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LABOUR TO DISCUSS ELECTION PLATFORM

BRITISH LABOUR UNREST

Londen, June 4. Hopes of settling the "every Sunday" railway

strikke

41.

Blackpool, June 4.

The Labour Party, jolted by setbacks in recont local elections, opens its annual conference hore on Monday.

It will approve a platform for its fight to retain sontrol of the Government in next year's gen-

eral elections.

Organisers

fitact delegates instreamed

Dware Into Dinckpool North and North East England that the next 12 months will be in time for this week-end's crucial period for the Labour swept inte holidaymakers regime which was Whitsunde were finally dashed today when power in 1945. leaders decided to continue their strike at midnight to night, for the third consecutive Sunday.

Strikers' delegates met at York

dispute, to discus the

begua when new schedules were intro- duced compelling engine to spend nights away from home

crews

on.

After the three-hour meeting, the Chairman announced:

TO- is definitely night's sirike We have re-affined our decision to strike on Sundays until the railway executive gives us some Indiention that they will revert to the position before the new lodging turns were introduced on

May 23 and to resume negotia- tions from there."

After three years of unbroken electoral successes, the Socialist movement ran into two biller de fents in mal

etections In the past few months.

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Resolution Against Conscripition

its

Ballbury, June 4.

today are the abolition

The National League of Young Liberale approved at here Annual conference

resolution calling for of compulsory military service in Britain.

The resolution declared the fallure of conscription is self- evident. I

for Also called substantial Improvement of long term volunteers.

The conference voted pro- posals for a 15 per cent in. crease in pay for all Service ranke, equal pay for Bervice- women, and for an immediate Improvement in barracks and barrack equipment. Reuter.

Gold Fever Grips Stock Exchange

Johannesburg, Juno 4: South Africa's “Littio man” scraped together his savings today to join in the gold fover which gripped the Union's Stock Exchange following yesterday's report of a fabulously rich striko on an Orange Free State farm.

Crowds blocked the Exchange entrance as typists, secretaries, clerks, telephone girls, all tried to get in on South Africa's latest gold boom. Mining experts' caution over Dhe significance of the And had Htle effect on the hysterical buying.

KACHIN LEADER A SMUGGLER

Shares of the Free State Gold

who Areas Company,

hold an option on the form. trebled in

Rangoon, June 5. value in 24 hours the noon que- tation bring 40 shillings com-

Duwa Zaw Rip, chairman of Counell, was pared with yesterday morning's the Kachin State price of 15/3d.

arrested on Friday by excise au- With

the thorities at Rangoon airport for it announcement of the find, busi- allegedly smuggling oplum, nesmen and option hunters be- was officially learned on Satur- sleged the village of Hennenmen. day. five miles from plead with

few hours of

London. June 5. The veteran clot. Oscar Hemolka, and the actress, Joun Tetzel, left on Saturday for a undis- Some party leaders profess to honeymoon trip to an see nothing simileast in the set- clored part of England.

Their marriage In New York a others are bocks, but

worried that

before boarding the Mr. Winston Churchill's few hours hard-ghting Conservatives are liner Queen Elizabeth was dla

cloxed by Miss Tetzel in a trans- winning back Important ground.

atlantic broadcant on The conference this year.

Friday the view of these

night. lenders, must nation the

The ship left New York on May with the impress

and virility of the La-29 and arrived in Southampton necessity and bour cause, and must win even

property owners. on Friday. Homolka is 50, Tetzel Both played in the Brond- ils policy of 27. wider support for

capital of Mingaladon. and way run of the play "I Remember of industry nationalisation

Mamo."-Associated Press, expanded social services.

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Thus, there are reports that the Labour Party platform for the period. 1950-1955 may be forced to a vote.

The delegates will meet again in York next Thursday, he said.

The present plan is to stage a Hundreds of Whitem travellers,

debate on its Contents two-day knowing tomorrow's traffic was!

and use the arguments presented uncertain, left early from King's to mostify it if the party exeative Cross, London terminus for the considers this necessary. North East.

Labour delegates

Soni

feet

Before the railwaymen's decl-that any changes should be made sion was known, British Railways on the spot. had already cancelled 28 holiday

trains, due to run tomorrow,

The "go slow" policy enforced at n number of railway Roods depots this week s D protest

the delays in against

awarding wifge increases of 10 shillings per head weekly, continued today despite on appeal by trade union leaders to the men to resume Bermal work-Reuter.

GUN BATTLE

IN BERLIN

Berlin, June 5, Soviet sector German police to night captured a father. moller

and 18-year-old son after a gun

Botter Wages

The platform was embodied in #booklet "Labour Belirves เค early in April.

was published Deltal," which

NO STANDING WITH THE GIRLS Douglas, Isle of Man, June 5. Explaining difculties in recruit- ing British men for scavenging jobs, Buningham's Deputy City Engineer, Mr. D. G. Bevan, told municipal engineers' conference

scavenger, here: "To be garbage can emptier or a sewer cleaner does not give a man anv standing with his lady friends."

-Reuter,

ITALIAN LABOUR WAR CONTINUES

Rome, June 4.

Italy's labour war continued today with anc-day Northern centres, general strikes in two Forli and Rimini.

farm The strike at 1,500,000

its workers entered

18th day while Government officials strove hard to prevent a threatened nn- tional walk-out of 500,000 build-

One of it themes is that "Bring workers. tain cannot trust the Tories."

Its major sections call for

1.

tion;

A drive to increase produc-

A work-for-all programme Nationalisation of industrial Insurance, the cement and sugar Industries;

4.

A

nt

manufac-

Itellan motorcar turers reported that production had dropped by 30 per cent na result of the industry's three monthe old "go slow" mavɗ- ment

The Northern one-day strikes This, they said, led to a delay wern in protest against the ser- of several months in delivery. lous injury of woman picket Consequently, new cars are be Yesterday

Forli, whereing sold at over-the-list prices.- workers, attempting to return to | Reuter, a strike-bound engineeing shop, clashed with pickets,

RAMIE MILLS Scattered incidents still marked the farm workers' strike

Orlando, Florida, June 5. A mill for national

established three wage agreements which has,

far, have cost the years ago to produce ramie-a

Encouragement for private a seientific enterprise, including council to assist industry:

8. Better wages, technleni nid and assistance to rural England, of three people and injuries strong lustrous fibre, said by

and

battle in a Berlin flat.

6. The family were part of a gang

Continuation of the drive wanted by the police and police for increased social services. headquarters sold "veritable The booklet boasts that before arsenal" ol small-arms were the war there were 11,000 peo found in the flat.

ple who had incomes over £3,000 Seven other members of the a year ufter taxes Now the When figure is only 250-United Press-

Kiuig were arrested later. the police first approached the Rouse the father and son shot al them from a Arst storey window. -Reuter.

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will be among the features of MAS Melbourne, Australia's serond aircraft carrier being · built in Britain, according to the "Sydney Sunday Herald" today.

The newspaper said that other the carrier-to cost features of about A£7,000,000, will include rmlor devices to chart the course of hostile ships and aireraft from greater distances and with great- er accuracy thun hitherto thought possible.

A direction-finding bear will also be installed to detect and follow the movements of sub- marines.

control devices and

No gunnery will allow rapid, accurate concentrated fre on invisible tar- gets. The carrier is expected to be ready in 1952.-Reuter,

Paris, June 4.

The Lorraine descendants of Mathias Slebert, who emigrated America in 1872 and died there 12 years ago leaving $700,- 000,000 to be divided among his family, have learned that another Jarin expatriate, the brother of Ma- thias, has just died in America, bequeathing $420,000,000,-Reu-

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LIBERTY

to ab

about 200 others in clashes some to be superior to cotton between strikers and non-er rayon. has been sold at strikers.

public auction. It was Ramic

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No strike has yet been called Mills lof Florida Inc., and was in the building trade but the sold for US$186,827, National Builders Federation C. B. Moak, agent for the buy- threatened on Thursday to renew er, said that Ramie Mills has the agitation province by pro- more than 600 seres of ramie vince, beginning today, if out- under cultivation and arrangement standing problems (wages) are will made to contlaue production.

not settled to its satisfaction, ---Associated Press.

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to the farm. formers and

other Erdfeel Farm is owned by Mr. J. Van Rensburg, a rich, retired option on the 4,200-acre property for about £220,000,

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The arrest was made as Duwa

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Exports Cautious Mining experts way that the rich strike must be considered conjunction with cartler borehole rosulla

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