REPORT FROM WASHINGTON
All is not · Lost
in the US Unions
Walter Reuther,
Mshrewd man who runs
the U.S. Auto Workers' Union and who is one of the great powers in the A.F.L- C.L.O., has just decided that his men might be able to do without some money.
* this
In any other country might have got him locked up In a lunatic asylum. In the U.S. very few eyelashes were batted..
It is reasonable to supposz that the spirit of Karl Marx, hearing this, must ve run alt
the screaming into -nuterost depths of Limbo: but Mr Reuther's proposals merely confirm what everyone has nown for a long time: U.S. Trade unions bellove in the capitalist system. Further- mere, they know what their bely commit them to.
Ir the automobile business, apply as outrun demand by quite a distance. The logical is to cut prices. Bul
answer
the cost of labour has made This virtually unpossible and, trade unions being as strong as they are, this con can only be cut with their consent.
Mr Reuther has
proposed tha',
therefore the
automakers wi €11 their prices by n rensonite umount, his union wil cut its wage demands for the forthcoming contract,
Nobiady thinks this very strange. If the manufacturers can't sch curs, they can't pay wages. If they can sell cars, they can
Man- pay wages. agements and unions are, 171 Mr Reuther's view, partners in business, Id 35, therefore, foolish for one of them to seck to destroy the other.
So far, the automakers are considering the proposal.
Bit
if they turn it down, it will certainly not be because they think Mr Reuther has stepped Cutside his legitimate sphere of influence, but because they take 4 different view of the ~prospects--than-he
-market-
docs.
*This.
likely.
however, is not very The automakers take Mr care to keep very good
with Reuther supplied relevant information and, since his union deals with all the manufacturers, he may even be in a better
DANGER
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'HO. ANOTHER INTERFERENCE
WITH GOOD OLD-FASHIONED DEMOCRACY"
A
PRING
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1957.
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ASCENT OF THE VICIOUS SPIRAL
World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardiag
wedding now
RINCESS Margaret, prettiest Maiden Aunt then the country, is now 27.
That is an age when catch their many women breath a little in a heavens only-three-more-years-till-30 manner, and two years past the age for official spinster hood in France.
position
to atress business prospects than ny individual incturer.
STATUS
‚and everything
is not Well in the
·State Department
Depart- Lite the Slate ment in the last week or so has not measured p to the popular view of existence in the diplomatic business,
The
Brooks Bros. sults are looking
1 rumpled and
Д
It
Bluc eyes Any country with such Д princess in its midst-especially a princess with blue eyes and u very small watst, and a cheerful heart--is bound to get a little
live and cept, on a sutional
seule, the qualities of a fussy. match-making mama.
For what would give greater rause for general rejoleing than really romantic wedding for Margaret, with everyone weep- Ing deeply enjoyable tears that streat from Engilsa eyes even al, the weddings of people we have never clapped eyes on be fore?
Royal marriages in these days are no longer simple, straight- forward metters of diplomacy, international alliance or sound arranged financial lavestment, with only a cursory reference to the parties concerned and at an age too early for them to raise much objection,
bring
would
great joy
by AMANDA MARSHALL
be takes
Own
with
politie marriage
for the Frin- year after year also knows that cess, even were she not clearly n, the field arrows down young woman with a sturdy will alarming speed, and pretty soon of her own
there is very little you can do to
into
but go out and get yourself a account.
Several of our
Royal now set of friends. ladies married later than
much Things are just that once customary. The Duchess more complicated for a princess- are (cw, was 33, the whose close friends of Gloucester Duchess of Kent 27, and the whose social to is bounded late Queen Mary married when by a ring of old familiar faces, she was only a month away from and who meets a million, ol
her 27th birthday.
Lord Patrick Beresford (23) ...her latest escorts.
was
to
new
ones every year, but each them. only for a few brief formal minutes.
But in spite of the apparent swing in this country towards carlier marriage, there is still a great deal to be said for bid- Ing your time.
to
It is not really cynieni believe, as I do, that at 20 the very iden of marriage is so irresistible to most girls that almost any liusband will do as well as any other.
to
It is only later when you have bad time to grow up a little and discover the sort of person you are and are roughly likely remain for the next half century or so only, in fact, when you are old enough to have mis- givings, that you can safely take the risk at all.
Same speed
in
every offelat who deals with the press seems to have come to the conclusion that every telephone call is from some. one looking for trouble,
On The whole, extremely sad that a country
The only danger attached
This is not to say that like Syria which, at the best of times, hardly boasts uny-
marrying later than Bround 25 inany cases very young marri
not. is that, in general, the longer ages are
an excellent thing witch could be called a
Little Royal ladies are merei- women cling to their government, should be able to
single (though, to me, always miracu- they become ous) thing-if the two people reduce the United States--fully-o-langer.shuttlered to and slate the merc Government
this accustomed to their own pattern concerned can be guaranteed to to a state of fro across Europe with bewildered impotence.
alm in mind while still in their of existence, their own choice of grow up together at the sad, mech, early teens accon- thought and action--and Indeed, speed, and not surprise cach panied by a bodyguard of wilg nol to pul too fine a point upon other one morning by turning ambassadors
out to be quite suddenly two political it, the more choosy they be
totally different characters. emissaries.
But in
merciful the mild, Every girl who has watched No one
a her contemporaries marrying mists of England, where happily,
The Russians have all along bece aware that, in a country with hardly any government, power resides with whoever
cam
has the pubs, Consequently, Royal Family
the Rowan diplomatic effort
hab becn concentrated Un-
ashamedly on the ormy,
The US. now finds that the only people It has had any useful dealing with have no hope of bower, and it has been all 100 Easy for the their Russlang to, gersunde
friends to organis
army
things however they like.
The trouble Is, in part, that
Rnd
imagine the "arranging"
come.
A HAPPY MAN
A
SENSE of humour is an graphs, both
essential requirement
the
wooden
or
polite kind and the aimlessly distorted funny' kind,
and
10
for a great cartomist, and appreciate the art that lay
the U.S. swallows its own this photograph shows the synthesis and emphasis of propaganda. It has insisted David Low enjoying the truth perceived in the living world and countries which lumorous side of life.
that Syria belongs to the "free
belong to the "free
world"
are held to have properly
person." Since that time there
can be scarcely a famous figure in the world that has not
David Low, the world- featured in his satirical yet constituted governmeif. famous political cartoonist, humane pletorial commentary David LowCartooniat.
described 45 would mean a horrible breach was being interviewed at on what he has
of aliquette to deal under the his home in London for the "one of the most inspiring and Auble with the men, with the British Broadcasting Cor agonising epochs of history," tween
With
Washington poration.
men"
He
same
"character,"
den
(wo men of military
guns.
of the cessation the bearing which gave him the Low broadcasts "Sketcher. Low became a full name for a new Most people in believe that the
who from time men
to time in a time pollical cartoonist for the and the famous Colonel Blimp count in the army-who were number of the BBC'a Christchurch "Spectator" at the
"front the never
domestic
age of seventeen, and at twenty of the pre-war and war years and overscas he went to Australia 13
born. His miUtury appointed to commund by the
car was services, including the woonist for the Sydney "Bu signation was fortuitous, Low shaky Reverzanent-have ro
letin." General Oversens Service. speclat Bking for Communism.
went to Englarid points out. He might just as after World Wor I, and well have been'a döptor, bishop | They do, however, have a
Born at Dunedin, New Zep- worked It the liking for power.
first for the evening or guything cly, for he Rusalons will give it to them, and, on April 7, 1881, Low was newspaper, the "Star and in intended to typify mixed-up drawing cartoona for the 1027 joined the "Evening Stun- Thinking and "stupidity has “nó Christchurch "Spectator" at the dard with which he remained frontiers, domestic or foreign.” age of eleven. It was, ho says, unul 1049. He joined the Low's 'autobiography publishech while working for the weekly "Dally Herald" In 1000 and the la 1800 surveys ifty years un a
Sketcher" under Fred Raynor, "Manchester Guardian' in 1998. cactopnjat. “If happindia lles in. himself a caricaturist, that he 11 way in 1934, while Low, was, doing what one wants to do as
'likenesses taken from pijothe overboard. "b"çonversation be "milho the beep a lingpy 180.
well and good.
If the US. had been willing to give it to them, it might kave seemed all the better.
WBS
by Alexander Broad Teamed to "corn the so-called talding a Turkish Bath, that he well pop can do Tu as wrote,
Page 13-
EVELYN IRONS joins a party of tourists for a look at
the West End
long does it talce
Hyou to get to know the
beauties and curiosities of London-30 years? Three years? Three months?
Tens of thousands of tourists do it in three hours. Like this,
We were 27 in the blue and erear sight-seeing bus that pulled out of Haymarket at 2.30 this sunny afternoon-25 women, two men all U.S. citizena except two carnest-looking ladies from Montreal and myself. Our assignutent-the West End,'. In- eluding Whileball, Westminster, Kensington, Hyde Park, Buck- Ingham Palace, the Mall, Tra- falgar Square, with atops Westminster Abbey and the Wallace Collection.
And all the 11s, 6- including the services of 60-your-old Harold Ball, ret red London second- ory
school headmaster,
who wore a tle of an improbable tortan and acted as our guide.
know it already," confided trim, thirtyish drag company executive Betty Nixon ("No re-. lation of the vice president of the United States") from New Yerk.
THAT'S LONDON -THAT WAS!
AS
we anxiously pursued Mr
"I did it when I was here in 1950. This time I'm show-Bali. ing it to mother. She comes from
But we had hod our hour it The Abbey.' Out by the Roets' Corner door for a glimpse of the "'ll waggle my fingers when Houses of Parliament. Then the | Michigan. We did the rest of I am over the bomb of Living- quick one-two from the windows
London St Paul's and the stone cried he, os the crowd of the bus. Tower and all that--in another in the aisle swallowed him up, statue
Mrs Tankhurst's tour this morning. It took just over a sea of heads I saw bis, Calals (the world's first trade ond the Burghers. of over three hours, too."
hands in agitated gesticulation, unionists"). Lambeth Paloce as if he were drowning, And "Bilgh of the Bounty in the Livingstone it was.
churchyard"). Thirty seconds stop to photograph the Palace After that, mental indigestion of Westminster from the South Bank. Dolphin Square (big- gest block of flats in Europa"); Distant glimpse of Battersea ("the Coney Island of London").
#
Tourmnsler Ball, standing beside the driver, kept rubber-nc-king from tie atari. Trafalgar Square on the right; the National Gallery and the set in George Washington statue on the left; in front the Queen's parish church, St Martin-in-the- Fields "Nell Gwyn,
paramour
of Charles II, was buried there,” added our guide:
A scramble through Queen Elizabeth's Chapel ("On no account forget to look for thè Esrex ring!! we had been told, and we peered dutifully at this sad but unimpressive relle).
"You'll have to hurry if you want a pleture-we can't stop," ho urged as we whizzed dovin Whitehall past the Horse Guard ists get it out there!" scntries, "and here's Downing on the right, with a policeman
The Stone of Sconę, “My, my, how did those Scottish national
Frozen coke'
Street-Number Ten is the one quite a gaggle of gatecrashers, allotted half-hour
outside."
Warning
unlike the Mediterranean coun- tries, there is no brazen Bur- shine to make a woman mature at 18 and a crone et 30, the late 205 are often the time-when-the-West Dear of the Abbey. woman is at her best.
сп
For by then she is no longer silly variable, unknown quality to herself as much as to her friends and family, but a own mind sound judge of her and temperament,
-(London Express Service).
We clumbered
down outside
"Quickly now-pay for your postcards," Mr Ball warned the stragglers in the souvenir shop, "We must be cut of the Abbey by four."
Hundreds
of other tourists were "doing" the Abbey,
By this time we had collected ge aggressive: Push yourselver to the front!" Our guide harangued us.
After all this, and after hear. Ing about Ben Jonson being buried standing up and Shake- speare's statue reading a 2545- quotation-from-The-Tempest; bobby-soxer with her initials embroidered on her blouse stiu
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We wound up at the Wallace Collection. But only the very strong and the very serious went inside. The others
spent the in a snack bar. Here history was made. For Instead of lukewarm drinks
were the tourists
confronted with bottles of coke that were frozen solid and therefore un- drinkable.
Judging from. the enthusiastic reaction which greeted therd." the two highlights of the whole mad whirl were the dogs' cemo- tery in Hyde Park andh the Oxford Street store where Nina helped herself to those hats Both were rated "cule."
---(London Expraia Servics).
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