LABOUR JEERS IN THE COMMONS.
"TRADES UNIONS WILL BE CRIPPLED."
A MINISTERIAL CHALLENGE.
London, May 3.
In the House of Commons to-day the labour members were notably more quiet when the House re- sumed the debate on the Trades Union Bill
The opposition was opened by Mr. Arthur Henderson, who a rused the Gorernment of enden- youring to pass a measure aiming to destroy the unity, solidarity and utility of the trades unions.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, *1927.
NEW BREAKS IN THE CLASS STRUGGLE. ANTI-COMMUNISTS AT ONLY A SMALL PIG.”
LEVEES.
MR. COOLINGE URGES EARLY
REPORT.
'BRITISH ROYAL SYMPATHY.
London, May 3,
ILM, the King has sent a mess- age to President Coolidge expres Ing heartfelt sympathy with the sufferers in the Mississippi flood The British Govern- ment has also sent a message of sympathy to the United States See- retary of State-Reuter,
disaster.
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Text of the Bing's Message.
London, May 3. Mr. F. H. Rase, a Labourite of
H.M. the King has sent the fol- rather independent views, while objecting to his own party's policylowing message te President Coo-
Tidge.
herause it was based on crude de- nunciation, opposed the Bill on the ground that it aimed at a shadow. "The prospect of a general strike was now not only dead, but damn- Lil.
Mr. C. G. Anton (Labour con- teaded that the Government was legislating to keep civil servants out of the trades unions, and to keep its
opponents put of the House, because he and Mr. Walter Beiter who have a postal service connexion) would probably have to sign their seats if the P were passed.
The Labourites loudly jeered during a speech by Sir L. Worth- ington Evans, who challenged the Lahente campaign in the counLey, pielaining that if they returned they would remove the protection which Line Bill conferred on the "mmunity against being starve
ferral ako submission hy a strike.
have heard, with profound sorrow, of the serious loss of life and damage to property ranged by the floods in the Mississippi Valley, and hasten to offer my heartfelt sympathy, both to your- self and to all those who are suf- fering from the results of this and- den disaster."
The British Government have also addressed to the Secretary of State, through their Ambuasa - der in Washington, an expression of their deep sympathy-British Mindray
Seaplanes for Flood Areas,
TREND OF EVENTS AT HANKOW.
CREATING A FERMENT
WUSIHL
HOW THE LABOUR UNION
WAS ATTACKED.
SERIOUS MIDNIGHT. RIOT.,
Wasih, April 25.
FINE FOR KEEPING AND KILLING.
A Chinese appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning charg- ed with illegally keeping and] kilting pigs at No. 35, Queen's Road West. He was also charged with boiling lard in the premises. The last charge was taken cut under the Offensive Trade Or-
dinance.
The defendant was represented
by Mr. II. J. Armstrong.
The situation at Hankow is as- suming more and more the form of a class struggle among the Chi- Al midnight on April 14, mese who are being goaded on by serious riot occurred here between paid Russian agents and by other
un anti-Communist mob and the Communists, according to a busi-
Mr. P. Knight, of the Sanitary ness man who has just returned local General Labour Union which from Hankow. In an nterview made its quarters in the great Department, in his evidence stated given to a representative of The Buddhist temple in the centre of visited the premises and found that on information received he Shanghai Times, ho stated that it is getting to be a common sight to
the city. The members of the the carcase of a pig on the ground see Chinese marching into reunion had previously learned the floor. On the first floor there staurants and food shops and de- news of the attack. When they pans, in which lard was being werd several sloves and boiling nunding provisions. When asked) for payment they point us a mat-
were taking precautionary mea-boiled. He went on to the roof, ter of course to their commanist. sures a large mob armed with guns and there discovered eight living buttons and walk out unmolested."
and pistols came to surround the pigs. Several inembers of the Hankowi
Cross-examined by Mr. Arm- union quarters, and at once gun-¦ Government, wearied by the...ne-
fire was heard which caused great strong, witness admitted that he thus of the extremists have re-alarm. With a little resistance was not aware that boiling lard signed their posts and have taken the attackers broke into the aaion, was an offensive trade. boat for Shanghal, one or twn of
Two labourety (some say `ning)] them stopping off at Nanking.
were killed, and many escaped by Jumping over the brick walk
Sixteen Murders. Sixteen murders in two days of Troops Restore Order. Chinese employed by foreigners have Jaen credited to the labour On receiving the news of the pickets, who are doing 24 hour-riot, the local police forces and duty in the concession and the the Nationalist troops rushed to former British Concession.
the scene to restore order. Thirty- two rioters were arrested and brought before the police court, releasd through the supplications of their families.
The General Labour Union and the Farmers Association were sentid
were
Mr. M. J. Reidy, Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, in- formed his Worship that from what he saw the defendant must have used the premises quite often for the purpose of slaughter. ing pigs and of making sausages. 11e found all the necessary gear for such work on the premises.
Mr. Armstrong stated that his client was a dealer in roast meat and sausages, and would naturally be in possession of such articles. He said that the pigs found on the premises were landed late at night, and they could not be sent to the hoity on account of their Com was slaughtered that night was a a by the military a laughter house. The pig which mistic nature, and the laboure's very small animal. and only and farmers have been advised to weighed a few pounds. It was reorganize their unions according only a few inches long.
The Russo-Asiatic Bank has been turned into the National Central Bank of China and is being operat-but ed by the Nationalist Government, No silver is available in the city, New York, May 3.
all payments being made by Ni- tionalist bank nutes. Tickets have Army engineers having reported on stationed at each of the of new break in the levees between Chinese banks in an endeavour to Natchez ant Raton Rouge, neces-prevent the export of silver from sating for immediate presence of tankow.
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the premises. The charge of boiling lard was dropped.
"CHINESE SEVERELY
ists, are daily holding forth, mak-Government. The city is now! planes, additional to 15 under peeing speeches and stirring up agita-ander martial lay but on the pigs and a similar fine on
$50 one charge of Keeping tions orders, have boom instruction, Almost daily meetings are At this stage the debate was Florid; stain Rouge, for duty Carse and it is compulsory for all
dd to proceed, from Pensacola inconducted at the Chinese Race hole the situating is much quieter charge of killing them on anther" adjourned. Ruter,
in the flooded areas of the lower Chinese workers to attend. For- Mississippi. Nealer's American eign employers frequently receive Services
written orders from the hundred. and one labour unions telling them that they are expected to permit their Chinese employees to attend these meetings which Jast from end the Secretary for War, Alright clock in the nioruing until
Unions "Crippled."
London, May 3. Opening the opposition debate in the use of Commons, to the Trades Unions Bill, Mr. Arthor Henderson, while not agreeing on-
Future Prevention.
Washington, May 3. President Coolidge as instruct-
Rewards Offered. With a view of getting rid of those who are inclined to coni- manism the local Kuomintang bas started a campaign to, investigate its members. A reward is un-) nummeed in the local papers for munista.
ASSAULTED.
INDIAN GUARD ON DAN.. An Indian ship's guard, was
this morning with assaulting a Chinese at Conduit Road.
tirely with the bill's proposals, for Davis, to accompany Mr. Hoover four o'clock in the afternoon. the arrest of 17 well-known Com-charged before Major C. Willson
Contracting into the levy that suggestion it was for politics! purposeal eriticised the use wad anion general funds for a solitical purpose.
He said the right to strike was preserved. hut was mudified an a in berny worse than a direct
in the food are, with a view to expediting the army engineers. emps and Mississippi River cont- mission report on flood prevention. The White House has informed Reuter that the President is of
Penalties are being inflicted for the non-attendance of Chinese at
"On the afternoon of April 24, these meetings. When they arrive the military and the municipal at the meeting place their names are checked on the labour union authorities, all schools, factories rolls. If they are not present they nd public organizations suspend-
Ju telling his Worship how the case was viewed with considerabe alarm at its earlier stage, Inspec-.
are fued one dollar for the first ed work and held a mass meeting or Byans said that the first re- opinion that there is no kelihood offence, two dollars for the second to celebrate the removal of the port reaching the Central Station | of his helping the situation by offence, after which they are drop-Nationalist Government to Nan was made over the telephone by rhalve of that right. The Bil personal tour of inspection, inasped from the union making it in-king and the restoration of Party Mr. F. 11. Mody.
elsewhere. possible for them to obtain work rights. There were about 50,099
people presents besides sever thousand troops, policemen and volunteers.
must result in anions less effective than in the rendering the ast for any bargaining purpose It made almost every sympathetic strike Hable for be held legal. whether or not it took place with a brunch of enatret or without untier. It cripple the unions by curtailing the right of picketing, and dealt a heavy blow at them The issues raised in the Bil hat never been before the public at the general election, and he urged that it was an abuse of Parliament and the Governmóni to propelse a serious reversal of the law with- out Authority from the people. If grit vonces existed, the question should have been the subject of a full and searching public In- quiry.
Sir
The Law of the Matter.
Worthington Evans, replying for the Goven- ment, 'said, "Mr. Justice Astbury's budget is in support of the asser tion that Clause One was nearly a declaration of the existing w that a general, strike is illegal.”
If, as Sir Henry Slesser in the Labour Government had said, this was true law, the necessity was increased for legislation making a general strike illegal. It was in the interesta of
trade every unionist to have uncertaintien removed.
Continuing his speech amid in- terruption. Sir L. Worthington Evans pointed out that the Bil might not limit the right to strike or to have a sympathetic strike, unless it was designed to over- throw the government of the com munity.
Replying to a. suggestion that the Bill was an act of class hostili. ty, he said its intention was to pro- tect against a general strike, the working classes, who were the chief sufferers.--British Wireleus.
TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
FRENCH FROWN ON ALTERED PLANE,
Paris, May 3. The Aeronautic Department of the Ministry of Commerce has de- cided to prohibit the continuance of Captain de Saint Roman's trans- Atlantic flight to South America, which he recently embarked on, on the ground that his seaplane has been so transformed er route that it no longer conforms, with the conditions deemed requisite by the air authorities.-Reufar.
rtments which man co-operate in much as all the overament de relier measures have been drawn into the service?
appeals for funds issued will meet the energency,
The relief fund is now 11,552105,- 990-anted's Abu rieun Service,
THAMES BRIDGES.
PLEA FOR FINALITY,
Mr. Mody said that he found the Chinese lying on the road near his residence. and the impression gathered then was that the man was dying.
While a detective was sent to investigate, a serand telephone message was received, and thi report stated that the man had been murdered.
Packed Meetings, Mr. Coolidge has also decided
Thousands of Chinese are pack-
In the speeches made on that that he does not need a special ses Led in these meeting pliers ourasion, the people were, urged sien of Congress, He hopes the where Russian and other Cum- to support the Nanking Nationalist munists address them on the Government and to overthrow the doctrines of Algrow. The words Communist Party. In the evening jare translated from the English,lautern procession over a mile When the man Was finally if it is Tom Mann or Pederson long marched with brass bands brought into the charge-room, he who is aditressing them. int. and Chinese orchestra Through inspetor Evans) thought also | Chinese, At the conclusion of the principal streets of the city that the case was a serious one, The meeting the assemblage levend Many people came out to see the the man being envered all over Jup into small groups where procession. It was indeed'a grana) with blood, and it was impossible
Chinese speakera batumque the spectacle.
to distinguish where all the in several units, interpreting and ex-
juries were. The man was ip- plaining in their own way th
mediately removed to Hospital. words of the principal, spanker.
Sub-Inspector Andrews said that The city is plastured with pas-
he took over the ease himself, but A further step towards the con-
lers, many of them denouncing
on enquiring from the ward- structian „of the wew Thamesoneral Chiang Kai-shek, portray-
mster al the Hospital this bridges was taken at the meeting ing him of the ', in mail week.
morning, learned that the wound. which was over one eye, was not It was expected that Very serious. the injured man might be able to Londou. May 3,
appear in Court in a few days, and Sir Wm. Joynson-liteks, in the meanwhile the police applied for phispere a scheme for a bridge at Trains bearing the casealties have House of Commons, said he esti, a three days' remand and bail of
$100, viewing the offence. Charing Cross, subject to a simi-been arriving at infrequent inter-ated that 3,650,000 women over serious, the defendant being more lar grant.
vals. It is from the North, how-25 and 1.590,000 under 25, would
or less a Government servant. Sir Percy Simmons, who moved fever, that the Chinese-at Hankow be enfranchised by the extension
Defendant was remanded until the adoption of the recommenda- derive, their greatest fear. They of the franchise to wonien under Saturday, on bail to the amount tions, said the Prime Minister's do not think that the British 30.-Reuter,
usked for. suggestion that there should be will attempt to take back their
as beepting money from the foreiga "imperialists." The Council decided. <1 the
Some fighting is going on north recommendations of the Roynd of the city, but the extent of it; Commission, to ruhonstruet Water-can only be guessed from
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the
Bridge on the basis of a Tolete return of wounded Con- per cent. Government grant, and tonese trumps into Hankow.
a committee of engineers to con- concession, and even if they did, sider whether the Charing Cross the Chinese do not feel that, they Bridge was feasible would leave will be successful since they out- everything in the air.
number the British by long odds.
Three years had passed since
Accumulate Posters, Waterpo Bridge was confemned.
Business is flourishing for some They wanted finality, and the only
clothing shops. get it was
Many Russians way to
to tell the Government what they were ac
have arrived from Canton and"] tually prepared to do, and then Moscow almost in rags, but after for the Government to say whether a few days spent at Hankow they they would accept their view. blossom out into first class regalia. Sie Percy referred to the liniita Russian agents spend the greater tion in Government, expenditure part of the nights in careusing. to £1,000,000 a year.
but the Chinese do not seem to mind this for they are being con- He had heard on reliable 30- thority that this 21,000,000 way to tinually reminded that it include not only Waterlon Bridge through Russian influence China and Charing Cross Bridge and wop back the British Concession.
Houseboys are having the time the other schemes referred to, but of their lives.. They spend most also the other grants which the of their time at the political meet- Council get from the Treasury ings, bringing home bundles of respect of street widenings.
posters with which they decorate
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if that were true a very serious their rooms, and draw full time situation would arise. If the Go-airies during their absence vernment were prepared to go on from work. Their one fear seems with Charing Cross Bridge it was to be that they will not be able ta a question of whether all the get these pusters out of sight quick other schemes put forward by the enough when the Northerners re- Ministry of Transport in London capture the city, an eventuality would be delayed during the next which they confidently expect. seven to. Len years.
Conditions are, such that few
He hoped the Information he foreigners dare to go ashore in the had just received was hot ac evening, not even so much as for curate and that the Prime Minis- a stroll along The Bund."
The
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