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TWOMEN FIGHTING
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TWO men are striving furiously for con- trol of Spain's young Republic. Gil Robles, the clerical leader, stands squarely facing the attacks of the liber- al Manuel Azana, whose popularity is so great that 400,000 gathered in a monster demons- tration to cheer him in Madrid on a recent Sun-
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-By- HENRY BUCKLEY
still illiterate; agriculture in President Zamora has an un- many parts of the land remains enviable job as refereo in this primitive. Wages are terribly tense situation. The Right says low, and there is no unemploy- he favours the Left. The Left ment pay for the 600,000 work- accused him of betraying the less. Rightly or wrongly, their Republic by admitting GI renction to all this is to blame Robles and others who were not cloricallam, absentee landlord- elected as Republicans to minis- ism-rife in Spain and the in- terial office. Several weeks ago capacity of the ruling classes."
the extraordinary scene was wit- They may be wrong, but that nessed of 60,000 people filing is their mood, and obviously silently past President Zamora's There the resemblance ends. something must be done about private residence with clenched Physically, the two loading Gil Robles is a brilliant politic. it. Foreignera naturally and fists raised menacingly in the
antiquated air. actors in this drama bear a cer- ian. He plays openly to the anti-clericalism an tain resemblance to each other. gallery and awakens delirious political banner. But Spain's Both are of medium height, enthusiasm at his meetings and problems are liable to be both corpulent with puffed-out chests in parliament. Passionate in old-fashioned and ultra-modern, of the wife of Francisco Largo and big pasty faces typical of public speaking, he is glacially because the truth is that Spain Caballero, a very popular So- Castile, they are distinctly not cold In private conversation. has skipped the liberal age of cialist leader, who has been Latin types. Baldness is over. Half-opened, very cold blue eyes democracy, free trade, progres- taking both of them despite the centre fixedly on the intervlower sive capitalism, and wants to fact that Azana caps Robles's and his answers are quick, pre- plunge straight from Remi- medimvallam to a controlled and youthful thirty-seven years with cise, mechanical. nearly another twenty.
ordered State.
day.
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It was the funeral procession
awaiting trial in prison for over twelve months for his part in the revolt of last October, and who was allowed out of prison to attend the funeral, escorted by a squad of policemen,
Azana is just the opposite, In public he is cold and aloof.
Gil Robles hore is fighting a a fatal
There was not a single cry or Both have voices pitched a Politics as such do not interest losing battle. It was
a sound of any kind except the shade above the normal and him. In two years as Prime error to cut agricultural wages both are fluent and excellent Minister he never even took the when Azana and the Socialists shuffling of feet as the onorm- speakers. Neither plays any trouble to form a strong party. left power. Peasants hate poli- ous multitude filed past, a con- sport, but Robles is fond of Nor did he attempt to ensure a tics. Gil Robles and Azana glomeration of workers and bullfighting and Azana likes constituency whore he could get mean about as much to them as well-dressed people. But all as shooting, although literature is returned-which would have
Stalin or Mussolini; they are they passed the President's At the just names. his chief hobby; both reading been easy chough.
But when the fall house, which lay on the route and writing, for he has four or greatest spontaneous demons of Azana is followed by a drop to the cemetery, raised their five books to his credit.
tration spontaneous because in wages from nine pesetas daily fists in the Socialist salute, his party is tiny and practically to six-a fair example of the which in this case was a men-
reductions made-then the re- ace. without funds-ever seen in
NOTES OF THE DAY Spain, when 400,000 persons action of the dullest peasant is
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Indeed he threw cold water on his audience. "Be quiet!
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Most of them live frankly badly. One person in three is
natural and obvious,
Hence the peasant rally to the recent Azana meeting. From the furthest nooks and covers of Spain they came; many in motor lorries bumping over hundreds of miles in cold and One group of pen- sants and their wives drove discomfort.
lorry from an Andalusian village and started the same journey back in the rain after the meet- ing.
The heavy police forces lean- ed impassively on their rifles and there was not the slightest incident. Among the multitude was Luis Alcala Zamora, the President's youngest son, lawyer and a Socialist.
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The tide of popular opinion is not difficult to assess as regards direction and strength. Many
anticipate events by n coup d'etat, but he has always dis- claimed any dictatorial ambi- tions.
A COUNTRY WITHOUT A DEPRESSION
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
The land in which Paul Kruger
Because of this South Africa an
day these white mountains scatter their useless dust like a fog for miles over the city. Johannesburg stands a Phoenix amidst the ashes from which her great wealth and very being have been drawn.
TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1936.
were presented to the Ministry of Be quiet! How can I speak if surance Statutory Committee for disgruntled tone when applause five hundred miles in an open of the Right want Gil Robles to Labour by the Unemployment In-you interrupt?" he shouted in SLUM CLEARANCE
the extension of the benefits of un- stopped his speech for a
insurance to agri- ment, Despite the comprehensive employment
cultural workers. These recom- Cold in public. Azana is a nature of the slum clearance mendations were subsequently ac- charming conversationalist. As plans in Britain, there is a feel-cepted by the Government. Yester- Premier he would often leave ing in certain quarters that the day the Bill passed second reading politics behind and go over to In effect, the benefit ratea original the Rumanian Legation, where schemes laid down on paper are ly suggested have been increased, not being carried through as according to the text of the Un- the hostess was the bright and vivacious Princess Bibesco, Insurance (Agri- expeditiously as possible. None employment
cultural) Bill, published at the end where over ten a small inter- the less, a great deal has already of December. It is estimated that national group would chat gaily- been done in wiping out blocks 750,000 farm workers-700,000 of art, music, literature.
Gil Robles controls Parlia- of tenements in which over-males and 50,000 females-will be crowding has long been an evil affected by the Bill, and the great ment with the largest single "OM PAUL" was the Solo-the younger to choose the plece
mon of South Africa. He he wants." majority of them warmly welcome group; 116 Deputies of his and in providing alternative the measure. The Bill provides party.
was renowned for his practical He has # powerful the weekly contributions, accommodation for those affect- that
clerical Press behind him. The wisdom, and also for the vast administered his ready justice Hundreds of thousands of which will be paid both by employ vast power and influence of the wealth of his land. The story contained some of the richest gold
the deposits in led.
world. His un- ers and employees, ranging from Church are in his favour. The is told of two brothers who came willingness to allow the foreigners houses are marked out for de- id. to 4%d, according to age and
to him as ho sat on his "sloep who came to seek for gold their molition, calling for the rehous-sex. will result in weekly benefits wealthy grandeos subscribe to ing of huge numbers of people. ranging from three shillings and his party, and Don Alfonso has and asked him to settle a pro- rights and privileges as citizens
sixpence to fourteen shillings. The on more than one occasion open-blem of inheritance. The elder brought his rule to an end. Here in Hongkong, we also have former sum refers to girls underly advised his supporters to divide the farm their father had a whole is part of the Empire:
brother claimed the right to a slum problem which urgently the age of eighteen, and the latter collaborate with Gil Robles.
left them. To the dismay of the she-is enjoying an almost unparall- calls for attention. No-one can to men over twenty-one years of age. These conditions will result
younger Oom Paul immediately eled Gold boom. make a tour of the more con-
Gil Robles has everything upheld this claim, and told them tin shacks fifty years ago is to-day The city which existed as a few in an increased charge on the gested districts of the island Exchequer of £600,000 a year. It except support among
the to return to him when the divi-|
a miniature New York with sky- The Spanish working sion was made. A few days scrapers and magnificent resid- without being made painfully has been stated that the agricultural masses.
In the hu-industry will have no responsibility class, the peasants, the petite later they stood before him ences. The small mine dumps of aware of this fact.
for paying off the general delit on bourgeoisio, are disgruntled to again on his stoop. Oem Paul those days have risen as grim white man rabbit warrens to be seen the Unemployment Fund. The day.
said, "It was the right of the mountains of scyniade treated in some localities there are rates and benefits scheduled in the
elder of you two to divide the earth on which not vestige of Bill are lower than la the case of scores of old, dilapidated
unemployment insurance in urban
property; now it is the right of vegetation will grow. On a windy houses, dark,
and ill-served industries, but agricultural workers from the sanitary point of view, will not be at a disadvantage on which cannot by any stretch of this account because of the cheaper cost of living in rural areas. One the imagination be considered of the main reasons why ogri- as fit for human habitation. cultural workers were not covered There are laws setting forth in the first place by unemployment specific minimum requirements Insurance was because of the small in the way of light and air-degree of unemployment in the in- space, bat economic considera-dustry; but, largely owing to the tions result in people being industrialisation of agriculture, un- herded. together in tonements employment has increased of late years, and this has made the intro- split up into innumerable cubi-duction of the Bill necessary. ales and bed-spaces, with mani- festly injurious effects on public health. The problem is one not that in Malaya, comprehensive casy of solution, for it is one schemes for slum.clearance have thing to demolish whole areas been evolved, but that legal diffi. of uninhabitable houses and culties have been encountered in. another to rehouse those who prosecuting these to the extent are dispossessed. The difficulty considered necessary.
How- becomes further pronounced aver, an official has been sent to when consideration is given to London to gather first-hand in- the necessity of accommodating formation regarding the present work-people in premises near to position of the Home Acts, with their place of occupation. à view to seeing how far the Whilst in scheme can be duplicated
tion must be given to those for understood that the Hongkong whose benefit and health the Government will keep in touch programmes are conceived, the with these developments, and rights of landlords have also to the information obtained should be taken into account. In this be of value in examining the connection, the English. Acts possibilities of remedial action dealing with the problem have in connection with the investig been considered too onerous in ations being carried out by the. certain respects, with the result committee appointed some time that various amendments have ago to consider housing and lattorly boon made thereto. overcrowding problems in this Nevertheless, there is still ap- Colony. That the matter calls parent a disposition not to per- for serious attention locally is mit heartless profiteering by boyond question, and it will be vested interests, nor to allow all to the good if we are able to the perpetuation of conditions profit from the experience of which are manifestly harmful others in dealing with com- to the massas. We understand parable conditions.
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"I hope you're not telling her you didn't kiss the boys when you were her age."
Such ure the paradoxes of.. modern economies that South Africa did not reap the full reward for her Gold until ale suddenly abandoned the gold-standard while in a death struggle with depres- sion. At once a boom began, and it still continues. The gold city itself has been the first to display the new riches. Magnificent build- Inga have sprung up in the business quarter. The residential areas have flowed out over the country- side. The city is becoming famous för its beautiful homes. Many have, besides their own tennis courts, their private open air swim- ming pools which are a special de- light in the long hot months.
Rash speculation has mingled with sound Business. Some have built up fortunes while others in a moment have lost everything- but withal there has been a steady Increase in prosperity.
JOHANNESBURG la
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centre bringing life and richos to an otherwise waste land. A vast population has to be fed, and farms are at a premium in those parts." Nativo Tabour is used in the minca-some 300,000, natives being employed at time. They serve under contract for a stated time, and Hvo In specially constructed compounds until they have fulfilled their agreement. They then stat- ter far into Africa to their tribes, taking with them money, that raises the purchasing power of their com- munity. They also go back frood from old superstitions, and with (Continued on Page 7)
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