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Hoxe Koxo, Octonză 11zu, 1927
THE LABOUR "PARTY AND
THE MINES.
•
NATIONALISATION of mines has been
adopted as a chief plank in the policy of the British Labour Party. The present Government has another year of lile to run but its return to power is uncertain, nor has the volcanic eruption of Liberalism pro- | mised by the many leaders of that party proved much more than a conference bonfire. The Labour pro-
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mood to support expensive inus for the benefit of that very costly luxury the Miners Federation.
The net result will probably be a stou: asertion of the principle and wide divergence, as to menna
ments in the hollow of their hands and battening upon the rest of the community. There is no reason to suppose they would be in a better position to do this under the Gov-
ship. The key position, of the, industry remains, but the lesson of last year's General Strike shows pretty clearly that England will not stand tyranny of that "ort,
The mines, like the post office, would probably be efficiently bit extravagantly ran by the State and 'would not indict more loss on the coninusity than they have been in the habit of doing during the last thirty years.
Fourteen. pieces of jewellery, worth 35, and money, amounting to 8113, was stolen during the week- end from No. 10, Poling Street.
Found wandering in Des Voeux Road Centrál, apparently insane, a Chinese woman was on Saturday taken to the Central Police Station by Bance-Sergeant McMapa.
Notice.
We have to tender apologies to cur renders this morning for the non appearance of the Central China Post, The reason for the failure is that a sudden strike of our workmen was called yesterday of which we had no dnkling until we were presented with a docu- ment at 2.45 p.m. written in Chi- mese and to which a reply was de- marded by p.m.
HANKOW, October 3rd. Labour conditions in Central quired that the "Nationalist are well illustrated in the forcible
Chinese militarism, but are Port to-day, it is hoped only tem- merely the same type of adventur-porarily. ers who have oppressed the Chinese
was called. A lightning strike people for the past 15 years, plenty yesterday morning by the" printers was forthcoming from the prisoners union in the offices of this English
The document informed us in their recent advance from Shantung four men for inaurbordination and says the North-China Daily Neri agitation, despite the fact that the effect that we had broken our con- correspondent in the field. The proprietors of the Central China tract entered into with the union... writer had the opportunity of seeing Post find duly observed the burden-fficials in various ways, bobar- some hundreds of these men from some agreement drawn up after the ticularly in dismissing a number of varions Southern" units all-along last strike in April and May this agitators in our employ who since the route of the Northern advance follows:-
year, the terms of which were as
the résumption of operations fel- lowing the last attempt to muzzle and of talking freely with them.
1. The Central China Post un- dertakes not to publish deliberate- us have kept the rest of the staff There was not. perhaps, an average
ly any comments or news of ajin a state of unrest. By the agreË- of one in 3) from the southern pro- counter-revolutionary nature. In
mens signed on the occasion refer- case such comment or news is vinces, and it is safe to say that
published by mistake the Cratral, red to we were precluded from dis- nine out of ten of them were old
China Pust, as soon as the fact is charging any men until October 1st. haads at the military game, having | pointed out by the Waichiaopu or This clause--although taken advant-
the Commissioner for Foreign served in the armies of various of
Affairs, shall make a full corres-age of to the utmost by the agita- the central China Générals, who
tors to which we have referred-has had turned over to the" Nation-
2 The Central Ching Put been rigidly observed by us and not shall not dismiss any former cal- alists."
ployee on recount of the strike. until September 25th, when certain 3. The Central China Post of them became so insubordinate shall pay the men in full for the that the assistance of the municipal 10 working days of March
4. On and from June 1st, 1927. police had to be enlisted did we act.
Four Leaders Discharged. all former employees (Chinese) of
Then, four leaders the Central China Post shall re-
were dis-" sume work They shall to paid charged, and two were permitted to for the month of Jute a full half resign. These men were discharged month'a duc.
for intimidating the rest of the 5. Not a single man shall be workmen, and attempting to force dismissed before the end of Sept-thern by the use of threats to attend ember, at the end of which, if meetings held on the premises dur- it is found necessary to reduce ing working hours.
Unworried By Captivity. The prisoners were not at all backward in answering questions put to them, nor did they seem to be depressed by their state of captivity. On the other hand most of them appeared to be altogether! pleased at having effected a change of sides without mishap, and the While driving his motor car in general impression seemed to be; Queen's Road East on Saturday, that captivity merely meant going Mr. Gabbay swerved to avoid a to the rear for a time, until they Chinese and the car ran against a could be provided with new hats, pillar, damaging its left mudguard. rifles, and arm badges, and take the field again under a new chief. The wedding of L./Bdr. Percy Practically every one of them bad Arthur Wakely, of H.Q. and D, E. the same experience at least once Royal Artillery, Victoria Barracks. before when they were transferred and Miss Dorothea Magdalene to the Nationalist" armies, and Eltham, residing at No. 520, Coombe from the tales they had to tell, it Rond, Magazine Gap, the Peak, will would appear that to most of them take place at the Union Church, on the business of changing from one November 7th.
army to another from time to time was an old and understood instit tion-merely part of the game.
The marriage arranged between Dudely Leonard King, of Hong I could find no evidence of any Kong, youngest son of the late Mr. appreciation of what they had been George Lander King and Mrs. or might again be fighting for. King, of Sutton,, Surrey, and Violet | Questions as to the "Three Prin Louise, youngest daughter of Mr. ciples" or any other principles pro- and Mrs. H. D. Searles-Wood, of fessed by the Nationalists "drew Sutton, Surrey, will take place here black every time. Those were mat in November,
Admitting that she set fire to her bed to "spite her mistress" because iget, therefore; emerges into the There are disadvantages to suspend-she had given her too much work, realm of practient politics. Thereing this sword of Damocles over the Elsie Finaman asked at the Old is less danger in the principle than industry. No one will put money Bailey to be sent back to Canada.
in the manner of its execution." If into it at such a time, nor is it It was stated that she was the the Labour Party means business it likely to induce contentment among is its clear duty to explain to the the miners who will again occupy
the proposed whys and
the centre of the political cockpit. means. It is particularly unfair Bat from the aspect of party
nation
to the industry itself to keep it in tactics a convenient vagueness has
8TH OCTOBER to the D OCTO: suspense and thereby check the its points, and it will be interest-1
BEE. 1837, Both Days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
J. D. THOMSON,
Acting Becretary.
Hong Kerg, 6th Oct., 1927.
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daughter of a Hong Kong police man, and that after her father's death she had been brought up in Dr. Bernardo's Homes and sent to Canada,
The late Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
ters for officers to consider and did not concern them. As to food and
pay they were more eloquent Of the latter they had had none for a long time, and their appearance as well as the activity with which they devoured whatever was given to them bore out the truth of their declaration that they never got enough to cat". Their clothes too were in a woeful state of disrepair
ragged parts of uniforms, pieced out with odd shirts and trousers of various colours and designs, that
infux of capital that is so, badlying to see whether the Labour Party Howe Collinson, C.B. E., M.C.C.Ethey had been able to and for them-
needed for the installation of more scientific methods in dealing with coul. Unfortunately, the party is sure to experience difficulty in agreeing upon its policy in that matter. The extremists advocate
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adopts the honest policy of laying of Hayling Island, Hants, from 1003 about as tatterdemalion a lot of selves, and altogether they were its hand on the table, or the ex en 1914 Engineer-in-Chief associated the ordinary riff-raff type of Chi- pedient one of showing a few rather with the construction of the Shang-nese soldiers as I have yet seen in contradictory cards.
China. hai-Nanking Railway, the Nanking
Little Wander That They Ran. City" Railway, and the Hankow- Provided that it is carried out Cantor Railway in China, formerly tive of all the Southern troopa They were certainly representa carefully and honestly there is a Director-General of Inspection of opposed to the Northerners north of above May BOAD LIVIL, Hong Kong, expropriation without compensa very good case for nationalising Munitions of War, who died on June from every one of the four South- the Yangtze, as there were some Will Landlords interested send part- tion and the fact that such a policy the mines. The battleground will 28th, aged el, left'estate of the gross ern armies concerned, and compar 'icular ta SMALL INVESTOBE would shake industrial Britain to be the question of compensation, value of £1,067, with net personalty ing them with the well equipped, TEL. Q. 4830 !
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its foundations troubles them not and for many years the value of £433 at all. They declare that the the mines to their owners has been workers" would greatly benefit and hotly is dispute. It will be not only a few capitalists" would without its humour to see owners suffer.
And, of course, having who protested before, the Samuel begun with the mines the same pro- Commission that they were running cess could be applied to every big at a loss faced with the problem of industry is turi
crying up their wares. Coal mining The wiser heads in the Party is now a vastly different propozi know that even from an electionsertion to what it was before the war. ing point of view such a policy" is Then the raw material was in the at the bext a gamble. There are main used in furnaces, domes-
OF HONG KONG.
tion.
the staff on account of the lack All were paid in full and in sil- of sufficient business, a special ver coin to October 1st, upon which committee consisting of a repre-date in accordance with our con- sentative each of the Owners, the tract with the union and the FO.. Employees Union and the Wai- officials the clause referring to this chiaopu, shall determine whether section, of union activity became such reduction in staff is neces-operative. The result of our justi- fable action was a lightning strike and the presentations of demands as follows:
sary,
61 it is deemed necessary by the said Committee to have the number of employees reduced or at any such future time it should become necessary to dismiss any nan from the employ, the Central China Post undertakes to pay bonus to the dismissed man at the following rates:-
To one who has been in service for one year or less, one month's wages.
#
To one who has been in service for three,
years or less 2 months
wages.
To one who has been in service for five years or less 3 months' wages.
D
To one who has been in service for ten years or less 4 months' wages.
To one who has been in service for more than ten years 6 months wages.
The Labour Union shall be given one free subscription of the Central China Post.
8. There are two copies of these stipulations to be held by the Employers and the representa- trat China Port tive of the Employees of the Cen-
D. These stipulations shall come into force on the day proper signatures are attached thereunto.
Signed by:
Representing the Employers
Union. Representing the Prietors
Union.
Witnessed by :-
Hupeh General Labour
L'nion.
A third party individual.
The New Strike.
(1) Immediate apology must be made to the Union.
(2) All statements which have appeared in ur paper inimical to the Government must be car- rected and no further statements made.
(3) We must request those who have been discharged to resume work without delay.
(4) Wages of workmen must be paid in silver without reduction.
(5) All losses suffered by the" workmen through depreciated cur- rency in the past must be com- pensated to them by us in silver.
(6) All articles drawn up in agreements made with the Union on former occasions must be, ad- hered to and we must guarantee.. that we will not attempt altera- tions in the future.
(7) Workmen, in our employ must be granted freedom of speech and the right to hold mest- inge at any time they so desire. (6) Individual movements
of the workmen when not at work
must not be interfered with.
(9) In the event of our failing to send a favourable reply by p.m. it would be taken as proof that our intentions were hostile, in which ense the workmen could no longer suffer our oppression and will not return to assist 11 our reactionary propaganda..
(10) We shall be held respon- sible for all losses suffered by the workmen both during the strike, and in the future if we make any attempt to operate without com- plying with their demands. In view of the above we have no In a mimeographed sheet issued option but to submit to the muzzling to-day, the Editor: Mr. Harry Ar- process until such time as we are chibald, details the circumstances able to obtain assistance elsewhere, mands made by the Printers Unioa, tend their indulgence while we ase attending the strike and the de- and hope that our readers will ex- which are given verbatim seeing it through-Reuter.
TAGORE ON WOMEN. SETTLES THE SEX PROBLEM.
แ
DISAPPROVES OF EQUALITY
THEORY.
...
would do well to remember that co- operation does not mean imitation.
If woman had been but the counterpart of man, with the same functions to fulfill in her life as her mate, then life would have been nothing but a boredom-long stretch of arid ennui which man- kind could never have tolerated.
**In the mental world the inspire-
well fed, and well paid troops of Sun Chuan Fang it is no wonder that they broke and ran from the Grat battle at Lincheng until they had crossed the Yangtze River. But one wonders if they are also repre sentative of all the remaining forces of the Nationalists" for if this is Millions of words have been writ the case it would seem to be certain ten about woman, and millions more Yesterday's weather report, fore- that whenever the Generalissimo in are still to be written, bay Rabin- tion of woman must implant its cast and remarks, issued by the newal of the offensive, the Northerseer, seems to have settled the man in order that his creative imm Peking gives the order for "re dranath Tagore, the famed Indian seed in the subconscious part of Royal Observatory at 6 pmners will continue to occupy ter
vexed question once and for all. ritory now in the hands of the
pulses may open out. She is indis- The Yangtze depression is mov- Southerners pretty much as they
According to Tagore the secret of pensable to man as the chief in- ing eastward into the Eastern Sea. please.
woman is that che is indispensable spirer of his mental, emotionel, and The typhoon appears to be about
to man as the chief inspirer of his spiritual activities. It is only be 400 miles south of Hong Kong,
mental, emotional, and spiritual cause in the latter plane she works activities, which, on looking it over in the background that we do not appears to be one in the eye for the consciously realize her contribu FORECAST-Eaft" winds,
female emancipatora.
tions. moderate to fresh fair at frit, Bome rain later.
stated:-
LOCAL
The morning report, issued at 11.15 am. stated
thousands of small investors who ❘tically, and for steam driven moving westward.g would take fright. Everyone with machinery. Now the bye products savings in industry would be alarm are the thing. The cheap extrae ed. The big capitalists would, in tion of oil, aniline dyes and tar, the main, extricate their wealth, for which the new roads make, in "and the Labour Party: would find exhaustible demands, offer better itself picking the pockets not of a profits than the direct sale of coal few millionaries but of many of its from the pit head. But capital is awa supporters. If the industry is needed for, such dévelopments, and taken over by the state it will be a. no one is prepared to risk their costly affair, and the voter is in no money in so unstable an industry.
Pressure in highest over S. Man- churia. N.E. of Japan and over the lower Depressions are shown to the Yangtze Valley.
The typhoon appears to be be tween 200 and 300 miles Manila, moving westward. west of
A HILLSIDE TORRENT.
MOTOR ROAD BLOCKED.
Hi
"Woman," says Tagore, "is nat Men well may be compared to essentially the competitor of man. a tree which needs extension, space, The heavy downpour of rain on
She is his complement. It can, open air, varied combinations of sap Saturday caused the hillside above therefore, bode no good for her to and air and fain, and all sorts of the Wongneichong Road, about a come out into the arena of the things. If his rests have to be torn mile beyond the Gap in the diree work-a-day world as a scrambler away he cannot but writhe in great: and block the motor road tion of Repulse Bay to topple over after things which do not beautify pain.
life.
"Woman, on the other hand. is? The emergency gang from theShe has a mission in life which like a creeper, which seeks falál P.W.D, was on the scene and with is not the exact duplicate of that of ment through embracing the tree, the red or or so had the debris man. She is assuredly his co-opera- and may flourish merely by clinging cleared and traffic was resumed. tor in our life's journey, but she i round the tree."-fanila Times.
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