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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1928.
consisting of the members of the. T.U.C. General Council, and the other of an equal' number of em
DAY BY DAY.
THAT CHARITY IS 'DAD WHICH ployers nominated by the Federa-TAKES FROM INDEPENDENCE ITS PRO- tion of British Industries and the PER TRIDE, FROM MENDACITY ITS,
SALUTARY, SHAME-Southey. National Confederation of Em- ployers' Associations. So far, the meetings of this Council have been most fruitful in results, both to employers and employed, and now that the movement which it represents has been so strongly endorsed by the Trades Union Congress, we may reasonably hope for less industrial strife in the days ahead. Indeed, a now era
Ruraj Building Lot 316, situato at Taitam-village, is to be offered. for sale on the 17th instant. The aven is 3,600 square feet and the upset price $210.
LETTERS FROM HONGKONG.
21.-The Two Sides of the Problem.
It
His Excellency the Officer Ad-
In dealing with the problem, as made their bit out of the boom, ministering the Government has appointed Mr. Douglas Alfred it immediately affects Hongkong, a feeling of doubt which is almost Rushton to act as Assistant let us examine, as fairly na wojakin to guilt, carrying with it, as Secretary to the Sanitary Board. can, the points of vlow of the two such a fealing always doos, a parties to the question.. vague distaste for those others Soldiers arriving in Hongkong who have done their duty with but littlo reward, and who afterwards come, in general, ofther from Eng-
In unconscious accusation. England the "Army Officer has n
finds expression sometimes in land or from India. Now, in come out and stand in silent, even fairly definite notch in the social
a guide book published. I believe The King's axequatur empower- scheme; that society being in fact irritating paragraphs (there was In industrial harmony would aping Mr. Jose Gascon Ch Gonzalez old enough to take him at alin. 1924, which referred to "our de Bernedo to act as Honorary generally accepted value. Indian. pear to have been ushered in. As Consul for Guatemala Hong-stations, on the other hand, are in unwanted military incubus," or one of the speakers said at Thurs-kong, has received His Majesty's many cases run almost entirely home such phrase) sometimes in military men. The civilians exist speeches, but moro generally in a more in the character of "camp vague, ill-defined feeling, baming to the analyser, and disconcerting day's Congress. meeting, the volce signature.
to the new arrival." of the worker can now be heard At the P. W. D. offices on the followers." meeting the employers on friend- Lot 1,156, situato at Shamshulpo, Indians had any definite finger in with how much justification every
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in the control of industry, and by 24th instant, Now Kowloon Inland will be offered for sale. The area
Back in early days, before the the British Government ple, the
It
This, then, is what they say,
man must judge for himself. ly lines the British Trade Unions is about 3,000 square feet and the semblance of co-operation is not a complaint. The soldier The may be noted as a prize grouter, are acting in accordance with the upset price $4,012. development of trade unlenium in
It is notilled that, at the expira-method of extending the Enat but he is not given to this form Lion of three months, the India Company's frontlors was in of complaint. Not the least of his most parts of the world.
The extramist idea that Labour Auctioneering and Brokering Com-general to make "alliances" with irritating qualities is a faculty for
there. England in effect took over a working machine.
Ho Tools The consequent out civilian appreciation, if such implied connexion between the is not forthcoming. He is, takon civil element and the native popu-non individually, self-sufficient. it did not succeed. When thelation caused the Army officer to Some people may go so far as to crash came, the Trade Union
should fight Capitalism until the pany, Limited, will, unless cause the native Princes, who still re-looking after himself.
is shown to the contrary, be mained as nominal rulers of their he can got along very well with-
system is destroyed was tried out struck off the register and the provinces.
in the General Strike, but happily Company will be dissolved.
Do you know that—~~~
The Sallora Home at West Point was originated by Mr. Joseph Jardine, of the firm of Jardine, Matheson and Com pany?.
leaders began to wonder whether, About Hong Kong. after all, it could be a wise thing to destroy the industries by which the workers lived. They were aided, no doubt, In their reflec- tlons by two concrete cases-in the United States, where private enterprise is, unrestricted and the Unions live in harmony with the employers, wages gu on improving and industrial troubles diminish; and in Russia, where private en- SILVER WEDDING.
terprise has
destroyed, been HENDERSON-DIXON-AL Cou-wages are low, conditions wretch- rock Parish Church on Augusted and unemployment enormous. 26th. 1903, by the Rev. Alex. The Great Strike caused both the Milne, Archibald Kerr Hen-girike weapon and the fallacies on derson, Hongkong, to Helen
Jane, daughter of the late which it rested to fall into dis- Mr. John Dixon and Mrs. eredit with the working men. Dixon, Avon Bank, Gourock.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY. SEPT. 8.
1928.
MODERATION WINS.
Good sense has at last triumphed, and so long as the present contact between Capital and Labour is maintained, we may hope for a continuance of that industrial peace which is no essential to the nation's welfare.
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An Air Record.
He set the scheme on foot and gave a sum of $20,000 for the purpose. Tho community provided further donations and in July, 1861, the Govern- ment made the gift of the site.
Building operations com- 'menced in 1862, and the Home was opened some three years later.
In the meantime, financial difficulties were encountered, and Mr. Robert Jardine, a brother of Mr. Joseph Jar- dine, gave a further $25,000 and undertook to carry on the Home at his own expense for three years..
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view the former in a light which call it self-satisfaction. on tho depended largely individual's racial prejudices. The Civilian point of view is.
It can at any Things are rather different now perhaps simpler. of course, but a point of view, rate be stated more shortly. The once established, is apt to dio Traders, they say, have made hard, particularly when it has Hongkong. No matter how they become almost a military tradi- mado it; there Is as much of tion. The Army officer in India honour in the history of trade as has, in fact, been accustomed in there is in any campaign. Picture the past to regard himself, rightly to yourself ald Matheson, clinging or wrongly, as a person of some grimly to his office and godowns, importance in locul, if not in while the others, in fear lest Eng- land should withdraw her foot Imperial affairs..
from China, fled to Macho-and stayed. Coming to Hongkang, then, from bankruptcy. Matheson either England or India, he, aces and others camo, and together In all the no particular reason why his posi-thoy built Hongkong. tlon should be any different,history of the British Common- "This Colony," saya the Army, wealth, trade has been the pioneer. "was taken by the Army, enlarged Firat was the merchant adven- by the Army, preserved by the turer and after him cumo Army. If at any time there were soldier. no Army, there would very soon Profits? What are profits but How Even a little the means of livelihood? no Colony. trouble like the 1925 strike shows far, would the soldier go if the how essential the Army is to the men who earned the money were
not The well-being, it
very not there to pay, him?
Very well then, we may expect to existence of the whole affair.
be
the
And this brings us to what is
Sir Percy and Lady Newson, with be treated with a certain con-considered by some people to ba Miss Muir Newson, sailed from sideration, such as we have been the crux of the whole matter, to The Colony in called upon to give. Quebec in the Empress of Austra-accustomed to receive elsewhere," wit the "Military Contribution.". What do we find? That the 20 per cent. of its revenue towards. lia, on August 11, on their way, to Hongkong. Sir Percy and Lady Army Officer is given the magni- the military axpenditure of the Newson expect to be back in Eng-Acent concession of being allowed local forces. Now there are two land on November 10.
to ride half-fare on the trams if reasons why this contribution is various causes, his pay and allow-first place, a rough calculation Passengers arriving on the Tai-le travels in uniform, but through regarded with disfavour. In the The setting up of a new record ning yesterday included Dr. and ances carry him no farther than, shows that the citizen of England for the fight from India to Lon-Mra, H. G. Anderson, Dr. and Mrs. if na far as they do, in England; only pays about 10 per cent, of That the moderate element at don will without doubt be regard-Shellshear, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra that if he is punctilious in his his taxes towards military expon- the present time dominates Britished by Caplain 6. D. Barnard as Abraham, Mrs. B. Walker, Capt. Qenlls, he will be invited, occasion-diture, instead of 20 per cent. ample return for his patience in R. F. Johnston, Capt. E. H. Jacobs ally-very occasionally to care. And secondly the sliding scale of the face of a series of misadven- Larcom; Dr. P. Haddon and Rev. fully selected parties at Govern- the contribution awakens under ment House, whence, unless he certain circumstances a sense of tures. The "Princess Xenia" had and Mrs. Suyder,
from the beginning, commencing
Trade Unionism was again de monstrated by the decision of the
Congress on Thursday to support
The Long Vacation
•
are
If, for instance, the Govern-
оп
probably
apparently bean dogged by ill-Juck The Offices of the Supreme takes special steps on his own injustice. the movement for industrial peace. with engine trouble which delayed Court will be open daily from 10 behalf, he will come away' as Such opposition as there was eame the plane at Bushire for over two a.m. to 1 p.m. during the Long friendless as he went; that he is ment of Hongkong decides to raise.
looked on generally, from the and Vacntion, except on Public
a recognised social need, the from a few of the 'smaller Unions, months, and ending with n crack-General Holidays, when the offices/point of view of the welfare of the some more taxes in order to meet and it is noteworthy that the ed propeller, which had to be re- will be entirely closed, and on Satur. Colony, as rather an encumbrance citizens of Hongkong, though they transport workers, the railway place Captain Barnard's deter-days, when they will be open than an assot; that even the Hong-might object, would
mination to complete the course from 10 a.m. to noon, Babject, kong Club (which I understand appreciate the social necessity. was founded as a Naval and Mili-But what they don't see is why any men and the miners were united however, had its own reward, and however, to the provisions in their desire to sea & continu-the final stage, from Karachi to Section & of the Supreme Court tary Club) admits Army officers of this extra burden, which they ance of the happler relations be-miles, was covered in four and a far as relates to the Criminal to note, however, that the Club elsewhere, to wit, relieving the Croydon, a distance over 5,000 (Vacations) Ordinance, 1898, so only on the same status and con- have voluntarily assumed for a ditions as visitors. (I am happy specific purpose, should be applied tween Capital and Labour which half days. The performance, Sessione. have resulted from the formation taken by itself, is a splendid commences on the 20th instant, made, the other day, a satisfactory Imperial Government of part of articles of association which puts son. It is useless to point out of a joint council representative achievement, chiefly gratifying and terminates on the 17th Octo- and sensible alteration to their the cost of the Hongkong Garri-
since it goes a long way to justify her, (both days inclusive).
Service members on a very fair that there are answer to both of employers and employed. In confidence in the practicability of
these grievances: that the people The health bulletin for Eastern footing.) other words, the great majority of a regular service from London to
of England pay their 14 per cent. There is another subject about (or whatever it is) for an Army, for the workers are now convinced India and back within a period of ports for the week ended Saturday eight or nine days. It was this last, issued by the Director of
naturally which they have no direct need that it is wise to come to terms which the "Princess Xenia" set Medical and Sanitary Services, which soldiers
the reticent, but on which, in the whatever; and that, apart from a with their employers, whilst only out to prove. New developments gives the following cases,
income, a relatively small minority wanta in aircraft are likely to reduce figures in parenthesis indicating privacy of their own circles when percentage charge
this time by an appreciable extent deaths.-Plague, Basra 1, Port Sold kindred matters bring it to the there does not scem any just to prosecute an unmitigated and in the near future, though experl-(1), Rangoon (3), Colombo 1 (1), fore, I have heard them speak, and alternative whereby the inhabi- truceless class-war. There can ments could be carried out to Pnom Penh 1 (1); Cholera, Bom-that is Hongkong's share in the tants of a continually growing better purpose If they are con-bay (2), Calcutta (7), Madras war. Briefly the soldier's view is Colony can be asked to contributo, be little doubt that this policy acted on differently organised (34), Vizagapatam (6), Pondi- this:
to their own defence... The of moderation. Is a direct outcome lines, some insistence being made cherry (2), Bangkok 1, Pnom Penh "Hongkong was a very long way grievances still remain; and as of the failure of extreme measures that the pilot shall land at cer1 (1), Shanghai 1; Small-pox, Port away from the war, the trials and there does not seem to be any auch as the General Strike, to tain points en route, namely, the Sudan 1 (1), Bombay 4 (3). Cal troubles of which did not touch immediato prospect of an amend different air stations for the comcutta 4 (8), Madras 19 (5), Moul-it very directly, Trade, however, ment to the system, they must be The mein 4 (1), Negapatam 7 (3), received the usual artificial faced with what equanimity we which the establishing of direct mercial service projected.
the in-can command. contact between industrial leaders value of the flight could thus be Pondicherry (8), Pontianak 1, stimulus from which
habitants, who only sent a small and the Trade Uniona is a dis-estimated in a much safer degree Pnom Penh 4 (3), Shanghai 1,
percentage to fight, derived no "We had a Colonel in this little profit. Wealth in fact rolled omes," said a business man to ma "Some time" ago, Into the place, and, at the end of the other day. the London, Sept. 7.
great struggle Hongkong it was, Recently arrived from 124.25 found itself faced with possibili India. He came in with all sorts 84.90 tiea of "development" such as had of demands; warted us to do this I tell 12.10% hardly been dreamed of, before, that and the other.
We soon had to put 20.80 Gigantic schemes of site level you .18.19 ling,
reclamations and him the right way about. Told 34.42% pleasure roads were embarked him he wasn't in India now.
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upon, while the talpane built for That out here we know how to run themselves pleasant villas in our own show... Oh yes, its different you know. No doubt it The fact that all this put up seems a bit strange to them. 2/7/% 4.86 6/82 the cost of living worried nobody 26,20 (except a few people with more
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parture from usual British prac Berlin of this organisation dealt, for exce in that a monoplane form, Copenhagen ample, with the question of Trado instead of biplane, has been Vienna Union recogallion, and came to chosen. This is in deference to Helsingfors the conclusion that the Unions past experience in regard to long Lisbon
distance flights. It is safe to say should be regarded as "the es that with the exception of Sir John Buenos Aires
Shanghai success in 1919, all tablished machinery for the dis- Alcock's
New York Geneva cussion and negotiation of all machines which have successfully questions of working conditions." flown the Atlantic have been mono-va
planes, including the Italian craft Stockholm It also declared that negotiations "Savoia" which flew from Roma to Oslo
If the Prague are facilitated if the workmen are Pernambuco, non-stop. unlonists and the employers are Empire is to be linked up in the Madrid
Bucharest Hikewise organised. But the key-near future with a chain of aerial. Atlions
routes, machines capable of long stone of the industrial bridge endurance fights will have to be Bombay
When the right Hongkong created by the movement is the developed.
Yokohama machine has been found, Captain
Bliver (spot). National Industrial Council. This Barnard's record will quickly go Silver (forward) lis constituted in two halves one by the board.
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out-of-the-way spots.
So much for what are apparent- 92.70 or less fixed incomes, like the .18,13 soldiers) until the Great Strikely the two points of view, I think. 18.19 and the trade slump came to help it is fairly evident that they don't. 100%
people recapture their sense of strike the root of the matter, 20.20% proportion. "Ilow this orgy of which is not such a cut-and-dried. 374 wealth-getting," say our military affair as can be approached from .700
critics in the privacy of their mass two sides only. In my concluding 1/6,31/32
2/04 rooms, has left behind it a letter on the problem, I shall dis psychological state. cuss certain further aspects and 1/10.28/82 curious
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