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THE CHINĂ MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

The great debate--No. 4:

1930.

ONE PARTY WITH A POLICY

In the general election now before Britons the Commun- ist Party is the one party go- ing into the fight with a policy and pfogfemme of peace and progress. What af the others?

By Willie Gallacher

One of the Communist Party's two members of Parliament

into the crisis which Dr, Dalton had to lament in the House not "with a song in his heart", but with a pain in his head at Easter

1947.

Let us consider, for our purr pase the lamentable care of the one-lime "Leftist" Aneurin Bevan ne one of the chief spokesmen of the Labour Party.

He will target that in his an export crisis.

It is not a production crisis, nor It is a dollar second-reading speech, on

the crisis. tealth Bill he gave us this-

The general practitioner can- not afford the apparatus. neces sary In his own surgery, Till will be available at the health centre,

So a list of prohibited goods is drawn up, and anything like real trade and friendship with them countries is rendered Impossible, while Britain alake more and more into the position of

a do- pendency of America......

for the

་་

We want, increased wages for the workers, ánd a higher standard of living all round, with Increased, pensions for the dis abled and for the old folks,

.

We want an end to the war for rubber and tin. In Malaya, and to the shocking events so recently epacted in Nigeria, Freedom and, independence for all Colonial peoples must for ever. De the watchword.

At least at the time of writing, the Big Mo is still aground, and the Bid Mao is still, hidebound, It le suggested there may be a rock under the Me and a rocket under the Mas.

*

Following the Ho Chỉ mình success, the British Communist Party is reported to be expecting recognition any day now,

Above all, we want peace. All the aforementioned programme It is really panette to hear The Communist Party repudi- can be secured if we finish with the policy of dependency on ates this policy of subservience American, monopoly capitalism, granted Labour leaders. Liberal and Tory to America. leaders talking fatuously about

and in the place of this subser delegates. We want a solution the "generosity of the Amerle housing problem, promized at the trade with the Union of Socialist vience build up. friendship. and cani. They have us in a trap, last election, but not fulfilled. Soviet Republica and they mean if they can These health centres were to

We want more schools, with. keep us in it. be an essential feature of the The only way out of it is to get every educational savantage, in- health service, but "attempts at an alternative source of supply are.And we want to make the increasing experts by lowering where dollar

payments don't

Was

to

•

I ace, was not Dockyard

to the

A Parls spokesman described We could immediately reduce the Ho elevation ns "an act·se by half the burden of £800,000,-gravity." G00 (for armurgents. With this In view of the immutable law up must conie

and, a real cut into profits, higher that what goes school meals for all chû-,

isle pays suistateshwa to be (according to the

At present our science and with our outs in compensation Minister) the greatest health source of supply can be found in

the Soviet Union,

the food-pro- maths students, when they pass being paid to the former coal- service in the world," things, and he

Yes, Aneurin will forget these producing countries of Eastern through the universities, go into owners and railway shareholders

and

liberated Chino as

Industries Instead of into;schopia;) vie would have all the resources will use all fila Europe,

The same applies to hospitals, necessary to raise the living atan- oris to ensure that his hearers well as the Dominions,

that's where the "war to nurses and domestic staffs. We dord of our people, to make, But Forget them. Bevan will shake scare" comes in. America works must pay the best salaries.. great advance in education and the Armament of heaven this up in Press and radio, trans--

We want health centres na lala ; culture.

Act, so that the he directs his heavy batteries offers it to Britain, and then says down in the

practitioner will find denunciation against the all-100 you can't supply goods to these general

Churchill and vulnerable

his countries. You must continue to there the necessary apparatus for Tory cohorts. It will be a ter- lie under slavery to the dollar."

proper diagnosis. battle. About what? About rids nothing.

Wil he attack Churchill for subservienen to Ameries, or for the Atlantic Pact? Or will be

The riots near the tram depot on Montly hardly have happened at a more inopportune moment. That very day the Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce had been in con- tact with the management of the Tramway Company about the possible resumption, of the service, irrespective of the merits of the dispute itself. The workers themselves had appealed for his aid in this respect, apart from the public who have been so greatly in-necure him of being responsible for cuts in capital expenditure; convenienced, and, who na-

nr the economy cuts? Can he

turally want the tram facili- ties restored. Afterwards he "Was quoted as saying he was hopeful the service would be resumed before the Lunar

What Je

London before the

By "Windrush"

For this policy and program- me we fight in this election. We hope to win the support of large sections of the British people.

election

What's aloing them?

Total consumption, of, beer in Britain has gone down, with a wallop because of the wallop that hasn't gone down.

"Men's apparel alters too little," New York clothing says a manufacturer, "The business auffers from a Inck of absule- scence,"

Some people I know do, ton.

„Myrtle's grandfather certainly there are two sides to.

We really in either

FOYA

"Chase Bank carital funds Despite the rubbery...

"Warmer cold, war seen.”

cun aid by 1953, (2) how to suevery questi, if The election is taking time tear thie Tories to shreds on de- to warm up. There are still

tein our present burden of mili- aren't interested valuation, or on the

4ary commitments or, alternative-them policy of three weeks before palling] Labour, do when American,ald is 1. how to reduce them; and, (3) frozen wages?

There is a crisis, and that, we day. Parties fear that if they withdrawn of the long worldwide how to tackle the problem of show increase,"

Wages and pronts. By skirting are told, justifies the Labour begin their main effort too post-war boom comes to an end. tenders adopting a polley indis soon, they will be past the lines a pamphlet of 12 pages, and buty pority and irrelevance.

Foreign policy is given only 30 round all of them, the official New Year. Errors of tactics tinguishable from the Tories',

I know the Peking radio, can peak of their appeal, by the the "Economist says "If it is in of insularity are more easily made than re-

"We can only assume that sheer be pretty vituperative, but, I do time that the electorate has tended to disguise from the elec- medled, but there was perhaps brought it on? It is uiter non-

this crisis? What to vote. So there is still a torate the great and decisive in- fatigue and the pressure of day to think it was possibly a printer's real justification for Mr. Ko's sense to say that our economy lull

fluence of relations with the Unit-day responsibility for government error in the recent report of n mem- broadcast which ⚫ mentioned optimism. Moreover, the has got thlo a mess and that no

ed States, then the Labour Party were the reasons why the This leaves the papers with laying up trouble for the future bers of the National Executive "Bandit Nehru."

1 agreement to submit the Dairy one is to blame for It True, we nothing much to comment an. when the cold war goes on and Labour's case go by default."

permitted this opportunity to state Farm deadlock to arbitration had to face all sorts of dimaullies They make do with the Labour Marshall Ald does not......

arising

of the war, but there Party manifesto which was issued out

The "Spectator" takes to ploces offered something in the na-

of manifesto might have made a very recently; and as the elm ture of a test case of value in

Why, in 1946, It will be re-its drafters was to give nabody, a fair and weighty point out of Mr. the claims in the manifesto about

the of

Success of nationalisation. the settlement of other dis-membered the then Chancellor of handle for criticism, this is not Bevin's successful handling

"Labour, must be challenged. In Anglo-American relations, despite the Exchequer, Dr. Dallon, spoke very promising material for the the lapses which have occurred." 1949 coal output was 38,000,000 to say that putes.

at o Labour Farly Conference week-end journalists. They have

tans higher than it was in 1945, bachelor's wife. with, as he said, a song in my concentrated on what is not in the "The same comple

Well it might be four years after heart." The crisis was forced on manifesto,

by American blackmäll." Dollar payments and excessive ly, at other times by accident.ices, particularly from the re-

moval of prize controls in Ameri Be that as it may, the calm ca at the end of 1848, forced us and orderly atmosphere which had hitherto prevailed vanish-

Of course, it often happens that a spoke is inserted into the wheel just at such mò- ments: sometimes deliberate-

was no

us

The

complaint

the war. The fact that it was 12,-

000,000 less than in 1938 is omit-

(of tran-

arc

I suppose there is a possibility

that it might be Baked Alaska.

No Myrtle, It is not accurate

spinster is

销

a

The Economist” says "Incredible! though it is, there is no reference,

Even the Socialist "Now States- ted. So is all mention of the ism which could just as rusdily be If not even a passing allusion, to the man" makes the same complaint. heavy Increase in price to domes- used for the common harm.

the wrong hands get on to theso fact that, throughout Labour's "Neither the United States nor the and Industrial consumers.... immensely effective

lovers, the term of office, full employment Marshall Aid are mentioned in the What nationalisation and the wage-earners standard of document; and the word dollar sport) has brought is heavily in- Welfare State could be turned in- to the Ill-fore State overnight" Ilving have been sustained by occifying the continuance of con- seriously, pestising all industries Nothing very now has turned up

charges which creased

So the argument goes on. American charity. It is American ed. There is a crime peculiar will help to get these which has enabled Labour to trol..

aid

dependent on transport, And last to the Communist Party disputes settled quickly, and defy the lawn of arithmetic and "The three problems which any year's loss on the railways was yet. There have been no red hor- which is called deviationism. that they may even be a dis-make two and two. come out at Government will have to face and £20,000,000.....There is no shred rings which have not already been There have been no cloction programma of evidence that nationalisation discounted. In rather a different sense

surprises. But there are still service to the cause not only five The manifesto simply as- which any than the Communists give to of the workers but of the sumes that, the juggling act will should discuss are, (1) how to has improved the position of the three weeks to go.

continue as hitherto. What will achieve independence of Ameri- industries affected in any respect." It, a'deviation was responsible Communist leaders. for the trouble.

troll

ነ

Old racket hits the New Republic

Singapore?

ded.

By Lachie McDonald

Tribune's warning

Dro

The Dutchy for, friji | Alve years Labour has steadily in bere must be a strong will on

and strengthened the

The must interesting article is not on the election at all, but on The interests of the public

the Colombo Conference. The "Economist" discusses its after The tram workers, like the in Hong Kong, who are the

In the light of criticisms of this math. It points out that the Asin others, have asked for more | main victims of the tram dis-

kind, it is only fair to print the policy of the Commonwealth as money. In asking for this,pute, call for the earliest pos-

warning in the Labour paper shown by Colombo, and the policy they may quite well have sible resumption of the tram

"Tribune." "The Tories will at of Mr. Acheson. virtually coin- "The Commonwealth is elde. been looking over their service. All the other

tempt to befuddle the electorate with contradictions. The fact that setting to work to draft an econ- shoulder at the Communist workers were content to make

Britain has the best recovery ro- amle pian (for South East Asia). victory in China, just as the their demands and carry on

cord of any European nation will The United States has announced workers did in China. after while a settlement was being

go unumeniloned on any Tory plat-

to bo workable they had been liberated; with effected. Some of them did

The elderly Chinese, in war that Indonesia needed ati form. No one will, he told that air. It is shown to beuch n plan once The "Economist suficiently greater cause but much less threaten to send in an Jakarta, Indonesia looked possible, foreign exchange to buy Bevan's ministry has led the most

housing drivo là cheerod. by theno statements of reward.

"ultimatum," but on second over his shell spectacles and heavy machinery and other goods successful

required to revive local Industries. Surops, with the exception of policy to consider in concrete de-

which also has a Labput Sweden Actually, of course, this is thoughts refrained. They are asked softly:

our tail what obstacles must now be a simple domestic dispute, hardly likely to lose by it in

Bonned luxuries Government. No Tory will ack get over. The frst problem is You are the gentleman from right down to earth, and it | the long run, för If it is found,

They clamped on severe cur-nowledge that British farms are to got the capital to back the can only be settled as such. either by arbitration of ne-

My guide, the gentleman drency exatrols, prohibited exports producing more than ever, and plan. Eleven per cent of the cur- of rubber, tin, pepper, tea, and that at last the farmers and farm ront American budget is already Political speeches by Comfort | gotiation,, that there is some

workers have a secure guaranteed being devoted to foreigis old;

SRIEL Parties are quite irrelevant justice in the demand for an of Chino writing in which the channels, and also handed luxury furt

The merchant ro-read a scroll cofice except through offlcia'

the American budget is in deficit.' "Time and Tide". reverts to The second problem is that scon- and can be not only provoca- extra allowance, it will per-only thing understandable to a imports.

more general arguments about omic aid can be effective only if tive but obstructive, especially haps be made retroactive,

Westerner Was large Roman

aldn't want

majer

socialism and tyranny. "During fulfilled in South East Asia certain political' conilitions when these parties are made Meanwhile they have kept re, preceded by the guilder exponta

perles Uke: American elgarettes creased up of persons belonging to their jobs, received their pay,

Nice brush-wark cheap cosmetics, plastic handbagy mechanism of control. The the part of governments, loyalty mushroom societies put under and given the public ng incon-

with which shrewd, traders of all policy was adopted with a high on the part of their peoples. ban because their aims are venience. Whether their de- The Chinese sighed, looked races, are flooding the Javanes: ideal of the common good. But efficiency on the part of their civil

suspiciously at primarily political and ex- matids prove justified of not the beads on his abacus E

what it has created is a mechan- | servants. the, then, fleke markeds of smart but lawless traneous. This deviation, and their behaviour has been un., drew. stanz Chlcsó chiaracters operators like the gentleman the attempt to evade a ban on exceptionable. It must be with a.brush on another piece of from Singapore who condescend- political speeches which have balanced against the diver paper which he handed led to teach me a few facts of

together with Бо

South East Asian life promptly no part in a non-political dis- sions created by the cCODEU stleman." pate, led to the removal by lors who refused to accept are address

Desried to pile up tremendour my!

guido down

profits. by beating the economie the police of a loud-speaker, fares, and the comfort parties mean streets within a chop controls. They are stili doing and in turn to a mob attack on who talked politics Tirades stick's throw at imposing bank currency smugger, for ins the police.

about political alms and oh-buldings In the heart of old

Balaving

only a 2 fraction of the value The episode has given cojectives are all very well; bit At the second nddrow, a small

expre lour to the assertion of the there could hardly be a more shop, another Chinese, this time fact that he gave Sumatran pro-

despite it's workers' critics that politics dreary addition to the climate young, brisk, and in Palm hices. Basta

better price in Incas has been mixed up in the of politics in these historic Beach, ault, glanced at the paper,

Builders

than they could obtain whole thing. Yet the demands times than an extra allowance selling through amelal chan-

jout bundles of Indonesian guild- nez are purely economic, and the - even If put as high users, which the gentlema

oman from

guliders at more the unions keep to this three dollars a day.

Singapore stuffed in his pockets, eighth of the official fafe, bbjective in tactics as well as The lower groups in Gov- 1fted been introduced to the

This ambitect of now. Aslan In negotiationis, the sooner the ernment service have just biggest racket in South East Asia world a Dutch Eurasian, disputed will be settled, Cer been awarded an increase in viable irse amuggling, totedly hroud of ale new. Indo-

The obliging compleman from holan citizenship-proposed tainly, Moo Tie-tung, would Rehabilitation Allowance, is singapore just

his pepperrorni, mabber, and hot thank the unions or the from this month, $19 na biglt times: às many

coast of the comfort parties for bethoring compared with

ure for ulders or him at this critical' juncture, October, 1948.

He uses and or kho many amait bed, dollars as he would

it be had changed his money at smuggling ships criss-crossing the when he has so much else on however, that

jnarrow--Straits of Malaces." his plate in Moscow, MANA merely bring

in Hin

Jakarta If deviation thero must be, Iment,

bs it is now -

Called). He had simply paid Malayan dollars to a Chinese in Singapɔre, who gave him a goto do the dest Joharia merchant we✨ Win töd,

ing the latter, to EAT A *

it ought not to be limited to thum

adelong glance. British loyees of the recognition is one of the

cards Chou Enlai fook with him to Moscow, and it la riot. | such à bati card either, in whit appears to be one of the toughest, diploma tors since the war. Certi

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