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Rehousing The Slum Population.

Mid-Air Adventure

There are stranger stories of air. mea parting company with their machines than the one which hap-| pened at Southampton recently...

SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1934.

WHAT BLACKSHIRTS STAND FOR

ACCUSATIONS REFUTED

BY LEADER

'BRITAIN FIRST" POLICY

(By Sir Oswald Mosley.)

London. Įtariffs, which tax the consumer but

ter

Aiding Agriculture

There is the case of Col, L. A. Strange, one of the earliest and most fanibus of Britishi war pilots.

In 1916 he was' fighting a German Blackshirt policy presents aldo not protect the producer because airplane at Lille. Af 8,500ft. over serious case for the consideration the goods still enter our market. the Menin Road bis gun Jarumed. of the British people. Our op-With the power of modern science In an effort to wrench off the drum ponents cannot meet that case, so we shall build a greater Britain

nearly which had stuck, he gripped the they greet us with a storm of non-very

self-contained and Joystick' with his knees and half sensical abuse. We are accused of "insulated" from the chaos of the stood to get a better grip. His promoting violence; that charge is rest of the world. safety belt slipped. The machine untrue. On the contrary, we have

Our export trade will find a bet stalled and went into a spin. He organised to protect our audiences was shot out, but caught hold of the from Red violence.

outlet in Empire countries, drum, which he was now; far from Before the Blackshirts were or which now move fast towarda [ahxious to detach, ...

ganised, free speech had come to Fascism. In return they will pro- ["At last be plambered aboard and an end in large areas of this coun- vide us with foodstuffs and raw regained control just as he was try. Any open meeting was turned materials which we cannot produce skimming the trees over the Megin into a bear garden by the organised at home, although under a Black- Roadi

violence of Reds determined to pre-shirt regime we intend nearly to vent their opponents putting their double the production of British Grabbed The Fin

case to British audiences.

There is no reason why the Black- Then there is the adventure, of To-day, open meetings of many

thousands are held with perfect shirts should not build an Empire. Flight-Lieutenant Gilman, who, with order all over the country under entirely self-contained, holding Squadron-leader, Carr made one of

Blackshirt protection,

within its borders the highest. the first non-stop flight to India..

Britain owes the return of free civilisation in the world, He was dying in Trale and eame

One factor holds us back from. into collision with andther machine

On the other hand, our opponents that great achievement. Inter- He was flung out along the tail and have been unable to prove a single national finance in the City of Lon-

grabbed, the in. He could· not! maintain his hold, so had to let and parachute to apfety..

speech to the Blackshirts.

Ingriculture.

case In which their meetings have don has made loans all over the.

world, and receives the interest on been broken up by Blackshirts..

We are accused of advocating those loans from the import of In another case, a pilot was caught

polfer that leads to war; that foreign goods. That great inter- over the Pennines, in a squall. His charge, also, is untrue. It is true esta can only be subordinated to the light airplane was turned upside that we shall not leave Britain de-national interests by the power of down and he was Bung out because fenceless in an armed Europe. We the Blackshirts. We shall place the his safety belt was unfastened. He

shall Immediately jucrease the interests of the producer before the managed to hang on to a strut and strength of our Air Force to the interests of international finance, climb back.

He is an instructor now, and al-

Your Daily Smile.

than in the previous century. This grent social experiment has heen made possible by the Loan Conversion schemes of Mr. ways preaches ip pupils the wisdom Neville Chamberlain, which en of keeping the safety, belt fastened. able money for housing to be rais- ed on a new. basis of interest. In a recent speech to the Church Army Housing Association Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, calculated A Surmise The White Paper on slum that 75,000 dwellings in five-

The man on the pier who does clearances In Britain gives storey flats can be provided in not turn round when a pretty girl

precise measure

of London for a 314d rate. If that passes. Is either blind or walking the problem to be dealt plan were carried out not only with his wife. with and an answer to those would the slums disappear, but

both

%

and astronomical estimates

the

level of the strongest power In which enriches itself, by equipping

Under Blackshirt policy every in-

Europe. We shall only disarm if our competitors. all nations will do the same.

1 is true that our motto is terest, whether of the Right or

"Britain First" and that we shall Left, whether banker or trade union.. not stand for Britain continuing "to oficial, will be subject to the inter- hold the baby" for the world. Welest of the nation as a whole. shall set our own house in order,) We are not against private enter- and in so doing, by example rather prise or the making of profit by the than by precept, we shall give a lead individual. But the individual in to the world.

enriching himself, must benefit and

are

That policy will lead not to war not injure the nation. Business but to peace by saving. Britain will not be interfered with from who have accused the Govern- the people inhabiting them would Curious.

from the vast and undefined com-Whitehall, but Governments will lay ment of Jethargy, Fantastic be rehoused near to the work Two Iriskmen landed at New mliments to which the universal down the limite within which in- 2

of by which they live. That is a York, and when getting off the boat, bodies who called our dustry may operate, and those new houses required are matter of importance in all these Pat lost track of Mike. After hunt-Elder Statesmen engage us at their limits will be the national welfare. shown as absurd, while the schemes, but more particularlying for him for a considerable time endless international conferences. Subject to those conditions, every amount of progress already in the capital. Mr. Shakespeare he returned to the wharf where hej New Salvation Creed great organisation of to-day--trade made, if not wholly satisfactory, called for a fulier co-operation last him. Sure enough Mike was We are accused of anti-Semitism unions, employers' federations, co- is astonishingly better than the between the County Council and sitting there on n ship's anchor and of racial and religious persecu-operative societies-will continue to critics have ever realised. Be the metropolitan boroughs in this When asked why he was sitting tion. That charge is not truc, operate. They will be woven into tween 1875 and 1914, a period of matter than has been achieved there all this time, he said:--- forty years, 108.000 persons liv-In the past. The delinquent'

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either. No man will be persecuted the structure of the Corporate

"By the powers of Malkelly, I am for race or creed under Blackshirt State, where they will find a wider ing in slums had been rehoused. areas, it should be said, are few waiting to see the man phwat wields rule in Britain. On the other hand, rather than a lesser sphere of Since 1919. provision has been From most of the London this pick!"

we shall dént faithfully with the activity. Instead of being the op- made for an equal number inboroughs the Ministry of Health little more than a third of the has obtained a fine response to

alien interests of high finance, whojposing armies of class-war, ther NEW VERSION time. Between April and De- its appeal.

ise the money power of Britain to will be the joint directors of na The big cities-- "Jazz a song at twilight

Berve her enemies. Under Black-tional enterprise. cember of last - year 28 London, Birmingham. Manches-

rehoused fer. Liverpool and Leeds have A Painful Point

shirt policy they, too, will have to. The achievement of these great many persona were

changes will require a Government accept "Britain First." three in the

preceding the greatest task before then.

We shall ask The sexton had been laying the On the whole the local They have also, the greatest re-new carpet to the pulpit, and had which

So much for the silly abuse with armed with power.

those who have betrayed the people of Britain: to give us authorities have responded well sources, and within a few years left a number of tacks scattered on Britain strive to arrest the Black that power at a General Election. to the call made upon them for it should be possible to say that

We seek power by legal and con- - shirt advance. programmes that will clear away no family lives within them in the slum areas by the end of repellent conditions.

"See here, James," said the par-

A new stitutional means. But a Blackshirt We present to Britain

act, and it asks. 1938. Schemes already sub-

son, "what do you suppose would creed of moral and material salva-Government will

28

years.

the floor.

mitted provide for the demoli- The Falling Birth-Rate. happen if I stepped on one of those tion. Our aim is the creation of the nation for the power to net.

285,000

tion of 266,000 houses and their replacement by dwellings, occupied by a million

ne

Decline in the birth-rate in

tacks right in the middle of my sera new élvilisation designed to meet imon,"

the facts of the modern age. The "Well, sir," replied the nexton, "I system of that civilisation is called and a quarter people. Provi- Britain has become, the significant reckon there'd be one point you the "Corporate State," sionally plans have been accept-feature of the Registrar-General's wouldn't linger on."

Under that system class-war will ed for new homes for 1,187,173 returns. Last year saw a new low

These persons.

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areas record, and the actual increase of Much Ado About Nothing with 90 per cent, of the popula-the population was only 84,300, as The fuss about the fashionable tion of England and Wales. The compared with an average of 154,947 bathing suits. whole problem is thus reduced to during the previous five years

be abolished, strike and lock-out prohibited,

and the interests of

B

now

industrial

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MORE LYNCHINGS IN AMERICA:

During 1933.

worker and employer will be re- 180 Per Cent. Increase: conciled in harmony.

The standard of life will be "You have about as much heart as raised an sclence and industrial boarding-house lettuce, dear!"

Facts You Did Not Know.

its right dimensions and appears There is still increase, but if any Promenade Pleasantry as on the way to rapid solution certain deduction can be made from How far the stimulus given of the vital statistics the time is rapid-a late by the Government hasly approaching when Britain must awakened the local authorities to face a declining population. That| what must be done is shown by decline would already have begun! à comparison of the figures pre- had emigration continued on any- sented in 1930 and those now thing like the scale of the pre-war brought forward. The 1930 years. Britain is maintaining the

A Canadian scientist has estimate was confined to urban total by relinquishing the ambition structed an absorption plant that areas with a population of 20,000 to fit up some of the empty spaces enables the operator of an oil feld or more. These made themselves of the Empire. If colonisation to recover hundreds of thousands responsible for a programme to again becomes a considerable fac of barrels of naphtha annually that clear away 76,000 houses. In tor, as it should in better times, the otherwise would be wasted with the same areas that number has population of Great Britain will natural gas.

con-

28 CASES RECORDED

New York...

United

technique. Increase the production of industry. Demand will be ad-i justed to production, and we shall Lynchings in the no longer be disgraced by the exist. States in 1983 increased 180 per ence of two million unemployed cent, over 1982.

In 1932 10 lynchings were re-- while the nation urgently requires ported, but the total for 1953 the goods which they could produce, was 28.

They are unemployed to-day be

There were 5 lynchings in cause no demand exists for their Alabama in 1933; 4 in Georgia; tabour. That lacic of demand is 4 in Louisiana. 8 in South Caro- due to low purchasing power caused lina; 3 in Tennessee; 2 in Cali....... by low salaries, low wages, and fornia; 2 in Mississippi and one employment.

each in Florida, Maryland, Mis

pressure that is now be last quarter of 1983 births exceeded that justify, alarm, but we are on uniformly and systematically over ed and shot; one was beaten and

now been increased to 172,000 show a steady decline year by year.higher in 1983 then in 1923, but the

Yet no employer can relse souri, North Carolina and Texas... There are still local authorities Some reduction. In the death rate number of births was lower by 4.3 salaries and

wages and thus in- Thirteen of the lynch victims. that have not grasped the fact that the Ministry of Health is in my arrest this reversal of the pro-

Eight earnest about the ending of the cess of growth, but with an increas per thousand. This phenomenon of crease the home market without were shot to death and two of

a declining birth-rate is not being undercut and put out of busi-the bodies were burned. slums, but those are being ng proportion of elderly people in peculiar to Great Britain, but ness by a rival who pays low wages were hanged and two of their

Corporate System bodies burned. the population this process cannot recte all the countries of Europe. Under the

Three were brought into line. Under the

be continued Indefinitely. In the Nowhere has it produced conditions wages and salaries will be raised beaten to death; two were bang exercised it will be possible to say within a very short period that deaths by less than 8,000. How the eve of a period in which it must the whole Beld of Industry as shot and one beaten, shot and the slum scandal is everywhere swift has been the changs in the modify all the problems of states science increases the power to pro- strangled.

The National Association for being made a memory, and that national position is apparent from manghip. Housing, migration, the ducs, Thus a demand for the

labour of those unemployed will be the Advancement of Coloured the programme of Sir Hilton the fact that while so late as 1910 provision of school accommodation, Young is adequate to bring that the birth-rate was 25.1 per thon-all depend upon increase or decrease created by an increased home mar People, in quoting the above about in the five years he allotted sand, it was 14.4 per thousand in the population, while the greater kit. The home market will be figures, added that in 1988 there himself. If that is accomplish- 1953. The alteration is not to be proportion of elderly people in com- protected from cheap foreign com- was "a surprisingly large num ed, an it should be, England will ascribed to falling off in the mar-parison with the spang clearly must polition by the exclusion of foreign ber of instances of apparent

!collusion between law offimars z' have made a greater stride for riage rate. The percentage of marave an influence upon the national Booda rvatism" merely inipores and the mob."Reuter. ward in housing in five years riages to population war auto