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THE BRITISH CRISIS AND THE C

Yugoslavia's Macedonian Show Place

By ERIC BOURNE A village of 400 families All news contributions to De tucked 4,000 feet up on the addremed to Editor-in-Chlet. side of a Macedonian Advertisements and Business.com-mountain is the show-place munkations should be addressed of Tito's "show" republic.

Before the war, Macedonia, to the Company CHINA MAIL

was the most backward of the LTD

regions which are now combined in "Tito's · federation of six publics. Life was bitterly hard for its peasants. Few familles could make a living off their

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VIEWS ON HONG KONG

TRADE UNIONS

By WINDRUSH"

(Special correspondant.}

wages of the better paid work-

Good

rent livers

"The fambus traveller bax made a thorough review of the mam- mas of Burma, and finds that

The Trade Unions have not This use of atomic energy to While « Labour Government is, been enthusiastic. Their abgu- Mchange the current of rivers” is in power, government and Frade ment is that the whole purpose of distinctly different from its pre- The Government has mounted Unions are broadly speaking on founding the Trade Union movevious application to change cur its retrenchment, messures. To the same side of the fence.

"Butment was to create JA rights and wrongs of these and in recent months each has been to

organisation 5ght for a

a higher share of the their effectiveness are now the irritated with the other. The national income for labour. They chief subject of public interest:

rest. diaculty comes Ahout partly be are not disposed to surrender this But one other question should not ease, in the changing social and function. They do not wish to be overlooked, "Why did whole economic order in Great Britain.

in hand over, even to a Labour month by between devalua tion, and thess."cute" schich the Trade Unidan dare been morÍ Government, the derician of what there are more than a hundred

the in Luto A

changed position. But WS* rates are fair and proper. species." Government from the start have very few of their leaders have They fear, too, that there may not admitted to be necessary if deval- grasped this. And many of the always be a Labour Government. nation was not to be in the end a dificulties have risen because the if they now surrender some of disaster!

Trade Union leaders are attached their functions to Government, to ideas which have become out of what will be the position if one may date.

day perhaps Doon — there is Conservative Government 1

In future months there again be the same delays when the Government has to decide on radical "crisis measures **** "It is no use merely girding at it for its It is more useful to slowness. understand why it works 30 slowly.

All shapes and sites, too.

•

No discrimination.

"Old resident's car strikes lamp standard.

*Both in hospital.

The individual Unions object

"Before the war,: 35 per cent also to the idea that the Trade Union Council in negotiation with of working women were single. Government should have, the Now it's the other way—–65; per power to commit them in any cent are married. A big change question of wages. The ladivi in women's lives." daai Unions cherish their freedom. Same old story for the bus-

much as the bands, though.

Present Clash The clash at the present time between the Trade Unions view and the view of the Government is that the Government wishes the The chief preoccupation of the Trade Union leaders to collabor land without the menfolk going Government has been with the ate in its measures for keeping of action just as to work in the towns for the / Trade Unions. It is not only that) down wayes which, in an econ- tiada Union movement as a whole | greater part of the year.

the Parliamentary Labour Party omic system really means

down the

That was as true of Lazaro-15 intimately linked in its organis-andard or for rising price cherishes its freedom of action.

bave

for

•

Question of Libertying football on active service.

Greek soldiers have been play- polje as of any other Alacedonian ation with the Trade Unions. It

would like} Trade peasant cemnimity. A few rich is that the Trade Unions are the top level decision

There is a strict rule that the Union leaders that Unions which organised

of the country. farmers possessed as many If Great Britain is to

Labour

Can a socialist state afford to ball shall not be relieved if thousand sheep each and the best from the economic crisis ittards of living should forego their liberties

changes the changing stand-low the Trade Unions their kicked into Albania. and in the valleys of this: steru

be by the

This is the question united mountain area only a few miles by

people. Labour cannot be whip right to a wage increase. from the Albanian · border.

now being asked in the labour Missionary hazards. ped to work. It must understand It would have liked the Trade Party, not of course by the Trade

"Although retired now from The rest left the women to the crisis and willingly co-operate Uniens to agree that if the wage, Union wing of party, but by active mission work, he is doing tend

their

of the so-called intellec meagre crops and weat in the mesures which the Govern- to Skoplje, the capital, 30 miles ment finds it necessary to take. to the Earl, in search of work. Some went as Far North as Bel- Crade.

Today, Lazaropolje has been transformed into a modei village Two leaders of the com-

co-operative, where every able munity have just voiced their bodied penon is either making views on different aspects of carpets or working on the sheep- the future of Hong Kong-farming collective Bishop Hall and Mr. Macin- New and neat, white-washed two-storied chalets chequer the tosh, Commissioner of Police mountain-side. I spent a recent They naturally look at the night in one of them. Nights are Colony's problems from cold here and I slept well on a separate standpoints, but they spring bed with two enormous both had pertinent and tren-sheepskin rugt over me. A good carpet covered almost the whole

chant comments to make.

There is a small hotel a social centre with a restaurant and a cinema with seats for 500.

Privately Owned Houses, gardens and domestic animals are privately owned. More and better-fitted houses are being built now. They can be bought outright for 220,000 dinars (£1,100 before devalua- ion, £2,000 now!) over a sive year period

rates of the lowest paid workers ma are increased there should not be tusis

They say that what the the work of the Lord in his spare To win its consent takes tima. s corresponding increase in the Trade Unions are really demand time, while following his earlier ing is that they should be the one and more respectable trade of in- substantial element of free enterFurance agent," prise

in a plan- should success σε

The Pressure Cooker

By HENRY-LONGHURST

Du and free of

ned state. I

The old Communist melodrama arise where the whole salvation of the socialist state des now going the rounds of the pends on the Trade Unions accept Balkans has undergone an ine.

Tito has re- ing a certain measure of guidance, teresting change then in the general interest they placed Trotsky as the villain of

the piece.. be ought to ready to do so.

This is a most inconvenient

"The fund

"Paying guests. received

Not without a certain amount gin of error, you almost need a of trepidation my household has stopwatch. Also that if you have succumbed to what we are in-three vegetables with different | issue to have raised at this stage Teachers' troubles. formed is the new domestic re timings, it is tiresome to keep

managers of the Labour teachers' salaries.". volution,, namely, the pressure cooling off and steaming-up again nobody among the more "practi 000 which has deficit of $87,-

for the insertion of each.

Party wishes to face it. There is cooker.

from The trepidation arises

Points for: huge saving in fuel long run the Trade Unions, beautiful, house in the heart of

an uneasy feeling that over the the fact that our next doo

integrated" in thei neighbour, the decorative Mirs and such a huge saving in time have to be " Meira Chetham-Strode, who de-as to bring within range a wide general socialist system, but there London Buses and tramps stop

her variety of meals normally for-is no desire to collide with Trade near door." sigas the scenery

three mon opinion at this particular playwright husband's creations on gone because

they

Worn out, probably. the London

stare.. us by bours or so. stage, beat

"The cars and buses kept go- som

And, so far as I can see-touch some weeks in her acquisition of

wood-ns danger of going

The disposition of the presenting back and forth to the scene Government is of course to ap-all night, stopping only to have with the soup

By delaying the crisis"their drivers hanged.” wessures it has in fact gone 23

one

over

for

Much discussion of it went on the railings, and high praise was accorded the instru ment, till one morning a loud re-

take

Any Older?

up

+

far in appeasing its own suppor. "Today's names in the news ters internally as. Chamberlain's

"Syngman Rhee, president of Korea: Sung-maha Ree

"Jacques Fath, French fashion designer. Elisa Skee-ah-pah- rell-ce."

··Another Reason

The Bishop reiterated his previous remarks about the necessity for British people to change their apathetic atti- tude towards the improve ment of Social conditions, and to put our type of dernocracy into actual practice in Hong Kong. It is impossible to deny that it is useless to expect the Chinese people to believe that

port indicated that owner, cook Observing a lean, familiar face | Government went in appeasing! and how to pronounce them: British democracy is better That said the chairman of the er and a specially fine leek and at a gathering of the Royal Artil- the are powers externally and than any other political co-operative-a handsome moun- tomato soup had gone up to lery Association. I recognised as

perhaps by this weakness it has within gether.

man whom I had last seen two brought nearly as Tuch disaster ideology unless they can see taineer of 30-was well

the reach of most families because Subsequent inquiry revealed years ago in Siam, when he on the country. its benefits for themselves.

few families earn less than 10,000❘ the

cause

to be "Teek in the managed the affairs of the Shell True, we have good roads, dinars a math and many make spout." The soup adhered to the company in Bangkok fairly clean streets, sanitation, much more.

ceiling, and it was suggested that reasonably efficient transport, All the carpets made in the Mrs. Chetham-Strode's guests His name is Bill Adams. Early and stable government, but village are bought by the gov

would in future be expected to steps, together the vast majority of the popu-rument, largely for export, at bring their own lation, the poorer classes, find an average price of 6,000 dinara with a palette knife.

In one carpet weaving shop, 300 little to impress them. Per village girls were working. Most Not Funny haps the bishop and others of of them had learned the craft similar mind expect too much | since the war. They are earning

A pained expression clouded from Hong Kong, but one on average 22 diners a day, they the features of the damsel who notorious cannot argue with him about minister gets. The girls seemed when I related this incident. I said—about half what a Yugoslav

came to demonstrate our cooker survive. the recessity for moral de- fence as well as military pre-Under Tito's first land laws, no

enough at their work.

parations.

one in the village was allowed to azn more than 50 sheep. Later, however, the shepherds pooled their flocks in the collective. –

Only 1 per cent of the vil

The trouble is, of course, that one may talk about the urgent need for spiritual and

.

are

the

any older the

the

was

I always thought there more in this fashion business than met the eye.

"Lord- will be her fourth hus- band. In her matrimonial ven-

“Elyshim no. 336. "Congregation standing. "Sermon: What are you stand- ing for?"

There is another reason why in the war he came home. volun-

"practical" men in teered for the Army, and was

Labour Party wish to shirk, or almost at once captured by the Japs at Singapore, His claim to postpone, the question. If it was tures she has been à counters, but

admitted that the Trade she has never been a lady." fame--not that be makes it-is once

Union liberties must be curtailed, that he must have been almost the case would be immensely Probably rhetorical. the oldest man to be sent up the strengthened of all the anti-socia

Burta railway

and list propagandists who have been asserting that the socialist state Adams is 56 this year-which would end by being totalitarian gained the impression that she makes him 18 at the time of cap-

A famous book was published has heard this sort of tale before ture and wall over 50 after re-

Doubtless and thought it no longer funny. lease. To have survived a life in 1945 by a naturalised ex-Aus- life of every individual and every

Chetham

which even to a young man hard-trian Professor named von Hayek. economie corporation.

The Boad When the book appeared it was ly bears remembering was a re- The book was called Strode's was a different make peable achievement for a man to Serfiom? It argued that regarded by many people as the She would mention no names, of, his years. Are

there was DO lasting baitway work of a continental intellectual but the model, for such

there

between the free enterprise who had failed to sindsstand the cases on record?

stage

for compromise, had a rubber safety valve.

His house at Bangkok was on state and the fall-blooded totali British the outskirts of the town and

tarian state. Early experience of our pre writing edf it I find I have been attempted, he said, to organise the measures. It was criticised as an sure cooker is

impossibly doctrinaire propheny favourable. First

socialist sitting for the past 10 minutes economie lie on truly subjects experiment

But i some elderly potatoes. A gazing at the paper, my mind lines, then there would be con of what would happen. head of steam was raised, in a far away, back on the terrace tinual dangers of breakdown and the socialist state should in fact in persuasive manner is an- The priest-something of

the huge water, lilies maladjustment which could in the be driven to limit the scope of overcome by the state function of the Trade Unions, this other matter. The Church local here because in the war he minute or two from a quarter of have opened for the evening and end be

quislings pint of water, and in five min

power over the would indeed be a red light taking supreme suddenly

fallen might well look to itself in who marched a utes the potatoes had decided to this context; sonorous words halter and him around withe go quietly. Untouched by water, and everything is so silent that, as we sit and gossip for that from the pulpit, no matter poorest man in the place.

they were most palatable.

precious hour before dinner, how true, are meaningless Only a few of the old people,

which in the East is the reward unless the listeners go out and he said, still attend his services.

for the long hours of heat and But not family would fall to actually do something. The take their children to church for

sunshine, we need only talk, in Whether they contained more a

Whisper. vitamins thaz- would

mental reform without being lagers are Communists and they

able to make any impression can be, in theory, outvoted at the on the situation. It may be monthly meetings where every the duty of the clergy to point co-operative member has a vote out our weaknesses, but ton deciding the village actairs. postulate a practical solution

defied

Poorest Man

the Albanian

•

liable to leave leek in the spout,

uplifted feeling of well-dress christening and there has been or fewer ed persons in the interim be only one burial

70

Controversy.

were

where

the night

home

we

the morning was equally without the have been the case after half an lovely-like, a particularly balmy tween the sermon, driving off | Christian service since the war, hour's bubbling in an open fauce- June day in England--but at the in new cars, downing the pre- So the priest lives on the fees pan is still, a matter of contro- better, let it be condensed, for the luncheon cocktail and enjoy-

about 1,500 dinars a month, on versy. The British Melical Journs fact that this, was the time of Queen's Bldg., ing the roast lamb and green of in a leading article has quoted the great freeze-up at

Pink by his wife in the co-operative, venner of a law suit Mr. G. V

+. Yudkis, rather after the Morning by morning, peas tends to be short-lived we just get along”

breakfasted in mur, dressing The function of the clergy Lazaropole is a show-place but Pink maintaining that half the gowns on Bill Adams's terrace, and may include seeing that the it is a symbol of the extraordine vitamin B is destroyed, Professer barking in the early sun moved spirit is not allowed to ary change which is taking place J, Yudkin declaring to the conreading the latest communique i be bogged down, a few in Macedonia. In the towns new rare discussion of enzymes, panien and I followed the bitter -the **Bangkok Times,” my Com- minutes later in a savoury (Continued At Foot Of Nezt, Coly water-soluble vitamins, riboŝavin, fortimes of those at home. meat sauce.

and such like, was over - my---- head I go by taste an outmode

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Terrible!

interested than in his home ed criterion in these selentife. province, he is not going to days and 1 declare that prese Parts of Derbyshire cut off for look on the uniformed sure-cooked vegetables. taste, 10 days people queueing up guardian as his friend,

as our first soups, bese

anything better

based on stock of London.

at water hydrants in the middle someone to whom he should extracted from three-p

ree-pennyworth

"Tst! Tst!" we would say hasten to report on all matters of bones in 50 minutes on a low

must be terribl

bring affecting the communal wel-gas, have been highly praised by critical Frenchwoman. The

un by the The Siamese, oveırım. pressure cooker also rendered a Japs, declared war on us at the sewing steak edible in fifteen lowest ebb of our fortanes Bri- minutes a rare feat indeed! Ou rabbit was only a failure through tih businesses...were seized and human error.

fare.

The Commissionér was

He admitted the danger to our communal security of scornful of the accuracy of the large numbers of people from local Press, without remark across the border who have ing on the marry local abuses

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