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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
AIR TERMINAL
This press conference in
A Hongkong the ends the
PAA President, Mr Juan Trippe, madlo two cautionY" observations on the pro- posed new terminal for Kaj Tak airport. The first was that the air transportation industry hoped it would be big enough to cope with "the very tremendous ex-
1959-60
pansion of travel we visit
Hae beginning in
with the introduction of jel transport."
The second was a tactful re-
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1957.
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BRITISH WAGE WAR BEGINS
First Pay Claims Rejected Don't Forget | CANADA WILL NOT Word Of Praise the
By The Government
By ADRIAN BALL
London, Nov. 1.
The Conservative Government today rejected a pay claim for Health Service officers-and industrial observers regarded
it as the first shot in a bitter "wage war.'
minder that mistakes in The rejection planning had occurred ever leent increase
piinl
of a three per for 30,000 los-
"The Minister's action is a their estimated annual cost to direct inteference with employers:
negotiating administrative established
ma- and in such highly organbed
workers came on the first day of clinery." and farsighted cities like a crucial month for the Gov- New York and he left Aerment. clear implication
ta
It would be pity if the Colony fell into the
He error, particularly when all the indications pointed to the probability of a vast increase in air traffic in the next decade. THE TREND
NLY three days ago a re-
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and ship- ★ Engineering
building workers: A 40- hour week for three million men (annual cost £150 million).
workers: Distributive ★
Extra one pound weekly 1,750,000 workers (£90
mliilor).
Ilon).
Building workers: Pay
The Clock
Summer time ends at 3.30 a.m. tomorrow so don't forget to pat your clocks back one hour before going to bed.
Sovereigns Still Legal Tender
Rome, Nov. 1.
tish Government's Con-
rise and 40-hour week The Italian Court of Cissa- tion has upheld the Bri- or one inillion men (£90 mil-
Railwaymen:
Wage In- creases and a 40-hour 050,000 men (£40
* week for miillon).
A spokesman for the National Public Employees Leaders of My Harold Mac- Union
"In the face of this, millan's Conservative adminis-cel:rod tration, grappling with inflation angels would be Inciled to 20 for
on strike." at home, have declared this week that granting further pay Later in the day, union chicks
increase tires without so
in presented a new pay cisim-for productivity would mean "disas an extra 25 shillings a week, ter for Britain.
for 53,000 Londen busmen. Mr
Thorneyrreft, I'cter Chanceller ct the Exchequer, London Transpart chiefs me! has допе cut of his way union leaders and agreed to
claim, the
the British Trans-consider
which ไอ port Commission, operators of would cost an extra four mil- that one aircraft manufac-the State railways, that there lion sterling annually. turer had produced plans will be no government money
trouble also blew up Union R 192-seat turboprop | to finance pay rises.
British today in the airliner And there have
carling Corporation. beon elear indications for
The National Association & Aome years that the trend
Theatrical and Kime Employees gave notice that after 24 hours in towards bigger and big-
they would reserve the right ger international air trana-
to call their members In the porta,
Corporation out on strike. _On_the_baxis_of orders for
Oport from London sald
for
aircraft due for delivery in the 1980s the airlines should
COM-
but
ונזה .
Declaration
The Labour Opposition have branded thefe statements 1 declaration of war" on the unions.
MHarold-Wilson, Labour's chief reonamke spokesman in the House of Commons, has wanted
Quibbles
Broad-
Shorter Week
★Clothing workers: shorter weck and pay rise for 500,000 (£30 million).
Miners:
A 35-hour un *
derground und 40-hour surface week for 700,000 minors, (£ million).
Today, the British Employers" Confederation estimat that the total--cost to the nation of 10-hour week without loss of pay would be "at least" £1,- 000 million a year-Reuter,
over a draft inlon RED ARMY
of the
be able to give Governments is the way to the most some estimate of their enpa- bitter industrial strife we have Sir Tom O'Brien, General eitles and tho extent to known for a generation. It is Secretary of the Association which through
BBC had raised passengers the road to economic and indus- said the
"quibbleg" will the the terminal-and trial disaster."
Today come the Arst sign of recognition- agreement with the should include this
the Goverment's new tough "intention of stalling." panies not. ut, present xer-
About 200 members policy on wage claims. the vicing
Colony knocking on the door for be admittance. What most clearly understood too Hongkong's position as airline centre in the Far) East and its potentialities for expansion not only along existing routes but in new
for directions-China,
ample.
FOOLISHNESS
T
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пи
1
M Derek Walker-Shilth. | Unton: "Str Tóm-. O'Brien leads,]--- arindster of Health, announced singed on unofficial strike in the rection of proposed September to force the BBC to three per cent rise for Health recognise them in negotiations. Services cflcers earning up to £1,200 nually.
The Whitley Council, a Join! Body, management and stat agreed on the rise last month but tie Minkter said he had refused exte secept it.
TUIERE are rumours that Government is trying to bent down a figure for the terminal which Home con- sider an irreduccable mini- mum and that arbitrary. and stupid-cuts are being considered in order to re- duce expenditure.
It is to be hoped these are Il-founded. Surely what is needed is a terminal that
ineet forese will not only
provide able demand but room for expansion. Gov- ernment
excusably may wince at a high order luxury but it would be un- pardonable foolishness go to the other extreme.
of
to
Mr Walker-Smith in a letter to the Council sald the decision had been made in view of the Government's determination to check the "inflationary spiral of wages and prices."
The Ministry had earlier ac- cepted a five per cent rise for officers earning £1,200 annually,
more
Had One
than
Mr Walker-Smith explained the rejection of the lower-pald workers' claim by saying they har received a three per cent increase comparatively recently, A spokesnian for one of the
The men rolurned to work un the assurance that there would be talks on recognition.
The Government- faces month of continuous wage claims
prominent and
union leaders have already expressed anger ond resentment at 1ls, attitude.
OFFICERS MEET
RECOGNISE
PEKING REGIME
Ottawa, Nov. 1.
The Prime Minister, Mr John Diefen- baker, said today there would be no justification for Canadian diplomatic the until China recognition of Peking Government "expiates its wrong doings under international law."
RECORD
tention that the British ATTEMPT
gold sovereign is still legal lender, it was an nounced today.
The Court dismisscă an appeal by Marco. Ortinelli against his conviction by a Milan Court in June last year for counterfeiting gold sovereigns. The ruling was made on Wednesday and on- nounced today.
The case sols an Importan! precedent in Italian law, since previously counterfelters have pleaded that since the sovereign did not circulate in Britain was not legal tender.
ORNAMENTAL
They counterfeit
claimed
it
that the were
sovereigns merely ornamental and that it
not against the law Was copy them.
to
In addition to the penalty im- posed by the Court. counter- felters of British gold coins in Italy were also rendered liable to civil damages to the British Crown, which was a civil party
to the case.
Moscow, Nov. 1. Several hundred senior Soviet Army officers at- tended an eight-hour
Several other cases involving meeting in the Kremlin today at which the future counterfelt covereigns in Italy had been adjourned, ewalling of Marshal Georg Zhu the Court of Cassation's verdict. Yesterday, leaders of buliding
kov, dismissed · Defenco-Reuter, and railwaymen workers,
Minister, may have been miners repeated their determina- tien to
discussed. wage in- press creases and a shorter working
week
for
put up a
Portraits of Soviet lenders In all, leaders of 7,500,000 which are normally British workers are demanding week before, celebrations of the i higher wages and shorter anniversary of the Russian re- on November 7 had working hours which wou volution
C430 Lonight still not been fixed out- SCEL employers about
alde public buildings here, million annually.
Here is a summary of the claims lodged or pending and
unions involved, the National Death Penalty
and Local Government Officers Associaion, said: "It will not be taken lying down. It is an incitement to the stuffs to take alrect action.
For Elegance in the Hans
Upheld
The South
Some pictures were put up carlier this weet-excluding that
of Marchol Zhukov-but "were: laken down again, leaving only portraits ot Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union,
IN DOUBT
Australian Army Not Brasshats
Melbourne, Nov. 1. Australia's regular army is not a "brasshat" force, though officers and NCOs outnumber privates, Army spokesman sald here today.
2n
commenting on re-
FAILS
Washington, Nov. 1.
A four-jet flying tanker nir- craft today failed in an attempt to bent the transcontinental record for the Seattle Andrews air base, run, when it ctocked Just 10 minutes more than the existing record thune.
The KC-137 took four hours,
He said in the House of Com- muns that the Canadian Goven- ment's and could be expressed In a pariphrase of the words of the former Liberal Prine Minis- ler, Mr Mackrezzle Klug:
"Not necessarily recognition, but recognition when necessary."
There was no intentica "in the Immediately foreseeable future" to recognise the Fcking Government, he said,
The question arose after the Trade. Minister, Mr Gordon outlined plans for Churchill, Canada's Trade Commissionet at Hongkong, Mr
M C. make "an Forsyth-Smith, lo
China exploratory trip" into starting on Tuesday.
Coming. Visit
From
Altrincham
London, Nov. 1.
| Lord Altrincham, a contro- varsial blueblood who won
a slap in the face and the animosity of thousands for Queen's criticising the English, gavo hor a "pass" today.
Writing in the National ant ht English Review, which
Elizabeth II "deserves much
edits, Altrincham said Queen
praise for her television ad-
dress to the Canadian nation. 1o called it "the most notable event of the tour" she completed Inst month.
"The content of speech was very much beller than usual; the wording was simple and direct, and the emphasis on the Queen of Canada motit was ex- cellent and timely," he said.
was
CRITICAL
Altrincham, who previously erliteal of the highly Queen's speeches, added: "Above all, the Queen's own manner of speaking in this broadcast has been warmly and Justly commended. On this occasion was much Im- her delivery proved.
--"She has not yet, however- developed the art of saying few words off the cuff," he said.
11,
minutes from Seattle to An- drews base in Maryland. Two years ago, prototype of the Boeing 707 airliner clocked 3
Mr Churchill said that last "When she arrived, at Washing hours, 58 minutes. The flying tanker is the military version of year China Imported only, 2,400,- ton airport and was greeted by the Boeing 707-France-Presse. 000 dollars worth of Canadian the
INSPECTOR ACQUITTED
President, one sentence would The spoken, spontaneously goods, mostly fertiliser,
the been preferable to coming visi! would determine have whether it was possible to ex-few sentences which were read tend trade in wheat flour, off a sily of paper."-United
ch. Press. paper, pulp, lumber and He emphasised. Conata, would sell only non-strategic materials. The Canadian export of wheat, he said, was "the main Interest at the time." There was
Kai Tak Test
London, Nov. 1. Detective-Inspector Harold a serious crop situation in China
A commercial plane was sent Jones, 45, was acquitted and grave danger of starvation here today of conspiring among the Chinese people, Mr up last night to find out what
Churchill added.
effect, if any, orderly aligned with two other mon to Mr Diefenbaker had said
roads street lighting along Barrounding the airport, will defeat the course of jus-there was nothing inconsistent
have on The future niglib tice by concealing avid-in trying to extend trade with ance of a theft of 163a country while not giving it landing Illumination on the new
diplomatie recognition-Reuter. Kai Tak runway. cases of whisky.
He was also found not guilty of receiving the whisky know- ing it to have been stolen.
Ho was discharged fellow officers congratulated him as he left the court.
and
At an earlier hearing, the prosecution claimed that in- Specter Jones in a police cor led a convey carrying £3,000 word of stolen whisky to London public house, China Mull Special.
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CRIMINALS PARDONED
Landon, Nov. 1.
The Supreme Soviet has decided to amnesty "a great number of minor criminals, to mark the October revolution anniversary, Moscow radio said tonight.
The decree stipulates the pardoning of prisoners who have been sentenced to a period of not more than three years' Imprison- ment, of women who have children under eight years of aga and of pregnant women.
It also stipulates the pardoning of men over 60, women over 55
and youths under 16.
SIX AT A However, the decree does not apply to those whose crimes are
SHOT
Riverdale, ND, Nov. 1.
Duck hunter Jerry Wilson
Marshal Zhultov's future has been in doubt since he was re- moved from the Defence Minis- Seoul, Nov. 1. try last week.
He was Less than four daya remain Korean Supreme Court today passed the death for the Soviet Government marks made in the Senate yes- sentence on three persons ac-party to nanounce their fud-terday by Labour Senator John complained the cused of the attempted asings on the Marshal Ir This Burris who sassination of Vice-President news is to be made public be- country had an "army of brass-had John Chang in September last fore celebrations for the 40th hats," with 12,378 officers and year in Seoul.
anniversary of the revolution NCOs aud 0,000 privates, The Supreme Court supported begin on November 6. verdicts of District and Appeal A strong undercurrent of Courts earlier this your
feeling here is that the The three are the gunman rouncement is more than ke- national Kim Song Poong. 27-your-oldly before this great ex-army
scrgdarst and two festival and one suggestion is others charged as accomplices. that it will come tomorrow.
Router.
Reuter.
A trip to build
03-
a believe-it-or-nol story case the Game Warden wanted to know how he wound The spokesman said the actual up with so many bl da.
Wilson said he took careful figures were 2,000 offees, 2,000
be saw two ducks 6,380 alm when Wartoru! officers und NCOs. A total of 11,040 to rising from the rushes. But, by 10,060 privates. The egular the time he pressed the trigger, army was the central core of a whole flock Bew out and his of them- 70,000 men in territorial forces, shot dropped alx held-China Mail Special. United Press,
a dream on!
considered political, murder.-Reuter,
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committed premeditated
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