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SHUT THE DOOR ON THE SHILLING SHIRT, LANCASHIRE DEMAND

Canadian-US defence co-operation

White Horse, Yukon,

February 12.

Once again Britain may face perit from the sweated mills of Japan and a new Garmony out to get rich again,

Here is the first-hand background to a story which affects every worker in Britain

Remember how, 15 years ago, British folk were

shocked by the shilling shirt?

Made in Japon, it was flooding the markets of the

world. It was five shillings cheaper than any thing the mills of Lancashire could produce. It put Lancashire cotton workers out of jobs by the thousand.

And the busy Japanese were has four children he chrns 5,000 Canadian-American defence co- | notonly making shirts, They yen (£5) a month. operation has advanced to the sold the world sixpenny socks, Neither Zuzuki-San ner Taka- point where there would be “un- | 3d.-a-dozón (natches, bicycles hat hashi-San, who part with elabor- pleasant surprises for anybody were pounds cheaper than any ate bows at the factory gates, who tries to take us en Amerithing Britain could turn out All, but money, opportunity nat KST can Brigadier General "George: seemed like the "genuine "artici""" leisure nor the desire for

Britain had been proudly making creation or sport. for decades.

Stewart Bald today,

General Stewart is overall field

Is it all going to happen again? commander of the first joint Ca-At this vital moment in Britain's nadian-American war games and recovery drive in there a chance the largest sub-Arctic winter that Britons shall have to meel manoeuvres ever staged, which get the Japanese on the unfair terms underway at 12.01 am. Yukon that poorly-paid labour can give lime today.

the manufacturers of the For East? Many British businessmen

At that time, the elite troops of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infunty move out of this base in full battle regalla to travel North Westward up the Alaskan highway with temperatures expected to 80 well below zero,

think so.

ball

Each solemnly throws a base- hour meal break

to his companion at the hall- and the two toss down a few glasses of sako (worm rice wine)ur excellent Japanese bear after work on the way home.

LIBERALS

THE TWENTY-THIRD- MAN

CHALLENGE TO AMERICA

Recent weeks have seen the success. A wrong guess means o; havo "insurances” against fallure-

They take their children for a walk on their weekly day off, and they are still far mare comfort- They see the way, things are able in their yukata (informal going by the arrival of the Far Japanese kimono) than in West-

first 3s. 6d. shiris. A ern-style dress. thousand dozen piled up in a big Manchester warehouse lusa week.

They tend to suspect the uniot CCR organisers, who

to urge them True,

these aren't Japanese unite for higher wages and Meanwhile, an "aggressor force" shirts sneaked in from Hong Kong higher standard of living. jet-propelled Comet airliner comprising United States troops lender imperial Preference they So long as they have enough cruising six miles up at nearly expected to engage the Canadian

were made in Hong Kong itself tocat-and by comparative 600 mph, the new prop-jet Vis- forces on D-Day plus One about from yarn either spus locally or standards

they arc Horse originating in the Empire. 237 miles West of White

cating count and Apollo medium- English workers more and the battle will be on.

are--they are content to continue range airliners setting revolu the ancient Japanese tradition of tionary standards in quiet and hard work. Spartan living, and vibration free flight, and cbellence to authority.

swept-wing fighters able to fly

he possible danger,facturers seu the home, too, they see how post-war Ger

try many may

to enter their markets with cut-price goods.

Now let us take a clone-up of two avarage workers in Japan and Germany.

The mission of the Canadians is to hold the aggressors until an "pllied force" moves up. The ob- ject is to retake Alaska, where the enemy is entrenched after a sur prise assault-United Press.

E. German purge continues

Berlin, February 12.

TOKYO

than

They know that their Emperor saved them-and the world-frem hardship and suffering by gra- ciously ending the war in which the Americans were using lilde- ousty unfair bombing, and they Americans are

know that the

faster than sound.

This is

the promising civil deer from the days of 1948-47, aviation picture. A far cry in when, emerging from wartime specialisation on military planes, Britain found herself without a

way house.

costly failure, for there is no half of the new aircraft in service. By

The Tudor controversy, which ragel for two of the post-war yours, illustrated the impossibility

By

Harry C. Drake

in practice of planners changing shape. the minds on the aircraft takes So today, while British airlines 'My American,* British mahu facturers are showing that thero

1002-53 both airlines will have only a portion of their fleets de- pendent on jet propulsion-BOAC will still have its present Strato- cruisera, Constellations And Hermes (stilt to come) with use- ful life loft, while BEA have con- currently ordered piston-engined.

Abnssadors to share their routes

With the Viscount.

This arrangement, giving the planners the greatest possible Rexibility to offset committing alvanco, themselves so far, in must necessarily be costly,

Most intriguing

problem

will consider

of

By Richard Hughes now busily helping them recover modern airliner, reduced to hasty is high promise in the drastie 1950 is whether American airlines

Out into the snow and drizzle

industrially.

the British threat so serious ab to over-come their

here,

They blandiy accept their enoile uneconomic conversions of war

planes to reopen her oversons alr- of a black Oasks 'winter morning rica-bowl standards of living-ines, and finally forced to go to Age"--brought to practical frui- natural prejudice and place orders The Communist-inspired purge clors 38-year-old Terzo Zuzuki, because they still know no other.

to spend begrudged of Liberals and Christian Demo- textile worker at Kaneguchi cot- On the bowed shoulders of eighty America

dollars on the latest transport erpts in the Soviet Zone, whichzuki-Son, the shabbiest man Japan la doggedly hoping to win

mills.

million Zuzukis and Takahashis

planes developed there during that same war. reached its peale on Wednesday, continued at a reduced, rate this in the world, wears darned slon its way back to Asiatic leader- week-end.

clothes, wooden geta (clogs), ship--and loadership of the world carries his lunchbox of rice, dri-markets. ed fan and picicles undar his arm.

crs' movement.

Prelsemann has fled to Western Berlin, where more than 300 East Zone politicians of every level are reported to have taken refuge since the beginning of the year

Router.

BERLIN

Cutlery, curs,

to make

Yet today Britain's, airlines are still largely dependent on those machines. BOAC is, in fact, now Just receiving these planes ordered two years ago. They will have to stay in use for some years ahead, Coincidentally, British manu-

the past year. facturers have exported £33,000,- 000 worth of planes and parts in This seeming paradox holds the key to a situa tion which is a continual puzzlo to the layman.

decision two and a half years ago to pin faith onto the new "Jet tion in fact by our military fighter development during the wor

It come perhaps fronic to the Americans

the that whereas fumous wartime decision commit- ting Britain to warplane develop- ment, and the USA to transport left America fie a planes, position of great civil aviation strength in 1946 and brought the airlines of the world queuing to her factories for orders to restart their services it set Britain on the path to jet-propulsion, In which she holds a two-year lead And has practical now jet air- liners in the air.

The Liberal Democratic Party's provincial committee at Schwerin today suspended Erich Preise- He faces a half-hour railway mann, a member of the Mecklen- | trip in a packed car to his fac- From Antony Terry burg Provincial Parliament, who tory, where he begins work, at has been criticised by the Com- a.m. and finishes at pm. Six textiles and Rhine wine are soine cameras, toys, munist-led Secialist Unity Party | drys Week, särning 4,000 yen

(say £4) a month." (SED) for alleged derogatory re-

of the things Germany hope marks about the "people's owned" He shares three-roomed to sell to the world in increasing Industries and the activist work-paper and bamboo home 'near quantities during the next few

the main Osaka 'canal with his years,

Civil air transport dating only

A vital question, to be answered in-laws, whose own home was Typical of the energy the Ger- from 1919, la probably the youn- only by the experience of 1950 and burned down in the early Amermans are putting into rebuilding gest of Britain's big industries 1951, is whether the whole future can fire ralds.

their export trade is the specta and han expander violently to its of civil air transport lies with the With his wife, his mother-in-cular post-war comeback of the present status. With its growingjes-both the straight-through law, father-in-law, children, he sits, eats and sleeps near Brunswicof factory built by from its birth to its intraduction

and two £2,000,000 people's car plant size and complexity, the modern origine and that harnessed to drive

airliner takes live to seven years a propellor. on the mattingfloor of his tiny Four miles

If the jet's great advantages- home, where all the fuel for cook-Hitler

"amphibious inte airlines service.

Butting new standard in "com-

charcoal. ina and heating is provided by loops" to carry his armies across At the same time, due to its fort, greatly increased speed and and cheaper France and Russia Anished up a heavy cost, 11 must give at the less Inflamanable At the factory, where Ameri- mass of twisted scrap-iran after vory least five years' efficient seruel-prevalls over its présent can rationalisation methods have a dozen heavy RAF raids in 1944. vice before its initial cost is re- problems of great" "thirst, air recently been spu

control dificulties, and the some- spurring

When British troops took over on gro

couped. duction...and cutting operating the plant the official_description

what unknown conditions at 40,- costs, he labours

000-feet-where -operates best, per cent destroyed." carnostly and was "70

Foresee demands uncomplainingly

the Britain must iterally be to produce to-1 British Control Commission off- ferior textiled at one-third the clels who followed the troops im-

supreme in civil aviation in a fow cost of Lancashire textiles. mediately set about putting tho Planners drawing up the initial years.

must, therefore, Crowding Into the stuffy rail- Volkswagen factory on its feet specification

foresee the demands of five years way carriage bealdo him is his again. neighbour, Kenichi

to hayo a Takalioshi, The brilliant American-train- hence if they are

the Volkswagen "who wears 'a' 1918-style white ed director of

Full achievement of that ideal -mask usia profection = against „piant

int hopes eventually to oust

manns selling to the USA the tuberculosis germs and who British cars from Scandinavir) £440- export-model-of-the hardest barimers in the world

th a gimcrack toy factory and other European markets and Volksragen... paya 10s.. a week and even allowing for complete

to step up output to 80,000; care for his spotlessly clean, simply† success of the “ Tel: Kanguichi textile mill-

*** furnished single room on the can national pridit must not be prevoduced duck toys Working conditions in the | Nazi-built:- housing estato and; } under-estimated: made in Imitation of an English Volkswagen factory, where, 10,- of cou

urse, he has no fares to pay. model and now selling at one 000 are now employed, are good cycles to work, pays £10 of the English cost in by German standards. Forty weak to his landlady for a single Inila, South America. nine-year-old Kurt Schroeder, most-meal a day and takes a Takolibahl-Son is a relatively who earns £5 a weak fitting packet of brown bread and drip- unskilled, worker, but because he luxury upholstery" inside the ping for his mid-shift meal.

London, February 12. Pakistan's High Commissioner to Britain, Mr. Habib Rahimtoola, returned to Londen by air today after a six weeks' visit to Pakis- tan. He said that his visit had convinced him that the decision of the Pakistan Government not to devalue its rupee has been taken in the best interests of the coun- try's trade and economy Router.

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Britain's lead today is a chat- lenge and a spur to the American industry, and efforts to produce a Jet airither over there within the next five years must be expected.

The British State-owned air- Kines have pledged their faith by ordering the Comet for BOAC'S long-distance routes and the prop-fet Viscount for BEA'S medium-stage services. These should be in service two years be- fore any possible US, type..

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