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TRIPLE PROBLEM

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1047.

THE TRADE UNIONS AND CARNIVAL

THE CRISIS

national economy.

sibility of transferring workers from relatively highly paid em- ployment to less well paid Jobs. The full implications of the wages question, therefore, have til to be conakiered and it is one that bristles with difficulties

By

HERBERT TRACEY OF THE T.U.C.

the

Cooperation

The co-operative attitude of the Trade Union Congress-to- wards the Government's emer-

By Dick Turner

„DOWS, IM) BY MEA BENYICT, INC., T. Ja nes v. 1 JÁT. OFF

five joy

"Pardon the looks of the house, Mr. Van Hoy-it looks ilke maybe the little woman misplaced her gloves again - or something!!

A Bleak Future For China

Full co-operation with Labour been, of course, considerable | department acquiring power to Government's plans overcoming clamour for what is described deal with late wage claims or the immediate economic difficul- na "a national wages policy": to basume my jurisdiction in fles in which Britain is involved but no postiive defintilon hasneld, but they find reassurance in assured from the Trade Unioni | been given of the scope of such in the Prime Minister's clear

The Trade Union a movement,

the polley and

wages atatement in Parlament that the Congress General in fact is question arises at the present] Government has no intention of ready to go even further than time mainly out of the impos interfering with the negotiating the Government'a

emergency

machinery of the industries In measures at present require the

the course of their emergency : untona to move, On the question

measures; and that the pro- of direction of labour, for In-

powala relating to the direction stance, the immediate proposal of

of labour, extension of working the Government is almply to res-

hours, and this more difficult tore the Control of Engagement

question of the wages regulation Order which, in effect, requires |

implicit in the present altuation, employers to oḥtala labour only

are regarded by the Government through the employment cx.

will remain operative only until changes, and does not allow the

the way is clear on the economic individual workers to leave his

front, job without permission of the| authorities. The Trades-Union Congrean General Council taken the view that the primary need from the Trade Union stand-gency programme finds a fur of the moment is to secure the point. The unions will not ther illustration in that the transfer of labour from les roadily relinquish, of course, Trades Union Congress General essential and non-productive their responsibility to their Council

has recommended con employment to industries which membership in framing and sultation with the industries are of vital importance In pressing their claims for in- specifically involved in the Gov

ereased wages. But undoubted- ernment programme with a view. ly the Trades Union Firmer Measures

Congress to deciding how for an extension General Connell and the of the hours is imperative naa In Washington this week Bri Accordingly the Traies Unlon

executives

Unions will contribution to the necessary in tish and American experts will Congress has intimated to the respond to the Prime Minister's, crease in production, especially, begin discussions on the problem Government that if the apples appeal, addressed to the workers in the export trades. This aup of the Ruhr. This month in Paris tion of a system of labour con-

in all industries, not to press at port of the principle of longer the European Co-operation Com-ro! through employment ex- this time for an

increase of working hours does not imply will also discuss the desired results, the Council will which would have the effect of union polley of reducing the

changes does not mission

produce the wages or changes In conditions any desertion of the trade Rushr. Daily in the Soviet press be ready to discuss with the raising wages, especially where working week to forty hours on will be found discussion of the Government further measures these increases are put forward a five day basis. future of the Ruhr. Round the Including the direction of labour

on the basis of fate of that valley of north-wee in a hore comprehensive and differentials between the various the

maintaining It was always recognised by tern Germany every problem of rigorous form.

responsible trade union categories of workers on the leaders that it would not be European economics and Eure-

During the war drastic and basis of former practice etc. possible to reduce the working pean politics is centering. The far reaching powers were placed

week from forty-eight hours to Ruhr district is the richest single in the hands of Britain's Minis-

forty at a single stroke. 7710 enabled coalfield and has the most intense ter of Labour. wilch

trade union movement was pre

Shanghai, Aug. 15. After V-J Day the people. concentration of heavy industry him to transfer from less esɣun-

The reference here is in part] pared to see the hours reduced. in the world. It was not only the industries great hodles of to wage claims by unions for in aluge from

China has suffered mare in south of the Yellow River on- workers "en masse"

forty-eight to two years following Japan's thustustically welcomed their economic foundation of Ger.

direct to increases consequent upon the forty-four and eventually to capitulation than in any two national government back to munition tradies. nny's military power. It was fary to these powers were others in related Industries for

Complemen- successful application of workers forty; but the country's needs years in

her long struggle war-occupied areas. In Shaug- also one of the foundation of

entrusted to the President of creased wages.

in- in this period of economic crisle against the Nipponese aggres-hal alone, within two weeks an the whole economie system of the Board of Trade which led leaders are reluctant to see any the Trade Union Congress.

To union comes first in the calculations of sign. the European continent. The to a great concentration of pro- annual production of coal was duetion in the less essential nearly 150,000,000 tons. of steel, trades, auch ยม lexics and over 22,000,000 tons. Today the clothing, boot and shoe trades," coal output is only between and many others, in |70,000,000 and 70,000,000 ions a factories and workshops; where- {year: steel output under 3,000,000 large number of work- tan. There is a deficit of bear trades. There is no indica- people were released for the

80,000,000 and 20,000,000 tons of coal and 20,000,000 tons of steel considers the re-enactment of Llon yet that, the Government in Europe's annual production those measures of control to be which is the direct result of low necessary in the present crisis. Ruhr productivity. That is the But trade union leaders, inclino economic problem of the Rubr. strongly to the view that the It is triple problem. To concentration of labour on essen- what level shall Ruhr productional industries, and to meet the be raised-or be permitted to be needs particularly of the under. ared? How can it be raised or later involve firmer measures manned industries, will sooner Who are the future owners of

of control and direction this great economic organism to labour. be and how shall it be controlled in order to ensure that it does not become again the nucleus of ag Grasive militarism? On the first point there is no dispute as far as coal is concerned but as gards steel there is sharp disagree sarnt. The British thesis is that 12,000,000 tons of steel a year are i

to balance German necessary economy and supply peaceful needs; the Americans and Rus sians consider this figure might endanger security. The second point-how production can be raised has caused an attack on British administration which, it is suggested, is responsible for the low rate. The Americans say

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Berlin, Aug. 16. The Soviet have introduced the "Stakhanovite" system of industrial production in their zone to make up for man-power shortages, the con- fidential news bulletin "Gopade" of the Social- ist Democratic Party reported today. The man-power shortage was large number of unreturned war causes by war tosses and the

of prisoners.

Women have also been enrolled

the

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER RULED OUT

catimated 100 parades-with and brass bands, boy scouts At no time during the eight patriotic banners and Boats year. war of resistance did this were organized.. Businessmell, country-which has not known hurried'y reestablishing prewar days of peace since the turn of contacts, forsay heavy exports the century-face, no utterly of raw materials and imports bleak a future as it does today. of both capital and manufac During the war there was the tured goods, China, they ren- soned, was a torical supplier of much of the world's tungsten, hoy bristles, ten and silk in ad- dition to sugar from Taiwan Land, in good harrest years, rice south and west. She

By JOE S. JACOB ·

ultimate goal liberation from ahead. Today, ravaged by blt needed machinery. communic tor fratricidal strife, flood, tions equipment and consumer femine and cruel inflation, the goods for the world's richest Chinese people are univomally potential ragrket. The combl disillusioned and feel mostly nation scumed to be ident. despair.

On August 15, 1946, the 'na- tion experienced a temporary delirium confidently predicting

•

But the post-Revolution split

regular domestic

Wage Regulation ona Inrge scale fur work in mines

the rapid advent of the mil- with the Communists quickly Ienium. Connected with this quesilon and factories in the Soviet zone

But two short years erupted anew, completely pre- too, In the problem of regulating another effort to help. wages. It has not yet been con- Sonde sold.

have provided an emotional let- cluding reconstruction and ent Rome, Aug. 17. eldered in all e aspects either

down seldom matched in his ing huge chunks out of the The confidential bulletin of the An American

Other ré press egency tory. China; nominally victori- country's economy. by the Government or by both Social Democratic Party asserted photographer today was refused ous, is undeniably worse off to Bults are: 1. There is virtun!- sides of industry. There has that 11 percent of all German permission to photograph Lt day than her vanquished neighly to trade. 2. There are no

working women in the Soviet Gen John Lee's special train hour-Japan.

communica- Llona. 3.

Inila- zone are employed in soft coal Gen Lee's Public Relations chief,

Gargantuan mines, five percent in salt mines, Major James Edmunds, said that

tion progressed to the point 3.5 percent in iron ore mines because the train was furnished

where'no commodity price holds and 3.3 percent in hard coal by the Hallan Government, the

It is true that Nippon now for more than 24 hours and tho mines.

photographer would, need per- has no navy-but China's een cost of living in 28,700 times The Staklınnovile system or mission from the Italian Govern. Power is still in ita infancy. what it was before the Japon- production, developed in the So- ment before the train could be The Japanese Army has heen ese invasion, according to the viet Union before the war, is a photographed.

demobilized and partly re-government index. 4. No town system of raliónalized. production

absorbed into industry and or village escapes conscription. agriculture. Tokyo's budget is free of crushing military ex- tionwide confidence.

No lender or party has na-

penditures and no blood is spill- ed in Japan.

100 Years

Ago

Earlier, guards at the train consisting of a team of workers sall it could not be photographed

who

divide, among themselves the component parts of a single because it was being repaired. (From the files of the "China Job In order that the team cap. United Press.

taln who, completes the job may acclise At 3. u.m, The "Braganza" do his own particular operation

our administrators are too So Mal!"). cialistic Russian critics

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us of being, agents of capitalistic has not yet arrived. With others at a faster pace, monopolies: Germans complain we might guess as to the cause The confidential bulletin. re- of over-much British contral in of her delay were we fond of ported that Stakhanovites in the detail; the French urge that con- sporting opinion against Soviet zope receive extra food

trol he more detailed. The fact which the odds would be rather rationa, longer vacations and seems to be that the administrang. But with national caution, titles of here of reconstruction" we would venture to think that and "s work plonese."—United tom, do what they will,

are barring accidents-she wiii! Press. caught in a series of vicious came by.and.by. circles, Mechanically produc

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FOUR-FOUR DESIRABLE

The discontent manifested it- self in the studens demonstra- tions which are now banned by a decree, Newspapers critical of the government have been suspended or closed. Martial Jaw is in force in several non- "combat arcas.

The people-conalderably less enthusiastic about their rulers' than" in 1945 are in the main apathetic to the civil war.

to come under some form of public / their hotel is now completed, and Australia's sterling balances insuit the aldo sulta is well plug- | turn brought the Jand Q, and innd" patches Intg the opposing

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and North by passing when Warnings posted in public ian cannot be increased without From Berlin cómes news that

by had two.doubletons Instead of places

the governmen' shifting the game into 14-Spades, against discussion of milltary more euipment, more repairs Establishments have been. open-

is just one standard In fact, Soath could be accused of matters, bring cynical smiles to more rolling stock, but these can. fed there for the sale of hurseflesh

exception to the desirability of outbidding his hand by reversing their faces. Their chief con not be provided without make as an article of food. To over-

playing a hand in a major sult with that 2-Spade bid after start-

cern today is, their next meal. contract when steel and mare steel cannot become populat prejudice on the

ono player has ing with his hearts. If he hud Camberra, Aug. 17, produced unless more coal and held at which the guests feanteater, Joseph B. Chifley, announced has since cards.

subject, a pubile banquet

four trumpe oppostle four by his rebid the hearts, however, North The Australian Prime Minia partner. That comes, when each would have shown the spades,

in each of the and the same problem would have Two war is unique in that no mare.

todny that the Cabinet had pur-three alde suits. When that con- ceme up eventually. Better bil-

eyed the economic position lion prevails, there is no oppor-ding would have been à start of actual battle lines exist. "Arcas

tunity to 300.-

Shanghal as it effects the United King-uring them, as would be the caso rabid onsier with hearts tonga can be pointed out on the

by 1-Spade by South,

his of infiltration" and "fighting of the thine is bound to come China-P. E. Richards & Co. beg dom and the position regarding it either partner had a doubleton 400.-

The 3-No Trums got under discussion. Are they finally to announce to the public that dollar Imports by Australia and or singleten. Even then the major after West led the 4 of the unbisons in these regions, if they

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is a safer contract unless diamonds. The A won, the 0 rodestre, can cross the "no man's 350.-wnership or to revert in some who may be visiting, the Northern

that for Gentlemen of Familles London."

The Cabinet has decided to 35-day to private ownership? It is Parts, they have Accommoda. impose nevere rationing on the

ged with stoppers.

the 2 knocked out the K, South camp. impossible to find a body of pri tions which they think will be uso of dollars for travel, direct- vate owners and the mines can found superior to any other Holeled a review of dollar expendi- not be returned to the former In China.

ture on tobacco,' motion plc- miners, for the snost Important of Shanghal beling considered the tures and all importa of less 835 these are in confinement as war most healthy altuation in Chino, essential character "and recom-1166 - criminals or high, Nazis and, cer if not in the East, and tainly could not again be facilities of Shooting and other

favourably situated, as to the ports. Associated Press.

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tion, particularly in food dis Ucunlly with dis

distribution ilk tribution. that, one or more tricks-are pos Wide suspicion is entertained ibla in the suit, by ruding that in nod-Communist China of the cannot be taken in No Trumps, a Soviet Union following the well un, greater safely against|

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The United States; loudlync= claimed as the saviour of tho Far East in 1940, is today, ro Farded as a treasuró house. The Chinese view the Wedome-

mission as their last resor Meanwhile, they feat tight no

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