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and the 11th. Hankow armies.- Nam Chua Pal
IN CANTON NOW.
Still Anti-British, There is no apparent diminution
MONDAY, JULY 18,
1927.
THE OTHER WAY.
· ALTERNATIVE TO DESTRUC- TION OF CAPITALISM.
VICAR “MOBBED.”
STRANGE SEQUEL TO SECOND
MARRIAGE,
That there is an alternative Demonstrations of hostility policy to the destruction of capi- against the vicur of the Essex vil- talism, the policy of productive lage of Manuden, the Rev. H. Grin- co-operation, was asserted by Mr. dle, have been staged on alternato Ramsay Muir, in the course of a nights in the village street outside lecture on "Trade Unionism," the vicarage since he returned which he delivered to the Edin- from London, where he had mar- burgh School of Social Study and ried within a month of the death of the anti-foreign, and particular-Training. The meeting, at which of his wife, the nurse who had ly anti-British campaign among Professor Ogilvie presided, was been in attendance during his certain elements in Canton, and the
held in the University clase-room. wife's last iliness. There was a large attendance:
notable point is the entire absence of any action on the part of the authorities to control the rowdies.
Mr. Muir, who was formerly On Saturday, Chinese passengers Professor of Modern History in from the Hongkong boat were Manchester University and was a again molested, despite recent in-member of Parliament for Rech- dications that the authorities would dale, discussed the relationship put a stop to the outrages commit- which ought to exist between the ted by pickets of the seamen's Stato and Trade Uniona.
union.
At the last demonstration 'a crowd, numbering about three hundred, mainly young people armed with petrol cans, pieces of sheet Iron and a bugle made as as possible, always much noise taking the precaution, however, of keeping on the move when the vil lage police constable appeared on the scene.'
Yes, said the ringleader, we are trying to show the displeasure of the parish at the action of the vicar in marrying so soon after his wife's death, and we are going to carry on every second night from about ten to half-past, in order, if possible, to move them,
The passengers had their faces
The upgrowth of the Trade and clothing again smeared with Unions, he said, was the inevitable
There was a "picket" of youths paint and ink, while the police look outcome of the industrial revole-outalde the vicarage when a Press ed on and made no effort whatever tion, for he took it that the main Association representative, called. to stop the hooligans responsible.
result of the industrial revolution It is also learned that the latest was to sever work from owner action by the propagandists is to ship. We had not sufficiently erect heardings in certain parts of emphasised the importance of the the city, in the one instance direct-severance of ownership from work ly opposite the French bridge to the as one of the outstanding features Shaneen, where they post up anti-of modern industrial development, British leaflets and so forth. These and he was sometimes inclined to hoardings are about seven feet think that we would not get tó a high and about four feet wide, wholesome and healthy state of neatly enrpentered, painted white, society until the worker was also with a blue border. It is under in some degree the owner. stood that the British Consul at Shameen is expected to protest officially.
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After tracing the growth of the movement up till 1906, Mr. Muir said that after that year there was a more rapid growth and extension of the Unions, especially among unskilled workers.
In the parish and district, how- ever, opinion is divided or the question. A neighbour of the vicar said, "This mobbing is in very bad taste; the vicar has done nothing wrong morally and legaliy in marrying again."
"Very Bad Taste." Mrs. Gindle, a comparatively There was, at the same time; the young wonwn with dark hair coiled received a Press Canton, July 17.
general adoption by nearly all the over her ears, A general strike of the mechanics Unions in name, and by some of Association representative in the in Canton would Have occurred but them with.conviction, of a politi-drawingroom of the vicarage. for the timely action of the Com-cal theory that well-being and hap-"My husband's firet wife died on missioner of Justice in complyingpiness would only come to the April 29," she said, "and we were with the labour unionists' demand working people of this country if, married in à Kensington church on for the release of one of the fore- and when, the whole existing crder May 25 Mr. Grindie's relatives are one and all pleased at our mar- most leaders of the Mechanics of society was destroyed and re- Union, who was held by the Court placed by a new order of society riage. I came here on January ona manslaughter charge.
which nobody had clearly thought 21, so that we have known each
other for some months. out.
The man concerned was Li Tak hin, who is very influential among the mechanics and labour circles:
Sloppy Thinking.
The reason for our marriage was quite simple. My husband's Upon learning of the.. arrest of
That gave a new motive for income from the church is so small Li, the mechanics gathered in large strikes. The whole strike policy that he could not afford to stay numbers and marched to the De-
seemed to be 2 contributionway and appoint someone to take partment of Justice to demand his towards the overthrow of a bad his place. We married at once immediate release: The mechanics
not 'positively did not because he could
come back and live alone. His threatened that if Li was not re- capitalist system. He
know what capitalism meant, no lensed by nine o'clock in the even- ing, the electric lights throughout more than he knew what Socialism wife and he had lived devotedly and happily here, and the sur- the city would be turned out, by, midnight, the water workers would he wished they could form aroundings would have been very all painful to come back to alone, for be stopped, and by daybreak the league for the abolition of next morning, if the mechanferords ending in "ism," which there is no family. He would leader was still held, the three rail seemed to him to be largely an gladly have stayed away if he ways would suspend service. excuse for sloppiness in thinking. could have afforded it..
(Laughter).
The mechanics refused even to furnish bail for the release, and finally the Commissioner of Justice. Mr. Chan Yung, seeing that seri- ous trouble would be caused, im- mediately had the man released, at 19 o'clock that evening. Nam Chun Pao.
JAPANESE INTERFERENCE.
meant
The general strike of last year was a movement of instinctive sympathy-for such it was to 999 out of every 1,000 who took part in it--with
After all the village has no right to interfere with personal liberty, and yet when we returned Just Thursday there wa's Д demonstration immediately the house We were warned about it, and stayed in the so that we were not much disturb rooms at the back of the house,"
an unquestionably outside suffering section of the commuri- ty, but a movement that inevitably involved the leaders of it in a grossly untenable, unconstitu tional and indefensible position.
Nationalist Allegations.
The general strike was only. Shanghai, July 14. possible because of the pathetic Charges that the Japanese are faith in the rapid efficacy of the interfering with the advance of strike action, and that action and the Southerners in Shantung are its consequences had the effect of. made by the Nanking moderate pulling up a great many people nationalist government through a great many Trade Union leaders,
That episode brought us up.
ed.
The same thing happened on Saturday night, when some boys came round to the back and a were broken by Window and a pane of glass in the
conservatory stones.
Many of the village people are quite nice to us, and I think that those who are demonstating are the official Kuomin News Agency, and causing them to ask them-mostly irresponsible young people, The statement accuses the Jan-selves if it really was the best way and others who have nothing to do anese of occupying the entire rail- to improve the conditions of their with the church. way zone from Tsingtao to Tainan- members.
There were very few people at fu, maintaining garrisons at all
church on Sunday, but that is stations and putting insurmoun-against the problem-What ought nothing unusual. For instance, table obstacles in the way of the to be the relationship between the the first day I went to church when Nanking forces which are seeking State and these powerful bodies"
The Trade Unions and the skill. I came here there was only one to advance northward.
The late Mrs. Grindle It also charges that the north-ed Trade Union officials-and other person in the congregation. crners are constructing trenches especially in industries which had
very good musician, and she used In the Kinochow Bay area under complicated wage rates, such as to play the organ and keep to- the direct supervision of Japanese pensable for the smooth workingness the choir gradually drop- cotton or mining-were as indis-gether the choir, but since her army officers, who are furnishing of industry as for the protection ped away. I hope everything will the plans.Associated Preas,
of the workers. Their negotiating become normal soon, because my function was indispensable. The husband is ill, and feeling the
drawback to that system of nego strain. tiation was 'that the two sides met In an atmosphere of hostility.
The Alternative.
The alternative policy to the destruction of capitalism
Was
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UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION
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TOBACCO CRISIS.
(Continued from Page 1.) brought lasting harm. Methods used in buying have killed the, incentive
for
improving the beginning to dawn more clearly, The following are the replies to quality of the leaf. Instead of the policy of productive co-opera- to-day's questions:-
1. The Realdency. Luckaew. 2. "Merry putting due premium on the higher tion. This new line, productive wives of Windage" and "As You Like 12" 1, grades the buyers have taught the co-operation is the making of Nortons, through the Arabian Sea. Per in Manila and vicinity is becom-war-time period has been much producer that he can sell anything wealth, was the significant thing in Roman Emperor A.D. 195. 6. Satan 10 ing more serious daily, says the slower than the rate of reduction. PRINCE'S CANADIAN kinds of stone for the interior ho grows, no matter how poor, that was being explored by the Paradise Lost 5. As a monument to Mum-Manila Bulletin. A recent survey in wagos. Mr. Cruz says that the.
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wild, without
walls of the Memorial Chamber This is the consequence of letting American Unions recently, have been brought from the battle-the industry run aelds in the countries where Cana-
support or guidance. dians fought during the memor- able years 1914-18. Upon an altar The Prince of Wales and Rt. of black marble, sent from Eng-
REVOLT AT END. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Min-land by the British Government, istor of Britain, are expected to will rest "Domesday Book, in- sail from England on July 23 for which the name of every member (Continued from Page 1.) Canada, aboard the Canadian of the Canadian Expeditionary
Guard sworn in by the Socialist Pacific liner Empress of Australia. Force will be inscribed. They will arrive in Ottawa on From Ottawa His Royal High-Burgomaster of Vienna, Dr. Seitz, August 2 to spend a three-day visit nuss will go to his 4,000-acre ranch and to co-operate with the police with Viscount Willingdon, Gov-at Iigh River, Alberta, and will in the restoration of order.
The manifesto describes the ernor-General of Canada. While be accompanied by Rt. Hon. Mr. in the Canadian Capital the Prince Baldwin, who will spend a few Municipal Guard as "The organ of will dedicate the Memorial Cham- days as the guest of the Prince. our "Red" Vienna and the protector ber in the new Peace Tower of the Before his return to England, of proletarian freedom, discipline
about the third week in August, and order." Canadian Houses of Parliament.
This chamber is the most dis- the British Prime Minister will tinctive and beautiful of the new visit some of the famous beauty Houses of Parliament. It will be spots in the Canadian Rockies, a fitting shrine in honour of the The Prince intends to spend a few Canadian soldiers who died dur-weeks, if possible, on his farm and ing the Great War. The different ranch.
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If that policy was to be pursued in Britain several things were necessary. The first was that there should be devised means for bringing about consultation, not merely on the eve of a stoppage, but day-to-day consultation for the joint purpose of maintaining efficiency. Along with that there these services of their legitimate must be some mode of making right to withhold their labour.
In conclusion, Mr. Muir sald agreements binding, and there must be ensured real knowledge our social system now rested upon of the facts about an industry by the Trade Unions. We could not
get away from them if we wanted The inability of local cigar both sides.
He thought we were not in the to, and he for one profoundly manufacturers to compete with least likely to have another general believed that we ought not to the markets in other countries, strike, but the practical inconveni-want to. They were nn casential and especially in the United It appears there was a further encés to the community were apt form of co-operation of a vital States due to the adoption of disturbance on Saturday afternoon to be just as great from what was clement in our community. It was cigar making machines in that when aix people, including two called the legitimate strike, in not by penal legislation against country, alse has thrown a great police constables, were killed, and some of the essential public ser- their mistakes, but by constructive number of persons out of work, Thurs. a great many wounded, in an at-vices. The real problem was not legislation to lead them, towards Unless other industries are creat-Priday 22 3615845 tack upon a police station. Reuter.the general strike, but how the more productive methods, that weed to replace the cigarmaking in- Satur community could be safeguarded could best get over the difficulties dustry, the unemployment of these Syn.
(Applause); During the week-ond there were against the sudden interruption of that had arisen.
labourers will be permanent. two fresh cases of typhoid fever the course of ita normal life by on moved a vote of thanks to Mr.labour, contends that the
The Rev. Professor W. P. Pater-
Hermenegildo Cruz, director of Mon...
in- reported, one British and one the stopping of public services, Chinese..
without stripping the workers in Mulr.
tas Bahal by her consort, Shah Tehan. 7. Aby Gerardo J. Ocampo, of the Filipino's knowledge to spend is leather vemet used by labourers in clien times. B. A band of Royalist insurgents, dur bureau of labour, shows that gained more rapidly than the ing the French revolution. A het Evolian 15,000 Filipinos have no immediate economic development of the coun architect, died 1862. 12, Anthony Ashley Coo-means of support and that less try.
One solution to the problem has por, first Earl of Shaftesbury, 13, Dover, than half of this 'number are out
been suggested the establishment Hythe, Rys, Winchelsea, Sandwich, Hastings. 24 Museum of Practical Gooley, Jermyn of work because of strikes.
Men familiar with labour of more Industries to provide the problems declare that a solution unemployed with work. for the situation is not likely to be found very soon. Business de- pression is said to be partly HONGKONG TIDE TABLE responsible and the influx of young.
From 10th to 28th July. 1927. men from the provinces also
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