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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1937.
THE GROUPING OF NATIONS
All these strikes are
a
sign of better
times
-by- FRANK OWEN
-bership fell away.
In July a thousand engineers
And that fellow has got some
at Whitehead Torpedo Works, arguments on his side. There Weymouth, struck.
ARE profits, and big profits, now
Austin Motors, had 9,000 on being made out of Britain's re- strike in November.
armament, Mr. Baldwin said Higher wages was the general there wouldn't be, but he doesn't demand.
know everything, or how to do it.
T the beginning of this
ten shillings.
Wheat has risen from 6s. per
AT
year A. V. Roe and I DON'T say that the Co. had 150 fitters out. Their
factory owners are pro- complaint was against the fiteering, though I trust that "speed-up," introduced in many they are not losing money. They factories because firms had fallen are up against a serious factor in behind schedule for arms do the rising cost, of raw materials. livery.
The price of zinc is double Then Boulton and Paul Air- what it was twelve months ago. "HY all these strikes? tancy" reached its, peak in the
General Strike, though unem craft Co. at Wolverhampton had Lead fetched £16 104. per ion Strikes have come
the 500 men strike for a 25 per cent. then, £31 158, now,,. back in fashion, like the ployment persisted still
members of the big unions did increase in wages.
Copper was worth £36-10s. per short skirts. We thought both
pretty well.
At the Rolls-Royce works, ton; to-day it is sold at £72 10s. had gone out in the late twenties. They could afford to kick up Derby. 270 grinders preparing Spelter? £15 12s. 6d., as Now we are treated to stay- a row and walk out every now the precision tools downed their against £33 15s. at present. Tin?"
and brought 4,000 £213, as against £296. in strikes, sit-down strikes, stop and then: 1920, 1930, 1931 put own tools
a standstill. Sugar, vital for munitions, 6s. out strikes. Miners are striking an end to all that. Trade dwin- other workers to again. London's busmen have died, wages dropped, trade union The grinders earned £3 14s. per 94d. per hundredweight to-day. started a strike in time to create contributions fell off, and. mem- week, and they wanted another It was-48. 10d. a year ago.
The years of the National At Fairey Aviation Works, 100lbs. to 108. Government have been years of. Hayes, Middlesex, the "firing" of Of course, the demand has industrial peace, not from any a fitter brought a thousand men driven up the price. So have the merit of their own, but simply out. (That incident shows grow- speculators. Those gentry have because Labour could not afford ing "militancy" all right, and "cleaned up," and are "cleaning to fight.
"solidarity" too.)
up." pretty extensively, the pesta. THE boom-for there is
SOME of the politicians Their operations are making a a boom, even though
and publicists of the nice mess of the wheat market at it is attended by considerable kind who look under the bed this very moment. It is the spe- unemployment-has changed the every night in case poor old culators and not the agitators
Joseph Stalin should be hiding who are the real "sabotagers.” situation once again.
The arms programme has put there see the Red Hand of Mos- Just as I write this there a premium on the services of cow in all this.
comes a communication on the skilled workers.
Especially as it is taking place strike movement from the Com- The result is—in polítics, in the arms industry, though, in munist Party addressed to all Cripps; in industry, strikes. 'fact, Moscow is only too. happy newspapers.
In March 1936 engineers at to hear that Britain' is going to Cutting out the bunk there's De Havilland Aircraft Co. walk- be so strong that no tinpot dicta- less of that than usual-these tor in Europe will spit in our fearsome firebrands are asking-- ed out.
In May 1,300 workers at direction in future.
for what?
a Coronation chaos. Most nl- arming of all, Britain's great armament industry threatens to become the battlefield of 3 squabble between boss and work-
man.
In the discussions which are
At the present moment 2,000 taking place with regard to the engineers of Beardmore's Park- possible conclusion of new un-head Forge, Glasgow, are "out." derstandings in Europe, with a They are demanding another view to preserving peace, a sug-penny an hour. Their wages gestion has been made that now are 638. a week, so they Germany is becoming less an-want 67s. The employers say
No! Lagonistic towards Russia, and The Amalgamated Engineer- that she might welcome a ing Union, powerful body a quar- friendly agreement with the ter of a million strong, with a Soviet. At the moment, it is treasury of £2,000,000, are keep- difficult to discover any definite ing discreetly out of the way, indientions of such a develop-hoping that the thing will settle
expressed that the war of words
as "official" they'll have to dip wood staged a lightning strike, foreign fist in these strikes. In- for higher cost of living, holidays between the two countries can-jinto that war chest, and proba- In June 300 men at Parnall stead I recognise the outstretch- with pay, and decent retiring not continue indefinitely, as they bly not only for the Beardmore Aircraft Co., Yate, Gloucester-ed palm of the well-known Bri- pensions for the old servants of
tish workman. really lead
The boys. For the rest of the en- shire, came out. nowhere. speeches both of Nazi leaders gineers in the country will say "We're in this, too, we all want and Russian spokesmen scarcely pennies from Heaven," and then encourage the hope of an early we'll have a real strike on our understanding, but extremism hands. often-disappears with the pass- age of time, with the result
itself.
ment, but the view has been It they recognise the strike Handley Page works at Crickle- I see no mysterious clenched Higher wages to compensate
STRIKES are a sign of prosperity. Workers
industry.
WHAT THEY SAY
Give me a newborn child, and In
-Dr. George A. Dorsey.
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There is only one rule for being o
-Christopher Morley.
It is not that, I mind the Jungle so much, for the Jungle is cleaner than Mayfair has often been.
Dr. F. W. Norwood.
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The best way to gain a good edu-:
--Henry Ford.
Referees need to be men of iron,
C. E. Sutclife, President of the".
Football League,
The great majority of people, though they have perfectly good brains, do not. In the least know how to use them. We neglect our brains just as we neglect our limbs,
-Hubert Phillips.
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that history records many in-will not lightly endanger their ten years I can have him so scared cation is to read newspapers. stances in which former enemies weekly wages if times are bad. he'll never dare to lift his voice above have become firm friends. The When wage cuts, heavy un-a whisper, or so brave that he'll fear policy both of Germany, and of employment and mass distress nothing. Italy is, without question, to are the order of the day-no kick from the principal victims. create contacts and make
When slump descends upon in-good talker: learn to listen. friendships wherever they can,dustry men are more concerned in order to keep as many Powers to find a job than to chuck one. as possible out of any potential It is not Despair that makes combination against the Nazi-revolutions, but Hope. Fascist partnership. Germany When trade picks up and pro- has thus far failed to induce fits rise, and there is a call for France to renounce her pact more of Labour's services, ah, then Labour feels its strength, with Russia, but it is conceiv- and develops the desire to use able, when the matter is viewed its power. from another angle, that she Then the worker says, " might draw the sting from that want MY share of the profits, aland, what's more, I'm now in'a agreement by effecting rapprochement of her own with position to cxact it."
So you get a rise in the indus- Moscow. It is not so many trial temperature, or what the years ago that the Soviet stood long-haired, lop-cared social in a position of complete isola- theorists call "an increase in tion from the rest of the world,} labour militancy." but she has since then contrived
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When a woman's plain she's always told she has beautiful eyes or beauti- ful hair,
-Chekov.
I appeal to the Young men of this parish to marry girls living in it.
-Rev. D. P. T. Jenkins, Vicar of St. Mary's, Sanderstead.
If people give me what I ask thai is their look-out.
A pedlar fined at Croydon Tecently.
Adhild has no natural appetite for The lips should be as close as pos- smoking, and if he smokes it is besible to the transmitter mouthpiece almost touching it. If you speaks cause he wants to be grown up.
loudly.
She writes to me every day all the way from Rome, Italy, or some place. Neill, Headmaster, Summer- clearly it is rarely necessary to speak
Just to tell me how she's getting along. If a woman would do that, she's worth fighting for.
-Max Baer.
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-Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell.
Meat helps emotion. It Clark)
be twice as romantic.
hill School.
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The country child knows less about birds than the town child.
--Miss E. A. Duggins, at an Oxford Educational Con- ference.
Telephone Directory.
I don't think my pictures are very good, and I'm always surprised when they ask me to do another,
-Gracle Fields,
"SLEEP ON IT
seem
"There is a very thin dividing line and those receiving it." between the man dispensing Justice
Alderman J. Toole, Lord Mayor of Manchester.
Charles Darwin relates that when he took a basket holding snakes into
to be a monkey's cage, curiosity brought "WHEN you are in a cleft slick phase, that would
and can't wriggle out, the best peculiarly prescient with some peo- to make herself diplomatically CAST your mind back to the animals down to raise the lid. thing is to go to bed and let Nature ple, in the transition from what we
the ramping, roaring! They fled away, respectable in the eyes of most days of 1920, when trade union clattering. But one
screaming and do the trick for you," is the advice know as slumber to the gradual
after another
given
one by
of our leading realisation and action of the conscious nations. Whilst the tendency leaders were going to hoist the crept back to have another peep, and
that we know as awakening. another thrill. They liked being Psychologists.
On examination, one finds that this Unconsciousness is little under- nowadays, in international life, Scarlet Banner over Buckingham frightened.
strange advice had nothing to do stood as yet by the physiologist. is for nations of the same Palace.
with the possible predicament of a fow it is that all sensation is cut off Then Mr. Lord-President-of-
tree
while by certain states-sleep, Injury, small boy caught in a ideology to get together, it
&c. has not yet beln to the matter of the human ascertained beyond the fact that brain in its dealing with apparently there is a cutting of the current be- tween the grey cells and their "Sleep on it" is an old-fashioned ganglia and dendrons (or branches) bc- maxim, and has sense behind it, for in the brain. Life still goes many a knotty point has been solved cause the system has separate during sleep by the continued action headquarters apart from the brain Oscar Wilde. of the grey cells. When we are itself, and the beating of the heart bothered over a matter that puzzles and the breathing of the lungs, is by the sympathetic The new Non-Intervention Agreets and appears Insoluble, it is good carried on and powerful nation as Russia.
we doze off in a nap. The whole world would welcome
mate triumph of the Bolsheviks, who the thing and go to bed.
Then, often as not, the unconscious have received so much more help in improved Russo-German rela-amongst those who want to see men and wor material than General element of the mentality, that never Passing It On
carries on with the really slumbers, tions for these very reasons. world peace preserved and. its Franco's Nationalists.
thing, turning it over and over while C. G. Gray in the "Aeroplane." The movement fora new foundations strengthened.. It
the conscious element and the sense are sleeping, understanding between Britain may be premature, at the mo Morality is always the product of and Japan can be looked ment, to envisage Russo-Ger-terror. upon in
light. man friendship, but stranger the same
things than such a development Indeed, any stops which serve to have before now upset calcula- iron out misunderstandings be- tions in the sphere of inter-training. tween nations must find favour national politics.
is clear that Basting the Council Ramsay MacDonald, peace can be built on partito become), and Mr. J. H. Would Albers, Head of Metro-insoluble problems,
Viscount Snowdon (as he was! Gable nie steak before vach seeno hol relation in nest robbing, but had discase, sanship. Thus it is evident Thomas performed regularly on that world concord, or even the Red Flag Anthem, which I European concord, for that mat-think is not included in Ernest ter, cannot be attained by leav-Bevin's repertoire in these days. All, through the years after
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--Aldous Huxley.
Solved at Dawn...
The fact is, often, that the conscious: brain gets tired and goes on strike, refuses any longer to deal with a worry that hus too long occupied its attention. Thus it is that.by dropp- ing the matter, it we can, and going to sleep we give the other clement
How often has a problem revealed Any efficient dancer has under-its solution with the dawn! How an opportunity to take up. It la gone a training which is like a moral many a work of inspiration, art, not only that we give the broin a
literature, music, invention has come rest from active thinking, but also. clear to its creator in that curious
(Continued on Page. 4.)
Ellot.