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No. 37030
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1958.
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Britain's Railways Wage Dispute
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MACMILLAN'S BID TO SOLVE CRISIS
Non British Union Leaders HAVE YOU
Weat
Indians had the opportunity
at the end of March to elvet their first Federal Parlin- ment which was opened by Princess Margaret yester. day.
Tho poll was not heavy and
it would be over-optimistic to say that all who voted | know exactly what they were doing.
Local politles in the larger islands have a sharp cutting cdge; they
Meet PM
sent in your noptinatiun
Eur
Hongkong's
At Number 10 Footballer Of
made are
dramatic by tho clash
there is less political aware- ncan,
London, Apr. 22.
of personalities. Elsewhere Mr Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, made a personal bid tonight to solve a wage crisis on Britain's nationalised railways which has aroused fears of a nation-wide transport strike.
But throughout the nineteen lalands as a whole and their ten separate administrations Federation is still something nebulous to the ordinary At
elector.
Caribbean Dream
his passionato in-
a No. 10 Downing Street meeting with union leaders and chiefs of the British Transport Commission which runs the railways, he stressed that the Govern- ment would not give the railways a subsidy to meet
demanda.
Wterest in white on But, it would reconsider recent economy cuts which have
own
in bla
Island it is difficult for him to feel vitally concerned in what goes on in another inland perhaps a thousand miles AWAY.
Yet that is precisely why the Federal Idea has been the dream of Caribbean idealistu. for almost a hundred years. It is only since the war, however, that it has become a matter of practical politics. Ten years ago it was realised that only through federation could a group of small island torritories Wke the West Indies develop economically and politically RS they should.
Their ambitions and their
alowed down the railway's ten-year modernisation programme and would support the Transport Com- mission in pruning or cutting out uneconomic services.
On Condition
This was on condition that the three railway unions were prepared to support maximum economy of operation and the most efficient use of manpower.
The Government agreed to try to grant the three per cent wage hike demanded by the workers by modernising the ralfronds and other forms of economies... Through the economics, the £11,000,000 needed for the pay rise are expected to be obtained within the next three
months.
Political circles said, however, that even with the econo
mies it would be necessary to dismiss some six to ten thousand workers in order to grant the increase without increasing expenses.
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potentialities were limited to The unions were to meet again tomorrow to discuss the two main factors: ench Island depended too much! The
on its own alender resources | and their politics had always been bedevilled by small fractional partles and too
...many independent members. Hard Struggle
FEDERATION
has
noti
hns
come about without a hard struggle. But greater political cohesion triumphed over excessive Individualam. Since the Anal docialon to federate was taken in 1955 two main parties have emerged and in so doing they seem to have strengthened island polities. The detalls of the constitution were worked out, not by the Colonial Office but by the West Indian leaders them-
selves and they regard the as largely
first five years experimental and the con- stitution will be roviewed before the end of that ilme,
With the
two
compromise proposala........................
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Proposal To Open Shakespeare's Tomb Rejected
Russia Accuses Lana Turner Bidault
Lodge Of Gagging Council
United Nations, Apr. 22.
The Soviet Ambassador, Arkady Sobolev, today accused the United States delegate, Henry Cabot Lodge, of "gagging" the United Na- tions Security Council to prevent debate on reprisal alerts by American H-bombers.
Mr Sobolev said at a news conference that the Soviet Union had not dropped its charge that such flights toward Russia's frontiers by planes of the Strategle Air Command menaced peace and that his Government was "pondering the question right nov" of how, when old where to bring up the issue again,
Speculation
the
Correspondents gained
that Mr Sobolev impression -called his 40-minute news CON- effort to dispel widespread speculation that the Krumlin rulsed the H-bomber issue as a step in a campaign to back away from a summit conference.
Stratford-On-Avon, ference in an
Apr. 22. the church The rector of
here where William Shakespeare was buried,
I do not share the view that today rejected a proposal
the results of yesterday's to open the playwright's Security Council meeting al- tomb.
rendy hamper or prevent the
Prentice, sald he would not of govemments," he said.
Mr Boboley said .Council ac- ton had been sought because "recently Information about such provocative flights becamo particularly noticeable" in news dispatches-United Press.
SENATOR LEADS RIOTERS
д
Spinazzola, Apr. 22. Some 2,000 rioters led by Communist Sonator stormed City Hall last night stoning police and damaging the building before tear-gas dispersed them,
Communist
Sued For Gives Up:
Boy Friend's Slaying
Pleven Asked To Try
Paris, Apr. 22.
Hollywood, Apr. 22. Film star Lana Turner, her .ex-husband Stephen
Crane and their daughter,. Cheryl, 14, today' were M. Rene Pleven, a former sued for US$750,000 for
French Premier, will be the slaying of the asked tomorrow by Preal- actress' boy friend by
dent Rene Coty to try to form a new government. A special plone will be sent
Cheryl.
The suit was filed in Superior Court on behalf of John Stom- panato III, of Hammond, Indiana, son of the stain man by one of his three former wives. TV director Jack Harris the sult as temporary
brous of the boy.
The sult charges that Stoom- panalo, 32, one time bodyguard for former mobster Mickey Co- ken, was stubbed fatally оп April 4 in Miss Turner's Beverly 11ills home, "without cause, ex- cusc, reason, justification .or provocation."
Intentional
A Coroner's Inquest ruled previously that Cheryl killed Stompanáto because she feared he would hurt her mother, A hearing on Thursday will deter mine the custody of Cheryl, now in Juvenile Hall
from Paris tomorrow morning to bring M. Pleven to Purla from Dinant on the Chaunci coast,
M, Ploven is considered a left-
of-centro lender who could form a government, Including the Conservatives, Radicals, and the Popular Republicans and could count upon the votes of the Socialist Party at least for his investiture,
The rector, Canon T. N. R. convening of a meeting of heads At least 20 police and 30
rlolers, including even bother to answer" a re- However, ho added, an air-Sen. Ottavio Pastore, were in- quest from Mr Sidney R. Cam-mative decision by the Council | Jured in the siege..
Acts by Miss Turner, 38, and pion, former British Govern- would have contributed to an
Cheryl in the episode were moni Fublic Relations Officer. atmosphere for a more produc- The Socialist Administration "intentional, wrongful, unlawful,
Mr Campion believes the tombịtive and successful meeting. of this southern Italian town wanton, reckless and oppressive,"
Communists had the sult charged in demanding may contain proof that Shake Russia presented a resolution charged that
RENE PLEVEN speare's plays were actually at yesterday's meeting demand-used local labour unrest as an US$500,000 for general damages written by Sir Francis Bacon. Ing that the Council, call on the excuse to stage the riot. Polleo and US$250,000 for exemplary Earlier M. Georges Bidault,
United States to end the SAU | released 'detalls of the clash only damagos.-- MA H-bomber alert Dighis. With today.
Crane and Miss Turner wore accused in the sulf of falling to ning countries definitely aligned "Never heard anything against the measure, Mr Sobolev
The City Administration had exercise proper guidance and Life," salt cought... ridiculous in my
about 1,000 workers tons also were made that tho Today's meeting of union leaders and employers with the Camon Prentice, pausing in his con adjournment until requested police reinforcements control of Cheryl. The allega-
preparations for the 394th an-
knife- which she Prime Minister was unprecedented in British indus-niversary of Shakespeare's birth
Mr Lodge, serving In, the demonstrated before the civil butcher
centre over the weekend.phinged into Stompanato's trial disputes.
US delegato and which will be celebrated here dual role of -komorrow,
Council President, refused to United Press.
stomach should not have been readily available to the tall, dark-haired girl.
crisis blew up last week when a wages tribunal flatly rejected the demands of the three unions for a ten per cent pay increase on the grounds that the rail- woys-were-losing-money-every...year...
Trouble Aggravated
Railwaymen in Manchester and others in Glasgow have already called for a stoppage on May 4 if claims are not met.
Such a strike would coincide with a London bus strike already due to begin on May 4 over rejection of pay claims,
The trouble in the nationalised transport industry was _further aggravated today by a complete rejection, by London Transport authorities, of demands by 18,000 workers on London's underground railway' system for shorter hours and higher pay..
Mr
leading politicians, Mr Jamaican Norman Manley and. Sir Alexander Bustamente, out He of the running for election to the Federal Parliament the mantle of the first Prime Ministership has fallen on Sir Grantley Adams, Internationally known trade unionist.
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Knotty Problems
an
T the outset there are no
Sidney Greene, Secretary of the National Union-of Railwaymen, said tonight the situation was still very delicate but hopeful,
shall never be satisfied until I can say I have an amount of money," he said, "but we are still in the same hopeful position and we are not any more dismal or elated."
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was speaking at a press conference. Reuter and
France-Presse.
Policemen Want A
Ridiculous
"How would you like it
an adjournment and if agree to
the 11-nation group someone wanted to dig up your drove
through A. six-hour non- grent-grandfather?"
session. When the vote did wow about to be taken, Mr the resolu- protest against Mr Mr Campion, a self-educated Lodge's "unheard of netion. man who started work at 11 as
Scholars have been trying to stop "Shakespeare prove that
not
write Shakespeare" for Soboley withdrew
hundreds of years.
Д newsboy, claimed Shakespeare could not
thst have
Lion in
Ridiculed
written the plays because his Mr Lodge ridiculed Mr
and daughter mother
were Sobolev's protest. Ho sald he conducted the meeting in iterato and he himself did not had
book when he accordance with the rules and leave a single
Mr Sobolev's reason for with- drawing the measure was that "he simply didn't have the votes".
died-Reuter.
To Visit Chile
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CRACKED SAFE IN PRISON
Liverpool, Apr. 22. Two burglars broke into Walton Prison here and cracked a safe, the Home Office ad-,] mitled' tonight.
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It occurred on the night of March 26-27 and had been kept closely-guarded secret while police unsuccessfully sought the
criminals.
The burglars were unlucky,
do-
Mr Sobolev was asked at his Santiago, Apr. 22. Ex-Queen Soraya of Persia,
why news conferente
Russia however, in the daring vald as who arrived in the United chose the present time to raise the safe contained only states today, will visit Chile, the question of the SAC flights, cuments.
to according
the Santiago which have been going on for à They misped, or had no time evening caper, La Segunda.. considerablo Ume as a safe- to deal with, a sato nearby Soraya guard against surprise attack by containing £2,000 in wages for Segunda safti would visit an aunt here planes or missiles on the United the prison staff. China Mail Reuter.
States.
Special.
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10 Per Cent Raise NO ROYAL FILM PERFORMANCE
London, Apr. 22. -
A federal tests to bring the Spokesmen for 70,000 British policemen today!
two main parties of the Federation Into conflict. There will, however, be knotty problems for the Government to tackle Inter
applied to the Home Secretary for a 10 per cent salary increase. This was the latest in
a rash of wage demands now sweeping through Britain.
-in particular, the question Next week will come a formal request by the
of a
customs union be
tween the islands of widely
of
degrees
of
and the question
3,000,000 members of the Amalgamated En- gineering Union for a 15 per cent rise.
OR VARIETY SHOW THIS YEAR
London, Apr. 29.
Queen Elizabeth is reported
today to have decided not to attend any "Royal Film Performance" this year. According to the Daily Mail, she is expected also to cut out
the Royal Variety Show.
attended The Queen has
ng the immigra- Meanwhile, the official strike called by London's Royal Fm, Show.every your
tion lawa, which at present
restrict movement among
the islands and partly con- tribute to the unemployment problem in some of them. The new Federation will not
have an easy. Hfo. thére
But
Elizabeth
53,000 bus workers on May 6 in support of since 1048 when he was Princes their wage claims is still expected to take place-France-Presse.
is general satisfac-NO KNOWLEDGE OF REPORT
tion that the first elections i have produced two strong in Parliament, the partios foundation of a healthy
a
QUEEN ELIZABETH
She wants to vary.
engagements
"needs all the support. It can
get"
The reasons for the conscience. searching is that some of the "distinction" has disappeared la recent years froin what was designed to be the Briljah cinema's most gala occasion.
The prosentation of stáry Nos come in for criticam and, says ;the, Mall, - Wardour Street, In wandering: "Did wo overdo it?”.
ILL-FEELING......
The newspaper says that the Queen has not decided yet about attending the Royal Variety. Show, also held in November for charity,
LOOKS FORWARD The Mall reports, however, that in a letter to the Cinema- tograph Trado Benevolent Fund, the Queen said she “looke for- ward to attending often in the future,"
But, it is expected she will The fund, a film industry.
cut this year's to avold. ill- London, Apr. 22. thru Western ambassadors in charity, has received £200,000. British Foreign Office spokes. Meeppw * Foreign Ministers since 1940 from the Royal per- certain parts of the community feeling between the fim and
atzira "worlds,” Ak' man; hora today usid he did conference in Geneva as soòn za] formanCES :which hayo 1 receive 'her' presence' more: than Common not know of any Bovist propess! possikin, the
evenly divided between British other, She fools that is not The News Chronicle – kaya
Zair." report and American productions.X
[charities in a wider cultural wealth there will be a warm for a Foreign Ministers confers The conference, the
The Daily Mail quater But the Daily Mail deviaros fold will beneath from the welcome for the fact that ence of 11 nations to prapare said, should be attended by four another group of peoples summit",talka
members of the Atlantic Pact Duckingham Palace spokesman that "off the record" there isqueeri's, patronage, Ho vás, commenting...on": (United bee, Britain, Franon au explaining the Queen's action "kimnay; and consolence-run has taken a major step for report in the Franch Communist Italy), four members of the thuas The Cucun, tools she has soarching in Wardour trent ways think in November, for ward towards greater newspaper, L'Humanits, from its Warsaw Pact (oviet Union, Portovaly her engagementa, 10 hours of the Billah film world example, the Queen will attenti economic prosperity and Moscow correspondent that Mr. Isna, Chechoslovakia, Rumania) cover the widest poblefold. The newspaper akys the rom- * Festival Hell concert Angela aventual political Indepan- Andrei Gromyko, Govist" Foreign| 200,6 sihranko hautralan Clodia, I has a bed to attend ita, jam for the damay, in that the oft: Musicians Benevolent
Minister had suggested to the Bweden, Yugoslavia) miteuters certain performanos: ayay your, cinema indusar, LA MORAY! POKA | Tundmaster RSA WE
dence,
The sult referred to Stom- panato as a "loving and devoted father who contributed to his son's support. Unlled Press.
Direct Shipping
London, Apr, 22. A shipping service between Chanklang and Hongkong his started, facilitating the ship ment of goods from Kwangal Province and Chandang direct instead of via Canton, New China News Agency reported today.
There will be five. voyages monthly, the modern commercial barbour is
report sald.
A
being built at Chankinbg, the Agency added, --Neuler.
founder of the Popular Re publicat (Catholle). move ment, announced that he was giving up the attempt to forin #government to replace-that- of. 36-year-old M/ Felix Gaffe .. lard, overthrown last week:
M. Bidault's party refused him
their support in his task. M. Pleven, 57-year-old business- man and financial expert, has twice been Prime Minister and' several times Defence Minis- ter,
He was one of the chler archi→ tecls of the defunct European Army plan--a project to bring West Germany into Wester European defence which was killed Ant the French National Assembly'in 1934. M. Pleven, a leader of the small near-Radical Socialist and Democratie Resistance Union, was among the first French- men to join General Charles De Gaulic in Brilain after the 1940 collapse. He was Prime
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