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The Cotton Strike.

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verdue This-was recognized plicitly, for example, by the Committee of Inquiry appointed in August, 1929, by Mr. Mac Donald, of which Mr. Clynes was chairman. Yet whenever a re- vision has been proposed the Weavers

Amalgamation, has

1932

America Is Too Big To Fail

strenuously resisted it. The second conclusion which emerges is even more obvious--namely, that a strike at the present time could only bring disaster to every One concerned. Already in the past two and half years the Lar cashire cotton industry has lost one-half of its remaining foreign trade Another stoppage can only, imperil the trade that in

It is diffenit-indeed it would told all about the kidnappers, gang- still left, and so, render per be almost exact to say, that it is sters, racketeers, and bootleggers manent the temporary unem-impossible to understand what still the underworld of that country. ployment created by aatrike going on in another country, be scross the sex takes on the lürke From the point of view of the cause events, however dramatic glow of a prairie fire and quite re operatives themselves it must be mean nothing in themselves, and cently we have been told the dread- sheur suicide. Finally the tor- facts, however stark, however ful story of the unemployed:

None of these pictures is pretty, tuous proceedings of the last few sharp in outline, have to be inter- months have shown clearly preted to be true, writes Mary The Arat is so bewildering in its enough that the absence of a Borden in The Daily Telegraph.composition that it suggests a ple general

is wages agreement It is necessary to link them up ture conceived in the mind of a threatening the future prospects with a hundred other facta, much lunatic. of peace throughout the indus- less easily observed and usually ig-""Congress," we say to ourselves, try. Once the principle of col-nored by strangers, before they can looking down Whitehall to Parlia lective bargaining has been be properly assessed as elements of ment-square, "Congress must be weakened there is no alternative stability or disruption in a nation's crazy; and a crazy Congress means only one thing, swift and inevitable. but the chaos of guerilla war-life. fare, sporadically pursued with And we argue from the few given retribution. If the British House immense losses by both sides. facts according to our own experi- of Commons were full of men as in- In the interests of the operatives ence, our understanding of the com-sane as the majority of the mem- national bers of the American House of Re- and their families it is impera-plex pattern of our own tive that a firm agreement should life, our knowledge of the character presentatives, the British people be negotiated without delay. of our own race and of ourselves.would kick, them out, just as they Land of Vast Distances, did kick out the far less demented Therefore We say to ourselves, "I would do Socialists a year ago. MILTON WEDDING

so-and-so, and my neighbour would the American Congress will get the OF INTEREST.

do likewise in such and such circum-boot." stances; and we say, looking across Miss Phylis Hunt Weds "At Home."

3 Weeks for Events in New York to Affect Chicago

"CONGRESS MUST BE CRAZY”

no

But someone who knows a little the Atlantic, "If it is as bad as they about America argues: "You can't of this Congress.or say it is over there, it can mean only get rid one thing: a serious, political con-tany Congresstil its time in vülsion is imminent, for, if such up. That it is futile and infantile. A very pretty wedding took place things were happening in England and hostile to the Cabinet makes no difference; that there is an "im- at St. James's Church, Milton, re- there would be a revolution.” reduction in wages, alter-cently between Mr. Thomas Goyn's, native which the operatives also only son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred And that is just what the most passe and a deadlock at a moment inteligent, even the most fair-mind- when quick action is called for

difference that. The funeral of the late Mr. Lo refused to entertain. The em- Goyns, of Lynton Grove, Copnored and sympathetic people in this makes no Chung-kue, Compradore of. The ployers thereupon terminated the and Miss Phylis Hunt, eldest country are thinking about America. Government could possibly govern But they are wrong; and they during a crisis under such condi Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., existing wages agreement at the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. 1. Ltd., will take place on Wednes-beginning of June, and the Hunt, of Hong Kong. The bride have got it all wrong because, even tions makes no difference. The if they have got the facts right and American Constitution won't allow. day, 21st inst. Any friends wish- Weavers Amalgamation in con- was given away by her father.

She wore an ivory satin gown in have collected a good many, for you to give Congress the boot, ing to pay their last respects sequence decided to press for a

"It is the most rigid and there- should be at the Yat Pit Ting strike. After consultation with the early Victorian style, a hand- every fact they know they ignore a Pavillon, Kennedy Town, at 1.30 the Northern Counties Textile embroidered silk tulle vell trimmed dozes that are relevant. Curiously fore the worst Constitution in the p.ti. on that date.

Federation, it was agreed to hold with orange blossom, and carried enough, they seem to ignore the world at the moment of world cris a ballot before deciding whether shower bouquet of white carna- most obvious facts of all, and seem is. It simply doesn't work."

"Very well, then, the American to strike or to resume negotiations and lilies of the valley. She to forget to take into account in tions with the employers. Two was attended by Miss Doris Hunt their reasoning such simple things people must change it. They've got to change it, so they will change it. The China Mail. ballots were held, one in June (sister), as chief bridesmaid, Miases the size of the country

and the other in July, but the Winifred Emeny (cousin of the I was in New York a year and a What else ja a Constitution for, any result of both was indecisive, a bridegroom), Miss Elsie Huat half ago, on the day that the Bank how?" Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept. 17, 1932. very large minority voting (younger sister of the bride), and of the United States failed. It was Much Talk and Little Done

against the strike policy. Nego Miss Joan Anderson (cousin of the one of the strangest days that 1 "But they can't in time. It would tiations were accordingly re- bridegroom).

have ever lived through. The at take five years of orderly procedure sumed in the hopes of arriving The two small bridesmaids wore mosphere of New Tork was like the to repeal even the 18th Amendment at a new wages agreement. Early Victorian style dresses of atmosphere of London on Aug. 4, If they are to change the Const

tution in time to save the country, The Lancashire cotton strike These negotiations appeared to rose pink georgette and caps of 1914.

We happened to be lunching and they'll have to have a coup d'etat, a threatens o retard, and perhaps be progressing, though with tuile, and carried pasies. The two

men on Wall revolution of some sort." injure, the business and financial difficulty, more or less along senior attendants wore old rose dining with "big r recovery in Great Britain and it normal lines, when they were suede georgette gowns with crino Street. I had with me two men, one And to this you answer, "Exactly. is: earnestly hoped that the in- suddenly broken off as the result line hats to match and carried an American from the Middle West That's exactly what we expect to see tervention of the Government of the refusal of the employers shower bouquets of gladiolii. The and one an Englishman, My two happen quite shortly in America. will effect an early settlement to to concede the demand made by bride's mother looked pleasing in companions spent the morning down. Eat you have forgotten to take a dispute which should never the unions for the reinstatement a gown of coffee lace, with hat and town interviewing bankers and into consideration a number have been allowed to assume such of all workers who lost their em- shoes to tone, as did the bride brokers, who were as polite as any facts. disturbing and serious propor- ployment through striking work groom's mother, who wore a beige gentlemen in a panic could be. tions. If tact and reason had before June 11. The number in marocain gown, trimmed with been exercised the initial nego- volved is believed to be about hinon, and hat and shoes to match. tiations would have been success- 5,000. They left work on the Both carried bouquets of cream ful. The immediate occasion of definite instructions of their roses the breakdown ..of the unions because individual frms Mr. Gerald James was best man tury" at three o'clock, after lunch And you have forgotten, perhaps," negotiations was the ques had either persisted in maintain and the Rev. Rigden officlated party that was about as cheerful as that the Senate has power to throw tion of the reinstatement of men ing the more looms system or After the reception the bridal pair the last meal on a sinking ship. The out any bill passed by Congress, and who had lost employment by go- reduced wages? This demand is left for their honeymoon the bride Westerner had to go because he had the President the power to veto an ing out on strike at mills which really irrelevant to the main travelling in cern-flower blue to arrange for a loan from his Chi-bill passed by either House, or have adopted the "more loom" question of the negotiations, and suede georgette ensemble. They cage bank next morning if his both; perhaps you don't realise that system. That movement has all was not included in the terms of were the recipients of many beau-business in the West wore to sur-Congress when it passed, for Le

tiful presents

stance, the Veteran's Bonus Bill the along met with the most obsti-reference arranged by the North. nate hostility on the part of the ern Counties Textile Federation. Miss Hurt was very popular I knew this, and when at last other day, not only knew the bill rank and file of the weavers. Meanwhile the position has been member of Hong Kong Society, and my nerve-wracking New York day would never become law, but was

when she left on was done (I had bean to 1 tea-part counting absolutelyon

cocktail part Indeed most of the trouble in the rendered even more complicated

by that time, all as weaving section of the industry by the strike which broke out at

Shd there has been plenty of Buraley becaus

Jauch-party) I fell into

it during the last two or three ployers

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be traced back to of the

this single root. In order to attem

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You've forgotten, in the first Twentieth Cenfury ExpressTM place, that the American is a great, talker and that 90 per cent of all We saw the American-off for that goes on in Congress is nothing Chicago on "The Twentieth Cen- but talk lagala resta

Senate

ensure that it would not.

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