Big Working Loss On Britain's Coal Mines
London, July 13-The Na- tional Coal Board, operator of Britain's publicly owned. coal pits, reported today that its first year of operation of the nation's mines resulted in a loss of £23,255,587.
The operations for the period ending December 31, 1947, however, included the expenditure 'of, nypro- ximately £10,000,000 on capital ne- count largely to begin modernisation and re-equipment of some of the older mines,
Indicating the size of the re- organisation fob to be done before Britain's coal mines
fully
are
modernised, the Board sald that by the end of last year it had earmark- ed £536,000,000 for capital im- provement "over a period of several years."
1000,000-WORD REPORT
"It will be some time before the Boord's final long term programme has been drawn up." It added. -
The law nationalising the coal mines was passed during 1046 and the Cool Board took over operations on Now Year's Day, 1947.
The printed report ran to, 100,000 words-longer than. the average novel-and was supplemented with 111 pages of detalled statistics.
It covered a a period which In- cluded the fuel crisis of February and March, 1947, a crisis brought on by inadequate stocks and record snowfails which stopped coal trans- port.
The 'net operating Joss was £6,187,300.
The Board compared this account with operating losses under private, ownership, noting that "the .tn- ditistry was subsidised by the Ex- chequer to the extent of £27,000,000 between 1042 and 1040.
LOSSES TRIMMED
Last year mining operations lost £0,203,905, but profita on coke ovens and other subsidies brought In £3,010,003 to trim the losses,
It could have been covered by raising prices still further, the Board sold but instead it incurred a deficit "which will serve as an incentive to future economics." ·
"A joint stock company," it ob- served, "could have covered part of the deficit by not distributing
any
dividends. This expenditure Was not open to the Board,"
sald, be-
of
of
cause it "must make payments capital and interest to the govern- ment each year whether good bad." Concessions to workmen dur- ing the year will cost £62,500,000 in a full year, it said.-Associated Press,
Bevan Asked: To Explain
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Joe Mueller, 65, who two days before lost his wallet and life savings of $1,300, collapses in his chair (top) in a Los Angeles police station when' he sees the money has been found and Del. Lieut. Fred Laughlin (right) has it. Below Boy Scout· Herman Halfman, 13, who found the money on a street, and the youth's father, Harry, assist the still-weak Mueller. Mueller gave the boy $100 for his honesty.
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SPLENDID BRITISH EXPORT FIGURES
London, July 13.-Mr Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, disclosed today that British exports last month hit £134,000,000, £4,000,000 abovė May and the highest since July, 1920.
Mr Wilson Kald exports in volume exceeded the mid-1940 target of 40 per cent above pre-war.
"But here, too, there is a dark side to the picture." Mr Wilson told the Anglo-French Chamber of Com- merce at a luncheon meeting.
tho
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1948.
CITIZEN OR SUBJECT?
Australia Supports Nationality Bill
London. July 13-The Australian Prime Minister, Mr J, B. Chifley. has authorised the Home Secretary, Mr James Chuter Ede, to say that he agrees with the British GovETTI- ment's Nationality Bill as originally drafted-
-without
the Houn ds' amendments on eltizenship-
clan will be and that the Australian bill precisely on
on the same lines.
Lore
of
Mr Chuter Ede disclosed this the House of Commons Daking today to restore the bill to its original form before it was altered in the House of Lords.
The provide now method of giving effect to the principle that the people country
main purpose of the bill is to
O each within the British
self- Commonwealth
have both a particular status as citizens of their own country and a
common status as members of the wider association of peoples com- prising the Commonwealth.
For the
people of. the United Kingdom and the colonies, there is to be established, according to the Government's wishes. A common citizenship.
The House of Lords rejected the word "eltizen" for its "Republican flavour and because citizenship, they said, essentially meant the common enjoyment of elvie rights and the common acceptance of civic responsibilities. They therefore altered the word "citizen" to "Bri- Ligji subject."
CONCEPTION SLURRED ·
Mr Chuter Ede sold that the alternations by the House of Lords had slurred the conception of cill- zenship and rendered ils provisions incomprehensible.
was
3
"Citizenship" was the appropriate term because Parliament at West- minster could legislate only for the United Kingdoin and the colonles Britain could not impose a law about nationality on any other member of the commonwealth.
Bach Finch of them
distinct Bovereign state for this purpose.
The bull did not alter in tho alightest the position of the various subjects of the King in the colonies. If they so desired, they could Ro on calling themselves British Jects. is not the Government's intention to abandon our metropoli- tan tradition" (referring to the Statute of Westminster), Mr Chuter Ede Enid.
"Whether
we like it or not, we have sold that each of the self- governing Dominions is equal with us in status inside this great, Com- monwealth of Nations.
sub-
the
"Indeed, we have a position today where many of our exporters are nations grow up in stature and ex- "We must expect, as our fellow telling us the French Government is refusing import lleences for goods perlence and as fresh nations come from this country
into the self-governing position, and precisely
Importing
that they
that will expect similar goods from United States with ERP. dollars.
words of our Inws shall, in fact, "The French Government is, for cinted in the Statute of Westmina- coincide with the principles cnun- "While imports have fallen slight-example, Importing dollar
farm ter." while refusing one adverto balance is the machinery
licences, lowest since February, it is still for similar types of manufacture in running at a very high rate." the United Kingdom. That, sire, 15
prices
13
have
London, July 13.-A eam-/ paign to force the Minister of Health, Mr Aneurin Bevan, to
DIFFERENT CONNOTATION substantiate his recent state- Mr Wilson referred to the "high not what any of us intended when There were people inside the ment that Britain's press is and still-growing
we are we drew up the European pact at Commonwealth
whom the words "the most prostituted in the having to pay for our essential im- Paris a year ago. The intra-Euro-"British subject" did not
ports" and said, "There is no real world" was carried to the narrowing of-this-gap-in-our-over-un payments problem needs to be quite the connotation they had in solved, so that we can all co-operate Britain. Therefore it was necessary to the greatest possible
extent in to make arrangements by which meeting one another's needs." they could describe themselves by others among United Press.
a term which they welcomed. trading countries" in
To do that, it was necessary that the people for whom Parliament in London
legislated should accept in- side the Commonwealth the position of eltizenship of a particular unit of the Commonwealth.
House of Commons today.
Beas balance of payments."
CREDITS NEEDED
The Royal Commission, which Parliament set up to inquire Into He called upon the Press, had suggested Mr Bevan "stronger might have "evidence to offer which Western Europe to extend credits might be helpful" after he made this to the less fortunate. While he statement at a Labour rally in May mentioned no names, he may well In Parliament today, a Conserva- have had in mind Belgium, Sweden, tive Member, Mr Ernest Marples, Switzerland and Portugal. asked whether the Commission's re- port was likely to be delayed be European trade now is likely to call cause of Mr Bevan's "reluctance" to for contributions
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It had been decided that the appropriate term was "citizen of the United Kingdom and the colonies." state- further credits from some of the Philadelphia, July 13-Senator
The real effect of the amendment in the House of Lords was The Deputy Premier, Mr Herbertstronger trading countries," he said. Brien McMahon called upon the De- made
year:
we were roughly in mocratic party today
that the people of the United King. to lead the dom and the colonies entered Morrison, said the Commission did balance with the rest of Western way.
the know when it would present Europe on visible account. But atomic energy as the first step to prescriptive
family of British its report, but it was unlikely to be it meant paying gold or dollars
nationality by right,
people before the beginning of next year those European countries with whom The Senator, from the state of ship of one of the Dominions.
entered through the door of
of citizen- Router.
our trade was in deficit and lend- Connecticut, was one of several Ing money to those with whom he speakers at the party's national no the nailons in the Commonwealth f "We cannot have equality of all had a trading surplus.
minating convention who levelled we adhere to that view. We sug- "It is imperative that in future their oratorial guns on the Repub-gest that the people of this country other, creditor countries should join licans in resounding sal the Repub- and the United Kingdom and us in giving credits. We shall be McMahon noted that
of the colonies should be citizens London, July 12.-Buckingham
prepared to take up our fair share licans emitted any Palace announced today that the
mention of colonies and through that gateway of the burden,
Copies of photographs taken Shah of Persia would fly here on
but only provided atomic energy in the platform which should enter into British subject- July 20 and had been invited to stay other countries do the same."
stated the principles of that party. hood or Commonwealth citizenship, by the South China Morning for two days at the Palace.
·PAYMENTS PROBLEM This Repablican mission, he said, whatever term they prefer." The Shah's visit will not be a ∙He said that Anglo-French trade "a new and vicious form of Isola-{
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