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A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. David Levine at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital

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ON SATURDAY was announ- ced the closing of all Japanese factories not engaged in the ac tual production of food-stuffs

the armament industries.

Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 29, 1938 and the placing of the workers in

LABOUR IN THE COLONIES

After a session with a Japanese fac- tory-made trunk, we subsequent- ly feel that China's chances for victory seems at last to be on the if certain

Disturbances arising from la- increase. That is bour troubles in the West Indies factory-hands don't do a better have been sufficiently serious to job with their munitions than provoke a pointed reference, in they do for the unwary tourist.

he recently issued Colonial Of

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fice report, to the need for bring- IF YOU are seriously consider- ing labour legislation in the Co-ing dabbling into Sino-Japanese lonies into line with modern in-politics and your sympathies lay dustrial and social conditions. on the side of Japan - best stay Over 40 years ago a Royal Com-away from that turbulent city on mission pointed out that condi- the banks of the Whangpoo, tions regarding wages and sani-known as Shanghai. The quaint tation among West Indian labour custom that prevailed in America forces fell far below the desired for many years -shooting un- standard. But nothing appears popular people on the streets to have been done about it, and has apparently become all the in 1930 another report made it rage in Shanghai. plain that the state of things was going from bad to worse. The

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IT HAS been said that if you

it is quite

Commission appointed to investi lose an opportunity gate the disturbances in Trinidad useless to advertise for it. came to the conclusion that the |true origin of the trouble must

GOVERNOR Earle of New York

be traced to "the more or less urges Roosevelt to spend some U.S. general sense of dissatisfaction, $9,000,000,000 as soon as possible. for which there was no adequate The public will have to be satisfied means of articulation through re- with this unless somebody can think cognized machinery of collective of a higher number. bargaining."

more

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ALL OF which reminds me. If

The Colonial Office cannot shirk its share of blame for the failure of the authorities in many Co-you don't understand the mysteries lonies to make conditions

of finance, don't devote another. tolerable for workers in large in thought to the matter. A five-times dustrial undertakings. The needs president of a stock exchange ad- are not sudden developments, and mits that he himself has only a hazy

idea of it all.

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Whitehall-could-not-have--been blind to them all these years. The indications are that the ser- IT IS reported that restaurant ious labour troubles. in Trinidad, coolies who deliver dishes in bas- Jamaica and elsewhere have.rous-kets to customers are having a hard ed British public opinion as well time . as soon as they appear as the Government out of their on the street in a certain district, normal apathy. When a circular mendicant boys swarm around and on the subject went from White- demand food

in some in- hall to all Colonial Governors last stances,- have snatched the dishes August, the response is said to and even the basket. By the time have been lethargic. Progress the police arrive on the scene, the has, no doubt, been made in many chances are that the boys are en- dependencies, for improving la-joying a repast in a deserted alley- bour conditions. In Hong Kong, way. for instance, while we have nothing, to pride ourselves about, there is in existence sound fac tory legislation which prevents Hong Kong's streets with vim and undue exploitation and has put vigour of late, rickshaw pullers an end to the evil of women and seem to take longer steps as the children working long hours into contact of their naked feet on hot the night for factory employers. lingering. Many of them are moan- asphalt is not exactly conducive to But in Trinidad, the existinging that they have to wear straw state of things was revealed to

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WITH old Sol beating down on

be deplorable. Apart from the sandale again-since sandals coat apathy of the Government which money.

only now is launching schemes

for the relief of unemployment THE BRITISH : Ambassador Sir and rural distress, a factor that Archibald Kerr Clarke Kerr, who, has militated against improved recently denied in Shanghai that he' labour conditions is the attitude had done any peace, negotiating in of the owners of plantations, who Hong Kong, now on his way to Han- assume that almost anything is kow, via Hong Kong, will probably good enough for the West Indian deny that he has done any peace worker. All this is now likely to negotiating in Shanghai. However, be changed as a result of the deep It is rumoured that any moment he

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