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LABOURITES AND COMMUNISTS
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Considerable misapprehension exists in many quarters cerning the respective policies of the British Labour and Com-
munist Parties.. The view is
raw The
is fighting at home, und industry he hinders Its conquest of the earth abroad, is grinning at us from the and cannot conaume its output. industrial scrap heap.
The machine began by needing
It needed We call this n machine age. Is cheap labour. it? I am not being facetious, material to keep it going. The machine has not yet reached a cotton gin created a demand for quarter of the people on the earth. more slaves, but the machine did The majority of the fifteen hundred not want to support the slave when prople have never seen a tractor. he was not needed. It did not pay. worked in a factory, or perhaps So slavery was abolished. Still, in even heard a radio.
the felld jungles of South America, the in the depths of Afrien, on TF, while you are standing in a rarefied slopes of Peru, or the semi-
desert regions of our West, London or New York street world was scouring for sugar, jute, with the idle, boking down into an rubber, metals; the natives, how- excavation where to-morrow may
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rise another akyscraper-perhaps readily to becoming handmaidens to remain empty and you see the of the machine. But in western monstrous wrecking crane rip out
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FAR FROM THE MACHINE AGE The Ornate Building in the Background la Only a Cial Yard in Palping. The Cenlle in Prant L Laboriously Wheeling Away 8 schu of Caul, Sarks Which Have Been Fed by land, and Leaded by Hind. There Are · No Machines, In This Corner of Pelping,
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rock and brick wall by the ton. If India there was a race of Indians you had some powerful X-ray with called the Kuli, who, unskilled and which to look right through the too numerous, were ready to hire themselves out on contract for a earth, you would see on the other period of years for work anywhere,
of oppro periphery Japanese women loading and thus gave a name coal by hand into ships bunkers, brium to a type of labour and a Chinese women lagging baskets of standard of living now universally stones up the slopes of Hongkong understood as degrading and in- for the mansions of the British; dustrially undermining fair com- coollen moving boulders on trays.
petition. Ever since, these people
shipped where As you watch a girl in Lancashire have been mill tend her thousands of spindles, labour would not go. your X-ray would reveal millions of
The white man was conquering homes in India where cloth the jungle with the coolic, but it CINESE labour is both willing a year and a half or two, shall not and Intelligent. Nevertheless, bo lured away by other manufac woven by hand looms. As you soon became evident that the coolic held amongst quite a number of marvel at the tractor carving a intended to stay. He did not re- American or Australian farmers, turers. The cost of secaring a girl dozen or more furrows at once, the turn when his contract was over. while constituting less than 50 per is generally about £5. The added people that there is an identity X-ray would show you millions of He became the gardener, the crafts- cont. of the population, produce cost of maintaining lodging housee, competing more crops, and crops of a better with baths, recreation and food. of outlook between the two fac-acres being worried by rude con man, the tradesman "HANSEL UND GRETEL"
traptions of wood dragged by men with the white man, and so the in- standard, than the 80 per cent. of ever if it comes out of the earnings tions, but it has been clearly and boys. As. you dash
are formers. In of the girls, le still a factor in cross dentured coolie, like the slave, was Chinese who
of productiveness and production, chocking expansion. bus or silver found to be a handicap. In 1926, terms demonstrated lately that there country in car.
streaked trains, your X-ray would the British in South Africa passed machine power, Ameries is really are vital differences in funda-ahow you continents where the a law against his further importa- & country of more than 625,000,000, mental matters, with the result only means of locomotion are the tion and commenced the process of whereas the 400,000,000 Chinese THROUGHOUT industry, owing to the crowded labour market, Still are really only equal to 100,000,000 governmental repatriation. that there can be no question of wheelbarrow, or just feet.
the cry for a supply of cheap in man power. The working day Japan has not Improved her equip In China la from 8 to 11 hours, with ment as rapidly as she might, buy- Inbour goes on.
a wage of 25 to 45 cents Hongkong ing cruder machines and working But is a plethora of unskilled currency. A boy is given 1,000 its people longer, securing a poorer labour, ready to work for a pit cocoons and allowed to reel them; quality product; and generally lag-- tance, a benoit or a curse to modern whether it takes him 7 hours or 11 ging behind her true potentialitics. Japan e finds it cheaper to put THE BROEDERROND
Industry? If it were a benefit, then to unwind is his own affair.
a man to work with a curious, capital would certainly move all
A typical daily wage scale in Hong enormous pulling saw to cut a tree The Afrikaner Broederbond, on its machinery over to India and kong, where conditions are better than into planks, boards and trim-one the Communist Party, and this which General Hertzog has deliver- Chinn-but it doesn't. Let us look elsewhere in China, is the following might Bny match aticks. Com has now been considered by the ed a vigorous attack, was founded more closely at these countries, and issued-in-the- Administration-annual-parison shows that It takes several former's National Executive, in 1918, ostensibly with only cul-see whether cheap coolie labour to report last year:, which has reached the conclu-tural obiects. General Hertzog more economical than high-standard
himself was a foundation member.labour. sion that no circumstance has Its activities first came Into pro-
Let us take India, whence cams last November, arisen to justify any departure minenco
when the conlic who is now the bune of from the adverse opinion re General Hertzog who had by that world manufacturing. The great time rosigned his membership, balk of the necessities of life are gistered as far back as 1922, complained that the Broederbood made by hand by lone people in when a similar application was had become a political organisation, countless villages. While it takes rejected by 3,860,000 votes to and that it brought pressure to six rupees to keep a person at the month, the 261,000. The attitude of the bear on Members of Parliament and subsistence level a
schoolmasters. Dr. Malan, the average head of a family earne Labour Party is clearly stated in leader of the Opposition, has re- only 12 Rs, and the per capita in- » the words that "the funda-mained a member of the Broeder-come in India is £2 a year.
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NOTES OF THE DAY
of alcop, ent ar nurse their infants
Labourers (male) 80 cents Labourers (female) 60 cents. Blacksmiths 80 cents to $1.20.. Tram drivers $1.20 to $1.50. Tram conductors $1 to $1.90.
Limes more labour to achieve the same resulte in Japan ns in Ameri
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Railway firemen 80 cents to $1.60. BULLS AND INNERS
FACTORY WONKERS
Cigarette making 40 to 80 cents. Knitting Factories 20 to 50 cents. Perfumery 20 to 50 cents. Confectionary 20 to 50 cents.
Domestic servants 25 cents to $1.
With free food and lodging.
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"Curious."Yes, Rider Hag- gard did write "The People of the Mist" but we do not think that he
had then reached his Peak.
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A motor-ear driver is stated to
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brid, but is not on its 'executive,; What is most amazing is that, Because of the inefficiency of la- mental difference between the He insists that it has fewer than in a country so crowded with labour bour, the long hours given to in-have woll the $69,000.00 Darby democratic policy and practice 2,000 extreme National members, as India. It should still be profitable dustry leave the output lower than Sweep. Now he'll be able to drive of the Labour Party and the that many of the rest belong to to work women and children in the in the West, the productivity of the for pleasure. policy of dictatorship which the General Hertzog's own party and mills 23 hours a day, and day and Chinese-being-only 20-per-cent.-of
that it is solely concerned with up-night for months on end, the women the textile worker. Communist Party has been holding Afrikaner
Why not ask the Royal Obsorva- interests. not even leaving their machines to created to promote are irrecon-other societies, like the Sons
tory to follow the lead of the Cur-
cilable." The fact is
England, con-
for days at a stretch.. The owners NQUESTIONABLY, the great-reney Board, and peg our climate?
est evil in connection with ceded that Fascism. has con- There are many such Afrikaner don't wish this. But labour is Bo
father, unable various and British societies in South poor and inefficient and the pay so coolic labour is its penalising of quered power
Speaking about week-end fare, Africa. The main struggle below, they drive themselves to make children. A
.KOW perfectly delightful European States, but the view tween them rages over the language this extra cash. Indian labour is carn more than 35 to 50 cents a wo is expressed that the victories question. At present English and the poorest in the world. One day, drags his wife into the grind cold shoulder at the Gripps Inst of the Fascist dictatorships Afrikaans are font official langu- Chinese earpenter will do as much of bread-winning; and when the Saturday:
ares, just as Pretoria and Cape and better work than three Indian mother leaves the home, she drags have been in part facilitated by Tows are joint capitals, one the carpenters. The Philippine shoe the child along. Once in the A London paper statos that Mah- the campaigns for Communist reat of the Governor and the other worker docs better than the Indian, factory or field or mine, it is but dictatorships which preceded of Parliament. For each year's British miner digs eight, Umes as a step for the child to the machine. Jonng is unheard of in England na the Indian. One The resultant demoralisation of these days. It still creates a good them-campaigns which effec-six months. Parliamentary sesalon much coal
an army of officials has bo travel American will operate an electric men shows itself in the way opu-deal of nalse in Hongkong, however, tively split the working-class over 1,000 miles, from Pretoria to crane, but it takes three Indians to lent, overfed, and proud men will movement and rendered its Cape Town. The train that carries do it. Even the jute labourers, at alt in rickshaws while even a child
The Kowloon tiger chased nino- them is called the Zoo Tmin. which Indians excel, are not better pulla them along. But in this the overthrow possible. It is ap
than the Scotch. Indian mills use Orient is only back in the era where, grass-cutters the other day. Before parent that the latest ap
three and one half times as many less than 50 years ago, we warmed we know where we are, he'll be
American ourselves by the hearth made safe after our lawn-mower, plication of the Communist considered view of the National workers as the same Party for affiliation is evidence Executive Committee, therefore, milla, and some even 14 times as by baby chimney-sweeps, who only many, This is not due to any too often were human sacrifices for of a doviation in the tactics that any weakening in Labour's thing bad about Indians, but, to the our comfort.
defence of political-democracy, fact that there are too many of which have been pursued by the such as affiliation with, the them clamouring for the same sub- TT is in Japan that we can make be able to cut his way through, any Internationale in recent years. Communist Party would imply,sistence.
the best study of the question opposition. ". and on this point the Labour would inevitably assist the The staggering burden of cheap as to whether cheap coolle labour la Party flatly states that the move forces of reaction and endanger labour that hangs over the Orient a true advantago in
morojis itself the answer. As you move economy. is now made, not for the pur-existing liberties. A pose of promoting Labour's de pointed rejection of the Com-westward from industrial Japan to
The fact that Japanese manu- clared policy and programme, munist proposal could scarcely China and India, you go economical- but, on the contrary, to utilise be imagined. Its value lies in ly down the scale of values as the facturers hayo lots of labour to the fact that it definitely namerical strength of labour goes draw upon gives a false face to the Party facilities on the platform, establishes the point that the up. Cheap as Japanese labour is, situation. In skilled labour, the in public conference, and in the British working-classes, whose it cannot compete with Chinese, and scarcity is so grant that in such an football pools
Hindu. The transportation from tion Britain feels most, mill-owners Press, to displace Labour's es interests the Labour Party is hardly can compete with industry as textiles, whose compati- holes for hardy soccer playera,
to high standard, from lave beon forced to establish a sentially democratic character makes its special concern, is in low
The worst thing about owning no danger of being weaned from drudgery to machinery, is blocked dormitory system wherein the girls, and substitute, therefor a policy democracy to the type of dicta-¡by the mass of helpless people, mostly under 16, who have been re a snappy saloon car these days is: and programme based on Com-torship which is the life and One fifth of the people of the world cruited from the farms and who that it's always liable to be mis munistic principles. It is the soul of Communism.
live on ten Hongkong cents a day, seldom remain at work longer than taken for a taxi.
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Captain Hacking has been appointed-Chairman of the Con- servative Party. Well, lio ought to
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Complaints about dilatorinass at Gonova suggest that they ought to call it the League of Patience.
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