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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1949.

THE EPIC OF THE MINERS

FIRST STEPS TO A PLACE

IN THE SUN FOR BRITAIN

troubles

Accom -

Twenty-year Wat

Good Morning!

"Floor from US Shipments to 1.K. puch reduced."

That's going to affect our bread and board.

A visitor is of the opinion that and put to, Liberal, u patriot, Again the cry goes up, Arnot, accepted by the National have to be washed

self-educated, scholar local standards of commercial pro- "Britain needs more miners!" Union of Mineworkers as their bed while asleep; it even happens,plished,

that they lle down. on the way with a rolling command of Jan-bity are high. Business men' aro Man-power is still the No. 1ocial history.

This is the first instalment, home and are found by their gunge and A swift bargaining more syndicate than sinning. problem in our No. 1 industry.

years up to 1910. parents late at night sleep on brain, In its report to the people the covering the

Four hundred pages of un- the 'rond. Reporters & General Moe $2312 National Coni Board said recent emotional, detached documenta- The workers live in the coun-

1y: (four lines)

" the coal Industry human tien, It has none of the humani-try in neglected regions, and it work no Was

This was the man who fought ties of "How Gree

My they do their weary problems re as important its

20-year war for Valley and none of the drame human being outside the police dretessly the engineering problems-particular-

Anally eight-hour day. himself about | the Curce mining Jy because

is hard and of "The Stars Look Down.""

achleved in ,1800. who stood It is sold history. It reminds them...." dangerous work and the Industry;

That was just mora than 100 ft in the great 10-week lock- has a history of strife and unem- us that the men who hewed the

previous out of 1893. Industrial Revolu- years ago. And in the cual, for the

This was the man who first re- ployment.

The Board's policy RL Om-

presented the working class in the House of Commons-la 1874 Advertisements and Business com.ployer is to secure

Alexander

McDonald, Scottish —munitsilons_should be addressed industry in

mineral-secretary p==-li

-and-Thon Burt, from Tyneside, made good the words of the miner's poem: "The Pitman gan to Parlemint.”

All news contributione to Addressed to Editor-in-Chier.

LTD.

ba

A contentext which managemen!

20 the Company CHINA MAIL-and-men can strive togetherta, increase the country's pros- perity!"

That "history of strife and un- employment" is exhaustively re- lated in another book published today. These bold sentences from the second annual report of the N.C.B. would make an apt fore-munt word to The Miners by R. Pags

MARRIAGE

EDE-KWOK-Mr. and Mrs, Frank C. Ede have the honour of announcing the marriage of their daughter. Mabel Mel, to Mr. Ynt-sun Kwok on 12th John's July, 1949, at St. Cathedral, Hong Kong.

PUBLIC WELFARE

In today's issue correspon dents discuss two unofficial organisations ostensibly seck and safe- formed to guard the interests ordinary Hong Kong. resi dents, whose welfare, they

nor few

of the

Victory Over Malaria

By ROLAND HURMAN

the

miners* "squalid forefathers of the, century. tlon were the

--had had its men who carried the torch for wretchedness" the Political Revolution.

chronicler, a Mr. Atkinson, who Mr. Page Arnot is a Com-wrote to the newspapers about munist, but he uses Friedrich En-conditions in the North Eastern gele os reporter rather than pro- mines:

"Cut of from the light phot. Consider. these quotations

heaven for 16 or 17 hours a day, be takes from "The Condition

they are obliged to undergo a the Working Class In England 1844" to paint the ghastly backdrudgery which the veriest slave ground for the introduction of his in the plantations would think

intolerable, for the mighty sum story:

"Men, women,

children of 14 pence," shu work in the mines, in many cases wholly naked, and in most nses nearly so, by reason,of the

the heat, and prevailing

dark, lonely sequences in the mines may be imagined...

Con-

In all fairness, we think it must have been a printer's error:

President Quirino was reported as saying, "I am glad I am not going, to have an opportunity to exchange views" with Chlang.

Myrtle rang up the doctor a 'rew

18 The one picture that does not mornings ago, asking him to come

at once, Han grandfather of the the general frame legendary Keir Hardie. Puge paralysed."

When the medico arrived, sho. Arnot calls him "dashing" and shows him as, at first, unpopular greeted him, smiling, and said "It's all right Grandfather isn't chiefs, Im- with the other miners' che patient of their liberalism

and paralysed at all. He just got both one log of his scornful of their belief that Capi- his legs into tal and Labour could work side trousers, by side.

·

Rebels' Rebel

A contemporary published for three days a notice by a local firan It was to Aght these conditions

of furniture warning -owners Hardie was a rebel among re- that the miners, not urnatually,

1941 to remove it right starled to hand together, County bets in what Page Arnot

dea- Atored

But wouldn't it have been "the mainly and district unione were formed, cribes as

Liberal away. and in the wake of the Chartists epoch of the miners" up to 1910, helpful to have given the Arm's came the Miners' Asmention of where he leaves them with these name and address? Great Britain und Ireland in words: 1841. I died seven yours

later.

"Within a score of years they two, great and not until 1908 were all the

were to take part in colliers' collie

Onally strikes unions

and twa

lock- great First thing that happens to

"Children of four, five, and united in a single federal body. outs, and these on a scale you when your plane rolls to seven years are employed. They

known yeurs greater than

cap.

By J. L. HAYS

each passenger.

"It

Door-tenders

IN

constantly

trade

90

Probably unintentional.

•

"Vehicular traffic on the high-

far way was held up for a long time' be- holding up numerous ears."

pass

to bring about the of private owner-ship

Nationalisation was the Miner's Dream through all those troubled years. Now they, and the rest of the fintion, realise it is not on end in itself, Much remains to be done and much depends on the miners themselves.

There's Change Across

The Atlantic

Ocean

་

•

Don't worry if your job w

gmall And your successes fow... Remember that the mighty nak Was once, a nut like you.

A man took home a parrot as - a prosent for his wife, who asked why it had a string tied to each log. "Pull one, and nec," responded

when she pulled the one on its right.

wonder what would happen

if I pulled both strings together?" ahe naked curiously,

"I would fall off my perch, you fooll" replied the parrot.

The old-time "all-red route"

has a new significance these days.

The story of thuse a stop on the sunbaked runway are set to transporting the are forms the bulk of Page Arnot's fore...They were of Nicosia airport: You For coal loosened by the miner book. In great detail he tells of through great tribulations; and originally claimed, was bent well and truly "DDT.-ed by and to opening and shutting the county, district, and untional con- they were

ferences, of the relentless struggle a government ignored by

poker-faced Cypriot in a khaki doors.

The against the employers for higher their industry. "For watching the doors dominated by vested inter-drill uniform and a blue peaked

smallest children are usually em- wages shorter hours, of the ests.

i hops in through the door, ployed, who thus pass 12 hours miners' differences due to the In- Both the Reform Club and the Hotel Residents' Associa-cines it firmly behind him, says: dully, in the dark, alone, sitting sularity of the coalfields.

For the ordinary usually in davip passages with- "Pleare

the Fender keep your seats."

interesting plcture that tion were inaugurated in a

Then he moves slowly throughout even having work enough to

portroit

of the welier of

brave speeches the aircraft, solemnly spraying save them from the stupefying emerges is the

brutalising texlum ol doing typical Victorian miner leader, about the rights of the com-

This is how I Imagine him.) But "The Miners" does give Irritated American oll men nothing. mon man. but neither sym

happening after reading "The Miners": A fuller undersinding of that tra- the husband grumble: "Fine way you British

themselves tall,

"Good afternoon, madam," the pathetic impartial observers

treat

that children throw

stern, patriarchal figure,ditional, hard-dying attitude that Think Vol your guests. the cynical privileged lousy?""

down on the stone hearth or the built and bearded on the lines of stilt leads many & coalfield

man parrot said as she pulled the Its left log. non-smoker, today to say to the next genera-string attached to to floor as soon as they reach home, Dr. W. G. Grace, Sweating Britons, anxious were particularly im-

pillar tion: "Don'i go down the mine. "Pleased to meet you." It sald furnace-like heat fall asleep at once without being an abstainer from alcohol, With regard to get out of the pressed.

and of the Nonconformist Church, al Sonny." able to take a bil of food, the Club, the "China Mail" of the stilled, silent aircraft, snap: with its with that

"Come on, old man, hurry up voiced agreement aims, but after the first meet-

Beirut cah

girls, inevitable ing commented that it seem- but unseasonable silver fox furs ed to have no hard and fast draped over their shoulders, giggle ns they hokl slightly-ncented platform, no aims other than

handkerchiefs to their faces. and

nil generalisations,

But the Cypriot ignores vague nn apparent solution to offer

protests, wisecracks and sly smiles. for the ills which so obvious- Ile is used to them all, for he is ly affect our administration. a member of the Cyprus Govern-

the confusing tangled it. Many other "Fair Deal" pro-f point of view, and he produced ment's Mosquito Eradication Sør-

Federal aid for some convincing evidence. To hoar Sign above a window . In

subsequent meetings

vice, which is claiming a historic aftermath of the war, one can now pesals, such as they did indeed declaim vio-

this more clearly limn the outlines of education, slum clearance, housing, such language from such an im-display: "The world is in victory

malaria in

There is no reason why and portant member of the State De- shape. America's changing face. These extension of social security lently against the system of British Colonial island.

outlines are emerging quietly and similar measures akin to welfare partment is striking evidence of you should be." Not a single mularia-bearing

have 'a good this new world-mindedness. nomination to the Legisla-

chance of being accepted. tive Comcil. but it was ob-mosquito has been discovered no rather unconsciously, but they are state legislation vious that not only was their for this summer in the whole of little short of “revolutionary."

Cyprus.

The old European concept of the a split in the ranks, but that

And just to make Aure that

the

Arab New World, of the land where several individuals were far planos from Israel,

oach individual had unlimited pos- countries and Southern Europe sibilities, is outdated, and it may from being motivated by un-

mosquito selfisti public_spirit. The do not bring "views of the Reform Club" "slowaways" to spoil this record, shock Furopeane to hear that..........

the Mosquito Eradication Service Americans have begun to put as proclaimed from time to

greets them at the airport with social security.before social adven time, obviously showed dis-

n spray-gun loaded with DDT. tinct conflict (as well much woolly thinking), and the scheme they eventually proposed for reforming the government could have been suggested by any average schoolboy five minutes after reading the Lo plan, which before it everyone knew was propounded, would have to be adopted.

as

over

in any

Not Over Yet

But onee where the mosquito- hunters were bringing in 600 dead insects a month; they now return empty-handed. To maintain their

the Cyprus Government is offering "dend or alive" money rewards. An elaborate system of

'foolproofs' cross-checking bunt.

After

ture. I do not mean to say that they want socialism, far from it, or that there is no dynamism left in the country.

Security-Conscious

Even such conservative stal- warta as Senator Taft confirm this new trend. And it sounds odd to hear him warn his colleagues to realise that it would be suicidal to lose touch with the common man and the poor people.

Not Socialist

What are the fundamental rea-

sons which account for the fact that many of these new develop ments do not spell the advent of socialiam in the United States?

corset

bad

She was a hula dancer: just a shake in the grass.

At party given by the eldest doughter of Mrs. Stewart o' the Braes, someone suggested playing the piano, an Instrument clarted all over with flowers, photos and knick-knacks. Isabella demur- It is an admission that a moder- Space does not permit me to

hiena been tuned this quarter." ate trend toward welfare legisla enter into greater detail, but the red, remarking, "Ah'm afraid it a general desire of the lack of political leaders among the "Canna ye tell the truth?" said American people.

American Labour movements, the Mrs. Stewart. "Tae ma certain tion is

fact that there is no proletariat Mr. Truman's bold presentation hore фоскизо

By O. H. BRANDON

These new developments, how- ever, moan that the United States

.music mannie

hiana been roon here this

•

lost.

the workers form knowledge the No, there is, much spark and en. terprising spirit leit, but it is no of the Civil Rights Programme, part of the middle class, the ex- twal months.

panse of the North American coni- longer the "old frontier apirit"

tinent and the diversity of its kind. Without being fully aware

Inhabitants' interests and the "Sometimes," confided a wife the of it, the people in the first place

basic distrust of state socialism, to her best friend, "I think my want to make sure that they are

ali act against socialism.

husband is the patientest, gentlest, best-natured man that ever lived, Dr. Shelley says: " we do at going to lose what they have.

and sometimes I think he's just find a small pocket of resistance; the Government to take care of already built up, and they want

Iazy." we will bring all our artillery that; hence they have no alterna- guaranteeing the Negro population has not only inextricably become So much for all the months into action. It won't last long."

Any day now, the Cyprus Gov- tive but to invite greater contral greater quality, despite almost involved in world affairs, but that of discussion and speechify-

Jasuperable opposition, represents it is also adopting itself internally Some capitalistic coves seem win 100 Government controls,

another significant development of to the impact of the now social to think that the main idea of ing, and the keeping of cer-ernment is going to

schanging mentality.

trends in a manner consistent with the Security Council is to look tala names before the public litres of the best Sardinian wine. A similar eradication campaign

its own traditions.

after their securities. eye. The mountain, having has been launched Sardinia

The thinking of American econoTM | been in travail, gave birth under the direction of the Amer

They have come to think in mista is also radically changing.

crises. Bro

no longer to a small squeak. Like fean Rockefeller Foundation; but,

avorage middle-class life, which considered the, fatal and inevitable many other things in Hong there, more than £1,000,000 13 terms of being able to live an Economic

being spent and more

then 500 Kong, when not directly con-workers are using airplanes and children they want, a motor car.

would permit them to have all the result of prosperity,

Economic planning, much of it cerned with the making of

High Com- PinBa Jeeps. General

and a little house with all the money. a dry rot seemed to missioner of Sardinio, wrote to mechanical gadgets" that are part imported from Europe, is now have set in almost from the Lord Winster, former Governor

and parcel of the American "way accepted. The.Government is ox- time the idea was mooted. of Cyprus, batting him 100 litres of life"--they do not dream any pected to intervene vigorously and

of wine that Sardinia would be

crisis and that the able to

not to lot Perhaps the fact

itsolf free of more of becoming millionaires, effectively at the first signs of a declaro

The age of the self-made man is

take their own course an in 1929, club, too, had no more demosquitos before Cyprus did. mocratie basis than the ad-

Winster accepted the Passing, the age of the security-then everybody waited for two ders for the situation to ministration it was attempt-

staked 100 litres of conscious man has arrived.

right.' a wine made in The two most influential groups et

The farmers and wage-earners stultifled, the efforts of the the villages of Cyprus since the of America's economy, the busi

days of the Crusades.

men and the farmers, are were aqually afraid of the pre honest and the sincere. Our Sardinia han yet to claim taking an attitude which makes valling economic boom

an of the correspondent "M.M." re- victory over the malaria-bearing increased Government participa- threatening **bust". Conditions marks that the chairman mosquito. Cyprus,, it scoms,

though this is the last thing they now are being created, which and committee members are, entitled to do so now,

any they want to have happen. favour "Fair Des!" measures such either self-elected ог co-

zoom They was also started aware

to be curiously un-as public works, public investment at home and abroad, subsidies opted, and rules have been sociation

of the contradictions of

and other Federal expenditures, drawn up to ensure their with high hopes, and it their position.

ing to improve, may have in a

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In foreign affairs the changes of the American attitude are no less radical.

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The farmers are enraptured by sons for its formation exist the new farm plan proposed by year.

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It started with energetle parti Agents gest, however, that the ori provide a most useful ser- scheme, despite the fact that the cipation in the United Nations and ginal idea of à Reform. Club vice by investigating com- plan also provides for acreage progressed with Marshall Ald, the allotments, marketing quotas, soil Truman Doctrine, the Atlantic need not be regarded as plaints, and if these were conservation rules and other re- Pact and the programme for breath-tak- dead Whatever happens to considered justified, bringing gulations, all far-reaching govern backward areas"all the administration-and it is them with some weight mental controls to which

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The "Fair Deal"

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The other day one of America's anxious for the public weal, dwindle into futility and and if a sufficient Influx of nonentity in Hong Kong? me, which is so revolutionary most important foreign policy counter proposal. pro-makers in private discussion with new blood could be achiev- Suggestions that many that the ed, there might still be a angled pressure is brought pared by the Republicans looks me, chided: cartain European Branch. Ofice: 50 Connaught Roa

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