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U.S.

LABOUR EXPECTS

1.

MUCH FROM CONGRESS

War Hits The Brush Trade

الحمد

Philadelphia, December 31.

The American Brush Manu- facturora Association sald the Chiness civil war de have Ing very serious affect upon the manufacture paint brusńca,

·

"Chinees

bristles,

of

piga"

bristles, constitute the basic raw materiel out of which aur best paintbrushes art made." the Assoolation salg.

Associated Press.

Learned To Counterfeit

In Prison

Chicago, December 30 Two

und twe Japanese Japanese Americans, who sati they had planned to make lots of money from

what one

uf

them learned in prison, were arraigned today

feiting ebarges,

on counter

The men were seized, in a razi Jarre before they could print wad pics bogus altis Secret Service agents said they seized counter friting

equipment, ncluding plates for

bilt # US$20 photographie negatives for US$50 inils

were

The four

arrested men Isamu Honda, alias Fred Honda, 35. Yashio Kone, 31. Kyosh Endow, 45, and Kayoshi Hyeda, 45.

Agent said Kono and Honda were Americans of Japanese ant- erstry.

while Endow and Uyeda

wele

Japanese aliens,

Records here

Uyada served

Quentin Prison,

a alaying

showed that term at Ban California, on charge

agents and Was Once an

Washington, December 31.

The new U. S. Congress, which is to be convened next month, is practically certain to give or- ganised labour many of the things it has boon demonding.

Union leaders jubilantly are predicting better things for labour. President Truman promised it to them throughout the campaign. And they claim the new Democratic Congress will have a larger bloc of members favourable to organ- ised labour's objectives than any congress since the early New Deal days,

3) Revision of the T-Hart- ry Act. Labour wart outright repeal of the art tried by

"slave lab law. Unions be a

Here' hre

some of things | new law, if the unions and the the lawmakers are expected to administration "have

their way. will eliminate any ban on closed give labour;

or unton shops, eliminate ali but one or two of the union practices aufjawed as unfair by the Taft-

limit the use Harlicy law,

Injunctions anti-strike

to ma tional emergency cases and re- inove most restrictions on wel- fare funds.

But the unions undealterly will not all they want Mr. Tru- Beat non tants it repealed ton. even be wants à un taute jaw, re-macting some

T-11 jovisions,

Wage Increase

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The requireinent thest Wo Ble non-Communist statements i

kely to be extried to ployers.

Other Side

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of

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1949.

Devotion

To Duty

Bhanghai, December 31.

Orders are orders for BomB Chinese soldiers.

And

William Severt of FT&. mont, lowa, Operations Chlet of Major. General Clair Air CIVIF Channault's Transport today told of soc- ing two dead soldiers two dead horses Just Inalde Palping gate when he was. leaving. He asked a guard at the gate what had hap.. pened.

The guard sald, "We had orders to shoot any soldiers trying to get out of the city. We They tried to get out. shot them."

.Sever! said. "How about those horsea?"

The guard replied, "They tried to get out too."-United Угова.

EUROPE SAFE

FOR PRESENT, SAYS BARKLEY

Pairs. December 31. Vice President-elect Alban W. Barkley ended an eight-day tour of Europe on Wednesday with the observation that he did not think the Coramunists were going to take the place even during 1949.

CHAMBERS GAVE VITAL GOVERNMENT RATION DISTRIBUTION

INFORMATION TO USSR

Washington, December 30.

House spy hunters today revealed that ox-Com- munist Whittaker Chambers had received and turned over to a Soviet agent at least 51 batches of State Department popors booring informationn about the United States' wor secrets and the Norden bomb sight. The acting Committee chairman, Representative Karl Mundt, said Chombers had at least 52 batches of secret papers stolen for him from the State Department and all except the "Pumpkin Papers" were turned over to Colonel Boris Nyko, Soviet military intelligence agent, who presumably had forwarded them to Mos-

COW.

Mr. Mundi also said the Com- mittee had obtained typewrit- ten notes to on insurance com- pany signed by the former State Department official, Alger Hiss. In 1937 and 1038. He said a typewriter expert had certifed that the letters written on the same typewriter |that hud prouiced some of the "Pumpkin Papers". The Com- mittee has still not found the typewriter.

Information Given

wore

to

to 75

pay

federal (2) A boost in

Congues is ex- minimum wage.

Tru-

The law is expected to carry go along perted to

tou strenduris 20073 has recominerade

flag forward -- without thes minion

m the opposition from wage

Jabour-provi sions boning Jurisdictional Parent 40 cents an

strikes anci SONIC kinds

Mr. Mundt's disclosures came cents. That wil

Crops are better, he said, living at a news conference called more than 100,000 | secondary boycotts, and author- increase fot

discuss the Committee's wurken in the user; brue-ty for the Inbour bourd to carve statinrds

latest wre rking, and the

Communist spying in kets. It also expl. la re- erafi units ut of big industrial Marshall Plan is working. These report on

the United States. contributed to

The report for one of the bargaining units.

things, he said, sufe in raises

A for By the

the minimum

Economie suid Chambers testers that |22,000,000 others voven

wage cermonie stability. dew when how are not at more and hour inw, the administra-

stability

brought poiltired stability, had received and transmitted to

Kurslan agents: tion 18

15 studying

or 20 "The mora stable Bovern, Thu 75 cents an hour

(3) Expanded

to raise the mini. ment la politically and econo. amendments 10021 202ur. ity. Most Democrats in Con

mum wage, expand coverage

Barkley said. mically." and deal with several other

"the better able it la to stop the greas seem to be th sympathy with the administration

issues raised in administration encroachment of Communism pro. gramme

of the law. social

or roll it back." Ife would no! addl.

predict that thane would not be a war between the the ted States and Russla be Cause, said, one could not pre- diet whit the Russians might rin

to extend

security to millions of

These changes are expected to tional workers and increase its modify some of the provisions benefits.

of the so-called Portal Pay Act which outlawed union claims of $8,000,000,000 for back pay for such activities as chang-x

"Mr.

Stranded Men Bored

On IcecapTM

Argentia, Newfoundland,

December 30,

Colebyl Major General Haynes of the Air Force, suld today that boredom was just about the greatest hardship 12 American afffered by the airmen who were stranded atop a Greenland Icecap.

He must he greeted the men at Greenland I base in- Western he

about 30 minutes Lifter They were snatched off the frecap two ski-equipped C-

days ago by

47.

General Haynes, who is com- | mandant of the air buse at Fort Popperall, Newfoundland, dis- cussed the reaction of the re-

(1) Information concerning new equipment being develop. (2) A od by the U.S. Navy.

AW metallurgical formula.

at of Intelligence

in the other nations States and naval reports.

A (3)

agenfa

United

intelligence scued flers in a telephone inter-

view with correspondents

Chambers Argentia. contric: for Washington The report ex-spy

The report quoted saying he was a Respy ring in from 1032 to 1038,

another confessed was Elizabeth Denticy.

Reorganisation The Lat-of 1047 bow Department. Laben secrè- tary Mattelee J. Tobina ask

ing work clothes, walking to the "But we are not going to move sald Endow

Jo extensive porgan on o

Joh site and other non-prodite out of Berlin, and there will be sald his department and grefer, con mate of Folsom Penitentiary

the no baking up from the position five services. The hun on over tim goveranel's la- They said Uyeda told them heu alfatrs.

back pay suits will retained, we have taken," he said,--Asso- Tearnest

how to make counter will give him

chiel Prast, however-United Press, of feil plates while

hile in prison and what he he ant others turned out quant-ck him, btils. States

sioner,

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VICH

feast.

4 great deal

asks and Jalur

most of th

will

way at

has

ties of counterfeit

The United,

Commis

Hul the Arst order at business Mr. Edwin, set bond of

when the new Congres conveng! US$10,000 for Honda and Konin January, as far a

omer is US$5,000 ach for Endow

concerned, will be reped of the Uyed. At Washington the Taft-Hartley Javw. Secret Service chief. U.E. pledged total repeal et Vie act. Baughman, Fi L the arrests. But he also promised vulėstitu- ipset the counterfeitin plot tion of a fair and just ferti before 管

uscles

way. Agents said that Kono, a pro- fessional photographer, - admited making the negatives for The plates.--United Press.

got

JAP RECOVERY IN PAST YEAR

Tokyo, December 31. Greatly improved economic conditions in Japun In 1948 have enabled her people to look

Watertight Anti-Spy Bill Proposed For U.S.

State and communications before during the war."

Paying For Spies

0111

Al

He said although the men હાઈ not "auffer much** they were more than happy to off the 7,800 foot lay plateau where some of them had been

be

marooned

ned for 20 days. He said the men generally in good physical condition.

Include the

they

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The Commitice said Chambers Congress probably

group operated during the period

were added: war and preceding the

It is likely Nazi Germany and Car of them suffered from a cut the head but it was no1 Japan may have known 02

♫ stitch," code erwugh tor Department secret

The group of rescued airmen and

will leave Greenland tony for New York where the air force SEE AND HEAR THE NEW MODELS NOW AT: promised them a hero's walconie

General Haynes

THE RADIO PEOPLE, 31, Nathan Road, Kowloon sald would

three men for THE TSANG FOOK PIANO CO., Marina House, Hong Kong It quoted Chambers as saying from the original group forced that the Communist spy ring re-down on the icecap on Decem-

OR AT members. crulled

primarily In

ber 9. He said the families of the United Sintes, for operations some of the men are in Green- in Japan, Germany, France, land and for that reason they

and other countries. will not relum

to the Chambers testified that on one States.United Press,

casion he took a money bei containing about US$10,000 tu San Francisco, for the purpose of Anancing West Coast spy operations.

Labour Wants Mora

Union

Washington, December 30.

The Justice Department is pressing for a quick go- ahood on one of the most severe anti-spy bills over proposed in this country, it was learned today,

measure is now before the Budget Bureau which wants to submit it to other government agencies for approval. The Justice Department, however, is opposed to this move on the grounds that it would delay Congressional

action.

The AFL and CIO at ser an- nual conventions spellet out in detail other specifle asiation they want from the Con- gress, These Include expanded social security

and erloyment The ervices, establishment a per- nament foir employment prae- fices commission, D.

workers education service and group medical aid plan.

officials are Nonfident

· take- that this Congress wi them off the defensive for the forward to the

year first time in more than ib

years. with greater confidchce, Lieu-Union leaders are convinced the

Department officials said At- fear of endangering civil rights. tenunt-General H. C. H. Robert-election hus reversed the trend torney General Tom C. Clark Department lawyers hope the son, Commander-in-Chief, Bri-and put them on the offensive. may possibly take the matter new bill will prove acceptable. tish Commonwealth Occupation; Sixty-aight Congressmen directly to President Truman in Force, told the Japanese people in a New Year message.

Industry has made raph strides in recovery, food short- ages have lessened and

many more buildings have been erect- cd, he said.

coming

who voted for the Tet-Hart an effort to have the bill ready ley were defeated on November when Congress convenes next 2. In all, labour backed more month. than 120 members of the new House and 12 of the Senators elected or re-elected.

The new Congress is expected

General Robertson urged the by labour to restore moy of the

Japanese people to follow the example af Great Britain. whose people, he said, are still induring great privation In order to concentrate on ro. covery and to help other coun.

trigs.

"It is by such unselfish acts on the part of people that nations show their true greatness of de- mocracy and give the great in- spiration to all mankind.

Wagner Act's provisions.

New Canal Proposed

Now Provisions

10

in the present

The measure is designed black loopholes The

espionage act. It

Madison, Wisconsin, December 30.

adoption of these principles posed that a canal be built in would be for all men and women Lower Mexico to provide an- (of Japan) to exercise their right|other waterway between the to vole at the next elections, Atlantic and Pacific Ocuns. and so ensure that their nex1 William H. Hobbs, University government is fully representa-

"The best proof of Japanes A geographer today pro-

in co-operation

was prepared with the FBI and intelligence officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

Under its provisions: (1) The statute of present three-year limitations on espionage prose- cutions would be eliminated. (2) It would be a crime for any federal official to fail to report the theft of secret documents.

trained in (3) All persons espionage or sabotage by a foreign power would be 20- quested to reglater,

The Committee inid down a ave-point programme to protect be nation from Communist spy ing: (1) Communist control legislation. (2)

United

BRITAIN NEAR COAL TARGET

the target of 211,000,000 tons..

London, December 30. Britain's total coal output dur- 1948, with one week to go before the coal year ends, has Strengthening reached 205,818,000 tons towards anti-espionage. (3) Increase in the penalty for contempt of

This compares with 103,000,- Congress to a minimum of Ave

000 tons in the same perlod inst years in

prison and

US$5,000

year. fine.

Last week's output dropped 4) Study of the immigration from the previous week's record laws and passport visa regula- total of 4,585,300 tons to 3,820,- tions to determine what changes 1400 tons.-Reuter.

the recent disclosures of spying are necessary to prevent disloyal

They are known to feel that within the government may have elements from entering the coun- convinced the law-makers that try and remaining. (5) Con- the present law is inadequate for tinuance of the House Un-Am- the protection of the nation's | erican Activities Committee.~~~ internal security.--United Press. United Press.

West German Statute Up

For Discussion Soon

London, December 30, Talks on the future occupation Statute for Western Germany are now likely to tako place on Jan- uary 10, it was learned today from usually reliable sourcos.

Britain will probably

be 10-

(4) It would legalise the use of presented by the head of the

of Michigan emeritus professor, evidence obtained by wire- German Department

of the

after the elections some time next May.

Sir William Strong has charge

tive of a peace-loving and co-aid a canal of greater apacity tapping in internal security cases Foreign Office, France by her of the Foreign Office's German operative people."-Reuter.

and less vulnerability than the and would permit intelligence Ambassador In London, M. Rene Department until next

Dauntless Duchess

Madrid, December :30.

The pretty, suburn-haired Duchess

Panama Canal is needed.

agents to have access

month,

to now-Massigli, and the United States, when he will be succeeded by

In the absence on leave of the Sir ne Kirkpatrick.-Reuter. Ambassador, Mr. Lewis Douglas,

In a speech to the Nationalforbidden telegrams and gables. Geographers Convention fire, Mr.

Hobbs said a combined ops ditch Congress Cautious

und tunnel sen-level canal across

the Tehuantepec Isthaus in

Lower Mexico, about 1,000 miles

by the Charge D'Affaires, Mr. J.

The

conference will try to re-

C. Home.

Attorney General Tom Clark

aro tar

Europe Does

North of Panama; will much contends present espionage laws solve the two points of deadlock Much Better

less vulnerable.

of Valencia, 37, has been

sen-

powers

of

«

future

the

Paris. December 30. The United States Office of

for effective which have held up occupo- The new canal outlined by M. work against foreign spy operation Statute negotiations on.

Military Governor level, The tenced to one year in gool for Hobbs would run from the Gulf tons.

German writing anti-Franco leaflets, hold-at Puerta Mexico to the Pacifis

Despile Clark's pleas for Supreme Court in Interpreting the Economic Co-operation Ad- ing secrel Monarchist meetings at Laguna Interior, The Tehuan-

and the question ministration announced yester- In her home and general under- teper project would have twin tightening of the laws, Congress the Statute

act for whether the future West Ger- day that key industries in nining the prestige of the Franco waterways, each for (e-way has been unwilling to

man Government or the State Western Europe made marked reglme.

Governments will be responsible increases in output during Her collaborator, Jose Prado 2,000 miles from the Panoma

for collecting occupation costs. 1048. d'Almonte, veteran of the Spanish roule between, the East end West

trafle. His proposal would cut

which fought consts-United Press.

Bulu Division

against the Russians on the East-

six-man

SOLDIERS' LEAVE ENDS IN HOSPITALİ

Salisbury, December 30.

tho

urn front, was given 10 months' imprisonment by military court.

Both have already served most!

of their anlences walle awaiting trial.

RED BACKBONE FOR RUSSIAN

ARMY

Prague, December 30.

Liable To Delay

The coal industry produced 300 Until the occupation Statute, million metric tons this year-18 defining the powers of the Wes-million tons more than in 1947.

Nine ERP countries turned out tern Allies after the creation of

of steel a West Gormon Government is 40 million metric tons

Ingots and coatings—an increase Communist Party members as complete and, has beca handed Two 19-year-old soldiers who signed to the Army will receive to the German politicians (now 10 milion tons over last year. Electricity production rusO 10 had hoped to hitch-hite from higher instructions as army com drafting Western Germany The Duchess candidly admitted Cornwall to London E leave manders in the coming year, the Constitution at Bonn)

per cont during 1040.' the draft

Food rationing

has

caked having written antl-Franco pro-finished up instead in Salisbury Communist Party headquarters

constitution for Western

partly through ECA Imports and paganda and served notice that Iniprary today suffer from announced here today.

many cannot be completed.

partly through improved agricul- she would continue to do so, but bend Injuries. fracture Anid

The Allied fallure to agree tural production: denied holding secret Monarchist braken bones.

All Army officers will meetings in her home. She said They were riding in a furniture schooled "to increase their politi these were social gatherings and removal van when aver-cal consciousness." Communists "111 continue to invite guests to turned and the two soldiers and were told to make themselves my home whenever I choose."- the driver were delabad In the organising backbone of all Walted Press.

| hospital--Reuter,

Army C

be

Ger

on the terms of the occupation Western European families are Statute le consequently' flable not eating as much as thor, did to hold up the timetable which before the war, but there is maro forasses the establishment of = an their tabits this your thân last. West... German. Government-Reuter.

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