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BIDWELL On the 18th August, 1947, at Queen Mary Hospital, Ilangkong, to Elalence Lammert) wife of Harold D. Bidwell, NO3,

THE ARTISAN STRIKE THREAT

IN BRITISH HISTORY

East India Company

Today two now. British Do- The date is coincidental with [ came as hardly more than a hin- minions-India and Pakistani- the second anniversary of Jn- torica! statement of fact. come into existence and their pan's surrender to the Allies on threa hundred million inhabi- August 15, 1945, which was tanta attain the "freedom and called by all Japanese conquer Cquality of atatus accorded to ed territories "Liberation Day." at in the British Common- Today Viceroy Mountbatten wealth of Nations," according will sign_nway every form of to the provisions of the India Independence Act of 1947.

In twenty simple clauses this Bill has supplented the ponder- Our Government of India Act

By HAROLD GUARD

of 1936, comprising a solid British control over the new |ätructure in some four hundred Dominions or any portion of will receive full Fections of British government-them. Ench alley, and has achieved what legislative authority vested in has been declared by all British its Constituent Assembly which political parties to be the goal is conauently empowered to of British statesmen for a gen- create its own Cabinet. eration.

Fast Job

It was at the close of the 16th century that the British became eager to share in the profits of Indian commerce and, after some smaller ventures, the Lon- don East India Company was Incorporated by Queen Eliza. beth under Royal Charter on December 31, 1000,

In 1639, by which time the Company was firmly establish- ed, the British acquired a strip of land on the cast coast of In- dia and formed the. British Set- tlement of Madras which later became a Prealdency.

The Company prospered and expanded during the reign of Churles the First and dictator- ship of Oliver Cromwell.

Trouble came in 1799 whên the French under Napoleon, then engaged in his Egyptian' campaign.” were aiming at a Great Eastern Empire.

CARNIVAL

By Dick

nort

BENATOR SMELT |

T. L. REC. U. E PAY, "

SENATOR SMELT

11-15

"Gentlemen, the arguments presented by my collongus are sound-nothing but sound!"

No more appropriate date With breath-taking speed the could have been devised for the Vict.ega signature dispenses Bill's appearance in British with the offices of the British

In 1622 when King Charles Parliament than Independence Government's Secretary of the Second married Katherine Day, July 4.

State for India and the massive of Braganza, a part of her The actual Bill took less than adminis rative machinery of the dowry from Portugal was the half an hour to read. It passed Inlin' Offee in Whitehall which then Portuguese Concession of through its various stages of the protagonists of the Bill now the island of Bombay, and so the astonishing ( claim is on institution of re-} British influenco spread and To take other than a serious speed and on July 18 five Peers mote antiquity." egislation with

prospered. view of the threatened walk-out of the Realm, clad in traditional From today, a'so, the suzer- of unions associated with the scarlet and ermine, assembled ainty of the British Crown over nan Royal Commission to re-

the five hundred odd Indian Chinese Engineers' Institute is to

ceive the Royal Assent.

States ruled by Princes lapocs { put n deceptive and dangerous

A Coincidence

and all power and authority ex- gloss on the situation. The term

The British Administrator in Thus it was that King George ercisable by the Crown in re'a- 'general strike' is of course a con-

VI of England relinquished his tion to them comes to an end. India at that time, Lord Wellen. tite Emperor of India which leaving the States the right to ley, now the necessity of crush- iderable exaggeration of the scope was ordained by his grand accede to either of the new Doing this dangerous power and launched a campaign which of the action open to the parti- mother Queen Victoria in 1877 minions.

while in New Delhi another) All this has taken lean then brought war to Mysore ending cular unions that have agreed to randson Viceroy Viscount five months to aclileve-the in the British capture of Join, but they do represent an im. Mountbatten algned the final re- severance of a connection with Seringapatam auki portant part of the Colony's unciation of British supremacy India that began 360 years ago, aéquent development

in India which had reigned for expanded into regional control lances with Indian rulers nim- labour force, and their defection (if nearly 150 years.

Other pole in the tournament nearly 200 years ago and be-ed at making the British the

n responsibility of the one paramount power.

reached 7-Clubs, making the con- they decline to see reason, and an By setting up, two Indian Do-I came

in 1858: The entire

The Mutiny

tract casily because two diamonds early settlement proves to be un-

inions and conferring upon Crown

At the time the greator part them absolute contro' of their plan of procedure which Viceroy

fish swims got ruffed in dusting. But West He ruff only one. attainable) can have highly un- own affairs, the British Govern- Mountbatten introduced

of India was still under inde. upstream, they say, and only the led a club against Mr. Reinecke. desirable consequences. For the ment found it possible to re- he relieved Lord Wavell at the pendent was in twenty fine bridge player seems to thrive so he could

on adversity. When the most scored the club A A and diamond discard- present, the essential utility com-thquish their power over India end of March this year was

years later everything except harmful lead possible in made A, ruffed the diamond 3,

Uy panies seem likely to become in in what they claim to be a per- lupted almost without debate. the Kingdom of Nepal and the the defence, a burden is some- od a diamond and volved, but several of the Cofectly constitutional manner to objective was a foregone Punjab who under the away of times put on him which nobody two top spades, led the spade 10

conetasion and is attainment the East India Company, lony's principal industrial under- day. takings, and the waterworks, will

when

Words That Don' Mean Nothing

the sub- of al-

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities"

Only

THRIVE ON ADVERSITY

the game

the

heart. C11 else in the same tournament has and over-ruffed East's club 10

with the then

J. ho com- Crisis came with complaints to carry. He may then

ran club, With West marked for

With against the highhandedness of pelled to work out an intricate

the ast probably the British ruling class and in play in order to get the same re-spades and East

enuid protegi 1857 the most serious threat to ault which his rivals at other diamonds, neither

double squeeze British

administration came tables obtain without the slightest hearts when the

was built. As the eleventh trick with the mutiny of the Indian real effort,

brought the last club lead, Mr. SAK 10 8 4 2 Army-,

Beinecke had the heart. G and dia- HA 3, 10

mond 8, and dummy the heart A- J and spade . West dared not the discard spade; 30; throw heart 9. The spade was discardest from dummy, and East now had an Impossible assignment. If he tossed the diamond J, the 8 would be good, so he discarded his heart B. Then the heart 6 to the A hostile honoura, dropped both making the J good for the final trick.

The history of the time is written in 'ood shed in the

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be affected if the strike comes off, and in some instances there is a danger that a lock-out of other, unskilled, workers may he U11- avoidable should the dispute be come a protracted one, as well it may. The demands, after all, are quite preposterous. For a sound

"You cheeky crowd of beasts." The Iden, so widely held even ensuing Central India Com- SQ77 "conomic balance, labour costs are} Question-

by many of us who have no paign the massacre at Cawn-

HX987 already disproportionately high in

prejudices nore, the slege of Delhi and the (1) By whom were those strong political

B2 ither one way or the other, relief of Lucknow where, since DK? relation to other items in the words spoken? working budgets of industrial (2) To whom were they ad that the present administration 1862, the Union Jack has flown ca

is composed of and supported over the British Residency, con- firms. Ship-building and repair-dressed? ing, for instance, can today hesion were they uttered?

(8) Where and on what occa mainly by men and women of tinuously night and day, until the rs privileged classes does it was today hauled down with carried out more cheaply in a

Answer:-

not seem to be in accordance no great ceremony. British yard than in Hong Kong, (1) By a Rensoned Scottish with the facts which are that The great mutiny was laid to the average intelli: the charge of the overbearing or so it is generally asserted. But and Soclu'ist Member of Parlin- whatever whether or not this is strictly ment.

gence level of the rank and file East India Company whose truc, it must be apparent that any (2) To the Conservative Op-of its supporters at the polle eventful annals were brought to may be, there are in ita rank a close by the transfer of the further overweighting of the bur- position "The Tories."

(3) In the British House of just about as many lawyers, entire administration of India den of labour costs can only re-

educationalists and to the British Crown in 1858. ault finally in the disappearance Commons at Westminster dur doctors,

ON certain other educated and well-inform- of the jobs and the wages. At the ing a discussion

proposed in the ed units as there would be in moment, the men have no fore- amendments bodings of unemployment aut House of Lords to the Govern any average government.

ment's bill nationalising Trung- tighter belts: and it is difficult to

port. impress upon them that there is a limit to the capacity of Hong House of Commons was

schools-Haileybury and Eton Kong's economy to meet recurring garded by all the world (or an respectively set their stamp demands for higher wage levels, we like to fintter ourselves) as upon the Prime Minister, Mr. or that this particular moment. the most select of social clubs Attlee, and the Chancellor of when boom, conditions are fast wherein the diction of the mom the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dal being replaced by business recrs-bers rose straight from the well tun, and did not the University sion, is the least appropriate time of English pure and undefed of Oxford hall-mark both of times them? And does not the Foreign for the making of fresh claims. though its fore was at

he perfection of polished im- Minister, un-academic though

There is, in any case, strong rea-

son,

An ace-

Doctrinaire it may be but not revolution in India out of which ty and an ace or three aces, a There was a time when the ignorant, Did not two public be makers of a single nationell respond of any sult except

IC-

be may be, wear the gown and hood of a doub'e first in the World's university?

to believe that the simple politeness. economic facts are of little imme-

Apparently, however, that is diate concern to those who have no longer the case.

The era of, formality is past organised the present agitation. or passing. Not so often in the To what extent political factors House docs a member refer to So for the present House has have entered is difficult of assess-le poitical enemy an "the not minted many memorable ment. The sole gauge is to be Honourable member for XYZ." barhed phrases. "You cheeky found in the launching of the at. He la Inclined to reply to him crowd of bensa" is more abuse tack on key industries, and only directly as "you" if he means and does not rank when obe those European operated and con."no" ke may even permit him- thinks of other daye, still in talled. Neither are hints of in self to say so and avoid the living memory, when, for in- timidation lacking, a thing which cliculocution of "the answer is stance, au M.P. (was it Mr. Winston Churchill?) gazed at cannot also be said about the exis-

in the negative."

the Government benches where tence of a legitimate pretext for

Ever slucu "Labour" „made Ministers' lounged supinely, on the threat of a walk-out. The at heard in the House of their shoulder blades and point- issues involved are, therefore, of Commons there has been a very cil finger at "that invertebrate wider concern than to the group common but not In general wel gelatinous crew?" And was not of employers and the group of founded belief that the dignity the same alatesman the author employees who are likely to be and tone of the House has been of the description of the one- affected once tomorrow morn- loweredby. its advent. That time Prime Minister, Mr. Ram- 200.-

ing. Where soung claims for heller, it is true, wan, not sey Macdonald, as that "bone. 350,- improvement in wates and con- weakened by an incident of less wonder?"

Going back a long way fur 35-ditions have been advanced by the f-a-century ago when a new-

Colony's working men, at various at the House to take lily seat. the great Diarnell (Lord Bes

ly elected Labour M.P. arrived) ther. Is it not on record that times, this journal has been fully Alas, he rode in char-4-base consfield) was once taunted in sympathetic. The same can be or rome such vehicle accom- the House as a "incal descen- said of the Colony's Labour Of Fanied by a shouting crowd of dant of the impenitent thlof?" ficer and his assistants. Here, supporters and horror of Perhaps there is too little however, a demand has been horrors, a brass band,

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