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Trade Unions OPERATION IMPRISONMENT FOR TEN HONGKONG
Confederation Elects President
Congress Issues Manifesto
London, Dec. 9.-The International Confeder- ation of Free Trade Unions Executive today elected Mr Paul Finet, 62-year-old General Secretary of the Belgian Federation of Labour, as its first President.
Mr Finet started life na a tool muker, became a full-time union official in 1928 and rose to be Acting National Secretary of the Belgian Federation of 1- bour in 1936.
In
He spent the war years in exile in Britain.
Since 1944 he has been netive | tion and fuil straination.”
the International Labour stated. Organisation, first as a technical adviser, then as delegate rupre- senting the Belgian workers, and since 1940 as a member of the governing body,
EN Vice-
The Executive Board named the following Presidents:
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The declnenison rejected high tuifi walls
uther trode restrictions must called for tended
inter Fatal economic co-operation
UNIFICATION
"We recog
is the tront
Herr Hans Boeckler (German: urgent Initial ton the unifico-; "Geworkschaftsbund"), Mr Ar- tion of Western Europe, includ- thur Denkin (British Trades Ing the Inevaporation of Ger- Union Council). Mr William many in the Popra Com- Green (American Federation of munity. Labour). Mr Eller Jensen
Thut "We believe
Austria, 117! Samvirkende | Germany (Danish
Japan should, Fagforbund"), M. Leon Jouhoux through State peace treaties, (French "Force Ouvriere"), and be brought fully into the cornity Mr
(United of freo Phillip Murray States Congres of Industrial possible."
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Organisations),
Tator
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Mr Walter Heuther, lender of the America (JO (Congress of MANIFESTO
Industrial Onhaxations; dele- When the Inaugural Con- gation, who ao Chairman
Computer the Confederation
Jafung 61133 met
und renoition third and manifesto
ng demands, special social and
the
the fot
final day
today
a declaration of economic and achieved by meas social demands."
of
the
on
Committee presented for Con- told delegates Kress approval a manifesto and "The task abend will not be and pretty words. The end task is to trans- The manifesto made a three-Inte these bi
phrases into appeal, for:
positive instruments of action In
Duties abent
point
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(1) "Bread-econdrale accu- the struggle t nity and social justice for all,“ "In the surgle against Com- "Freedom-through eco-munism and the growing rene- nomic and political democracy." tion of the Eight, the democratic (3) "Peace with ilberty, force will t win by slogans justice and dignity for all." but by act
It called
workers of all upon countries, rucea and creeds to bela united in the new Confedera-
bustoric
If this Compra became only "mutual astraipation Pociety" 11 would E... mission," M. Heuther sakit.
"We have got to demonstrate
Lun demands tradership. promiood full support for
vanguard
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A 38-point declaration un economic and weil
European Recovery Programme fighting to l and similar measures elsewherɑ. basie
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Brat vectorTYLO problems
"Our aim is an economy of facin evOLATORIS in the world,” full employment, full produe he added.
EDITORIAL
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AERIAL
This picture shows Operation Aerial being put into effect yesterday in the New Territories. A plane has dropped supplies to waiting troops by parachute.~~ (Staff Photographer).
Ex-Congressman
Sentenced
For Frauds Against Govt.
SIX TO 18 MONTHS IN PRISON AND
A FINE OF $10,000
Washington, Dec. 9.-J. Parnell Thomas, his Congressional rank gone. was sentenced on Friday to six to 18 months imprisonment and fined $10,000 for payroll and salary-kickback frauds against the govern- ment.
As the 64-year-old New Jersey Republican was led away by a United States Marshal, attractive Mrs Thomas said she would seek her husband's office.
Thomas--once Chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee- spared himself the extra indignity of being dragged out of Congress just before he heard the Federal Judge, Alexander Holtzoff, pass sentence, by announcing his resignation. Thomas gave up his $15,000-a-year post to which he had been elected for seven successive terms by voters in his home district around Allendale, New Jersey,
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who stood pale and motionless In the courtroom.
made
no
Indication
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Red-fired us ever, but com. he will serve out his time. As
whether
cain pletely
zari composed, i he left, he waved to his wife Thomas intends to pay or has led away Thomas Wils
by a United States Marshal for I moval to the Federat prison at Danbury, Connecticut, where
Today's Australian Elections
TTONGKONG may
H
not be directly. certainly not immediately
affected
by the result of today's Federal elections In Australia, but even this Colony, 3,000 miles away from the scene of action,
Ани interested in the outcome.
H21 member of the Commonwealt sister empire, and a segment of Southeast Asia In which Australia is closely related From the defence point of view, we like to know the current political mind of
the Australian nation, more especially as ita White Australian polley can Afterl large numbers of Asiatics in this part of the world. And in a limited manner this is an Issue in today's election. Mr Calwell's uncompromising interpretation of the White Australia policy has, during past months, created as great a political furore as the Government's intensive programme of socialisation and its endeavours to create a welfare State on quickly as possible. Not only Mr Calwell in his own constituency, but the remainder of the Labour Party's candidates have, during the past fortnight, found it necessary to campaign strenuously in defence of the polley no defined by the Government. Despite this, however, it is significant that none of the parties has denounced or even suggested Its repudiation. The Opposition plead for a more flexible and humane application of the principles and regulations governing Immigration and re-entry of Asiatics. Fundamentally there is general agreement In Australia that the policy in its general terms and Intentions is Bound and proper. And it is because of this the Socialist candidates have probably had reasonably easy time disposing of the criticisma directed against the Government in the handling of cases which have come within the orbit of the White Australia. policy. Mr Calwell's refusal to make exceptiona in cases where Chinesa Immigrants who entered the country
ง
As
the during
untisual war through circumstances is not difficult to justify. The men were warned at the time, and often enough subsequently, that they outd пов expect to stay permanently wlihin the Commonwealth; that they temporary could only be regarded Visitors. And to make exceptions today would be, in (act, n denial of the provisions of the law on this subject. Labour is not licly to be defeated un this issue. It is, however, in danger of being ousted for other reasons, amongst them being middle-class resentment of the Government's seemingly casual handling of strike silantions which have recurred with tedious monotony since the war; which growing irritation with controls affect and intrude upon the daily lives of the nation; a natural tendency for the electors to recall the failures and forget the achievements of a Government when it has been in power as long as eight years. Offsetting factors are the imposing mass of Trade Union votes, almost all of which are certain to be cast for labour. candidates; the several benefits which the rank and fillo are deriving from the Government's social welfare. legislation; full employment; an acknowledged high standard of living; the well nigh slavish respect of the Labour Party for the workers' rights and privileges. In the main the Opposition have to rely on the emotional, rather than the rational appeal. It would not be the first time-in history that this approach to the electors hns succeeded, and whatever the outcome of today's voting in Australia, there is going to be a close contest. Labour will probably have to surrender, some of the majority it held in the House of Represen- tatives in the last Government, but wil probably muster enough voting strength to win a working balance which will enable it to continue in power.
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The to do
entire
sentencing tott only teo minutes. Thomas, dressed in a gry chalked
had strip suli. nothing to say. He kept con-
of
Intention
House real
to min for
Mrs Thomas's
DOG SHOW
RUSSIANS CANCELLED
Spying Against Marshal Tito
11 YEARS TERM
FOR PRIEST
Sarajevo, Dec. 9.-Yugoslavia today sent to prison 10 Soviet citizens--including a priest and a woman-accused of spying for Russia against Marshal Tito. The sentences ranged from three to 20 years' imprisonment.
Fr Krisko, grey-bearded Orthodox Church priest, said to have headed the alleged spy ring, received 11 years.
The woman, Kehia Komad, who admitted co-
At a committee meeting of the Hong- kong Kennel Club yesterday it was de- cided after farther consideration to cancel the forthcoming dog show, entries for which had been limit- ed to the island of Hongkong.
Apart from insuffi- cient entries to justify the service of ал oversea judge the Committee unanimou#- ly felt that with the increase in rabies such a show would be in- advisable.
The above informa- tion was learned from Mr H. M. Howell, Hon. Secretary of the Kennell Club.
Held In
operating with the Gestapo and who said that she Concentration
had lived with Krisko, received three years.
The trial, held in the Srarjevo District Court, was the first in an Eastern European country in- volving Soviet citizens.
The sentences passed on the others were as follows:
Arsemi Boremovie, 20 years: Vladimir Oghjev, six years, Ehatol Koljakov, 10 years; Nijo Secretkov, six years; Vladimir Gesler, five years; Peter Soko- Jov, four-and-a-half years; Georg Olcewski, four years.
Piracy On
Plane
Camp Says Australian
All the tentences carry hard In Mid-Air 20-year-old
labour.
It is understood that all the accused will appeal.
This was the rat trial of
| Soviet citizens in a Communisi GUARD KILLED
country
accused.
One of the
men originally Belgrade, Dec. 9.-Four Valdimir Heklidov, Rumanians fatally shot a hanged himself in his cell the
night before the trial began on militia guard aboard a Ru- i December 1. He left letters¦manian airliner today and
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saying. "I do not blame any- forced the pilot to fly them
DUTCH ACCUSED
Darwin, Australia, Dec. 9, Herbert Ammon, a Australian, charged on his arrival by air from Batavia, Java, on Thursday night, that the Dutch had held him with.. out charge in a" "concen. tration camp" for fourteen months..
Ammon said that ba WIL
picked up when he was a mem
ber of the crew of the 40-foot trans- barge Peron which lost its way Turnu- in September 2048 en route to
body.
Treatment was good."
to Belgrade. The Boremovie, Tsarist law student, aged 49, was the only port, flying from accused to plead "Not Guilty Severin, Rumanía, and ori- Darwin. He said another crew to the main charges.
member, Frantz Gerson, and ginally bound for Bucharest, Gerson's wife, are still held by landed here with 19 pas- the Dutch. sengers, five crewmen and have the dead guard. Service
Je
PRIEST'S PLEA
Wan alleged to worked for the Sovjet After 1947,
35
sintesient Accuard
Specific charges against
included collaboration
He claimed that he was pot permitted to ted the Australian Consul until he had been in comp for more than five months, four Only
after
Australian the
He has no appent from the sentence. Thomas deprived him-
Ammon said there are about self of that right last week wha
100 Germans, Japanese, Chinese, British he interrupter is
trial in 11
in and Russians
the third day to enter surprise plestrol of his emotions. When be When the accused made their Surprised Yugoslav airport camp where he was detained. CIT
He described conditions in the defence
effect IN
waved good-bye to his wife as anal plea Fr. Krisko, who ad-guards surrounded the plano himself on the mercy he left the courtroom, her eyes
camp as "very bad," with police throwing
mitted possing Intelligence to when it landed. Yugoslav off-guards and meagre portions of of the court,
the Soviet Embassy in Belgrade, cials did not say whether the soup, rice and bread for food. Bu in sentencing
filed. But sho managed to asked for his age and good re Thomas, Juntire Hallz rejected
As soon cord
hend The smile and wave back.
would be granted request
leniency. fur
of the White Rumanlans
did Judge wanted the convicted man the convicted man left, Mrs Itussinn colony in Sarajevo to be asylum. They
say tha taken into account.
Those who wanted to go back to stay in prison until his ne
Thomas handed reporters copies |
ile was said to have used his to Rumania could do so. Dit Thomas's lawyer. is paid.
her statement announcing clerical robes to tour the coun- Willie Collins, told reporters
The that this meant the defendant her will not be eligible for parok for seven months if he fails to Otherwise he could be sel pay fice at the end of his minimum six-month terin Then could invokd payment of the flue by
vacated by my husband filing a poverty certificate after he has served his minimun sen-his wife can do no less.
have ker Purnell Thomas maligned and persecuted ever He could have been sentenced since he became chairman to a maximum of 32 years Im. prisonment plus flues totalling the Committee on
con Activities. They $40,000.
ruined his health, and CONTROVERSIAL CAREER they have done this to my hus- His downfall ended one of the band. He has paid a price for
his vigliance. I now usk controversial political Careers in recent Congressional people of the 7th Congressional history. As Chairman of the District in New Jersey to sup
tener.
mos!
ing
sald authorities his try and preach against Marshal Rumaninng seized the guard's government had officially pro
Tito.
pistol and killed the man, then fested to the Dutch, was ho per- the broke Into the pilot's cabin, mitted to leave Java, Ammon reads: "I intend to Kook the with the Nazis and subversive stuck the gun in his back and said,
He said the British Consul in Congressional seat about to be activities on behalf of Rusia ordered him to Belgrade,
against Ar Marshal Tito's regime.
Officials did not make publie Batavia had warned him not to
make The names of the passengers, bul
any statements to the ench said none seemed known out- Press about his detention. Ho Ruarded in the dock by blue-side their own country.United made
them, anyway. United uniformed policemen wearing Press.
and the Cominform
The
accused
were
the purtisan star-a decoration of for those
who fought with Un-Ameri-Marshal Tito during the war.--
have Reater.
now
TRNUMAANNEMINERALARMELINEADIN
the STOP PRESS
Republic by
the same
struggle
House un-American Activities port his fight against the Committee in 1947 and 1946, he enemies of the presided over a series of tur- electing me. If elected, I shall bulent investigations centering principally on Communist spy- continue
activities in this country. against subversive influences. His committee broke the sensa tional Elizabeth Bentley пру
"Voluminous office files and and the even muro records of J. Parnell Thomas→ ring story, explosive Alger
FLES-Whit- those that have not been stolen taker Chambers baille that will be at my, disposal and ended with a perjury indictment therefore for the benefit of my against this former high State constituency.
God
give me Department officer. Thomas strength to carry on."
his again and again 'swore that troubles with the law.stemnie Mrs Thomas did not explain from his fervid campaign against what she meant by "stolen" Communism. He accused the office flies. Presumably they Administration of persecuting may have Included 1050
him and charged that his left checked by the government In wing enemies. In and out of bringing its case against offico, hunted him to gnol.
Thonias.
But It was the woman he Accompanied by two U.S. trusted who helped send him to marshals, Thomas tool the noon prison-Mies Helen Campbell, Perinsylvania train "The Sena- his Congressional office secretary | tor," for Danbury. He entered who turned Stato's evidence the parlour car behind the against him when the law closed engine. The shades were down in. She was not in court when as the train left. When Thomas her ex-boss was sentenced. left the Federal Court building
Mr Collins, Thomas's lawyer, for the station, ho waved good- said that the $10,000 fine would bye to several reporters.United not be pold immediately, but he Press.
KUNMING GOES RED
Kunming turned over to the Communists in an over- lgbt defection of Nation- slisi iroop in the elly,
This news was radioed to Hongkong this
morning from Haiphong by a POAS aircraft which managed to get away from Kunming airfield early this morning. The plane was fired at by Chinese soldiers
Mit look off. Three CAT planes, | eight "Chineso ́ ́ ́Air Force
machines and one TAA air- craft were unable to ret away. Crews, including 11- American
nationals, and all:
ground personnel are being al Kunming airfield
held
under armed guard.
Cable and Wireless said:
at noon that they were süll.....
communication
in
Kunming,
with
PERFUMES
by
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JEAN PATOU
GUERLAIN
CHANEL LANVIN
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