THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH, 1991
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED.
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"REGULAR" SAILINGS"
NEW YORK & BOSTON for NEW YORK via Suez, KENDAL CASTLE"
sailing on or about 30th Sept
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FIUME having been re-opened for traffic, carge is slao sccepted for this port on through Bills of Lading,
FOR BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE
via SINGAPORE, PENANG & COLOMBO, 177
...iling in th› Middle of Outsber.
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SHANGHAI,
"PERSIA"...
ailing on or about 3rd October, Passangers Luggage can be inenFed at the Office of the Agents.
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NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS.
Bailing from Colombo to South African Porta→→→ "UMVOLOSI”... ...ailing on or abou1 2016 Sept. from Colombe "UMONA”
saling the beginning of Sept. SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS from CALOUTTA & COLOMBO, "Through Bs of Lading issued from Hongkong.
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(omitting Manila). KABHIMA MARU JUWA MARU (Naguinii direct) m FUBHIMI MABU (Nagamki diréat) LONDON &'ANTWERP"
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Monday,
and Oct.
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**LISBON MARU
MELBOURNE & SYDNEY via Manila, Zamboanga. ⠀
Inland
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BIKEO MARU
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Thursday,
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19th September Middle. of November
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CALOUTTA & RANGOON via Singapore & Penang.
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Friday,
BBANGHAL KOBE
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8th Sept
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18th Sept, at 11 a.m
18th Sept at 11 am 24th Sept. 99th Sept., at 11 am NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
K. H. KAMEL.' Manager.
YAMASHITA KISEN KAISHA
(THE YAMASHITA S.S. Co. Lro.);
REGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE
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KEELING, HONG KONG & HAIPHONG
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FOR HAIPHONG via Bolbow & Pakhol
B.B. BOZUI MARU
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on or about 15th Sept. FOR KEELUNG via Swatow & Amoy
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cm or about 15th Sept
M. KOBAYASHI, "
Top Floor, King's Building A4 No: 10.**
WHERE AMERICA LEADS. BRITISH W WORKERS MISSION.” Mr. G H. Roberta, M.P., took the chair, on July 14th, as the Holborn Bas taurant at a complimentary dinner of employers and employed to Mr. E. J. P. Bebb and Mr. F. Elliott on their return from the United States of America. They went to that country to investigate the economic conditions there, and to create An entents between the Industrial League and Council in England and the National Civic Federation in "Americh. Many trade unions, as well as employers of laboury were represented at the gather ing, which numbered considerably over 200 guests.
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ship of mankind." "I am here to my that is true," said Mr. Bean, "if we are going on in the way we have followed during the past couple of years. But if we can succeed in taking advantage of the one thing we haye which America has not the one thing which has given | un the trade unions and other blessings if we take advantage of our genius for organisation and turn it to constructive instead of destructive purposes, then Amèrica can do all the leading of man kind she likes; she will have to come here to learn how to do it." (Cheers). American wages were roughly two and a half times those earned in England, but it was erroneous to suppose that Ame
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... "LAWANGA L-Thurs, 15th Sapt, Dight This Line afforda regular sallings to Caloutta, Penang and Eingapore; returning from Calontha steamers promed via Euraiy and Hongkong to Japan, coogaionally calling at Bhanghai. All beamers bare arceliant passenger accommodation... sired with Electric Light, and. Fans and chory a fully qualified, Sargean
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approximately every five days between Canton and
rican labour costs were dear. American | SHANGHAI LINE Dal sometimes calling at Swahow Through tickets and
labour, as a cost factor in production, was among the cheapest in the world. He watched a man carning 75. 6d. per MANILA
our tending three machines, which in
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BIL of Lading are laaged to all TUTA Rua, by vemele with good -
LINEA weekly service in main
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from both parts every Friday weakly for passengers and » cargo, calling at Holhow when inducement offers LINE:-Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by zwo 5,000 tour stormers ka. «EİNSANG" And he *YANNIS" both steamers having excellent passenger adoctamodation. Carre taken on through Bas of Lailing, for Kudat, Jesselton,
Labuan, LINE:-Aregalar service is ran from March to November between
and bad Date
-Hongkong and Tientsin, calling at Welhalwal and Chatoo. (NTN LINE-A weekly service is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok, ris Swabow by four beamers fitted with up-to-date passinger accommodation.
The Chairman said that experiences of late had hilly justified the work and policy of the League (Hear, hear) They believed that many in their midst who had been genuinely dearrons of England would each have required a HAIPHONG LINE: -Baijing,
minder and a labourer to care for. If securing betterment had been largely it were true that we had to face the BORNEO groping in the dark. They had exhaust, | consequences of cheap German labour, we ed a good deal of error, and, perhaps, had also to face the good, healthy, characteristic of the British, they had straightforward competition of efficient, learned by experience, and acknowledged hard-working, economic American labour. to-day that the policy and methods,ad- vocated by the Industrial Leggae, and Council were calculated to win greater security and prosperity for the whole of the country, equitably shared amongst all their willing workers, and, moreover, being achieved by the display of the greatest possible harmony between the essential classes of the community. (Hear; hear.) That had been the work to which the League had committed itself They believed that by friendly regotia tion much better results could be achie red and events recent times had proved that even if they resorted to con dict they ultimately had to settle down and talk over and adjust their differ ́ences. That was the wiser and better plan, and he declared that events had constituted & full justification of the Industrial League and Council (Cheers.)
FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES.
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(Cheers.):
Mr. F. Elliott, who also replied, salu the deepest impression that he formed of America was that, it was a nation of capitalists. The country's wealth was rapidly passing from the hands of the big people into the hands of the many, and that transference was being welcom ed by the big leaders of industry, who
YEANING OF THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR." The theory that America was the land of the "Almighty Dollar" was true, but all depended upon what one meant by the dollar: The impression of Americans as a grasping, materialistic crowd of moneymakers was altogether beside the mark. We understood neither America nor the dollar. Whilst we grovelled in the depths of sophistry getting more and more miserable as we failed to find the philosopher's stone in the shape of tome mystic new system, the streets of America were thronged with happy, optimistic people who talked a great deal about dollars but more about ser vice. Most mysterious of all, one found the two words used in association. The American, being a sound economist, re- cognised that the proper mecanze of "ser- vice was not that put upon it by the man who rendered it, but the measure Mr. E . P. Benn said he was in calculated by the one who received it. America five weeks-just long enough to (Cheers.) The only measure which the appreciate that fifty years would be in receiver of service could use was the sufficient to grasp all that America had dollar, which explained America's at to teach one. But upon one point he tachment to it. The underlying inspira could be definite without any qualification, the thing which gave the cheery
life tion; the need for the "closest under which characterised that wonderful standing between the English-speaking people, was not the dollar, but service. peoples sa the means of saving the world The declaration of independence gave to for civilisation was recognised by the the American citizen the right to life, Americans with a depth of conviction liberty, and the pursuit of happiness be which rivalled, if it did not excel, our found happiness, satisfaction, self-res- own. He confessed that he had returned pect, and independence in doing good, a more confirmed individualist than when and useful work; in rendering service, be act out. Could they imagina land of 110,000,000 civilised persons without political labour party; a land in which the workers, who had never heard the words "ce' canny regarded restriction of output as a mythical madness The policy which was known here as 9d for 4d.was there expressed as thing for nothing." The differences be tween curselves and on American friends in these industrial questions were so and industrial stability. (Hear, bear) fundamental that little use could come When referring to the packing houses from the discussion of matters of detail in Chicago, he said that Swift's had That veteran leader of American labour,140,000 shareholders, which included 14,000 Mr. Sam Gompers, claimed that so far employees. The shareholding averaged from being fifty years behind England thirty-seven shares per individual, and in matters of labour, organisation, Ame it would require 900 shareholders to poo! rica was 100 years ahead. He claimed 51 per cent of stock and exercise con- that to estimate the success of a labour trol. In some arms bonds were purchased movement one must not judge by the
on the instalment plan. The standard of violence of its political programme; a living and dress was higher among the more effective test was to go to the workers in America, In Detroit there homes of the people. (Cheers.) Mr. was one motor-car to ten inhabitants. Gompers pointed with pride to the In England it was one to ninety-five in- 6,000,000 working-class homes which were habitants. Few signs of poverty were to either completely or partially owned by be seen. They had accepted wages "cut" the workmen occupants; to then a philosophical fashion. While ho 12,000,000 autmobiles among 110,000,000) was there, the steelworkers' wages were people; and to the 15,000,000 owners of cut by 20 per cent. They studied, and shares or other forms of property which understood economics in America. Rather existed in that wonderful country. ... than see the works of the American America, like the reat of the world, was Manganese Company-which supported having her revolution, but there it was thousands of people-closed, the work- taking the form of a transference of people and directors met, and there was large blocks of industrial capital into the a voluntary offer to accept a cut of 40. hands of the workers in industry. The per cent. in vages. The directors agreed most striking example was the Ford to that, and in return they agreed to Works, where the workmen owned no les, reduce the rents of the houses in which than 86,000,000 worth of the company's the workers lived by 40 per cent. Then stock. The force of this movement was the shopkeepers agreed to reduce the further shown by the fact that savings prices of necessities, a most "practical banks at street corners were more nume effort at co-operation in bringing down rous in América than public-houses at prices. (Hear, hear.) They had no old- street corners in England. Mr. Gompers nge pensions and unemployment schemes, claimed that he was leading the only The Secretary of State for Labour told constructive labour moyemcat in the him and his bolleague that they thought world.
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pts at 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG
Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, PORT SWET. TENHAM, MADRAS and DUTCH EAST INDIES.
For Freight or Passage apply to
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GENERAL MANAGERS.
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the people of England were being pan- perised by, their methods of social re- forin. The American worker said,” The whole force of public opinion "Give me the highest possible wages, America, said Mr. Bean, was directed to and in return I will give you the highest teaching its people how to push, whilst possible output and look after my own in England it seemed to be concerned to pld-age pension" The American was no teach its people how to lean. (Cheers.) more enamoured of the bureaucrat than Having expressed the view that the vast we were in England. He had a slogan, accumlation of wealth in the USA which Mr. Hoover invented,
"Leon would not flow to Europe as it should do, Government in business and more busi- until Americans regarded Europe as a ness in Government,” safe place for "...c. investment of money. Sic George Paish, proposing a vote of he said that an American senator told thanks to the chairman, said the prob him that America looked with come ap-lems that we had to overcome were dif prehension on the light-hearted way inferent from those in America. The which we appeared to be conducting great future of the world depended on the and novel economic experiments, parti- working men of England, who, he was a cularly in the matter of legislative act sure, would make good.” He looked for- ments. This senator gave the following ward to the time when the working.men list of British inconsistencies: (1) Dar of this country would be the capitalists demand for German indemnities and our of the country, jurt- as they were to-day----- refusal to take German goods; (7) our in America. (Choets.) need for industrial activity and our taxs-1 Mr. Albert Bellamy (ex-president of tion, which, to an American, spelt no the National Union of Railwaymel), in thing but industrial murder (chocre)= | seconding the preposal, said he was cons (2) our depleted wealth and our brag, vinced that the American-workman did ging of a higher standard of living; (4) not work so hard as the British work our centuries of economic experience, and man. The British) method itabk it out ( | {! our sippant économic legislation, which of the muscle of the man, and the Ame appeared to be enacted and repealed with [rican employers took it out of their equal regularity and levity; (6) our sur-machines. They had something to learn render to lassitude, the 'natural result from America in that direction. They of the war, and our self-infliction of dole" were bound to realise that there most and dope which must inevitably acpen-be a peace time in industry if there tuate the trouble,In Chisago, proceed, was going to be prosperity in the future ed Mr. Bean, he beard a speaker tell a for the peoples. The league wanted the brotherhood meeting of 2,500 «men that workmen, to follow sensible" lines and * no power in Heaven or in hell can pre-settle their, differences round a table, vent America from assuming the lender without a striks, misery, and suffering.
KISEN
KAWASAKI, STEAMSHIP CO.)
CAPITAL PAID-UP
Calophones' Sawaamly
3844 2888.
KAISHA
720.000.000
President: MAY. KAWAHARL Vice-President Mr. K. MarioKATA. Managing Director Mr. MARTA Ax.
The Company has on hand a Largs Number of
NEW CARGO STEAMERS
ALWAYS READY - FOR CHARTERS of all descriptions.
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The following ars-comprised in the Company's Flost
leven steamers of 9,100 tons each deadweight
And under the Company's Managemeni pos
Twenty steamers of about 9,100 tons deadweight each. Twoestsamors of about 8,400 tons deadweight each.
(Belonging to the Kawiali Dockyard Co., Ltd) *** Chorter Bates and all other portiostars opoly to thu
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