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Most Troublesome Men In Britain Today

The greatest danger now con- thave gone back to work anil on the lost wages of minlect

secured

the intervention of wage corners,

TAIYUAN WOULD BE A BIG PRIZE FOR REDS

fronting trade unionism' is that of being considered not a great nuthorised trade union oMelais. What can the trade unions power but a great nulsonce. Why The economie effects of these nml other authorities do in face Is this so?

numerous Inilures nre

very at this danger? Let me make a It is because that arm of trade serious in the terms of lost wages, suggestion. unlouism which is regularly dis higher prices, and shortages, Just as the central fact, and played to the public has already which are felt in the homes of strength

of trade unionism Istrial cily. revealed itself as a nuisance not only to the public and industry strikers, as well as being endured unity, so we are now entitled to

trade by thousands of wage earners, ask for unity from managements. rears Vironically, to but also,

Government, the The shop unionism.

stoward who are among the first sufferers the movement has thereby unione

from unauthorised action. the good they previously per- formed as representatives of the men in the factorles;

Shop steword were designed to deal with the minor, if freqitent, differences - arising between

Higher prices, trade dislocation themselves, and. from those M.P. occupation, but all plants are force: enlcuintef that the deposita

Inderd.

Men Suffer

la

Taiyuan, September 10. but, industrial circles bere doubt Taiyuan, liko Mukden, La whether they have the tools to kolated except by air and almost develop them. completely cut off from the form Beatles the rich deposits of resources that normally sustain It. conl and Iron, they have But unlike Mukden, which the mamesium, dolemite, silico, itussians despoiled, Taiyuan to-gypsum and other materials. day is still an important Indus- In Ite minorul resources Shansi is the richest province in Ching. Truc, many of its factorles bear There is, for example, an untold Inflicteri by American store, of coal in the Tatung ares. unions bombers when the Japanese were An English mining engineer stewards working.

there were enough to supply the Yen Hsi-ahon, governor of entire world's need for 2,000 Shans since 1012, apart from a years, raven-month rap in 1930, id Japan-educated Peng Shih- of the North mainly responsible for the city's hung, mannger development into an industrial Western Industrial Company base. Or rather Yers Hai-shan which controls alt important and nature, which endowed the plants in Talyuan, told that story. country around this city with Bui Peng himself in more

(leularly coal and from.

"Two thousand years might be an exaggeration," he said, “Per- haps 200 years would be more like it."-Asunciated „Pressu

have

dia

Geared For War:

One Man Has Job

the shop whom and a widespread upset of the usually rush as soon as they plans of management with re-begun to get into trouble. gard to both national and work- The Government, in these shop well-being resulting from putes, must always turn to the Irresponsible action, are serious machinery for negotiation and discussion which has been de management and workers in the duy-by-day life of any workshop.

veloped in the

pust 30 years. They were to act in co-opera-

There is no country in the world

sympathy with the executive of

of bringing together employers Many employers their organisation and in accord-

cover can

and employed for the just an ance with the instructions com-

They themselves against loses. monly given to them.

can drow upon reserves, nat peaceful settlement of any issues They had to keep an

eye on they can postpme dealing with which may arise,

Yeu Hsi-chan's fe has been the life of the workshop, adjust one of the dificulties until

Must Resist Not so the

iled up with Talyuan but there putes arising from changes in more normal times. materials, tools, and overtime men. They and their families

The unions played their part in the Communists take the city.

would be much more 'at štake,' Traies,

with the management on

and generally

Intervene must suffer, in some part, frem

this machinery for} which

of a shrunken is clumsily providing minor every blow issues.

industrial peace. The manage than the future almed, as they think, at the em- ments, for many years past, have old man in a shrunken kingdom. They were NOT supposed to ploying clasa.

If the Communists take Tal- dent with Broader aspects

shop generally shown a willingness tyuan it will delay for years the of The bungling of the shop polley regarding

rates, stewards, the clumsiness and in-talk it out rather than to fight task of throwing them out of

Hiroshima, September 10.. LEWIS-A! Queen Mary Hos-conditions of work, and those experience of untrained persons; Now,

therefore, le! there b Shansi, ir indeed, they are ever questions which belong with no qualification for con- larger

thrown out.

Major S.A. Jarvie has the task A visit to the city's arsenals, of putting this atom-hombed city Properly to an authorised execu-structive negotiation and discus-agreement among managements,

unions, Government, and M.P.

steel works, power plants, brick back together and his job is to to have no dealings whatever ex- cept with the properly authorised and other factories shows ace that it gets built right.

convincingly the Importance of Iroshima, Hke all other orlen- representatives of workmen act- the elty to the Nationalists and tal cities, grew from a village to ing through their trade union the importance it would have to city with no planning. and empowered by them to settle

tise the Communists--as 4

streets wore narrow, there was ro sanitation system.

VAN DE LINDE-On Saturday

night, September 18, 1948, Fanting, to Nancy, wife Dr. P. A. M. Van De Link, a son, Anthony Gerard,

pital, on September 18, 1948, to Winifred, wife of Leslie A. Lewis, a son.

WESTERN UNION

tive.

wake

But the functions of the unions have not merely been

usurp- ed by shop stewards: they have been derided, ignored, and be- Itled by unauthorised persons whose sole remedy for anything is to start a strlice without

By The Rt. Hon. J.R. CLYNES

Who Was One Of The

thority, and to gain their ends are willing extend it as for as they ean to any workmen Pioneers Of The Trade thought to be sympathy with

Union Movement then.

any

it out.

outside

tine

major

Putting Hiroshima Together Again

The

Since the Alun-clearance work

Work Together

The major draws up the plans,

in a play ground, bent over ma-lamal and Terada, who are reat chines, one polishing a gun bar-getters, pound the ideas into the heads of the other city off- rel, another taking parts.

ciufs and the residents of the city. They make up a three-inan Heart-that is determined to make”

Hiroshima the most modern city in the Far East.

Ancient City

a bargain and see that that bar- The British Parliamentary

gain is honestly and fairly kept, The only rallways which run session, called for a limited

The best service which

in the Taiyuan area today are of the atomle nomb, which also unions could now reader to

those which bring coal, tran and jelcared the better section of town, and domestic political pur-

themselves is for the rank and other material to the factories too, the opportunity has arisen to pose, has already turned

file of the unions to resist active-

A and the railway built around the do alilito scientific planning. into that general inquest on

ly the designs of certain shop city for swift movement of troops That is what Major Jarvie la do- State and world

stewards to gei olected. They do affairs

tany threatened point.

Ing now. Road To Ruin

so not so much to serve the Make no mistake about it-al- which is not the least valu-

Just enda of their class in respect most everything in this city of able function of Parliament.

They deny the right of any slon, have already cost working of conditions of work and wages 300,000 persons is geared to the The views of Mr. Anthony employer to dispense with the mer millions of pounds. They but rather to serve the pur-

of anybody, for

purposes of war. ide forces cannot afford a continuance of pose of

existing Eden, acting leader of the services

The major, an Australian army Over a dozen arsenals, big and

engineer. works closely with Opposition, on the Western by some simple signal, to stop time the great invisible asset of employers and employed, and Sinall, are turning out weapons. Mayor Shine Hamal and Yutaka

reason; and yet claim the right, auch losses, while at the same mainly to make trouble between

People of all ages work at these Terada, chairman of the city Union have already gained thousands of workmen in forge trade unionism is endangered thereby to secure

somo object ubvious approval from workshops who may know noth-

council. because the inperilled

unions outside the true puposes of the instruments of battle. You see young girls and boys, who would Labour benches-a fact of ug whatever of the point in risk the loss of their

more normally be romping about Whatever else the wnation. trade unions themselves. dispute, but are nevertheless ex-

of some importance when pre-beeted to obey the signal from this country may dislike, experi-

Their Duty vious differences in the the shop stewards,

ener shows they do like to keep parties' approach to this

This is a course which tends to a bargain. It becomes both a Undoubtedly, trade unionists of somewhat project are remembered. uullify_the_status_and_influence matter of honour of

and personal ail ranks have been Brushing aside any idea of of great union organisations, and advantage to respect agreements, lax in resisting the designs of a plot to create a capitalistico undo in a few years the fine and show that workmen can be those who wish for unity less than

You sec raw recruits being] work by which those great or- as good as their word.

they wish to stir up trouble. The or socialist Europe, Mr. Eden ganisations have been bullt up

"It may take 20 years," says brigades nt werk. But the main Jarvie. any ure not

with sympathy has stated with emphasis his in the past two generations, stewards really entertain hep great masses of the trade unions trained. You see plek and shovel

"About 50," says Hamaj. "It is conviction that the world's The road to trade union rain notion of becoming serious rivals strikemongers. Therefore theyling are the factories.

At the steel works they were | rather hard at times to get all the to or usurping the position of the should resist in their meetings all essential need today is that is in the march of the shop

trade unions, it

new blast furnaces money we need." It is n

chlidish those who are known to favour building the major forces should not

"Never mind," puts in Terada, Something could be sald for as strong as now; in doubtful friends

In numbers the unions trouble and turmoil when such hardly the thing to do if those

in authority were not confident "we'll do it-sooner or later.” largely reside in either of the that movement If It succeeded in

ore sccking of their ability to hold the city. and worldly influence election. two Powers with gigantic attohing Its objects. It usually national

a shabby-looking | Taiyuan is they have That Mr. Edenfaits. Not one ti a score of stop-

atlained lo

Trade unionists should be regu- city enclosed by oblong walis great been

nr in their branch and other bulit more than 200 years ago. power. regards as a "fundamentally Pages in recent years has

successful in compelling em- They are at a high level in the

.But they shoul clq

sible it is set on a 2,000-foot platene Jarvio call for broad highways, The plans being worked out by dangerous position for the ployers to concede terms to un- good will of the country, and more. The more responsible

girded by setirely world", His remedy is a authorised persons; and the men, have become participants in the ones should not be afraid them- group comprising the free after reaching a stage of sulking great national and international seives to come forward for elec-rea between the walls and hills modern sewage facilities, parks nations of Western Europe and slouching, have had to find plans by which the destinies of tion, nor should they be unwit-forms the city's suburbs and here and all the other latest western

their way back to work and seek millions of people

being ing to assume the extra work and most of the factorles are situated: civle development, the things the

Here are some of Taiyuan has had a long his- and the British Common-mediation through authorised

new city will have: wealth acting collectively (officials and the executives of the naped, But their good name can burdens of being shop stewards ory. Guide books say it was a

be tarnished by the follies of themselves, In the true interests would-be and together.

usurpers, who have of the great movement which la well-known elty 200 years before In fact, they can rarely get a little to their credit beyond n now their heritage

Today Taiyuan draws the sus- There is now recognised to

tics, of war from the mineral- be no difference between the foothold to Jalk terms until they long list of melancholy defeats responsibility. Parties on the furtherance

resources.

that

of this objective. Mr. Eden, moreover, pointed out statesmen in Canada. Aus- and. tralia, New Zealand South Africa, including Dr. Malan, support B closer European association.

steward movement.

various unions.

A word

notion.

were

are

and

Holiday Notes From France

+4

COMPILED BY JOHN HALL

but keep prices sky-high-a Bei-

the

Christ

their

hills.

would like to do if they

Both around as the....Com-

conquered the city,

Plan Is Broad

1. A modern elvic centre, 2. A first class wuter system. 3. Modern transporlution facili- 4. Western style house number- ing and street names,

5. Zoning to keep the factory

memorial

Besides iron and coal there is section confined to one area.

6. An atomic bomb dolomite and allies and fine clay.

But there is no more magnesturn. park.

The magneslum mines were seiz-

Richest Province

The major is enger to have:

on life."

ed by the Communists. Any plenty of places for flowers and supplies neaded will have to be trees in the new Iliroshima. He Home thoughts and queries joutside the swank resorts, what is, All M. Joly's letter-writing has flown in from the outside world wants the Japanese to learn to paint the outsides of their houses, As for France, a key coun- from abroad about British holiday happening at home? Why 25s, to be done by hand. The retreat at great expense and trouble.

Instead of leaving the natural try in the scheme, Mr. Eden hotel prices: While British hotel and even 30s., a day in Cornwall? ing German Army carried away

wood exposed to the elementa. most of the typewriters in 1944;

"Not only will paint, make their is of opinion that her poli-ers bemoan their worst season-

ANSWER: M. Joly and most of so his typewriters have been re-

houses last longer," he pointed tical instability is deceptive. tish family can go to Normandy, his fellow-hoteliers have cut their quisitioned by the local authority,

the ro- which uses them to pelt him with The Communists in conquering put, "but a little colour will go a Even in the kaleidoscopic stay in a first-class holiday hotel prices to scammodate

uli Shanal, apart from the Tai-long way toward giving these changes of French Govern- and eat its head off-for 22s. aduced French incomes. They will forms and questionnaires.

day, all in,

tell you they have Had to reduce Cool is very expensive-yet on yuan and. Tatung breas, have no-people a better outlook ments there runs a thread

And all-in" covers a break- their menus. but to British fami- rainy day the bedroom radiators quired enormously rich resources United Press. of unity in policy as there

fast of rolla and coffee (with lies there is still magic in neuus are put on for guests to dry wet does in Britain between op- occasional eggs), huge lunch and like these:

clothes Luncheon: Shrimps or plates of fresh

sliced Integration dinner, with

Last Sunday we had a French posing partles.

ham; fresh veal-and-mushroom race meeting (trots and gallops) dishes of delicious fresh butter

chops with on the sands-no charge for hotel increase the sense of con-

a tennis at every meal, wine for the fried potatoes; grapes or pears. guests; and all week fidence and the stability of grown-ups, superb cooking Dinner

her, Minestrone soup; fried tournament with ranking French each country. Basically, of (never a boiled potato), polite sole Meuniere; rumpsteak with players, for which admission was

stat. the haricot beans and saute patatoes; in. 8d. "per day. course, there is only one way and cager-to-please

vanilla ices.

These, of course, have nothing to restore better equilibrium French tourist tax, and tips.

And if the children do not like to do with the hotel or its terms, in the world, and that is to

veal and mushroom patties or fish but they do rank as part of the It is the work of a moment to amenities availbale. repair the ravages of two

substitute a plate-size omelette of wars in Europe.

in the West will or should meat, steaks, veal, lamb, or por patties, roast lamb

elections Rhodesia.

Child Heaven

All this, with not a cent extra

to pay, in a sizable hotel on the

fresh eggs-"arec-plaisir, M'Sieu."Lightning Laundry-

edge of Normandy's Emerald The Chef Regrets

Coast, where the sunwgemed At- lantie rolls in gently across miles

Admission to a nearby casino

ONE FARM COMMUNIST

DID NOT COLLECTIVISE

-

London, September 18. Charles Aish, who waged a successful one-man wär against Soviet collectivisation before the war, found himself today without his home and without his wife, But he hasn't quit yet.

his wife Marla, whom he married. 'Rhodesian Election

On Friday Aish received a in Leningrad in 1934, he made a Magic, too, to have the chat where boule is avaliable at six-

letter from his wife Maria in muccess of the farm, Boviet-of- Sir Godfrey Huggins's of firm, golden sands, Bedrooms send along his compliments after Penny stakes and dancing to a United Party has won a com- overlooking the sea, 16 yards a day or two to Inquire if Mon- and from Paris costs is. 3d. And Russin, in which she rejected his ficials were amazed but let him

from the hotel terrace to the sicur and Madame and the chil-era pleasure for the cham- entreaties to come to Britain with alone...

bermaid to look after, the sleep-their three daughters: manding majority in the Bends

German soldiers swept over the children's paradise-dren are finding the food to their

form In 1941. Alsh was interned" Southern and children welcomed. fri

"He doesn't belleve she wrote in Germany while his wife and liking and to express regret, "that children while parerit have an evening out. Laundry cosis extra, This

the High-season prices quoted by a is

it. Only month ago, she children remained in Russia Ho the beef last night was a Uttle but it is returned in three days. seventh General Election British seaside hotel of com too underdone for the English

pledged in an affectionate letter was liberated by Allled troops in As we see it here, the French to stick by him no matter what the closing stages of the war and since the granting of respon parable size and position: 25.

Under rationing no 'home' hotel summer resort hotelier has no day for adults, 17s. 6d. for chil taste."

happened," sible government 25 years dren, tips not included and could provide every-day menus Anancial advantages

repatriated to Beofland, over hla ago. Parliament was dis- certainly not wine!

ko those. Food prices in Bri-British emtorpart; in

It will be a long time, however, fact, he

Can Go Back solved in July by the Gov QUERY: If the affable Monsieurtain, (retail prices too) make M. is at considerable disadvantages before Aish sees his farm again. ernor, Sir John Kennedy, Joly, here

Joly's eyes goggie..

in food costs. in Jullouville,

His story goes back 48 years to Yet, food, weather,

In Byclo-Russia, : the] Charles Alsh had enough after the defeat, by one vote, offer these prices, typical of hun-

and change of scene apart, he can his birth "Ha," If only I could buy my offer terms which make it worth son of a Scotsman who settled as Russia. He asked his wife to join of a motion of confidence in dreds of French holiday hotels supplies at those prices! I could while for a British family to farmer in Russia.

him in Glasgow. She replied in -hør letter, that she still loved him the Government, ¿.

reduce my charges to the advan-maiso the 350-mile each-way

Loft Alona tago of my guests and myself."

she did not want to leave. har The return of the United

journicy from London.

fatherland. Party Is a vindication, of its which, as in Britain, is. In Steak costs.him 78. Gd. to 8. Throw in the pre-war food, the Alsh grow up in Russla and Alsh', joined the British - hưn policies of greater co-opera- favour of State operation of od. per lb., hom 10s. per lb., but climate, and the stalls eagerness took over his father's farm. When „bands who took wartime wives tion with the adjoining ter-basic industries, has secured ter 38. -por 1b,, eggs Bd. each, to please, and the matter of choice ritories of Northern Rhodesia ons seat and the Dominion Yet, including the 17 per cent of hardly arises and Nyasaland and of free and Liberal Parties none. that 220, per day which goes for

"service, his staff are well paid. No wonder the outward-bound enterprise blended with a The Liberal Party is often He has to pay well. Jullouville steamers from the Channel porte judicious amount of State described as having a policy rather remote, and the season Is have been, and still are, crowded; control-and-the-defeat-for-similar to the right wing of short no wonder the Automobile-Asso the Liberal Party's polley of the British Conservative And French maintenance char-ciation's Superintendent: Lord, mare: segregation between Party. It favours the re-res are just as high as thong in who deftly handles fourists ear Dept., JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD, Europeans and Africans, moval of controls and the Britain. Trench botollet, has traffic at Dover, reports that more maintain an office staff to cope family partles, with young chil- The results so far show maximum encouragement of with focus of forms: just about dren, have gone to Trance "this that the Tarbour Party, free enterprise.

las formidable as any at home, all year than ever before,such,

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In Russia, and in whose 'boħalf the Foreign amoe interonded without auCORED.

the Revolution came, the Soviets ordered, his 'farm: Collostivised niong with all others in the area.

Asch Britten protested through the

A Forelm Office apokeam Embassy, In,' Moscow," "and said today that-- Alah is free to #miraculously the Flussians fat join his wife in Hussin if he wants, -him-keep-his smallplattor to Alsh-preferato await the privately-owned-land in a outcome of the Chilent, proposal tor odlicotivínåd'agriculture. The to be heard at the United Nations adds were his venture would be generi Assembly in Paris de overwhelmed in a short time:""; manding that Rusrian wives «be But Aish was a good farmer allowed to join their husbands. -- and a stubborn one. Helped byl United Fress,