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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1949.
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COMMUNIST PARTY IN BRITAIN..
THE Emergency Order which the King signed during the dock strike put a sharp light on to the Communist Party of Great Britain.
In speeches ranging from the Attorney General to Arthur Deakin, lender of Britain's biggest trade union-came denunciation of Communist tactics nt the docks.
They've Gantner
taken
me down a peg at N.W.3
by BERNARD WICKSTEED
TOU know what it is Throughout the East I had like when you come. merely to clap my hands and home from your holl servants appeared from no- days. The garden you look where, llite pantomime genit;.: ed forward to seeing again in India I had only to shout has turned into a jungle "Benter!" and bearded men fell full of wild cats; the front prostrate before me. door won't open because of
the laundryman the mountain of newspapers called for the washing inside, the water from the lift of an eyebrow. taps.is red with rust, and
In China
at the Lift two eyebrows and he'd make
the gas has been cut off you a suit of clothes. because you haven't paid
the bill.
But that sort of thing doesn't work in Hampsteat, at least it
You know KARI JANE-NEW BOSS
about it? Well, I can
assure you it's nothing to what you find when you come back after three months going round the world..
Those dear, sweet, innocent little chil- dren whose photo- graphs made you so homesick when you in
counter and then scooped it into looked at them
If you're tirelessly keen and know a box. That'll go to the fund, foreign hotels have
what you want, you often defeat twenty men who ‘don't bother'........
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by TREVOR EVANS
You con understand these tactics as they affect our lives only if you know something about the Communist Party.
For every hundred people who talk vaguely about "Com munism," you would be hard- met before the conference, and ference to believe that it was
who spokesmen have been selected having all its own way. And pressed
to
one
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comrade," he announced,
The customer was about to turned into gang- protest, when one of his group aters; squatters have explained, nodding at the publi- moved into' the can: "Joe's a comrade, too. Ho study, and when you collects for our Freedom Fund..try putting your foot down doesn't in a house full of hay you tread on a kitten, you gangsters, kittens and new- cruel man.
born babies.
Personality
FTEN one hears the pro- test: "If these Communists
In my case, to crown it
are known, why do other trades all, there's been a happy unionists go on electing them to event of far
mediate importance office?
Some of
'Horner
more
im- than
Everywhere
No Sahib
Suez fo
For nths I've been
of
I'm
ad-
from Tokyo,
Japan from
to the *knows anything about the for every Isrue. The "lng" The occasional references by
Atlantic, little binckt boys, fully legal political organisation they ore to take has bern Frank Foulkes that "we do not
brown boys, and yellow boys which has its headquarters at settled months before-first, by all see the same way politically."
But Brilain Is probably the the breadwinner's safe re- ricaning the great man's shoes.
clamoured for the honour 10 King-street Covent Garden. Mr Moffat
and his Industrial were disarmingly effective. But group and second, by Mr Follitt zealous, as
I rank Waller Stevens, youthful only country in the world
turn. and his political committer.
the long-term
where
man's Narcotic
political Sometimes the party line dominating influence this opinions are rated well below
A daughter, who wasn't heard in the accents of South
his personality when election there when I left, now adds FIRST, how many paid-up Wales
Mr Joe Scott, the
comes round. national time through the mouth members are there in the Alf Davies or Will Paynter, or executive member of the Amal- the Communists I have named, to the general discomfort party?
in the Lancashire brogue of gamated Engineering Unlon, notably Arthur
and and chaos. (Heaven help BUT now I not only have to
clean them myself, Only about 40,000-one for breezy Jim
Hammond, or the holds a similar position among Jim Hammonu, would win the man she marries if she expected to be useful and clean every 200 Socialists. This one Scottish burr of
the engineers. He is the apex popularity polls Will Pearson
'among their
grows up as strident as sho everyone else's, too. fact
the most powerful or John Woods.
well-spaced- Each time of a well-drilled,
politient enemies. narcotic in the political life of the
out hierarchy of Communists,
is at the moment). messatio la the came;
Another factor is this: Jac Britain
"We are the champions of the among the union's national, re-
Smith, member of the Com- For Mr Harry Pollitt, seere oppressed."
gional, und district full-time
The news munist Pa
Party
came through dressed as Sahib, Master, Boss, never Eny's "No" tary of the Communist purly
ometals. Then in this
responsibility, never finds to me at 11 o'clock at night or Sir. My smallest wish has the commonplace of politics "too much troublery in Quebec, I'd just arrived been taken as an order.
and didn't know a soul in what happens if I issue an or And in everything he does the city. Down in the bar der now? LL Communists, of course, do
It is greeted with he is striving to bring about not operate through key jobs
of the hotel there were 800 demoniac laughter, A lull here, a switch of ap- Canadian mayors, relaxing imon error-surprising in un noticed it.
recently, the Communist caucus which had been "wetting" the proach there, brisk attack in after a conference. dominated
"little nge
by A thing"
atom bomb of speech for world peace. Abe adjourned-to-the nearest local, but temporary like an atom
For the rest, it was a fighting agenda of a black-coated union another spot-these things are inclics in the "confusing "size"with"power." Moffat looked on approvingly.
Communists do
One of the members bought a Brand strategy of the 40,000, not go in
So did all the round of drinks. It came to 105 He appinuled. for mass recruitment. It is
other Communista in the con- d. He put down £1 and waited NEVER change.
The purpose and the Coal not enough for them to find a ference.
for 38, 34. change. The land- recruit willing to sign a form,
There were other speakers, lord placed the money on the pay a subscription, and go to Mr Herbert Morrison and Mr sleep until the next election. Hugh Galiskell among them, The
is who made a profound impres Myctted"
one of them makes country rurely com- plains about the smallness of slip-as Will Paynter did at the
miners' Conterence. In
his army. More often you hear the pride in his voice as he boasts about their quality.
one phrase he disclosed that he was reaking for the Cominform. But only the shrewdest Socialists
Vetting
to
He does not make the co.ke Sam Watson of Durham in the trades unions. One night the Marxist Way of Life.
would-be meinber
But
before acceptance- sion on the conference. proved before he is trusted, Mr Moffat did not applaud. Nor
n did any other Communist.
These Communists will carry
The Communists have
two-pronged line of action-
Response
ng
one political, the other in- On under Moffat, exactly custrial. Recently they have they have done under Horner. placed their main reliance for progress ол the industrial members. That is why com- rader in the trades unions have had to carry the burden of the fight.
elsewhere-al the Electrical Trades Union. I went to their conference last month, mainly to see how the rank and ale, mostly non-Com- munist, responded to a com- TN. every major trade union pletely Communist leadership.
there is a
Loyalties
Communist.
Ja
Frank Foulkes, the president: some unions they are leaders. Walter Stevens, the general It sometimes happens that a secretary: Frank Haxell, tho Communist trade union leader assistant secretary and most of is ordered to choose between the conference organisers, are his loyalty
to his party and all Communists. But they his duty
not force their Communist views members.
on the delegates.
to his trade unjon
Thien Communist headquar- desirable to give tera find it Jilm permission to choose the .union.
ot
The classic current example MI this cluch" *was over
Arthur Horner. Though he is still the ablest of the miners' leaders, his colleagues insisted that Mir Horner must put his
trade union duties first.
did
son to sing and reelte to them, Apart from getting Paul Robe-
the C. P. members led the con-
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-(London Express Service)
THREE OF 40,000
JOE SCOTT WALTER STEVENS ADE MOFFAT Londoner, in his 44-year-old Londoner, was elected president lato forties, ten years only three years a of the National on the national Communist, Elected Gaton ot Scollist executive of the general secretary' of Mineworkeru Amalgamated the Electrical Trades five years ago with Engineering Union, Union with a record three times as many The most frequently majority 18 months rolce sa his oppo tipped successar to ago—after Mr. Mor nent. Ele enga thaf Mr. Jack Tanner as gan Phillips, serro- British minsworkers union president. lary of the Boclalbst will “nei cut coal in Advocates the nation. Party, - bad begun Any War against their alisation of the the atlack on the Socialist brothers-of- engineering industry. O o mmunists. ibe Soviet Union..
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Take this business of squat. ters in the study.
For years I've fought for the sanctity of this haven with padlocks, bar... ricades, boy-trap, and threats.
to
It was my last redoubt; the I'D like to have joined the one place where I could retire my wounds when party, but obviously 1
beaten on other fronts. hadn't enough dollars to
Yel the buy them all a drink, and
moment my back is turned the enemy moves in, I feared the results if they all bought me one.
So I sat in a corner till midnight, silent and alone, reading and rereading the telegram. It was all there was to do.
It wasn't my fault that I didn't get back in time to
urged on by the pressure of its increasing population.
know as well as anyone that by the laws of nature
virlie race must young and eventually displace 1 civilisa- tion that is
old and decadent, but is that any reason sucking the place?
for
Is that any reason for build-
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bite my nails and pace the ing igloos out
clopardia Britannica?
corridors while the event
For toy using_my_typewriter as a For breeding cals
took place. But the inci- piano?
to my my armchair?
dent hasn't added
| stature at home,
For three months father.
Ah, peaco!
In
has imagined himself quito a fellow, staying at the ND the nights! Often in the
Jungle same hotel as 300 mayors, Chicago I lay awake listening of Malaya and dining at embassies, and to the howls of the wild knocking back cocktails animals and dreamed of the with business chiefs. And peace I would find when the if letters are anything to odyssey was over and I return- go by, there were moments during this absence wheh
ed to N.W.J.
If you've followed me so far
he was even missed at. I don't need to tell you that I home.
and still Uc.. awake at night sili Üsten, to 'sounds' that, are just like those of the jungle. But now that he's safely The only difference is that now Mr Homer chose to keep his. you can't take' hot weather,
By ROBERT BRANSON. Ayurvedie physicians don't back again he's only the I am expected ∙to stagger out job, so the Communist Party made heat remedies that were and
their formulas with man who escapes all the of bed and do something about denied his invented in India a long time popularity of temporarily
real scientific proot But
responsibilities of life and t leadership in the union.
lemonade all the Invite sceptics to try before anyone thought of elec- over the world is no accident, them and see.
simply pays the bills. In Mr Horner's place, the trie refrigerators or air con according to
For Communists have chosen Mr ditioning.
Ayurveda, Hin-
cold drinking .wdter, Abo Mollat, the Scottish
dus belleve firmly in the "In most Indians still depend on miners' loaster
The treatment, es prescribed digenous cooling powers" of an ancient and ingenious kind of Jug called. the "chatti." spearhead. I saw him at work by the ancient Hindu medical the lemon.
Moisture as Ayurveda, system known
soeps through tho
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'be to
their
at the miners' annual con-calls. for buttermilk;
lemons,
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water.
The
sur
summer
Just choose
And, beliovo me, however true may have been at one time, the hand that, rocks... the cradle no longer rules the world. At least, the haild that rocks it in our house after midnight
In mid-afternoon you drink porous earthenware of the Jug AT times like this no job is doesn't. It was almonds and green mangoes.
4 'cloudy combination of and evaporates, and the ove too menial for such ground. almonds, water and a poration chills the water in- You start the day with
little
an unimportant character. buttermilk drink called "lass Booked and
The almonds, side. sugar.
peeled the night It works as well in the While female, exports talk It is the most popular break- before, should be crushed into scorching Indian aun as in the learnedly about the pro- fast drink In India during the
ference at Porthcawl. impressive.
Indefatigable
munist team
within the whipping
minors' union, is, in
are
Bah!
THE handling of the Com-hot months, and It's made by a pasto just before the water shade. You con set a chatti perties of dill-water and the W don't stand up
outdoors
an
for
is added.
myself, you may ask. at noon and. In buttermilk, cold
hour or so, the water will be prevalence of wind in the I've tried that, but it doesn't fact a water and salt Into a white
At bedtime you have a man- as cool as a mountain brook. young, poor prodigal, un- work The only answer I get. model-and a warning. There froth.
Ro shake. This takes more about
Indians use a similar eva- skilled papa is told to get on is."Claudette Colbert to you,” а dozen party "It looks like a vanilla milk-
The mangoes should be poration principle to cool their with the washing-up, to doing. members who currently set shake and tastes like cottage young and
I'd go out in the garden and beaten on all major issues. But cheese. Taken in the morning. have to be baked in an oven and doors are covered
green, and they houses and omces. Windows hang out the nappies and bury myself, but the gangsters -they are philosophical and in-an "Ayurvedic practitioner ex- beforehand. Then the dried mats of thick, heavy grass empty the slops.
have hidden : the-apadë." "You defatigable. That
their plained, it cools the blood meat is crushed and powdered, known as "khus-khus” and Instead of a fatted calf en don't know of any good jobs secret.
and prepares the systom." mixed with sugar or wall (or soaked with water.
Before lunch you drink a both) and stirred into a tall passing through them la cooled shoeso--and he has to find |
Hot air he gets la tomato and a bit of going in New Zealand do you?
Or Hongkong?, :)-: mixture of lemon Juice, sugar gloss of cold water.
several degrees.
Lthose for himriselt.
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Mr Moffat himself rarely has sto speak. The members have
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