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SPIES FIND MUNITION Peace Pledge
WORKS "WIDE OPEN"
Only Hedges
Bar Wreckers
Munition factories.
without guards; Arms works "pro-` tected" by hedges; No check on "visitors."
THESE ARE EX- AMPLES OF THE DAN- GEROUS LACK OF ANTI-SABOTAGE PRE- CAUTIONS AT SOME OF BRITAIN'S CHIEF MUNI- TION WORKS.
In certain cases, there is not even a wire fence to keep out. enemy agents.
Sir
John Anderson, the HOT Secretory, is expected to dent with this per! when he announces his plane for suppressing the "Fifth Column" menace this week.
"Wide Open"
Here is more starting evidence of our "wide-open" arms works:
One factory le bounded on one side
by a main railway line.
pli-
Almost every day trains are hell up by freight wagons. Any senger could easily leave.one of these trains and gain access to the factory. On two other sites the factory Is bounded by country Janes.
Leafy hedges are the only barriers to keep out spies or wreckers. Another huge works, turning millions of
tons of armament
material every week, is equally wide open.
Not Even A Fence
It is ringed by anti-aircraft gues to beat off enemy bombers, but little or nothing has been done to shut out "Fifth Columnists." Not even
wire fence has been erected.
A few days ago a "Sunday Chronicle" reprezentativo drove his car clean through the heart of the works, stopping twice to light cleareite. He was not challenged
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Yet a few pounds of explosives in the right place would cause tremen-
CORT'S
DAUGHTER
IN A.T.S.
Viscount Gort's daughter.- Miss Jacqueline Vereker, who is a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.
'It took
Ton
Minutes
1
dous damage and stop production for To Intern
months.
Sir John Anderson must act at once
to remove this that menaces the
nation's war effort.
Me....'
50,000 In "Stop-War' Club Row
Poster:
Six Accused
A. POSTER issued by the Peace Pledge Union with the inscription: "War will cease when men refuse to fight. What are you going to do about it?" I was read in court at Bow Street when six leading members of the Union were summoned for alleged breaches of the Defence Regulations,
Sir Donak Somerveil, Attorney- General, stibmitted that the poster was expressly directed to members of the forces.
Not Guilty Plas Defendants were Dr. Alexander Wood, St. Barnabas Road, Cambridge, chairman of the Union: Stuart B.
Endsleigh Street,
W.C Morris. general secretary, Maurice L. Rown tree, Endsleigh Street, W.C.. hon. treasurer: "stop-the-Road, S.W. groups organiser; Ronald John Darclay, Ellerton
VICTOR GOLLANCZ, publisher-president of Left Book Club, which has 50,000 members, threatens to close down several of the club's groups because of war" netivities.
Trouble started when Profes- sor Harold Laski, one of the three Book Selectors, established In "support the war" position.
Victor Gollancz, in a statement circulated to a member, "most strongly depreentea" the action of the Kettering Club In passing a resola tion supporting the stop the war" candidate in the recent by-election.
Selectors Split
When he proposed organising series of publie meetings at whic^ Labour lenders were to speak 112 found the Communist-controlled group refusing to co-operate. One
group refused to assist if the speaker was "pro-war."
Mr. Gollancz, denounces this at- thre:
the
arc
II. Smith, Courtral Road, Forest Hill; and Sidney Todd, of Wykham. Lane. Bodicote, Oxon.
All pleaded not guilty.
Sir Donald Somervell said the only possible effect of the words on the poster would be that certain men
they were misguided enough to act on its advice, would commit a very serious offence in the disobedi- ence of orders that would wenken the war effort of Britain.
Morris, In a statement, accepted responsibility for the publication and distribution of posters and litera- ture. [
tude as "wholly intolerable." There
disagreement among selectors. Gollancz and Laski supporting the Labour Party's wa policy while John Strachey's atti- tude is said by Gollancz to be "very close to that of the Communist Party."
Ex-Girton Girl (Freed from Holloway) Celebrates At Hairdresser's
Bus Driver Sues London Passenger Board
NON-RECOGNITION of the National Passengera Workers' Union National Passengers Workers' was formed in February, 1930. Mr. Union by the London Passenger Moscrop joined it. Transport Board in the subject of a test action in the Chancery Division.
A bus-driver, Mr. Archibald Moscrop, of Sunbury-on-Thames. is the plainu.
:
In February, 1939, he was found guilty by a divisional superintendent of a breach" of duty."
He appealed to the disciplinary board in April, and was refused the right of being represented by official of his union.
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claimed that Mr. Moscrop had thereby Mr. Spens went on to say it was been placed at a disadvantage, con trary to a section of the Trades Union
The defence was that Mr. Moscrop Board on the terms of the agreement, accepted re-engagement with the The Board denied that the section of the Aet had any application.
The union, of which he is a mem- ber, was formed as a "breakaway" from the Transport and General Workers' Union after the 1937 bus strike.
He claimed a declaration that a Act, 1927. condition of his employment is legal. This condition, he alleges, denied him the advantage, as an appellant before a disciplinary board, of repre- sentation by in omicial of his union. whereas such representation allowed to members of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
He also asks for an injunction to restrain the Board from enforcing the condition.
Mr. Moscrop, glying evidence, said alleged against him. was he received a caution for the offence
Mr. Theodore E. Thomas, general manager of the operations side of the Board, was called for the defence.
His counsel, Mr. W. P. Spens, K.C Board's employ received a copy of He said that men joining the opening the case before Mr. Justice the latest agreement with the Trans- Morton, said that Mr. Moscrop enter- ed the employment of the London Port and General Workers' Union. which represented the conditions
The hearing was adjourned.
General Omnibus Company, the fore under which all the men worked. runners of the Board, in April, 1928.
He was then a member of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
In 1937 he took part in the strike- and was re-engaged on May 27; after provisional_terms of settlement had been agreed.
On June 16 an agreement between the Board and the Transport and General Workers' Union was signed.) There Was some dissatisfaction the employees, and the
among
'DRINKS TILL 2' MAY STOP
MRS. ETHEL MAUREEN MANKIEWITZ went to the hair- dresser's one afternoon recently for the first time for nearly five
months.
It was her way of celebrating her release from Holloway Jall, London, where she had been interned.
The case was adjourned.
COUNCIL URGED TO REINSTATE DISMISSED MAN
Rugby councillors are to be asked to press for the reinstatement of a Corporation employee, Mr. Richard Morgan, secretary of the Corporation branch of the Transport Workers' Union. Allegations are made that he was victimised.
Mr. Morgan told the Rugby Trades Council that he was warned in Janu- ary not to persist in publicly criticis-
ng the Council,
Councillor J, G. Lynn said he was told that Morgan.had been dismissed because he sald Labour members had come out a bad third in a dispute over Council workers' conditions.
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She is the English-born wife of Hans Eric Manilewitz, German is made from herbs selected, pre- banker refugee, and was educated at pared and blended by expert chem- Roedean and Girton. She declared: ista. Even when other remedies "In the excitement of leaving have failed this famous European Holloway I lost the most valuable herbal preparation has proved of the document of my life my release greatest help to constipation sui- paper. For twenty-four hours I ferers. Packaged in two sizes $0.75, hardly dared to move because I and $2,00, at chemists and depart did not know what restrictions I ment stores or from was to live under.
"To my great joy it was found and put through my letter-box.
"Then I discovered that I was under the category C regulations, which means that I can move about freely and live where I like..
"It took the tribunal ten minutes to intern me, and it has taken me Secretary to obtain my freedom. eighteen weeks petitioning the Home
"One great privilege we internees bad was that we were allowed to have any food we could afford to buy.
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"I was storekeeper for the othera who sent out for their own food. It was the nicest job I ever had, and the only time in my life when I ever earned any money-d. a day.
'Some afternoons I was allowed to give classes, taught English and classics. The weaving and pottery classes were the greatest Joy. The last thing I saw was a perfect model of a little donkey and a horse dond by a well-known bureness.
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"I think the officials at Holloway doing a very hard task with extraordinary kindness and justice." Mrs. Manklewitz speaks six lan- Kuoges.
"Now," she added, "I am trying to go on with the work I was doing in the autumn of introducing Balkan LONDON'S drink-until-2 a.m. suppliers of wood pulp and man-
G.P.O. ENCOURAGE experiment may be withdrawn OLD ENVELOPES after a run of only a fortnight.
The Coventry-street Corner House, first chosen to co-operate with Sir To save paper, the Post Office are Philip Game, Commissioner of Police, now about to give their sanction is not applying for an extension this to the use of envelopes which have week-end. Neither is the Criterion been used before, provided that Restaurant, In Plecadilly-circus. Walte or lightly-tinted paper Is Oddenino's Restaurant, Regent- firmly attached to cover the old street, W.1, have applied for a 3 a.m. address, stamp and postmark.
Such envelopes have found their way through the post
Sir John Anderson, Home Secre- even in peace time. But they were tary, questioned in Uze
House, frowned on and discouraged by the said the police would conalder postal authorities. Now they are applications from any district. The admitted to respectable company, cheme was not confined to central
extension. This is under considera- sometimes Lion.
and no objection, will be raised to London. them. Stamps should be fixed to the top right hand corner as usual.
There ore two exceptions. The second-hand envelopes cannot be (a). franked, or (b) registered.
Registered letters must go in new envelopes,
This change of attitude la only the beginning of a series of important economy measures which the Post Office is planning,
ganese are to business men in this country who offer it to the Ministry
of Supply.
"These deals involve many thou- sands of pounds, and would be of great benent to this country.!!.
Luiso Rainer Gets Divorce
HOLLYWOOD. Lulse Ruiner, Viennese-born star of "The Good Earth," obtained a divorce in Holly- wood from her husband, Clifford Odets, the well-known playwright. The grounds wero mental cruelty.
AND HER NAME IS-
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A Chicago women asking for a divorce told the judge:"Every.
timo I speak my husband hits mo.”
Her name la Mra. Bilence Golden Robinson.
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