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CWRNER OF THE FIRST SULES AUZA 1943
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IN BERLIN
SEFTON DELMER'S Newsmap
Berlin, Apr. 25. joined in the cold war and
Bul in this cir-lift trip of to-
one of the many is from
ded smuggling black market rackets which exploit the divi- sion of this frontier, front-line city.
T first the 2 p.m. from become part of the Berlin
Heath Row seemed air-lift. just like any other flight. The aircraft. an
The big shots make theirs by American Skymaster, had day I found there was none of
goods in Western the excitement of a year ago, ordering
Enst just flown the Atlantic. It had set down most of its No one watched at the windows Germany of which the
as they all did last June and zone is in great
parts for New Look passengers in London, picked up a few uls-for Soviet fighters Bring for Instance." newcomers like myself, and up to buzz us. was now flying on to Frank- fort and Berlin.
11
was
Begun in emer- gency, the Berlin air-lift brought more benefits than could at first be imagined. This latest pie-
of ture condi- tions 18 par- ticularly in- teresting in view of the decision to lift the blockade May
12.
on
SOME MEN NEVER CEASE BEING STUPID
BY BERNARD HARRIS
London.
But the dockers said "No."
THIS is the anniversary they demanded payment on
of an exciting day in the old basis,
the year 1812.
Now they have agreed to unload the sugar on This is terms which show no saving.
what happened, according Recently the great steel firm to the Annual Register for of Dorman Long spent £1.760,- that year:-
000 on instating an fron ore unloading and preparation plant
"On April 24, about four at Middlesbrough.
For six weeks the two giant o'clock,
a large band of rioters suddenly attacked tons an hour and so halving the unloaders, capable of lifting 350 the weaving factory belong time required to discharge a ing to Mesars Wroe and ship, were idle.
Duncroft, at Westhoughton, Why? Because this automatie about 13 miles from Man- operation needs only one inan
to perform it And the Tran chester; of which, being un-
Workers' protected, they soon
sport and General gut Union insists on a team of four, possession.
The union got its way. Two of the men in each team spend their time in the hold of the ship where the only thing they
"They instantly set it on fire, and the whole of the building, with its valuable have to do, it is said, is to avoid machinery, WAN entirely being injured by the grabl
That is good-bye to one hope destroyed.
of cheaper stee);
"The damage sustained is CO-SLOW WITH immense, the factory alone
COAL CUTTERS having cost £6,000. The
And
of reason assigned
plenty for this You can
examples of modern Luddism horrid act is 'weaving' by in the cual routes. The Coal steam."
Board is slowing is polley of installing now coal-cutting "By this dreadful event, machines--the
Mr. sort that two worthy families have Shinwell once said kept him sustained a heavy and irre. awake at night "thinking of their
wonders," parable injury, and a very
Why? Because the machines considerable number of poor are not being worked to their fare thrown out of employ- fullest extent.
ment."
The Coal Board has even "hud to threaten to close some pits, Including Betleshonger, in Kent, The 1812 reporter com-
because of "restrictive practices,' mented that "the rioters which are essentially only a appear to level their ven- modern form of Luddism.
There was another manifesta- geance against all species of
tion of it when the Austin Motor improvement in inachinery." management introduced a new type of gear-cutting machine, And he ends his account with That closed the works for a me and lost us 30,030 badly needed dollars every day,
need, spurn industrial machines, view. And there is quite a
deat of justification for it.
For if the Russians raise the this dramatic sentence: "Mix
would this blockade on their terms, and taken men!-what
ride ordinary
permit and traffic to travel un-country have been without such the
hindered once more along the improvements?" nutobahn and on the railway between the West and Berlin, they will be doing Co with Lut one object in view.
just' an everyday night as far as Germans were concerned. They slept in their reats, or munched sandwiches, or read.
Berlin itself since then.
They get them sent in on the air-lift and then smuggle them across the border into the So- viet sector.
CASHING-IN
S
In
But all except me got off at Frankfort, and no sooner, had they done so than there
And that first impression on poured into the plane a fan- tastic carnival assortment of the plane has been fully con- MALL. fry you meet every- where. They were at it even this Sunday inorning. new passengers. It was as fired by what I have found in
Ue Kantstrasse they came up though the plane had sud- deniy been seized by 40 The fomance has gone out of to me, each one with the same whispered offer, "East marks Marx Brothers and sisters, the blockade situation.
for West marks?"
They pay 3.80 Soviet marks for one West mark, or charge four Soviet East marks if you
Front-line Berlin has come to
Not that there was any- thing exuberant about them, accept blockade and air-lift
They something normal and routine, On the contrary. tucked away their Bac- chanalian bundles of fruit and food and buckled them- selves into their seats with
CARS, MONEY
want to buy one West murk. The 20 pfennigs difference is their rake-off.
complete, unsmiling solemn Tindifference is under-side the Salamander shoe store
ity.
IN FASHION
In the Kurfuersiendamm auf-
standable. Thanks to the air. I found a slightly more ambi- lift, the Soviel blockade has no tious racket. long queue of much Berliners were waiting in line succeeded in making so
and two young difference to their lives, at- to buy shoes.
men were patrolling it to make though it has added many new
their fortunes. elements-and-many-new-prob-
It has not prevented the fur- Western of recovery
"Shoe and, clothing coupons," they mutiered, And they did not bother to whisper.
To them, there was nothing lems.
in the least fanciful about the woman wearing a
One of them explained to me vast, would-be fashionable ther frying-pan hut. fur jacket, Berlin or the quickening in the the great advantages of buying Al- coupons for a pair of shoes from riding breeches, and heel-less empo of the city's life. shoes on unstockinged feet; though every drop of petrol for him at 15 marks. This, he said.
Western Berlin has to be down would enable me to buy or the man wearing a dark, there is more German traffic the quality was better than
chocs In The West sector, where
green Tyrolean hat with a
in the streets here today than the East sector, feather above an old black found fast year. morning coat, khaki battle-
new
there is
my
tri
THE IMAGINARY CAPTAIN LUDD
The plumbers who must not a bicycle to work, the painters who object to council house tenants being supplied with point to do their own de corations, the unions who fine bricklayers and engineers for from the Luddist altitude of mind.
They will hope by this means RIOTING and machine breuk "overworking all these suffer to hold up ant! delay, perhapsing by hand workers who Indefinitely. Western plans for feared for their livelihood had the establishment of a Weat been going on for months, But German Republic,
the Westhoughton affair the first instance of an entire
By holding cut the prospect conference of a new
for the establishment of a united Ger many, they plan:-
TO SHARE the determina- tion of the easily shaken French, who in any case are not with the present too pleased plan For West Germany.
TO BLACKMAIL the Ger-
was
ND
THE BUSMEN GET THE BUG
now London's busmen
factory being destroyed, A have got the bag, too, with their demand that the number
hours shall be cut from eight to of standing passengers in rush the Ave.
"The rioters," said the Annual Register, "assume the name of
nct under Luddites and authority of an imaginary Cup- tain Ludd, which name to signify not one Individual but a secret committee of montage
politicians with the fearment." that if they go ahead with the West German scheme they will be accused of having betrayed real German unity.
TO IMPRESS the American
Sceme
That means many of their fellow citizens, men and wometi, tired after a day'e work, wili have to stand in the rain next winter walling for a bus home. It means that an enjoyable Bank Holiday will end in excessive queue misery for thousands of "What does that mat- families. fer to us?" say the busmen.
In the US trade imionist*, hin 'n hough they may has theli
that.
Though Captain Ludd had no
existence, his spirit
gees marching on.
He has left behind
inotationist, tired of paying legacy of opposition to labour-faults, do ust out subsidies to Europe, with the pacific
intentions of the saving devices which the com
Sir Stafford' Soviet and, therefore, the super- bined efforts of
Morrison, Cripps, Mr Herbert fluity of these subsidies.
and the more enlightened trade union leaders are falling to root
TRICKY
out.
EXPERIMENT
WITH SUGAR
machines are Ueir friend.
They co-operate cagerly in in-. creased mechanisation, for they that machines have learned mean higher wages, lower costs, and abundance in the chops.
the That is one reason why American worker gets more than double the British rate of pay no for a similar job.
The Luddites of 1940 E situation has become so
Bul tricky that the Allied com- longer wreck machines.
strive to prevent
the manders are fully prepared for they Certainly
quite a the
Constitution-maximum beneilt being obtained German dress trousers-and rubber. There are
restaurants. large element here in Berlin makers to postpone their work. from them. new night- who live by the blockade, and soled suede boots of bright new shops, und
And al- have by ngw acquired an in- clubs being opened. green.
though for British pockets' these ferest in its continuation. For these new passengers restaurants are expensive — a But that does not becount meal or two with a bottle of for the greatest paradox of all Moselle in riew' elegant in paradoxical Berlin; the fael me just under that out of every 10 Berliners "Queen" cost
nine would £10 in West marks there seem I have spoken to,
bil to be plenty of Germans with prefer the blockade to go
rather than that the Soviet should make good their report- ed intention of Hiting 1.
were all Germans, used to having people wear what ever clothes they gould get together.
the
Certainly the Russian have been sparing nothing in their attempts to put over their cam- pair. I myself have been the act of diplomats close to the Soviet authorities.
Wo
SURE ROAD TO DISASTER'
TANLIGHTENMENT hire, corne, slowly. It is time there was more widespread realisation that the threat of unemploy ment comes get frem machinery CONSIDER, for example, but from low output per man.
what happened on the "Spinning out the job" is not River Thames last week. For the way to make the job an[e; The have told me that:-*-*-*
13 days a ship had lal idle adopted generally. It is the one have been off Purfleet with 5,115 tons of sure road is disneter. (1)
But for Marshall Instructions
ald shanld today hava nt least Cven to get the railway from sugar in her hold. Terlin to the West zone, dead The management of A big 1.500.000 men rut of work. Why? since last June, ready for heavy firm, living up to the Govern- Because we are not producing trafile once more by April 30.
ment exhorintions to show " enough to pay for the vital raw spirit," materials we have to buy over- (2) The Soviet authorities are keen and adventurous
experimenting with the seas. rlanning to issue a conciliatory was
Only by the muximum use of statement on Germany and the import of sugar loose Instend of arising in bags,
machinery and And yet here, in one of the
labour-saving. international situation no trains to carry them from few new flats rebuli In the ♫ kroner en the corner mufa
devices can we hope to producs By using monster grabs, Western Germany to their bembed desert of prewar Ber- it: "If they Bft the blockade it at of the blockade.
time would he cut enough to pay our way.. Jin's Mayfair, I found what will be just another, trick. Soviet-blockaded homes.
What has been the Allied unloading
1 from five days to onb, and the The Luddist trame of mind, looked like collection of Heaven knows what it would answer to this manœuvre?
which showed itself so violent- Yes, this American air- down-and-outs scattering 100 lead to. I'd rather stay as we can hear it roaring out of the cost of expensive bags saved.
ly 137 years ago, is one of the pun aven If machawɑ to go on rkies as I type. The air-lift. craft which 24 hours before mark notes (a West mark
The experiment promised to biggest obstacles to Improved on à roulette enting these Pensty dehydrated which was at Drst intended only cut the cost of sugar by 30s. a standards of living here. had set out from New York worth 1s. 8d.)
table with En abandon thet potatoes,"
in as a palliative, a stop-gap with tourists seeking plea- would make. the Monte Carlo sure in Europe and business syndicato envious.
And they were Dor money to spend there.
of it is that for the most part, using The odd part this Transatlantic plane for quite a number of them look as their weekly business com fellow-pussengers, from Frank-
frumpish and freakish as muting between Frankfort fort to Berlin.
and Berlin because there are
my
men in a hurry, hnd now on Where and how do they get the last leg of its flight this cush? I can only guess that
NANCY
THIS IS FUN, {CATCHING. THESE [NUTS WITH MY ¡EYES CLOSED
"Whose?"
BUSHMILLE%20
'BETTER PLAN'
S
my
friend the
Ercan-
:
Isn't it time the union leaders. the situation, seems to have beton, and, if generally adopted,
havo meant cheaper look some vigorous action when- As for the British and Amerl-
of the would
sugar in the shops or the end of ever it manifests itself? Or are cans here. I zuspect that even come a full answer
Allies to the Russian squeeze. in the highest and most authorl-
the sugar subsidy, which comes they scared to theicle the job? tative quarters they share this
-{London Express Service) out of taxpayers pockets.
---(London Express Servico)
By Ernie Bushmiller
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