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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER SED," 1925
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE. From Doc, 3rd to 9th, 1995.
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TRADE UNIONISTS AND RUSSIA.
BRITISH REPORT DENOUNCED,
GERMAN SOCIALIST AND
** INFAMOUS" LIES.".
FINANCE OF WEMBLEY. MONEY MADE THIS YEAR, £100,000 FROFIT ON, TATTOL.
The financial loss on the exhibition will BERLIN, October 25th. not be ascertained until early next year, The greatest group of German trade but it is estimated at between £1,750,000 unions, the Allgemeine Deutsche Gowerks and £2,000,000. The deficit is guaranteed chaftsbami, has published a scathing det the extent of £2,250,000. the principal nunciation of the report made by the British trade unionist delegation on Russia. It is in the forta of a pamphlet written by Herr Leefler; himself a trade union ucial and Socialist.
garantors being:-
4.
.....£1,100,000
The Guvernutent sir R. McAlpine and Soris, the "principal contractors... Lloyd's underwriters
Five joint stock banks........
∙150,000
100,000
50,000
The balance of £500,000 is covered by 3,000 guarantors, with an average under- taking of £400 each."
"Unpleasant facts are passed over with diplomatic subtleness." rans. the reply of the German trade unions, and the compilers are not afraid even of lies The Tattoo proved a financial as well in order to put the Russian system in a
as a patriotic success, the profit being estimated at £100,000, after paying ex better light.
It is shocking that) seven trade unionists whose names were Pnses. This profit will be shared equally held in repute should go to Russia for by the exhibition and the Department of study and circulate to the international Overseas Trade, jointly responsible for world a wretched and clumsy piece of the production, work in the form of a report The Boi- sheviks must be laughing up their sleeves."
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ELECTORAL. "RIGHTS."
Herr Loaffler notes that the delegation state that sections are carried out by a bow of hands and complains that after this they have the audacity to talk of electoral rights in Russia.
7 No inferior High nor Low Water Mon. Tase. 8m 04) Wed.
28 18 2 6'16 4 99-784-8 9ra 1835 8m 10 20 12
675 2 10 B8 48
*
was a
It is understood that there profit on the exhibition from May 9th to October Dist" Against this, however, must be placed the cost of upkeep and preparation during the period betweer last year's and this year's exhibitions. The daily £100 prize competition had un- doubtedly the effect of attracting" visi- tors.
A railway company, it is understood, The report of the British trade has offered to purchase the south-west unionists is the sum of the arguments section of the grounds and buildings, in- of the international enemies of free, cluding the Palaces of Housing and In secure, and direct roting, and there.dustry. Apart from the Stadium, the fore treachery to the members of trade only other permanent building is the unions and the Socialist international British Government Pavilion, erected, on workers."
site for which only a temporary lease Was given.
This German Socialist comments on
the chapter of remarks about Georgia with indignation.
"In this chapter is to be found 'the most infamous lies contained in the re- port. The British trade unionists de clare that the Bolsheviks were embitter- ed because Georgian Mencheviks, otherwise the Eocialists, shot 18 hon tages, whereas it was the Bolsheviks themselves who had shot 18 Socialist hostages.
"It remains for the British Labour movement to state the exact opposite of the truth in order to find excuses for the Bolsheviks who, drenched Georgia with blood.
Stadium begins in preparation for the Before Christmas returfing of the Football Cup final on April 24th.
FEATURES THAT PAID THIS YEAR.
TREASURES ISLAND AND THE £100 PRIZE.
The Garden Club, with nearly 4.C members, was London's outdoor social centre throughout the 1995 season. Its restaurant took as much for dinners dur- ing this period as any two first-class London hotels out together.
The club was carried on jointly by the exhibition and the Gordon Hotels At first private dining-rooms were reserved The chapter on Georgia is one burn- for royal guests, until, on the occasion ing shame.
of a visit paid by the Duke and Duchess Why Herr Hoefler comments that the dele-of York, the Duchess remarked: gation harps on the statement that the cannot we be put where we can see and working classes are the ruling classes in dance like everybody else?"! Russia, and that one statement after another from the British report shows that this is not so.
TREASURE ISLAND.
Treasure Island, the invention of Major His satire on the statement that the Belcher and Mr. Ayrson, proved a grati delay in the payment of wages, is theving naucial success. Not only have the returns covered the original capital chief. cause of discontent among the outlay and maintenance expenses, but
also they show a handsome profit.
workers is :-
#
American visitors bave been so in- terested in Treasure Island that it is to be reproduced on a much larger scale as a Children's Paradise at the 1998 ex- bibition at T'hiladelphia, with Major Bel- cher in charge..
THE £100 PLIZE,
How can the Eussian workers be discontented about this? It is, of course,, known that for instance the workers in the Don, Basin have to wait three months for their wages, but that is no reason to be discontented, for money is stable. If the workers have nothing to eat, that is also no reason for discontent, for they know that they are the governing classes, and they have only the duties of the governing classes to perform. They are only dis contented because they have not yet appreheaded these duties. This spokesman of the German trade unions has a word of advice for British
The visitors paid by the King and "It is very desirable that Queen and by the Duke and Duchess of British trade unions should deal severely York greatly stimulated public interest with thei delegations to Russia, because during the early days of the 1995 exhiLi ther represent danger to the working tion, Attendances were also increased classes
workers.
The daily £100 competition prize" for the most correct forecast of the follow- ing day's attendance was suggested by Mr. A. G. Chuter, finance manager of the exhibition. The suggestion was ap proved by Sir J., A. Cooper, and booked by Lord Stevenson, who succeeded in securing its adoption.
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a result of the agreement of the THE ZIXOVIEV LETTER.
general managers of the railway and Why has this monstrous report been omnibus companies to issue a 25. com- The German Socialist gives bined return travel and admission ticket made?"
from anywhere in the London zone. the answer. He calls to mind the fact
According to the published accounts of of the Zinoviev letter published by The Daily Mail on the eve of the last elec the 1924 exhibition, the cost of adver tion, and says: "This is the only ertising during the five years from January planation. These trade unionists wanted 1st, 1920, to December 5th, 1924, was to-proclaim that the Conversatives; who 10,000. It is understood that this ex- defeated them, had lied during the elec-penditure in connection with the 1025 toral struggle. They have now been exhibition amounted to £123,000. caught themselves in the clutches of lies,"
DEADLY CRITICISM OF OUR
MOSCOW TOURISTS."
be
A considerable economy was effected in the insurance of the exhibition property against fire. In 1925 the rates paid were less than half those, charged in 1924.
The accounts for the construction of the exhibition have not yet been com pleted, and nothing definite can Under this caption the Daily Mail bas stated as to the results of the exhibition, the following leader:-
even for 1924, until the quantity sur We publish to-day a summary ofveyors luve measured, and the architecta remarkable pamphlet which has just ap-have tonarmed, the amount, if any, that peared in Germany, criticising in deadly is still due to the contractor for the build- fashion the report on Soviet Russia which ing of the exhibition.
seven British trade unionials signed after
a short visit to Russia a year ago. The
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trade unionists included. Mesars. Albert Bussia is riddled with sarcasm by their Purcell, Herbert Smith, Ben Tillett, John German critic, and their whole report Turner, John Bromley, and Alan Find- described as danger to the working lay
classes." because it excuses and defends The general effect of their report was a merciless tyranny." to represent Bolshevik Russia
# Those who want to know the truth modern paradise and to astonish all who about Soviet Russia will be well-advised knew anything of that unhappy country. to turn to Emma Goldman's account of The German pamphlet makes short work her experiences in that country which of such nonsense. It is written by a con has just been published here under the vinced Socialist, Herr Leefler, and it is title of My Disillusionment in Russia." printed for a great combination of Ger- She went there as a convinced extremist, many trade unions. Its statements, there sympathising with the Bolsheviks. She fore, will carry the stronger conviction.
the ghastly came away shuddering at So formidable is its indictment of the experience" of a country where terrorism British report and the persone responsible still reigns, where free speech is not per- for that report that they ought at once mitted, and where, as she puts it, every to reply (if they have any reply to make) one has been impoverished without the If they fail to reply, the British trade lightest benefit to the poor.
By the unions and the British Labour Party figures which the Bolsheviks themselves ought to take action against them,
have published they have more unemploy
The British trade unionists are accuseded than this country, and, as for the con- of spreading infamous lies/ told them dition of the worker under Communism, by the Bolsheviks in such matters as the it is sufficient to point out that the savage mass executions carried out by Eustian miner receives 198, a month, the Soviet Government in Georgia The whereas the British miner receives more chapter on, Georgia is described as "one than that amount a weeki burning shame. Their assertion that the working classes are the ruling classes in (Continued on next Column),
When will our British Bocialists cense to swallow any impudent falsehood that' the Bolsheviks palm off on them?
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