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ARBITRATOR GIVES DECISION

GIVES DECISION IN Montgomery studies SERIOUS

Red scout DAIRY FARM DISPUTE

plane over Taiwan

Taipeh, March 24,

Air raid precautionary mea- sures in Taiwan have been tightened as the Communist air strength increased. A lone Communist scout plane appeared Dver Keelung on

March 22 but did not drop any bombs, according to usual-

Additional allowance of HK$30 a month awarded

WORKERS' CLAIM NOT MADE OUT

ly reliably military sourers An additional living allowance of HK$30 has been awarded by

here.

Another ineldent occurred near

Hsuchow, when a Nationalist P-51

fighter on a scouting mission was:

forcod to Jund by three Com-

The workers had

Professor R. Robertson, Arbitrator in the arbitration between Dairy Farm workers and their employers. asked for HK$90.

munist planes. This is believed Professor Robertson said he examined certain budget categories in the

to have occurred between Marchi

20 and 23.

The Nationalist authorities here] are speeding up their prepara-

tions for a large-scale landing on the China mainland, according to unofelul sources,"

It is believed that the Nation- alists have received information that the Communists, with Russ

sian technical and material ald, are intensifying their preparations

for an invasion Taiwan Islands,

of Hainan and

His

Report on Cost of Living and studied some of the actual budgets re- ceived by the Statistical Office.

conclusion was that allowing for an accepted rise in standards of liv ing, the budget of a typical household in these categories consisting of two adults and one child would amount to some figure between HK$200 and. HK$250,

sistance to the Tribunal and in the, interests of the workers; nor was the manner in which the budget up explicitly bad been drawn stated.

sisting of two adults and one child would amount to some figure lying between $200 and $230.

He added that there is, with existing costs of living, a good case for an additional allow

"refrain deliberately from at-' ance if workers are to main-

tempting a more deinite estimate. tain reasonable standards.

"It was out of the question for in making the calculation. I have Nationalist raids

of such addi- the Tribunal to attempt a detailed ared, not the weights The amount

employed in Hainan reports said the over tional allowances necessary to enquiry, upon scientific statistical the general Retail Price Index, but cast cleared yesterday and Na bring present earnings into re-ines, into the household expendl the weights corresponding to the tionalist bombers took full ad-

lation with living costs is very ture of a worker's family of the categories in question. This con- vantage of the

excellent wa-

the workers category concerned. It was there not, of course, be taken as in any ther, winking scores of Junk much less than

fore necessary, for purposes of sense a scientific conclusion re- along the

coast, figure of HK$00 a month. Bouth China adda United Press.

"The workers claimed an ad- assessing the value of the budget-garding living costs such as could

put up by the be used in applying.

say, mialmum The Nationalist Commanding ditional special, allowance of $99 ary statements

use of other wnge legislation based upon the General, Hauch Yuch, warned the a month; the Company refused to workers, to make

of a living wako. Chinese Red

"But it was

ice-war conditions

During his stay in Nneway, where he was the quest of the Round Table Club of Norway, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery paid a vialt to Norwegian troops in the field. He was very Marshal Interested in the conditions of war amid the ice of Norway. Photo shows the Field (second from left) watching a leash of dogs, yead for transporting wounded soldiers, at'a prac. tice run(AP Photo).

Portuguese troops in brush with Reds at Macao

Portuguese troops forcibly compelled fiva launchies, carrying Chinese Communist troops, to mpya out of Macao waters recently, according to messages received by the "Chino Mall" yes- tarday from the Portuguese Colony.

guerilias on the grant this claim. This was the dis- material available to the Tribunal. conception not for that purpose As a result of the action, four Communist soldiers

Estimate not

of

at

were killed. A number of others were wound- ed. The brief battle was fought near Colowan Island, about a mile from Macao.

at

rea-

Reds planning fighter escort for HK planes

months.

RIOTING IN BRUSSELS

Brussels, March 24.

Strikers wrecked 200 tram- cars, fought the police and smashed Up 3 department -store in angry Brussels demon- strations today againgt King Leopold's return.

Some burned effigies of priests, About 200 gendarmes, armed with rifies, gas masks and tear gua bombs joined the battling police in the city's centre against con- tinuous 'mob attacks on strike breaking traffic, their drivers and passengers.

Strikers, at the beginning of 24 hour generat South Bel. glum anti-Leopold stoppage, Empshed windows of trams pass.

of

Ing the headquarter of the Socialist Party, backbone opposition to the exiled King in the French speaking provinces. They cut overhead wires, tore down overhead trollies, broke brakes, clambered on to roofs to renove indicators. The police kot prasengers away under armed Others, many of them Boards. university students, chased the

crow of one tram Into a big de- partment store where a running fight took place in the crockery department, leaving the floor littered with broken China.

Students, in opposition to the Catholic Party c pre-Leopold stand, burned effigies of priests in main streets, chanting "down with the clergy" and "abdication." --Reuter.

Disappearance of

ss. Ethel Moller

ntrol.

on

unfair in the sense of being lower lines, yet it was necessary to make under discussion. Here again the Isla Communists occupied Lappa that the launches did not return reports during the past week of abouts remains very much of a

over

Taipch, March 24. Shipping circles are baffler over the disappearance of a email British freighter, the island to surrender or face a pute referred to the Tribunal fee

that the calculation was made. buf are settlement. fiery death. The

Ethel Moller, Auerillas

last reporter] railer to find some budget figure. Rurrounded on Five Finger "The workers based their claim

Communist Air Force officers near Swatow, Communist-held based upon an actual survey, Mountains.

for special allowance on the in-

which might assist me in deter-

plan to delay the exodus of 71 seaport opposite Taiwan, He said n

of fame crease number

ase in the cost of living, and established

former CATC and CNAC | February 28. throwers were being assembled on the disparity between their

mining the extent to which the

She was then apparently trying to drive the guerillas Into the

in planes from Hong Kong until carnings (existing basic wages

workers' claims were valid.

The "China Mail" informant, launch Song. Hal, engaged

March they have sufficient fighter to run the blockade open.

plus Rehabilitation Allowance

"The figure mentioned, however

Since then, nothing has been Nationalist guerlilas were re and the amount necessary at cur- "In view of the Umpossibility of approximate, fell well below that said that the five launches anti-smuggling work on

'It added that the Seng Hal was China, an informed source told hoard of the that she was which was bemi the Canton the rent prices to support a worker conducting a full statistical en- of the workers budget. Neverthe were intercepted in Portuguese 6, at Sam Kok Choy near Macau, planes to escort the planes into

One theory is was beginning to feel the and his family.

quiry into the cost of living of the less it did suggest that there was waters by a Portuguese, patrol hit by at least 200 bullets, and the "China Mail" yesterday.

The Communists were effects of the Southward moving

whether by substance in the contention that boat.

was seriously damaged. Some of famine. A number

"The Company presented state workers concerned. of farmors

dimeulty in

The source added that plans for seized by the Nationalist Navy In meeting first, told that they were in the crew were gravely wounded.

protection of the and escorted either to Taiwan or were feeing to the coast. For-ments of the earnings of the Chin- the use of questionnaires in docu-workers had sting wages plus Macao waters and then asked

The report said that the Cur- the effective

to some other planes have already been worked. anchor, toms boat, Lu Sin, mers were reported eating seeds eso workers concerned in the dis-mentary form or by the examina living costs

the nature of their mission. intended for the spring crop.pute, and chailenged the estimates tion of witnesses, it was necessary Rehabilitation Allowance.

The leader sald that his mission and more than 100 hout en probably be ferried within three have not given out anything to The scale of consumption im-

The authorities here, however, out, and that the planes would aust.com Point under Nation. Router and United Press,

made by the workers' representa- to seek other methods, however

was to arrest Nationalist soldiers were also attacked without tives of

typical rough and ready, of ascertaining plied in the Food and Fuel Index of the cost of a

of fishermen were existing living costs.

used for the computation of the living on a barge off Colawan son. A number monthly household budget.

added There have been news agency firm this and so her whore- "It was not

"Direct examination suggested at any

might Island. They had fled there when killed and wounded. It the Rehabilitation Allowance

mystery-Associated Press. stage of the proceedings that the workers' budget of $338.35 could also be considered to have some the

Во fire,

to avoid further Red fighter planes seen general contribution to make the question proceed on very wages paid by the Company were only

Shanghai, but these reports can- The Communists were told that casualties among the fishermen. thes

could not carry out their The report said that the inci- not be conarmed in Hong Kong. rates of wages in

as the mission

soldiers

has aroused considerable were dent refugees and were in Portuguese unger among the Peking popula- tion against the Macao Govern- territory.

Following a heated exchange ment, tion of this budget, one possible might be possible to calculate (by

Using the

words, the Communist-leader *approximate--weights method was to examine the material contained in the Report from the Survey of June, 1948) threatened to ram and sink the

expenditure necessary Portuguese patrol boat. on Post-War Movements in the the

maintain this scale of consumption Cost of Living.

"Long discussions took place on and other household costs for a the workers budget of $333.35. family of three in any one month, The real question here was whe- using the Food and Fuel Indices ther this could be taken as repre- for that month, apparent

current ex- "If such a caletilation be made, whether senting the actual losue was axlating earnings were out of penditure required to maintain aa gure is reached for December, 1949 not significantly differing

Later the Commander of Land keeping with present level of household of the type concerned 1949

that reached in the last Forces, accompanied by a number at & reaso

Ilving from reasonable standard of

Manila, Match 24.

The British Government, it is be mentioned living costs, and whether there

the view that paragraph. It may be accede to

understood, will finance the pes- MHG of Portuguese troops, arrived off hore

such calcula-

Elpidio Quirino tao. was a case for a further asst of

of workers' standards of living in that in making

**| Colowania naval launch,

Shipment of these parts has lect, to some extent and in addi living allowance, and if

Following a short argument told the press in Bagulo that much, having due

with the Communist leader, he the Philippines has not ex-Riven rise to speculation that the tion supply the necessary aircraft Communist officials are planning and materials, maintenance being the gave

Communists five lended recognition to the Bao to fly the planes from Hong Kong the responsibility of the Malayın

Government.-Router. minutes to imove out of Macao Dal Government for two rea-in the near future. waters.

UK scientists' attitude on the H-bomb

London, March 23. Two of Britain's leading atomic scientists said today thut they

bamb.

than coments in other con-1 in vlow of its prominence in the approximate.

similar

me,

B

some attempt to assess its value, results admittedly could be only But if this scale

addition of cerns. Indeed, on the information workers' argument. For this pur- were adjusted by

ndult and one chlid, available to

I was satisfied pose, apart from direct examina second will refuse to work on a hydrogen that the wages paid by the Dairy Farm Company compared very sel ntist said the favourably with those in other world's brightest hope is that the similar concorns. hydrogen bomb will very nearly

Another

but not quite work."

One called

for Britoin And West Europe to withdraw from the Atlantic Pact,

The statements were among several issued today by members of the Atomic Scientists' Associa- tion of Britain, most of them deploring the international situa- tion that led to the United States' decision to go ahead with the; hydrogen bomb.

The two scientists who sald they will refuse to work on the bomb are Dr. G. Q. Jones of Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford. und Professor Kathleen Lonsdale University College of of the London-United Press.

The issue

that the

wis therefore

to

capacity of there to that Hong Kong are in fact, and legiti- | tions, the consumption scale of a

in-

"I am, however, saxtlafled, as result of very careful discussion, that, even taking into account the rise in Ilving standards as woll

as increased costs,

child has to be given some standard measure. I have taken it as 5 that of an adult.

"Using the ration scales submit- ted to the Labour Officer by the unions in the summer of 1949 in the same way, I find a similar result.

As a result of this threat, the matrol hoat commander consulted the Commander of Land Forces.

The patrol boat Macao. ordered to withdraw from the arca.

Warning shot

WBF

Quirino's views on Bao Dai Government

President

sang.

the five-minute

·ulti-

to the mately, on the upgrade, and that crease the pay of their workare what might have been regarded in the Immediate post-war period as without diminishing employ- ment, and to the wider question a reasonable standard is not neces tion of inflationary

sarily so today. possibilities. "This was an not perhaps entirely appropriate to the pro- cedure

of arbitration, unless asso- ciated with legislative directión regarding a living minimum wage. which was not the case here. was Indeed more the kind of dis pute that is best settled by a pro- commercial cess of bargaining between the plane last night, saw a strange parties, or by the methods of comm have not been Influenced by the live enquiries has been, I should! hurling threats of reprisals from sovereignty over the territory,

FLYING SAUCER OVER BRAZIL

Sao Paulo, March 24, The crow of a Pan-American Airways of Brazil

ship which they belleva lo be ciliation or mediation.

a Bying saucer.

The plane was flying ПУСТ Caxias city, Rio Janeiro state, recognised

It

that

the

Y

Good case

inatum expired, a warnning shot 1. Up to now, the French gov- was fired over the launches. As ernment has not made, any com- the result, shots were exchanged mitment to the Bao Dal Govern- between the Portuguese naval ment on the fixed date of its in- Launch and the Communist craft, dependence,

Suffering casualties, the five

2. It is not yet certain if the launches fcft Portuguese waters:

soldiers Eno Dai administration exorcises Communist

the

higher authorities.

workers' estimate of current monthly costs has not been es- tablished.

"The purpose of there compara-with conclusion this "In coming lo

Mr. Quirino alho said, the ques relterate, not to arrive at a de- made finitive

The pre-Communist "Ta Kung fact that reference 'was

inanthly cost of living during the proceedings to previous estimate,

Peo" carried a report from Pek- tion of the Philippine recognition but to give me some acceptance, however, of and lower budget estimates stated

conclusion

tion ng yesterday charging the Macao of the Bao Dal government has no system of

of Rehabilita

an Government with slaughtering bearing on whether, Vietnam will to have been

made by the guidance in reaching

on the extont to Ion Allowance in addition tion

which, if any, an basic to when the crew members dis-

workers. workers.

additional allowance for cost of Chinese lives, infringing Chinese or will not join the projected Intended to meet high cost "The material in the Report on Ilving would be justified.

Exact covered the saucer flying about wares.

national integrity and co-operat South East Asla union-Associat 12 miles ahead. The crew said of living, may be taken to imply Cost of Living which was most arithmetical measurement is outing with smugglers and bandits. ed Press.

Poking version by all nearly relevant to the problem of the question, and has not been they were excited at the sight a general of the flying saucer which they cerned

of the

with which we were concerned is attempted, In advancing towards The report alleged that with- previously believed to be a fairy basic wages in

conditions

out any justification Portuguese | to be found in the 108 budget my conclusion on this matter. rust ba Lalo. (See Pare 5).-United Press, must supplemented

conalituting Category. (1) of the

(Continued Out Page 21 troops fired on the 'Customs (SEE PAGE ()

jowances. It might therefore be conaldered an issue suitable for June. 1948 Survey (summarised in I of the Report). This arbitration to put the question Appendix VII

a category was

the in which existing allowances We households

averaged 2.30 aduits for this purpose. I have hou

and: 88 children and probably ・repress Hased covered for the most

ost part wage-

AG ORG ONT 11 p.m. IKI) the budget presented by them

a, which or skilled-technical, Ma

Category (11) of the same survey over Japan. The depression over the purported to represent the actunt of-the Eastern Ben has beck cost of living month of an adult could also be considered as having

chira usefulness, and THE Worker,

one child and-la stationary.

Today's Formuelzimlight, or 'moderate;

The Weather

1

moderate, anti-cyclona · remains" stationary

ed on

that

Workers their claim mainly on a household earners who were neither

The Oscar winners

On Other Pages

PARO 2

Eviction appeal dismissed.

Hollywood, March 24. Hollywood Boulevard history, Watsons" annug? meating Olivia de Havilland in "The Without exception, the awards, PAGE 4

Shortage of schools in HK Barclay's Bridgs Heiress," and Broderick Craw-went according to predictions.

- Crawford, who was once; con" for the purposes of ford in "All the King's Men".

∙Page

Belgian meetingtem Leopold Page 7 that other budgets had Justments for the greater number

EAST Acheson all in thee, but improving slir dels previously been presented on the of persons in the average house

er his

wife

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patan game June - 1-197.14.81ins

Worker

behalf, but their repre- waro Insistent that the

In their view ""ac« curate; «inded that if omitted certain neccamry

hold of this category...

budget placed b

before us totalling Typical budget Perks they also" stated]

· ho, hoard-Jane- Wyman, rend his |demy Award.

honour. Inat, night-the Acatures, leaped from his seat when

"All the Kizig's Men" was name as the winner. He could say! named the best picture of 1949, little more than: “Thank, God."-

The hulking actor later said he and Iden

Radio actress Mercedes McCam bridge was selected the best sup

porting-actress for hair work ins would win or not he Page: 9:00 A

Don

Motoring news

bon-14don's Diary.

Italy

My examination of these cato-"All the King's Mens her first Mits de Havilland was calmer. Page 10: ad-sories, together with a study of movie. Hoosier Dean Jascer, who she accepted the award from

Riots in Ita

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ditions

were madey M "This budget

was not supported gelved by the Batletical Office "retronded arthomeer in coming the ith star in Mollon Debate on, Beraing refused by anal or documentary evidence when conducting the Surver has wolys Clock the wad prize twice Other inades and Commerce

Chrusesred Pletics enteny history to win page: 12 y FASE, FOAM. AF SO ROCual expenditure of indivi- let me to the conclusion that at an

dual

hourtholds, although it was December 1849, petoes, allowing explained more than once to the for an acceptedyr In standards workers/repruagatallyos that map of ilving, the brides, ON: porting evidence would be of nail household in three cRIMENTION

Krsewinnsas; are Bette Davis Wage 12IRILA

Final Froderick, Marchi Ale, Bisipping Inovem

The Nationalist government have declared from their head. quarters in Taiwan that they

constant surveil are keeping lance on the planes, which are now at Kai Tak, and they In

Dave.

tend to shoot them out of the

ky should they sky,

attempt to

week ago, the 69. Empire Dirk left Hong Kong with more than 5,000 cases of CNAC and CATC equipment on board, bound for Kdret

From Korca, the parts and en- gines are due to be trans-shipped the North China port of Tsing-

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AUXILIARY

AIR FORCE IN- MALAYA

Penang, March 24, -A Malayan Auxillary Air-Forca. is to be formed shortly with the establishment of a fint fighter An officer from squndron here. de Pass, has arrived to organise Britain, Flight Lieutenant F. G. the squadron and serve as its

trat Adjutant.

Its base has not been finally chosen but is expected to be at Bayon Lepas Airport, 12, miles from Penang.

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