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MARGATE'S MEN OF SUGAR, SUGAR

LITTLE FAITH

They voted for the Cripps plans to step ap production and

EVERYWHERE

By JOHN HALL

Bro

Britain's Labour leaders gave, fect than all the cold logic 'of Sir

Novertheless, the union is ex- their verbai support at the Stafford.

pected to be on ong those who Trades Union Congress last week Today is undeniable that will continue support the For the Amt time since the [been · Importing unrefined sugor

They claim, to policies in which many of Cripps is the least popular of all White Paper.

of early days of the lost war there and molasses at the rate of members of the "Government course, to be a special case.

is a world surplus of sugar-- | 40,000 tons a week and export- them have little falth.

among the trade union movement. The miners, too, will support 100,000 tons of it, enough to pro- ing fine sugar and sugar pro- His waste-curbing policy is ae- the White Paper- and go forward vide people in Britain with four ducts at the rate of 17,500 tons tively resented by many of the with a higher-wage demand months double domestic rations, a week.

Set this fact of surplus nainst Most of

our exports unions, and, in fact, is tolerated based on "the higher cost of liv-the austerity rations

on which sweets, large quantities of which caly because it can be circum-ing."

housewives have to sweeten the go to the Middle Edst, and sugar vented.

What, then, about the new pro-ten, cook, and make jam; set its used by biscuit manufac duction drive?

against the me gre swenta turers, who also do a sizeabla ex- There will be no serious operation, and it doesnt seem to port trade. Earnings from sugpt position, because the proposals make senso,

exports this year have averged offer the prospect of increased The mea who manufacture £500,000 a week. pay without extra effort.

sweets say it does not, in fact. The higher output is to be ob- make sense. They any that tained by more efficient manage-world surpluses, apart from ment, better tanining methods, home stocks, are bla enough to

keep a brake on wages, but the resolutions have only this signi- fiennee: the blg unions .are not prepared to stage on open revolt ngainst their own Labour Gov- errment.

Pulling the revolutions' into practice will be a very different mattor, for stecisions of Congress are, hot binding on Individual urions-not even on those who were a party, to them.

Where The Real:

Response Lies

The real response of the 'trade union

- movement could be determined not in the packed

Nevertheless, Cripps was heard by the Trades Union Congress with respect if not with affection.

By LESLIE RANDALL

and

Wonto-operation with the LaBow Foot Minister. Strachey..)

Moat Labour leaders his "bule-voying, sugar cher. aro sceptical about how this, will Sir William Rook, to give int least the children many more

work out la practice.

But, they will have no difeul-weets. ty in voting for the proposals, be- cause that will commit them to little or nothing.

Winter Gardens at Margate but Nominal support will continue to at the factory and workshop he given to his White Paper; be- ---And Refuse The

cause the Interpretation put upon

Old Remedy

level.

workers increases,

The old-fashioned remedy of longer hours has been dropped. It has been an outstanding ste cess in the stent industry, which has achieved its all-time produc- tio: records Ly working round-the-clock shifts.

Strict 'Security' `

The Food Ministry stays close- Upped about the nation's suxar

Last

"PRAVDA" MEANING TRUTH

Press,

reserves (which are treated like BY GORDON YOUNG a top military secret), April Mr. Strachey sald homo reserves were lower than they

What do they know of England had ever been, with two axeep who only Russin know? Lonat periods, since 1939-but Recently I have been studying since the trade Baya reserves In the things which the Soviet news all-1939-were considerable that gives papers arriving here have told

little away.

Fenders about Britain. The railwaymen, for instance, But the General Council of the One anng about this year's er What are his chances of suc-are going on with their claim for T.U.C. do not like this solution, world surplus is that it is held Renly, you'd hardly recognise the ce?

a 12s. 6d.-a-week increase, al- because they look forward to the by countries which want dinunra Old Country if your only source at of the Sellist movem, without putting up Cripps is one of the Intellec- though. cannot be granted day when the five-day week offor it, and Britain does not have of information was the Russian

the dollars spare. and 40 hours will be general through product

Pre-war, when you could ⋅ gọ Winchester and freight charges. ol

I out industry. London University. He lacks,

down to the grocery shop and „_buy_na_much_sugar_as_you could Below are eight extracts from for the mass of his party, the hu-

afford, sweet-toothed Britain articles in Soviet newspapers. Can man touch.

pet 47,500 tons of sugar every you guess to what or whom each week.

one appiles? Answers, with the Today's weekly average is name of the paper from which 30,000 tons, of which about the somewhat incredible quoia- 10,000 tons are sold over the ion is taken, are given at the grocery counters to mect the foot of the column. domestle ration and the rent to

"Britain "scandal- Capitalist bakers, confectioners, brewers, jum firms, and indus- avery Soviet reader knows. But labour," as caterers, ously exploits child trial users.

Where, The Real Appeal Lies

Any trade union gathering would rise to an appeal from Ernest Bevin because the work-

who

has risen

Bevin would have far more ef-

of

farcs

Blonde Heiress In Red Investigation

Washington, September 20.

The socialite witness, Louise Bransten, was des- cribed by a Committee investigator as a Park Avenue "angel" who contributed heavily to the Communist Party and helped Soviet officials make valuable contacts in the United States.

PARIS GOING GAY FOR UN ASSEMBLY

Paris, September 19.

The Beet Crop

Here are a few examples I dug out to make a Red Quiz,

which is "the great British port where thousands of children work all night unloading cargo and fishing boats"?

2. Where Is "Britain's new -for aggression U.S.S.R. covered

Many people have the iden that Britain is nearly self-sup-military

year.

fords"?

grow-

buse

amount to more than 7,500 tons Imperialis Lord Tedder

"the

7. What British

with

re-

of Jew

Jewish

As an expert analysis of If Sir Stafford Cripps is to it by the General Council is av the basic causes of excessive-chieve his object of rallying the elastic that more than 4,000,000 workers to a great production iy high building costs In

have already had pay! drive his words, when he ad- Hong Kong, it would prob- dressed

and the applications Congiers on Tuesday, ably be difficult to improve will have to carry far beyond are by no means at an end.

Jeli

They'll Still Ask For upon the findings of the the conference

He will have to grip the imagi- Committee appointed to

More- nation and fre the enthusiasm of study this problem some the rank and file. several months ago. As a source to which the Govern- ment and private enterprise might turn for guidance in search of short-cut methods | of reducing costs it is less helpful. Ferusal of the en- tire document, indeed, tends. to leave the impression that the story has been too long in the making, that much of the information is already out of date, and further that them: they are proud of the For- ers feel that he is still one of the Committee were strug-lan Secretary gling throughout against theom their own raaks. obvious difficulty-how easy

A few passionate words from A blonde New York hairess with a yearning for to discover what is wrong.

Left Wing politics is billed as the star wit- how complicated the factors

noss in the House Un-American Activitios resisting the remedy. When

Committee's spy hearing today.

porting in sugar. British WILL HOSTESSES PAKISTAN INDIA definite recommendations are

mers have, indeed, pushed ahead strongly with sugar-beet made they are not always BE OUT OF JOB?

3. Of what Englishman con it Ing-over 400,000 acres are be entirely practicable. For

carcer Canton, 'September 20.

ing cropped with sugar-beet this be truly said: "His whole

from his earliest years, has been instance, it is urged upon the Canton's some 300 dancing Government that rent res-hostesses are today wondering

the service of British But home production does not devoted to trictions should be imposed whether they will be out

weekly. Break It down to your] .4

Why upon new buildings. A jobs at the end of September.

Boz-a-week rallon and it means cently fly to Berlin? highly popular idea, but the All dancing balls were originally.

that just under 2öz. are home- 5. Of what educational institu She will appear under a sub-, Branaten and, Adams, whom he produced and just одет Goz. tions in Britain Is it true that inference is that the Gov-to have been closed here early

this year but en appeals by both poena before u serret hearing of has called one of the most-ith have to be imported (A.note doors are firmly cinged to ernment should take every managements and employees the the sub-committee headed by Re- portant of Russia's wartime spies. worthy askie: While the Govern the children of the proletariat. stop to discourage. the local authorities extended the presentative J. Parnell Thomas, He said Adams was a Canadian-ment is collecting £31,000,000 The sona of aristocrsey are de

K anything, speculative builder-when it time limit for closure to Septem-to tell what,

she educated engineer of Finnish an-a year, in duties which put up termined to remain at any price knows about the wartime ac- cestry who was assigned by Mos- the price of home-produced and isolated and in luxury. Instead of must be obvious that with ber 30.

to ferret out American imparted it is generally believed here tivities of the mysterious Arthur cow

sugar it is spending studying they amuse themselves. his elimination under pre- that dance halls will not be off- Adams, alleged Russlan atonue atomic and radar secrets during at the same time £30,000,000 and students flourish there who sent-day conditions all build clally closed and that,

the war. Instead spy.

year on a subaldy to keep down. are morally depraved, drunken, ing would cease. It was the higher taxation will be imposed. Representative Thomas would Adams was supposed to have by 1.0d. per pound, the cost of and debauched"?

fled the United States Reuter, Government's assurance that

not explain the link between Mrs.

when your sugar ration.)

6, What well-known visitor to the war ended and Committee For years the great bulk of the

Games coult he de- houses

Olymple Ga members doubted if he aver our Imported sugar has been scribed as

as "a shob, a tyrunt, a would be kept clear of res-

could be caught. Some bellov-coming from Cuba and

Cox dictator of the American sporting ed he had gone to Russla. trictions that produced the

dollars. Today We have cut world, and, moreover, a militant remarkable outcrop of new

Thirty-nine-year-old, twice-purchases from the dollar areas Nazi and supporter morried Mrs. Bransten presum-

mike Cuba and neighbouring San premises in Kowloon now

ably will be asked whether she Domingo, and the Food Minis pogroms and the lynch law" coming rapidly

Alm, shown at came across Admins in the course try reports that more than half pletion. In a choice lying

of her wanderings before and our sugar imports are now com- the Czech Film Festival, won the between

during the war, when she was ing from sterling areas thig verdiet from the comrades that it no restrictions or

British West Indies, British was "n vulgar detective story, no houses, there could be

prominent figure in Left Wing circles In New York, Washing-

Gulans, Mauritius.

harmful and demoralising"?

8. Which of Britain's ailles only one policy. .Similarly

ton and California. with the proposal for gov-

was it whose soldiers, instead of fighting, "travelled across the ernment financing in order

put to reduce interest charges.

at their disposal by the Ger Ideally, it is the perfect an-

was tagged by an investigator swer to ong of the stiffest

Guessed them all? Well, what ration. · Sugar experts are catit- Louis Russell, as an active cup-lous about these chances.

do you think now of the Press handicaps to would-be home-ny over the 40,000 square yards the Republic, and a gala per Left Wing causes. Russell sald

On that day, aeroplanes will Vincent Auriol, the. President of

porter

of various Communist and They say: The foot that which has “għaken off the felters builders, and the main ob- territory of the International state formance at the Opera House.

ANSWERS.-1. Hull she had staged lavich entertain-there is a surplus this year is of capitalist commercialism"?

(Kom- stacles to all the co-opera-of "Unosla" facing the Eiffel Hunting Party. ments for Communist and Ruabound to bring prices down. If tive building schemes which Tower on the other side of the

things go smoothly in the Dutch somnol Pravda). 2. Cuprus (Prav The Paris Municipal Counci: stan offcials and was what run- East Indies and production gets ta). 3, Bevin (New Timer), 4, included provisions for pur- Seine.

has granted

To reemile Germans us R.A.F, The planes will trace the in- United Nationa

a reception for fidence mon call a "loader" for back to normal there will be chase through rents: Inter-tials "O.N.U." (Organisation des historic Hotel do Lauzun, one al

the Reds-arranging delegates At the with people a spy wanted to use. of sugar."

contacts rapid change, possibly n glut pilots (Pravda). 5. Orford and Cambridge (Trud). }, "line est charges are so heavy that Nations Unis) in large letters in the places of interest visited by wealthy New York family and that so for this year we have The American Army (Izvestie)

She La the daughter of n potential subscribers have the sky. had to abandon the project.

The official programme of wel: Princess Elizabeth during her The Government might be come includes a reception by M. official visit to Paris at Whitsun reportedly inherited the bulk of An official at the headquarters after his death in 1929. She is her father's US$2,000,000 estate induced to change its policy

of the United Nations at the if it could be shown that

Palais de Chaillot, where the blue the former wits of Bruce Min- ton, once owner of a Commun- adequate finance-capital to the point, perhaps, is the United Nations day is now tying ist, magazine, and is now married would be available through hint that the Government salt: "The official reception will to a New York movie loans or bonds. The expert- might pay its bills a little probably include a hunting party United Press.

at the French President's lodge at ence provided by the recent more promptly. Now as al- nambouillet.

When the flotation of the HK$50,000,000 ways it is a notable feature of

United Nations 334 per cent loan was not Government. financing that comes to town," he added, "Paris will really again become a elly of one calculated to encourage demands for payments due fights. Inside Notre Dame Cathe- further experiments within to the Government are curt-dral, which will be especially ilt the Colony, though we ven: ly peremptory, whereas for the occasion, there will be a

the suggestion

that official accounts to local firms grand symphony concert,

"On a Hong Kong bonds could de-are frequently months over Eiffel Towel will be floodlit and pend upon a satisfactory re- due, and interest charges ac there will be an elaborate fire ception in, say, London. cumulate.

works display in the gardens of Most of the remaining re-

There are one or two con- the Palais de Chaillot." commendations of the Com-tradictions. The Committee mittee, and they are many, enlarges upon the high cost varied and much to the of labour and the reduction point, suffer from the weak in its output, but if it has ness that they do not permit anything to say about the depleting the activfiles, an

and aims Booth. He was ushered in as soon of immediate application, but scale of contractors: profits, of the Jalted Nations.

as_ko_ arrived. are rather in the nature or the facts are pretty deeply will be played by the jewel and cord number of voters. The ave

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Early estimates showed a re- a long-term programme. To buried. The Committee also perfumers merchants of the ex parties lined up at the palls, with the solution of meeting the comes out flatly against preclusive Rue most urgent need of the fabricated houses on grounde planning a towel Paix, who are their present strength in the moment, housing accomwhich might be more ac Hospital Charity Bail of

On October 14 the famous Democrats 115 Conservatives 39, lower income brackets whose practical test, while strongly of the United Nations. A large poppie's Party expected; to gain modation for those in the ceptable were they put tots Blane will be he the Pelts Agrarians 85, People's Party 20

In honour and the Communists 15 capacity to pay is strictly urging the importation of scale fashion show will also be limited, they contribute re-more- building materials in held in the Opera House for the strength at the expense of the latively little. Technical prefabricated form. These, benefit of United Nations visitors Social Democrat Reuter. *** and statistical research, voca- however, are smallish points. from all parts of the world,

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date-yet to be "Axed, the

Jowal Fortival

Parla shopkeepers are getting Nations Day" which will be mark together to organise un. "United ed by special window displays

festival"

Tours are Fon.].

A "Loader"

'Experts' Ifs

invallgation into the Commun

During the Committee's 1917 Increasing production in these Reich comfortably in trains ist influence in Hollywood, she your chances of a bigger sugar man

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Swedish Premier Stands In Queue

Stockholm, September 10. The Socialist Premier of

Sweden, M. Tage Erlander, sfood in a queuo for an hour today to cast his vote in the country's general · election for the Lower Chamber of Parlia ment.

fessor Bertil Ohiln, lender of the His principal opponent, Pro People's Farly, voted at: another

Lower Chamber, are: the Social

The Conservatives and tha

Building Ordinance, may provided in the various apked the Municipal Councils of graphs recordad

French Government has also Fordham University

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0040 lighten the load for future pendices should prove of Cannes Barrit and Angers to moderately

generations, but can hardly high value in both private invitation to the data: 4,450 miles from Now Yark in an he expected to produce cheap and governmental planning rate to visit I

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