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THE CHINA MAIL,, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1948;

Horner

Still Urges

Aid For French Miners

London, Octobor 16.

Wives Wanted Mr. Will Lawther and Mr. Arthur Horner, the quarrolling leaders of Britain's 650,000- Aboard Ships

strong Minoworkers Union, will meet face to face on Monday for the first time since their. cross-Channel dispute on Mr. Horner's sup- port of the French minces' strike.

Cardiff, October 16.

A reaolution demanding that offloors of the Merchant Navy be allowed to take their wives with them to sea moved nl the Annunt Was Conference of Navigators and Engineers Union here today.

"The Impossibility of lead Ing proper married life,” the resolution anya, "is the

of primary cause

officers The leaving the sea,

pre- women on board sence of would have a' beneficial ef fect ma excEBRUA away from home are largely due to the abronce of woman's restrain. ing influence.”~~Router.

Elections Boycotted

Istanbul, October 10. Turkish parliamentary bye-elec- tions will be boycotted by the op position parties tomorrow when more than one million people are due to go to the poll.

to

The Democratic Party and the Nation's Party, abstaining from contesting 13 vacant seuls in the Grand National Assembly, re rging the people not to vote. The reason given is that these parties regard the present system

vates of checking

us open fraud.

The Government People's Party is, however, opposed at the ballot by Independents in all 13 an siitueneles including Ankara and In- Istanbul. As many as 25 dependents have been nominated

gainst

can- the Government didate here. For the first ume 1:1 be In Turkey, poling will

Govern closed booths and the

the reaffirmed

as- ment has Murances given about the secrecy the public of the ballot au counting of the vutes--Reuter

BRITON GAOLED

IN SHANGHAI

Shanghai, October 18,

sen-

A. British engineer was fenced to four months in a Chi- nese fail because be paid for a new apartment In American dal- tars.

Mr: Horner, the Comumnist Secretary General of the Union, returned by air to London today from Paris-prepared to argue his right to act. as he did at the Conference of the Communist- led French Confederation of Labour.

Mr. Lawther-President of 1

"These are economic questions

the Union and chairman of the and no attempt to attribute the Trades Union Congress-ob-actlens of the French miners to week that subversive political objectives can jected earlier this

esenpo from these facts. Mr Horner's attitude does not of the the views represent

that the Union and declared French miners would get no miners in help from British their strike.

"Ninety-eight per cent of the French miners took part in the vote to strike dr not to strike, and 90 per cent voted in favour! of the strike.

I discern in the strategy now! As he stepped from the plane being applied in France similariti today. Mr. Horner told reporters:frs to that, which is being pre- "The French miners are, no fools and they are entitled to expect support from their mining col- leagues in other lands."

pare for the British miners.

Become Farcical

He declared: "This thing did not start when I went to Paris. Et was launched before that. The crux of the matter is that they hate prepared for war and they think it will be very inconvenient to imprison me if, at that time,application of measures

British I nm in the postilon of General Secretary.

Industry

1

in

Marquess Wed In Chiswick

London, October 18. George Charles Henry Vic- tor. Pabet, the seventh" Mar- quees of Artplassy was mar- Pied at Chiswick Parlah Church today to Miss Eli24- beth Ohirtoy Vaughan Mar. gan, the only daughter of the Charles novelist,

Morgan,

and Mrs. Morgan.

Queen Mary 'who attended the service was cheared by about 400 well-wisher and onlookers who had gathered ahout the church,

The groom, who la 25 years of egi, was a former private Becretary to Lord Inverchapat in Washington. He succeed. ed to the title fast year on the death of là falhar who was for many years. Lord Cham. Eerlain to Queen Mary Reuter.

"TRIAL OF FREE THINKING"

Paris, October 18. The trial of 12 Amerigan Com munist leaders due to open in

organ,

"For instance, in the nationalis- New York on November 1, is in

Communist the French ed industry in France, the work-reality the "trial of free thinking," ers', intervention in its actual

Humanite, declared today." control has become tarcical.

of the advo

advocacy am aware

If the accused are convicted, certain circles In Britain for the the paper sold, it will mean that to the "henceforth there is a state doc- conl

which trine of American imperialism would return control to the hands which it would be illegal to cri- of divisional dictators and would ticise". remove divisional boards which

in this country. now exist TU-

"know, too, of the resistance which has been offered by the Government to the redundacy It is for these reasons scheme. which affect the cinily Ute of the Brilish miners as well as the

that French miners

was em- phatically supporting the French mern' strike.

"Evidently

decision has the been made to endeavour to move me befure that contingency

arise."

aud

By "they" Mr. Horner said he

Government meant the

rightwing lenders."

Part Of Campaign

of

the cam-

"This is all part paiga, not only against me but all Communists in key positions "They in any uulon," he added. should know that none of us will engage in a struggle against the Socialist sixth of the earth."

**

the

"What the New York Judges want to impose on the world Humanite

an continued, American truth corresponding to American expansionist almo and which would be defined in each country by a local pastel- ROP".

Humanite accused the Amori can Government of resorting to was in the victory of the the classicial trick whereby plot- Franch minera the defeat of

world of torn: accuse the whole the effort which is being pro ploting. parad dgalnat

British minera and ! think it is all. In every place where a strike

one pattern-the breaks out, part

the paper declared, American pattern for the rathe Americans. "seck the hand of construction of Europe at the | Moscow"-Reutre. expense of the working clase.”

of

Lawther

Explaining his reasons for sup- porting the miners. Mr. Horner wald: "I have examined the con-

Mr. Horner said that be would

"I will, say, no more now ditions under which the French see Mr.

in the usual) err miners took

is a complete their decision to strike, and I am satisfied, after way on Monday morning at the than that there

Union offices in London.

answer to all this. As Mr. Hor- the most enreful study, that their

He arided that he would rener says he will put a complaint Helion was completely justified.

purt on his visit to the Executivé on the agenda af the next Exe- meeting, the matter Committee meeting on October❘cutive

must rest there for the time bo-

"The cost of living has gone up in France by at least 40 par cont in the past year but the miners have rocalvad hardly Incomes any Increase in their to meet this coel

dis-

28.

Mr. Lawther added: "To sug- gest that measures are being taken against British miners is a gross travesty of the facts and an in-. sult to the Minister of Fuel and Power and to the Labour Gov- ernment."--Reuter.

Answering question about ing." his verbal exchange with Mr. John Turner of the American-

Lawther, Mr. Honnor eald: "I owned Shanghaj Power Company,

shall put it on the agenda 1* was recused of paying US$0,556

complaint against a colleague." as "key money" bonus to get an apartment. lie was arrested on "Their fight to control

Mr. Lawler when told of Mr. May 10.

missals and to casure that work-Horner's statement, told a report Turtier told the Court that he ers rendered redundant are rea

and that mine paid for the apartment with a sonably treated Pheck on New York which in-workers, risking ns they do it- volved no transfer of foreign jury to a greater extent than any funds in China, thus not break- other workers, should have ad- Ing the new Chinese economic ditional supplementary things, is

restrictions-Associted Press. very dear to my heart.

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