with cheek inflation. Consequently. Britain during 1954-56 shows, and to enable the Government
ob- through
the Standard Motor unemployment
that the extent of to
relax its disinflationary solescence. The loss of over pany carried out its automation wever,
101 wage Increases has materially me
measures, seus markets and the restrictive Leitme this year it no longer exceeded the extent required to need for them to worry about monetary measures that would red to be possible to enable consumers to absorb the dismissals through redundancy:
from a fall in exports retain the workers displaced by increased output.
The Arms engaged in automa- Sa result of the appearance would mean an all-round de- machines. Even the Auslin A of the problem in acute form, elle
workers have themselves tion The
would be only too In demand,
to the Motor Company had
cut to blame. and
As a result of their pleas
pleased to retain 21 their however, many trade unionicis werkers dismissed as a result working hours lo kcop its lack of moderation, the Govern- workers, notwithstanding the are now inclined to discard all of the indequate competitive employers on the payroll. mont
hnu found itself adenton of
adoption
labour - saving pretence und openly oppose capacity of our Industries With the decline in demand, reluctantly compelled to resort equipment. But, by pressing Automation Their demand that would not be able to find al- automation had to serve the to restrictive measures, leading forward with exaggerated wago there must be connative jobs.
purpose of producing The to unemployment
claims, the Unions mako before managements
The way to aveld unemploy-essary goods with the aid of The extent of ignorance that employment in one form or an- any automatic equipment ment IN hol to hold back a smaller number of workers, prevalls among some trade ether inevitable. pursues either the object of automation whether through instead of retaining the same unionists about these element- inducing managements to ab- direct resistance to it, or through number of workers in order to ary facts of life is illustrated stain from making the change
or of delaying it, or of adopting
It under conditlims that would
greatly
reduce
the benent
result
derived from the ..costly...... operation.
Those
remember the
who THESS
unemployment of the thirties fully realise the feel. ings that- even a remote possibilty of a· recurrence of that experience must arouse among workers. Their attitude must be treated with sympathy. and understanding.
But they should realise that their opposition to automation, or their rearguard betion against it, does not safeguard them against unemployment, For automation in other countrie
to bring about un- in Britain by the competitive
18
copacity Industries.
of:
our
obsolescent
while unemployment redundancy resulti
"from" the progress of nut tion is likely to be tempor
moderate, unemployment
and
Through being left behind in
the
automation rene is likely to
bo permanent and abetmilial
150
In Installing automatio, equip, ement Britishianótor, works ary
merely following the excmploy of their average wi
咖啡館
High Time
*
circum In spite of the stances, the managements were to proceed with automa». tian, they must do so for the purpose of reducing their costs. In the deflationary atmosphere created by the reinforced disin- Stationary measures this may mcan same technological unem
piosement result of the credit!
As a
and of trade union resistance to automation,
pto managements feel impelled to - abandon or defer their automa→ tion schemes, the result is bound "to be" loss of markets abroad and even at home, lead- ing to unemployment through obsolescence
* it is high time trade unionista. * that their cholce lies excessive: wage. 3n- with
large-scale unem-
more modorato increased with full
WATTP employment Sa long as they Imagine that they can have it both ways they will continue to press for excessive, wisps,and In doing so, will continue
'hinder akomation f
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"Look," I said mildly. think I've read this glory some- where, or one very like it.'
Pred was too good. The balls never came down again, Good- day all."
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