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COAT DRESS SHIRTS
This is a sensible and convenient develop- ment of the "pull over" shirt. It means that one can put on one's shirt just as a coat and not draw it over the head as in the "pull over' style. The toilet can be completed-as this method does not "ruffle" the hair-without inconvenience before putting on the shirt. Moreover, this style can be cut closer to the body, dispensing with a considerable amount of surplus material and thereby giving a better.
"to the dress suit.
""set
Pleated Fronts with Stiff or Soft Double Cuffs. $6.50 88,50
Stiff Fronts, Plain or Fancy Pique.
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Quarter-size DRESS COLLARS
WE ALLOW 10% DISCOUNT FOR GASE
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from Bangkok and Manila
and a wide selection of Oriental articles
both Useful and Beautiful ..
are always on view
Your early inspection is cordially invited.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10th, 1927.
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NON-POLITICAL TRADE UNIONS.
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A NEW MOVEMENT EMERGING IN ENGLAND.
GROWS OUT OF TWO DECADES OF BAD LEADERSHIP.
A NEW GENERATION CRITICAL OF AGITATORS.
UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LTD.
LOSS FOR THE YEAR SHOWN.
ANNUAL MEETING HELD.
Mr. C.A. Feel presided, and he was supported by the following
H. J. Silva, D. Harvey and Mr. shareholders: Messrs. A. Murdoch,
G R. Edwards (Scoretary).
In COMIN ON with many Far Eastern Companies during the pre sent time, a loss was reported at the 31st ordinary annual meeting of Nothing more signifiesat has bat the dominant factor, we believe,
the United Asbestos Oriental emerged from the industrial fax is the disgust of men and women Ageney, Ltd., which, was held at the of our times than the movement at the misuse of their organiza-offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co.. towards a new grouping of organiz- tions. This misuse has not been Ltd., Queen's Building, yesterday, ed labour into unions defnitely wholly confined to the direct at noon. named and purposed 0.5 non-application of trade union or political. The immediate occasion ganization to political purpose, but of these new bodies was the trade has included a waste of funds on union debacle of last year, when, such things as unnecessary confer in the words of Mr. Ramsay Mac-ences, occasioned not by industrial Donald, trade unionism "was mis- questions but only by the political led into a battle whare defeat was interests created by the occupants of inevitable, and the men who would official positions A further and have saved it were temporarily most striking indication of the re pushed aside, by those who could volt of the rank and file prior to nat. The immediate occasion was the actual formation of the new act, however, the real cause of the unions WALA the atmosphere of creation of the new unions. That critical resentment which surround- is to be found in two or more deed the much-vaunted "loyalty" of cades of mismanagement of the the trade unionists to the junta trade unionists' interests by officials which, in defiance of the constitu-
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who wilfully disregarded their first tion of the trade unions themselves, duty as industrial organizers in called the general strike of 1998 order to act as the agents of a It is true that to the sentimental political party. Just as a century call upon them the rank and file ago bad leadership by the early responded in great numbers until industrialists made the trade union they realized that they had been: movement a necessity, so in this tricked into outright illegality, century bad leadership by the but once the truth was realized the leaders of that movement has mistaken loyalty ended--and the made necessary the split which is new unions came into being. Their taking place in such unions as the
uture will turn upon the capacity Miners Federation. The courage of labour to throw up leaders of of Mr. George Spencer made the the type which the modern worker non-political union a reality and needs to lead him wisely and well. there is every possibility that thore will shortly come into being a na tional federation of these new bodies, with a skilled organizer to direct its affairs.
Fruits of Education.
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Chairman's Speech.
CHAIRMAN said: The result of Addressing the meeting, the
ending May 31st, 1927, shows a loss working for the financial year
of $13,810.32. After deducting the balance brought forward al #1, 159.90-
$11,750.12 which it is proposed to there remains a net deficit of
carry forward to the now account.
KAIPING COAL
FOR HOME, FACTORY, & POWER HOUSE
HOME, FACTORY AND BUNKERS
POWER HOUSE,
TUGS & LOCOS.
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION · DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hong Kong.
TRAGEDY OF A PRINCESS..
WIFE, OF DATU TAHIL LIKE A MORO PEASANT.
Joto, August 3rd. "The beautiful and charming
Petite Princess Losses Charms. Once in a while Tarhata during
It is to be regretted that results Princess Tarhata Eiram of old the interview allowed a vague sunile do not permit of any divider.d. I days is no more. The splendor of trust that in the hope of improved her rank and the honours heaped look was unsteady, her eyes often to pass over her pala lips. Her trading conditions you will endorse upon her during the heyday of her turning to cbjects seemingly. far the proposal to carry forward the nobility have passed, and now there away in a vacant gaze. When she deficit rather than encroach upon only, exists a pale, poorly clad turned her gaze on her interviewer, that the cash position is somewhat the former splendid young princess, of her youthful soul and all the our Reserves.
mere shadow of it seemed that all the, enthusiasm You will observe young woman, a
acute and your General Managers who answers to the simple name Moorish impetuosity of her being have made the Company a loan of of Tarhata Eiram, wife of the had deserted her forever, leaving $18,000...
notorious Datu Tahil. Tarkata has nothing but the acute recollections voluntarily divested herself of all of suffering and mental anguish. titles of nobility and has converted an ordinary Moro woman, living a life of hardships and misery.
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herself into
She
As an ordinary human being, she said after a long silence, I naturally feel the common impulses of life. Don't you think that it will be difficult for a woman like " me to wait for the return of a who will be locked up in prison for a long time?"
man
Your property and launch have been maintained in good condition and the values placed upon stocks Industrialists, whether employers are or a conservative...basis. or trade union officials, are not to-day dealing with the masses of the properties have been well Decadence of Leadership.
the past. The fruits of popular written down in value in former
She has gone into retirement and The decadence of trade union ganized workers to-day are more
education are now ripening. Or years it is not considered necessary
refuses to make public statements, leadership is not difficult to and more approximating to
to allow anything further for depre, especially to newspaper men. re analyse. Its origin, was the return latively high standard of education ciation in last year's accounts.
hidea when people look for her, as to the later Victorian Parliaments and intelligence. Catch-phrases aro of Members sent to Westminster not likely to be accepted so un-
In March this year your superin her misery and poor clothes compel not as representatives of the con-critically as they have been intendent, Mr. W. C. Shiner, teader-her to withdraw from the public stituencies which elected them, but past, and the easy economic inled his resignation and
in Jolo compared to her. splendid as the virtual delegates of certain lacies which demagogues have sue
Her uncle the Sultan of Sulu, life in the United States as sent volume of business can be trade unions. In the Liberal Parcessfully traded as truth will be handled by the remainder of the has refused to extend to her his student, she said smiling: "I like liament of 1806 the Government of readily and more frequently detent staff, it is not intended to replace bear anything about her. This is in the world. This is my town. I the day made a political bargained as spurious. The man
clemency. He refuses to see her or Jolo better than any other place with the infant Labour party, and brings to his office merely a glib hin until conditions" warrant.
who
eye.
the pre-
In
rounded of its work by the intro-tongue, a vocabulary" of Marxian the meantime this reduction in star why Terbata, abandoned by her un-
duction of Payment of Members.
trade
When asked how she liked lite
E
Was born bere. There is more.
The special privileges accorded to Propaganda, and a vehement class
unions by the Campbell-atred, will no longer satisfy a will "appreciably decrease trading cle, has chosen the quiet, retired sincerity in all walks of life here, Bannerman and Asquith Adminis realists that the affairs of a big
trade union membership which expenses during the current year.
life of a common Moro woman with while everything in America seems trations were freely cited as the union demand very high organizing
At our last meeting, reference none of the titles which ones made | artificial." direct results of sectional Parlia
qualifications and a through know was
the purchase of to mentary representation, and trade ledge of the actual industry which patent rights and the necessary union leaders began to see in employs the subscribers. The trade Parliamentary career a more
at
made
her the most outstanding feminine She also said that she planned- figure in Moroland.
to go to Manila to work for the After difficulties, your correspon- pardon of her husband. She denied
official. They began to neglect the ions will pass from decadence to that good results from this process her husband, Datu Tahil, if he does to the supreme court by their law
tractive, and indirectly more lucra-have to be a man far more know-metals which has met with much dent finally succeeded in obtaining | any intention to appeal the case of
union official of the future will plant for a process of spraying tive, occupation than was to Le ledgeable and far more intent upon found in days devoted to the more his exact job than many of the "where.
success in Great Britain and else- an interview with Tarbata Eiram. Datu Tahil. However, she admit humdrum and less public avocation present extremiats
Speaking with childlike frankness, ted that the papers for the appeal The hope was expressed of an old-fashioned trade union
are-ar the
the admitted her plan of divorcing had been prepared and forwarded hart nothing so much as the trade presented to you to-day. I regret, disintegration. The general strike would appear in the accounts being not succeed in obtaining executiveyer, Attorney Fornandez. union movement. "Since
real work for which they were paid and for which their offices had been erented, in order to enjoy the glamour of Parliamentary activi ties. The replacement of the old ype union administrator by a new type of politician using the unions as his instruments, was, in the cir- cumstances, almost inevitable. The consequence was that in the years, between 1910 and 1998 the unions
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must be a balance, that hurt overcoming many unforeseen ob- must be repaired if we are not to stacles in getting the plant erected suffer prolonged reactions from it. It will be repaired by the new type
we are now faced with unexpected of trade union leader.
difficulties in operating it. Numerous experiments have been carried out
capitalist society the trade union however, to inform you that after elemency from the governor Tarhata Kiram voluntarily board- general. Datu Tahil, as many willed the Islas Filipinas to grant the in the court of first instance of and refusing to see any newspaper remember, was recently convicted interview after staying in hiding edition and sentenced to ten yearsman for one whole day. She ap- imprisonment. Talking on board peared accompanied by people of in co-operation with the Government the Islas Filipinas in the harbour the group of Rogers and Link, well Analyst and the Hong Kong and at Jolo, Tarhata said that she known supporters of Tarhata and China Gas Co. some of which have would divorce her husband in se- proved failures whilst others have cordance with the laws and customs
enemies of Governor Moore. been partially successful. This followed by the Mohammedans., Manila Times, variation in results is peculiar and
National Organization,
we cannot be certain it may be due is engaging our attention. Although
MIX.
That the trade unions abould were to a great extent perverted already contemplate national or either against the will of their ganization is a healthy sign, for, members or in default of effective as the figures published, show, the protest. The war years helped the first depression in national trade process, for the men most likely to seems to have passed, and there a object to the politicalization of again the prospect of a trade re- their unions were otherwise cocu-vival If all sections of industry pied.
resolve to put aside the political to the excessive humidity of the AMERICA'S PROBLEM and has a marvellous voice, but if Decline In Numbers,
distractions which have so injured atmosphere this year. Our Engine. If any proof be asked that the cur progress since the war, and H ers are naturally reluctant to accept feeling of the rank and file of the employers and unions combine to contracts of any magnitude or even WHITE AND NEGRO CAN'T unions has been against the perver-create a good yield as a preliminary to attempt a demonstration of the sion of the movement, it is to be to a fair share-ont, there is every process until they are assured_of found in several directions. Men reason to hope that export figures reliable results being obtained. The bership has steadily declined. On will continue to increase and that Hong Kong and China Gas Co. are the authority of the Secretary of the standard of life and the level rendering us assistance and we the General Federation of Trade of social contentment will improve fully expect present dificulties will Unions we have it that one union in together. The work of the new shortly be overcome. In the mean- 1921 had 88,730 members, and this non-political unions should be to time, this undertaking is locking up year has only 45,149; while in an- prosper the worker by making his considerable amount of capital the corresponding industry prosperous. When the and so far has brought in pracically figures are 183,945 and 74,287. masses see such a work being sue nothing. For this drop industrial depression cessfully performed, the end of the
I now propose the adoption of does not account. 1t is due, we perverted political unions
will
the report and accounts as present must admit, to a variety of factors, 'quickly follow-Yorkshire Post.
ed and after this has been seconded I shall be glad to answer to the best of my ability any question which shareholders may care to
other
union
MANILA HOTEL TO BE SOLD.
WASHINGTON, August 3rd. The War Department
announced to-day that the › directors Cof_the Manila Railroad had decided to sell the capital stock of the Manila Hotel to the highest bidder.
The bids will be opened on Octo
·ber 1st.
Four thousand three hundred and thirty shares will be sold, out of a total of 4,500.
COUNTESS TO RUN A
NURSING HOME.
TRANSFORMATION OF A BIG WEST END RESIDENCE.
Almina Countess of Carnarvon is about to embark upon an in run a nursing home of her own at teresting venture. She is going to Alfred House, Portland-place, W. It is a fine house of our storeys, with pillared doorway, sunny bal cany, and a big spread of windows, At present it is in the hands of the decorators and is being paint ed white.
ask.
SEGREGATION EVEN IN
CHURCH.
be wanted a sandwich in New Yorkug ho would not be silowed to eat itse in the company of white people.
"I remember one particular in- cident. Paul had appeared in a new production at one of the great New York theatres, to which thou sands of people were flocking. Ho had a great reception.
"After the performance the pro- ducer wanted to invite Paul to his A bitter attack on the American table at a restaurant. But the people for their treatment of the management refused to let him est coloured race is made by Mrs. Carl in the same room with hundreds Van Vechten, the wife of the au who had been a little previously thor of "Nigger Heaven," the madly enthusiastic over his art. book which focuses attention on
Penned On In Church. the scandal of the colour bar,
If you enter a theatre in Néw.
She has just arrived in England, and revealed some amazing, facts York and want to meet coloured to a Sunday Chronicle representa Instead, find the top-most gallery folk, ៥០ not try the stalls.
Mr. Murdoch seconded, and the tira. report and accounts were adopted "Perhaps owing to the persecu- unanimously.
Other Business,
There you will discover them cut-off
tion of many years," she said, from the others. They pay their "the negro is very sensitive, and money but they can't take their
choice. On the proposition of Mr. lowed to eat with white men, and feels it intensely that he is not al- MURDOCH, seconded by Mr. BILVA yet as an artist he can command same kind of pen to rail off the "In many churches there is thị Mesra, Linstead & Davis were re-
the same attention as any other white-souled, but colour-skinded, tion of $300. elected as auditors, at a remunera
performer.
adbarents to the faith.
This was all the business of the meeting.
-HOSPITAL COMFORTS."
The opening has been fixed for This means, in effect, that the next Monday, and the Countess, The Committee begs to acknow- Manila Railroad, which is owned who will take an active part in ledge with many thanks, receipt of by the Philippine Government, do the management of the home, is percels of books from Mr. F. E. sires to place in the hands of prac|explaining her scheme at an At Ewart, Mr. W.-J. Kerr, Mrs. tical hotel people the management Home, to be held at her house in Tunlop, Han, Mr. J. Oven Hughes and operation of the Manila hotely Seamore-place, Mayfair, on-Fris also a parcel of gramophone records- the War Department-announced.~ day:
from Mr. Ewart
tiz
How Long Will It Last? "The case of Roland Hayes is an example of what I mean. When be
"The question remains sings at the Carnegie Hall one of answered how long can such a bar- the largest concert halls in New rier be maintained." York-his audience is perhaps Mrs. Van Vechten described what three-quarters white, and he is ache saw at Harlem, where 50,000 corded the reception due to a great coloured people are living & segre artist. Yet he is barred from the gated life. privileges which would be his were his akin a different colour.
"Harlem," she said, "is Those Who Cheered Him merchants, clerks, writers, singers,
coloured world made up of rich- who played over here in Emperor within white world, but never-
Then there is Paul Robeson, and dancers a coloured world Jones. He, too, is a gres
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