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SOVIET SUPPORT FOR 'HUNGARY
Mr
now appears that Khrushcher has decided to give full Soviet support in the future for the
fun- gerian leadership of Mr Janos Kadar and Mr Ferenc Mucnnich.
Immediately on Mr Khrush
chev's return to Moscow he attacked the former Han- garian Communlat leader, Mr Matyas Rakosi, us being to blame for the 1966 up rislag and it seems that it will be impossible for him to make a comeback with- out Russian sponsorship, There is little effective aller-
native in the country present to the leadership of Mr Kadar, who heads the party, and Mr Muennich, the Prime Minister.
Undercurrent
nt
HEY Are, nevertheless,
Tunable to prevent
undercurrent of opposition showing itself, judging from the reports of heckling of Mr Khrushchev
Il
Conteeism nti
THE WEATHER: Moderato EBE winds, Fair this atter. noon, but becoming cloudy this evening,
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958.
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BRITISH TRANSPORT INDUSTRY CRISIS
RELAX IN
DAKS
THE FAMOUS COMBUST IN ACTION TRAUSTAS
Whiteaways
SOM UN G.KD NG
Workers versus Government
Serious Strikes Threaten
Country
The
London, Apr. 10.
Sarious strikes within a month in the
nationalised transport industry threa- toned Britain tonight after the rejection of trade union wage claims for 450,000 railway workers.
A two-to-one vote by a three-member Railway Arbitration Tribunal against granting pay and shorter working week demands produced immediate conferences among angry union chiefs.
10,800-member and National Union of Railwaymen Transport Salaried Stafts Asso-
held a
90-minute meeting and ciation-will discuss the situa- decided to ask the chiefs of two | finn. other unions Involved to meet them in plan "joint action."
Leaders of the 370,000-strong involved - the
Fare occurrence in a Com- muniaL from the mass meetings. It believed that the Soviet leader advised Mr Kadar to avoid any repressive men- митен, in i bid to
An NUR official said the re- con. Jection was received with "dis-
solidate popular support there might be "wild-cat strikes" For this reason it in likely that the Hungarian by rallmen in protest, Government will for the
from 44 hours gust and concern." He warned
present, bring to trial
and salarion. Repercussions
IMPASSE IN GOOD OFFICES MISSION
Paris, Apr. 11,
The French Cabinet, meeting hare today, faced the problem of finding a way out of the imposse reached by the Anglo-American good offices mission in its bid to re-establish Franco- Tunisian negotiations..
of
The negotiations were broken
after the French bombing of near the Algerian border.
the Tunisian village of Sukiet,
The Anglo-American mission Mr Harold Breley of Britain and Mr Robert Murphy of the United States--bas since been flying back and forth between Franer and" Tunisia, having lengthy talks with leaders both nations.
of
The unions have demanded pay rises of up to 10 per cent. Every effort is being made with ASLEF also calling for here to avoid recognising the their working week to be cut deadlock and the official descrip- to 40. They tion of the present position is in that it represents "the end of argued that He increase living costs Justified furthers phase one of the good offices Improvement in railway wages mission."
Mab difficulty in the minion The unions' claims covered is the question of the control of all grades from the Algerian-Tunisian frontier, employees the uprising, whom The Me Jain Maclearl Labour porters and iscomotive men to which President Habib Bourguiba Russians seized as he left | Minister, has brea told of the booking clerks, superintendents has rejected. Heuter. ~the Yugoslav Embassy impossibility of serious repercus inspectors-Reuter.
November, 1950.
Tri- sions resulting from the Anbunal's decision. It has been Industrial circles as the biggest and most the Khrushchev forecant that there complete turndown ever known
in arbitration,
Imre Nags. Premier during
turing
as part of
Some
polley, Mr Kadar, described in TRADES UNIONS
vista en interesting Initiative soun
the possibility of Improved re lations between Hungny and the United States,
Relations Strained
The Immediate prospect foresces a posdble link-up between a London bus sirike uf 30,000 men already timed for May 5 and a national rall aloppage
against protesting the refusal to Increase wIECI. Hrelations
A further 150,000 rail workers strained since the uprising: Including 20,000 London under- the American Legation still ground men are expected to be
TTUNGARIAN-AMERICAN
hne been
sheltera
Hungarian the Roman Catholic primute, Cardinal Josef Mindszenty? At the same time, Mr Khrush- chev In plain speaking on several occasions, told his Hungarian listeners they must be better Communists to prevent the possibility of another counter-revolution.""
As if on the defensive, he re-
Involved as acceptance of their paraflet pay claims depended on the tribunal word
It appeared inevitable that whatever they would support
on-taken by-their-thwarted colleagues.
Are Pressing
WARNED TO MEND WAYS
London, Apr. 10.
Lord Hinchingbrooke, an independent Conserva- tive Member of Parliament, said here tonight that the trades unions must "mend their ways or there will be an end to them."
He told a Conservative meet- in that my massive strikes now, promoted by selfishness, ignorance or a British neglect of the welfare of others, may well cost them the whole price- less structude they have spent sa Meanwhile, provincial bus-
many years developing." poutedly in his speeches men are messing for more pay
Lord nchingbrooke adderl Justified the Soviet Union's and are belleved to be ready to that the
of living intervention to crush the back the London bus workers being held steady and the only spontaneous uprising and necessary. The London bus thing that could make it rise to
men recently refused 20 com- thero ia no doubt that
crisis point next Autuma would be a failure of the Gov- Russian forces would inter-rise on their demand for a
ten shillings and sixpence
they were ernment to stand fi on cut- week rise, though offered "eight shillings und By-rent-wage claims-even-if-thre
meant holding out in the bitter controversy of transport
veno uguin, with or without a Hungarian request.
Warning
THE joint communique at
The at
intel- warned meanwhile, lectuals--the spearhead of HTC- the uprising that a solute struggle" would be Waged against revisionism. Rovisionism, or the revising of Marxist-Leninist teaching in A pro-Western bourgeois direction, has been held to be the main offence of many Intellectuals,
pence,
उ
Tho tali dispute brings | skrike. Into the open the clash bes tween Government and in- dustrial workers that has been simmering for matly monifus.
The unions higher pay de- with the mands have clashed
repented state- Government's ments that labour costs must be kept down,
Third Union
cost
JUSTICE?
was
He declared: "The unions are now demanding higher wages to offset the rise in prices since their last successful claim, But it was their last successful claim that put prices where they are
now.
"la 1958-57 we paid ourselves £700 millon more for no in- crease in output. The unions call that justice, but the or- dinary man calls it robbery,"
Lord Hinchingbrooke resigned While the NUR leaders con- The very tenor of the com-
munique points to the fact terred, the Associated Society the Government Whip over th
and Anglo-French Invasion of Sucz that the Soviet Union has of Locomotive Engineers
-Firomen representing 70,000 in 1956.-Reuter.
embuss held brief high-level
no intention of releasing Its. grip on Hungary and will if necessary back up any action taken by the present regime.
talks and announced that A dealston on their next move would be reached tomorrow. At the weekend the third unlon
In Your Saturday Mail
Bomb Incidents
Whitehall Hoax
London, Apr. 11. Bcotland Yard today an. nounced that the attache. case which started the IRA Domb scaro En Westminster,
Minor Gains
For Labour In Council
BIG BEN CELEBRATES BROKE WORLD Elections
13W
A
Big Ben 100 years go by
MANIAC DUMPS
WOMAN IN MOAT
Sydney, Apr. 10.
An army barracks was seal. ed off today and 110 men confined to barracks while detectives carried out an Intensive hunt for the maniac who attacked English Major's wife Inst night,
ก.
A constant vigil was main- constant vigil was main- Jured woman, Mrs Victoria Joan shire, who is still unconscious. Jawkins, 39, of Matlock, Derby-
Major Hawking a Londoner, Is on loan from the Royal Army Service Corps, and has been la Australia för üböul 18 montag attached to the Royal Austra- Ban Army Service Corps.
STRANGLE
Mrs Hawkins was found in a century old 12 feet moat yester- day evening, 25 yards from her the Middle- Eving quarters at contained an old medical apparatus.
Hend military quarters, noar here. -London Express Ser- vico,
(A news report yesterday Bald a man was keen dumping the attache-case outside the Whitehall telephone exchange Rt midnight. "When the caso was opened," the report wald, "It was found to contain wired axpioalvo charges." Tho bomb scare touched off a great Police hunt when the Police Forces were alerted).
RAN AMOK:
KILLED 5
Singapore, Apr. 11. The Straits Times said today ilve men were killed and one wounded when clerk ran Nicosia, Apr. 10. amok with a aholgun in the An incendiary bomb exploded | Borneo town of Brunei lost.
bracht at Kyrenia, north, Sunday.
Brunei Town is the capital of
Bong, Bong Bong... For A Hundred Years
London, Apr. 10.
At eight o'clock this evening |
PARACHUTE RECORD BY ACCIDENT
"Chesterfield,. Apr. 11. Royal Air Force officers are waiting in a hospital here today to take statements from two men who broke the world parachute re. cord to save their lives. The men are Flight-Lieutenant
the stentorian tones of Big John De Salt, aged 29, and Ben echoed across the Flying Officer Patrick Low, 23. Their secret version of the Canberra jel bomber exploded about 50,000 feet
rooftops of London
a special message.
with
it was exactly 100 years old. Monyash,
At eight o'clock on the evening Wednesday.
Derbyshire,
London, Apr. 10. Britain's opposition Labour Party made some minor gains in today's munică- pai elections, the first in A series of month-long balloting for local councils,
Labour won two additional seats In Hereford County Caunell, three in Brecon, one in the Isle of Wight, and eight seats in Buckinghamshire. But the Socialists could nako
headway
Bulland, where Independents re-won 20 seats to Labour's unc, and in Westmorlanıl. where Inde- pendenta relook 43 scats to Labour's four,
топо
in
25,000 Seats above
on
of April 10, 1958, across the The two men were sull Thumes River in Whitechapel, akrapped to their stals as they workmen poured 17 tons of mol-dropped to 10,000 feet.
to metal into a gioni mould-
end Big Ben was born.
SHOT THEM OUT
their
At that height, an autumatic device shot them out of
and opened the para-
It look Iwo weeks foc the i metal to cool completely and many more to carefully finish the shaping of the bell. When seats it was finished the bell weighed
13 tons.
Then came the job of hauling it up the 338 foot high Victoria Bell Tower that tops the Houses of Parlament.
HUGE BELL
Inch by inch, the workmen hoisted it up. It took a week to get the huge bell into place
al-the-top-
On November 18, 1858, the bell tolled out for the first time. In 1850 the clock itself was installed a clock so big that the time could be read from all over LonuII.
On the night of May 10-11 1941, the flouses of Parliament were hit by German bombs, The fire blacked and scarred the fore of Big Ben and the apparatus for broadcasting its chimes over the BBC were put out of onder.
But the clock continuext is unerring chimes without Inter- ruption except for recent repairs and face-lifting-United Press.
chutes.
It was 18 minutes before they hit the ground.
masks saved their Oxygen lives but the men were admitted to
hospital suffering from frostbite.
A security guard from the KAF Is guarding them until they are At enough to talk.
Their Canberra was believed to have been testing high- flying equipment intended for Britain's next-Hydrogen-bomb- test near Christmas the Pacific.-Reuter,
Island in
Support Call
Istanbul, Apr. 10. Russia has called on Turkey to support Soviet H-bomb policy, it was announced night,
Turkey is
to-
a member of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organi- sation and the Bogdad Pact- United Pross
US Pacific Tests Will
Not Be Last
Washington, Apr, 10.
Government scientists were reported today to doubt whether the forthcoming United States nuclear tests
The local government elections involvo a turnover of mero than 25,000 seaja in the gove
of crning bodies
villages,
towns, elties and counties. The Labour Party expects la reap big gains from the Con- servatives' present ипро- pularity as reflected in recont Parliamentary by-elections. Anti-Socialista Пот coutrot
about 70 per cent of all municipal governmeals.
-FI
in
bour's main strength is the big citi and heavily populated ladustrial areas. In
Cumberland anil-Socialists gained two state from Labour. Labour gained five scala in Northamptonshire, two from Conservatives, two from In- dependents and one
Hosy division, Conservatives won s arat from Labour-Heuter.
Protest March Termed Disappointing
London, Apr. 10. The effects of the four-day 60-mile Easter march In protest against nuclear weapons are described to- day by one of the sponsors as "disappointing.”
Dr Donald Soper, a prominent Methodist clergyman, wrlies in the left-wing weekly, Tribune; "Asa-demonstration-we-can
claim a moderato success.
"As an evocation, ina im- mediato results vannot be written off.
"But they must be writin down as disappointing despito
in the Pacific would yield enough information for the excellent publicity, which, President Elsenhower to call off further experiments
The President suld yesterday, tion agreement with the Soviet Marks on her neck suggested that attempts had been made to that he would consider very Union."
suspen- Practically all Berlously a unilateral strangle her.
testing if the her clothing had been ripnis oft, slon of further
Tolle belleve she was at scientists largely or utmost tacked while writing a letter completely found out the things on the verandah to her home they wanted to know"
But it was pointed out int in England,
top scientifle Detectives found an unfinished the President's letter and there wrs evidence advisers told him only last year that it would take from two to a violent struggle on the
Ave years to perfect a "clean" verandah.
hydrogen bomb.
on observance of tional
off
either intentionally or wittingly,
received."
ex.
the
120-
march Hos
ANOTHER ERA
at
The Western position has Dr Soper, adds, however, his been that there must be a conviction that the march-from control system set up to check Endon to the Atomie Weapons
Establishment an interna Research
Berkshirem- agreement to suspend Aldermaston, testing. Further, the West has bolized the beginning of another Ho dcclares: "Z Dubile coupled a test ban with a cut-
weapons production.
opinion is not yet in favour of One report today which quot- banning the H-bomb, it no lon- ed high selentille sources as ger proceeds to this condition Diplomalic observers, there cautioning against the prob- of mind from a satisfaction fore, stressed the big "if sur-ablity that the Paclile tests with some other programme.
"On the contrary, the con- dragged to a bridge leading to rounding the President's press would provide ali the informa
tion sought, added that although temporary mood is one of dis- conference remark.
But one commented that Pre-progress was expected on deve quiet and if public opinion has sident Elenhower's statement lopaient of "clean" bombs, the not turned to
ΟΙ pacifism Was Ikly to heighten the United States would stil have a unilateral disarmament It world-wido pressure on the considerable way to go to catch turning away from the attitudes United States and Britain, to up with the Soviet Union in which have held sway for so end testing without any inspec-1 anti-missile missiles-Reuter. long on the other side."--Reuter
DRAGGED
Marks show where she was
was
a bush which crossed the old .moat.
Mrs Hawkins
bashed and badly bruised and is suf- fering from a fractured skull.
Her condition today described "serious",
The 24-hour vigil is being | - kept at her bedside in the hope that Mrs. Hawking will regain and be Able to consciousness name her attackerChina Moll Special
Earl Jellicoe
££££££*£=> FCyprus, tonight, and unexploded
bombs were found in three the Blush-protected State of
London, Apr. 11. ether yachts in the harbour, Brunel
Earl Jellicoe is today reported Two bombs exploded in A
to have resigned from the water pumping unit serving, a The Times sold the man was Foreign Omer.
some later found shot dead in the
His last appointment was as damago, In Nicosia, lpme bedroom of his home after deputy Secretary-General of the youths set fire to an English police had used teargos to try Bagdad Pact organisation, -- woman'a car.—Franco-PressO. to make him surrender-Reuter, Reuter.
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FRENCH UNLOAD BRITISH ARMS
Bone, Apr. 10.
The French salhotilies unloaded-60 cases of zilles from the British cargo ship, Baillo Exporter, today and opened an Irivettigallon to moské, sure that thor so not derlined for the Algerian rebels
The ship's Captain sabmiited a mankost showing.
that the seven toŋa of wespons-wire olặ
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