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"B. TASUDA, Managerz
OUR LONDON LETTER.
THE MINERS AND THE GOVERNMENT
ATTEMPT VAT TRADE UNION
PICTATION
[YROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
DECEMBER 7TH,
Government did not do what ʼn was well understood was contemplation they would declare a lightning strike. They hoped to be able to represent themselves. as having been strong enough to dietata to the Governmedia
THE FERMONAL TACHOR."
But there was also another reason. Ib was due to the personal rivalry which, ins I Have pointed out many times in this Trade correspondence, exists between Union lenders. They are as Jealous of one another as a couple of operatie "tars,"
∙1920.
INDO CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. LIMITED
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERAT ON
STRAITS & CALCUTTA HAIPHONG is HOIHOF SHANGHAI
KOBE
KWAIBANG LOKSANG
"OHOYSANG
Tast, 7th Dec, „Wed.
p.
8th Dec 10 m
Thurs 9th Dec, Dlight,
10th Dec, Dight
10th Dec. 3 Dolls 14th Dec,
"YATSHING" Thurs 9th Dec, Figh
LOONGSANG". Fri *KINSANG 14.
SIGVO, W'uatwri, OxwIGO & DALNYTM CHEONGSHING" Fri., SOMANIA.
LONDON, October 8th. It would not enhance the repute of Britain if cur future historians had to record that the Great War was followed by the Great Strike. It would be dis- When the strike crisis developed to the down tools sago in the coalfields Mr. creditable sequel in any case, but porti. cularly discreditable if it had happened. Thomas the railwaymen's water, in present conditions, because not a single was our the Continent. In his absence the defensible motive for the strike was to extremists, beaded by Mr. Cramp, decided CALCUTTA LINE-This Line Anords regular saflings to Calenta, Fenangand
be found. -
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SANDAKAN
to steal a march on him, and they pre- sonted the ultimatum to the Government, In the meantime Mr. Thomas hurried back from Prague. He found Mr. Cramp and his supporters in the ascendantelated. and, as they believed, triumphant. Mr. Thomas turned them down. Badly refused to sign the notices to play coal by ÷14%. 20 per ton. But I branch secretaries of the Union to ceNFÉ :
work, and the notices were issued without MANILA his name or authority. Further, be ricked W
"The miners demands were originally brought forward under two heads which were said to be indivisible. Mr. Smillie, the miners' leader afaimed an additional 23. per shift for his clients, bug with
flourish of trumpeta be dis much louder
his real for lowering the price of vaporated, The
of household cool was quietly Loandoned to his fate without murmur from any corner of the coalfields, and Mr. Smille was left to demand, more money for
miners and to see than they got 10 without promising to do more work in return for 19.** All stake and no give was the miners' motka,
The men in the coalfields rejected what Mr. Smillie would have accepted. Origin ally, their demand provided that the extra per shifu should be paid out of money
Hat | BHANGHAI
Но
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Singapore returning from Chiantis steamers, proceed, vis Stenit And Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai
*
All atomers have excellent passenger. sccommodation, are fitted with Electria. Light and Fans and carry a fully qualified Surgeon, LINK:-Ballinge * approximately every Ave days between Canda ak Shanghal, sometimes calling at Bestow. Through tiders can are issued to all Yangisse Forts vis
Manila by ramels with good LINE-A weekly service in matubated with a bait ports every Fildays
passenger Singe
his position as leader by threatening to HAIPHONG LINE:
the pilery strike threat BORNEO In the result the railway resiga
becheafood sad thegen ladiskus
Northern
and
for
and cargo, and Bandiakan
calling an Holbow when Indacomons bears,
month between Honghong LINE:-Ons is ing up-to-date accommodation for pean, Foo
Cargo taken on through Bill of Lading for Kuadat, Jesselton Imbuan, Tawao and Imand Debate, 2 1 2
Bizzled ott, The men in make theat most important centres in the country wired to headquarters that they would not
oub as ardered. Thus the cleverly TIENTSIN-LINE:-A regular service is run from March to November botworn engineered, coup failed. Mit. Thomas wos through, defeating the extremists in his Union, and effectively scotching the move. ment to join with the miners in dictating. to the Government. The tragedy of it
Hongkong and Tierteln, calling så Welhalwal and. Übefoo.
which, according to their estimate, would all is that while this sort of thing is going CALOUTTA
be forthcoming out of the profits of ex ported coal. But the expectation was unsound from the firm, and was after words proved to be completely unfounded. TER DEMAND ON THE GOVERNMENT.
on the country suffers.
DISTURBANCE IN FLEET STRIET,
A circulation" controversy which began between the Star and the Evening the Standard on the side and
issue. ...
One
Un the eve of the strike the Govern-Evening News on the other is contribut ment were confronted with an imperious ing to the general gaiety in these dull demand that they should allot £30,000,000 times. The Evening News boasted that a's " predominant" evening of extrs pay
to the miners out of the it is London' Pockets of their fellow citizens. That journal with a circulation of 800,000 odd was what, in affect, the claim amounted copies Pee other evening papers; and the This was aggravating. to The Government righly resisted the to all the claim,and offered to submit. "Points tangoyance of the Star and the Evening issue, to au impartial tribunal, agreeing Standard boiled, over when the e in advance to act upon its verdict Bat modestly claimed that its net sale excreds here again the miners proved obstinate, the net sales of any three London evering It was the acceptance of their demand or newspapers. The wrathful pair forth nothing short of a strike. They sought with challenged the News to prove that to over-ride the Government, and impone its sales last June exceeded theirs, and their will upon the netion
of red to pay £10,000 to St. Dunstan's Hostel for the Blind if they were tas boastful one to do the same should it fail to make good its claim.
20
An utterly untrue and distorted asser tion was put into circulation lint the Government had not abided by the Andings
Every day for weeks past both sides of the Bankey Coal Commission's report of last year, and that, therefore, the Gov. have been shouting defiance at each other in half columns of large type, and there erament were not to be trusted again. seems to be no end to the quarrel. The The plain English of this-is that any section of organised malcontents must be amusing part of it is that neither the free to use force if it cannot get a packed Star nor the Standard will produce their books. Meanwhile, the Daily News has On - such a ground our revolutionaris did their appeared in the arena as chief bacirer of utmost to engineer as general strike and the Star, and all the Northcliffe
The Daily pave the way to Resolation. It is have come out in support of their sister perfecs copy of the trickers that papar, the Evening er
Jfail ecreams !' cocoa" every morning
well know delivered Russia to Bolshevism. That it
court as an instrument.
papers
failed, and failed signally; is attributable at the top of its your peculiarly to the sound common sense and political ofensive to
giba that this perdbury, whose money instinct of the British people as a whole
hole-weeps the ink flowing. in Bouverig Streets
?
PARLIAMENT AND THE STRIKE. The man in the street and in the train All predictions to the contrary Lotwith. laughs at all this frantic row. He does standing, the resumption of the Parlia Bot care a brass, button one way or the mentary session has been quiet and almost other. The people to whom circulation. doll. Bo far the most controversial sub really matters are the advertisers, and ject has been the coal strike; but it was they can generally be trusted to know what their requirements. the least productive interest. No doubt particular papers suit
of this was due to the way the House of Com LORD FISHER'S PAPERA. mon deals with all big issues that is, The utmost curiosity has been aroused the situation. The debate on the strike with marked sense of the gravity of by the clause in Lord Fisher's will, which did not provide much colouring for the has just been proved, in which he leaves all his correspondence, documents, and by the
Papers to the Duchess of Hamilton, in descriptive writers in the Press.
pictures of Parliament: drama cluding his leather writing case which was
The casual visitor seeing only the surgiven to him by her. The stipulation is face of things would probably have come made that it is to be handed to her with to the conclusion that no good had been all its contents, just as it is, unopened." of course, is the the done. There would have been a sense The explanation, of
was on the closest of disappointment. Bat the friendly tone famous Admiral that prevailed and the interchange of views, terms of friendship with the Duchess of behind the Speaker's chair as well as Hamilton and her husband in the latter. across the floor of the House, helped to years of his life, and he was also a pust open a little wider the door which, friend of their children.
events subsequently proved, made pos sible the approach which led up to the final discussions.
Some people found Sir Robert Horne's survey of the trouble a little hard; but it was merely the instinct of the lawyer Got to concede more than was nece at the opening of the case. His review of the negotiations with the miners' repre- sentatives in which he played a dis tinguished pare was both fair and reason.
THE MINERS MEMESES.
The miners could have had no more effective champions than Mr. William Brace and Mr. Hartshorn. They repre sent the most militant sections of the coal fields, and therefore spoke under dificut ties which were fully appreciated, but while ostensibly wedded to an uncondi tional grant of the 21, increase, the ad, mitted frankly that unless increased out pus were given the extra money could not be paid, and the industrial supremacy of this country could not be maintained By this admission so far as argument went all kick was knocked out of the miners' resistance.“ THE RAILWAYMEN
The
The Duchess is a daughter of the late Major Robert Poore, and a sister of Colmel Poore, the well known cricketer. Lord Fisher's soo, the present holder of the title, come into a vast fortune under the will of a friend of his father's, the late Mr. J. Vavasseur, of Kilverston and Blackheath. Lord Fisher selected, his title of Kilverston" from his son's estate. H.B
ONE REMEDY.
London
We learn with concert says paper, that some forty people are fearing the country in order to enjoy file on a South Sea island, free from taxation. Mr. Rhodes Disher, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, leads the pioneers, and Mr. C. O. Kerry will command the good ship Medora, 2 schooner yacht, re- cently purchased for the adventure. Till an island or part of an island has been secured, the party will live aboard their vessel, and one strict rule has been made
there shall no politics. A happy is land, and assuredly a trusting flock 1 Alas, e motive of the railwayren in but the 45-year-old Medora is but 97ft. in ting. in and thereby causing endless length and 20ft in beam. Mr. Disher difficulty in regard to the strike on the may know his geography; and, although, morrow of the debate, in Parliament, in some of his expeditions have suffered mis- imperfectly understood, even here, if one chance, Capt. Kerry may know his havi were solely guilded by the poorerature, there will be worse than politics gation; yet, if we know aught of human imagine, be even more obscure, to renders on the overladen crafts. Better to earn many thousands of miles away.But it is and pay one's taxes than to lose one's simple enough if you are converseas with temper as one's all the inner workings of Labour politics, more especially as regards the Eig Trade Unions.
LOS ANGELES PACIFIC NAVIGATION COMPANY The motive trust
TRANS-PACIFIC TREIGHT SERVICE
Operating the following U♬. Shipping Board "steamers. HONGKONG
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA.
HS. WEST HIKA
DUN TO ARRIVE
Dec. 14E
DUB TO SLATE
#17th
of Lading to all US and Canadian Overland Pointer to connection with the Baltlake, Handia Ye and Boutant Fuck
(Mania, Singapory
CHAB
General Andrs for Boi
FLANNELLED FOOLE.”
“PLUM” WARNER STORY
There were two principal ressons. One is hest stated by an illustration. It is somewhat subtle. There is a well-known trick in pournalism to find out what is going to happen, clamour for it with great
At a banquet given in honour of Mr. violence and show of indignation, and P P Warner at the end of last month, then, when it has come to pass, proclaim M
to all the world
that it was your doing...10
er told of meeting Mr. Kipling
is a trick which has been frequently done in South Africa and asking him if he by American papers, and in this country really thought cricketers and footballers has been reduced to a fine art by the were as bad as the phrase flannelled Northcliffe Press In the present case Tools and muddied nafs implied following
the House of Commons debate, Mr. Kipling said in the door, myas attacked it violently declaring that if the will take any notice of
поводу
LINE.
KWAISANG” will be despatched on or anout
Dec 7th, for SINGAPORE, PENANG and CALCUTTA.
Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, PORT SWETTENHAM, MADRAS and DUTCH EAST INDIES.
For Freight or Passage apply to-
No. 21.
Jardine. Matheson & Co. Ltd.,
GLEN
GESERAL MANAGERS).
AND
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7th Jan.
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The Company has on hand's Large Number of
NEW CARGO STEAMERS
ALWAYS READY FOR
CHARTERS of all descriptions,
Tas folowing are comprised in the Company's Fleet
Eleven steamers of 9,100 tons each deadweight.
And under the Company's management:
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