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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1980.

TRADE UNIONISM IN

INDIA,

PAKISTAN AND CEYLON

Trade Unionism in India and Pakistan dates back half

UP

By H. L. Bullock P

with factory, land, or workshop experience,, they are not going to grow strong roots.

Pakistan and Ceylon

is

*

Morning

•

"Khanghål goods from HI.K.

a century but the.movement developed rapidly after the trary; it is moving fast and has There are four National Trade

"The size of the contract and passing of the Indian Trâdes; to its advantage all the United Union Co-federations in India The position in Pakistan

the length of the leave is regarded; Union Act of 1920. In Kingdom experience to trade on, the All India Trade Union Con- similar in many

as reflecting British confidence in respects to Ceylon the movement is of avold, and all its many advan- Union Congress; the Hind Max unfon movement is much smaller

all its mistakes to mote and gress; the Indian National Trade India, except that the trade the future of Hong Kong

It would; of esume, be most more recent growth.

tages to Imliga. The Indians door Sabha; and the United Trade and more compact, there are not embarrassing if civil servants One of e oldest trade unions are doing this and will; I feel Union Congress. In India-formed 30 years ago sure, make great progress in a

so many differences, and politi returned from six months' Leave HK$18.00

cal considerations are

and found absent

Mao Tse-tung in Tho is in the textile industry in few years,

Arzt is a HK$38.00

Communist The oldest organisation

the charge of the Colony. I Ahmedabad. HK$72.00

Mr. Gandhi was

organization and at the moment Seamen's Union and it must be. On many occasions in many of writing is mainly underground. said here that by generous help associated with this venture and parts of India I have heard un- All news contributions to be to this day it bears the mark of solleted testimonials pald The second has the support of of the British Seamen's Union

The goods, he said, had been his influence and personality.

by union leaders to the understand-the Congress party (it is accused they have an effective agreciment brought into the Colony from the There is, as one would expecting attitude of British employers ly dominated by that Party). It membership

by the others of being complete with the shipowners and a good prefer the more polite

inferior of China." to And. however, a great and and their desire to help promote is strongly anil-communtat and Pakistan are in a healthy state

The unlons In "underprivileged." dressed to the Company CHINA real difference between the Tex-good Industrial relationships.

tile Union of Ahmedabad and the Omelats, of the Indian unions also claims nearly 1,500,000 member- and are growing, other unions in India, because tread avidly all the Information

ship in nearly 1,000 unions.

Ceylon is mainly an agricul. Judging by reporte from has, as its years denote, "grown they cant about trade unions in The third co-federation is also caster in this delightful and well-be. Karon lers who wins in the

tural

country and things are Rangoon, some Burmese couldn't Britain, in order to test means non-Communist, has Negollations as understood in and methods which they feel trial policy something like the progressing but would perhaps

an indus-watered island. The unions are current struggle. the United Kingdom are being have been so successful in rats- General Workers Union in the do even better if they concen- practised, educational classes are ing the standard of existence in United Kingdom and a political rated on the Industrial site and in being, a reasonably good office the United Kingdom in spite of policy after the fashion of the built up their untons instead of jam to godowns." partment in evidence, and it is staff employed, a research de- wara and all

the concomitant independent Labour Party the best equipped thing of its

dimculties.

Britain. It has 750,000 mem-point and rarely moving from it. "Tito..

starting from a political stand- No, Myrtle, I said "Tino," not Every Indian worker is a poll-bership in 500 untons. The re- kind I saw in India.

ilclan Arst and Moreover, the Union

In all these countries the trade an industrial maining congress, has only been union movement is in the teeth- claims worker a long way after.

Judging by the news that while only 10 per

All in ex

existence for a year cent of the unions are divided on party claims to have 350,000 members are cheap while machines

and Ing stages, and men and women Cairo, the Sendlets arO really Indian workers are able to read lines and are really labour wings in 240 unions..

are living up to their name. and write, in Ahmedabad over of

dear. A sound trade political

.union 15 per cent are literates.

two really What we in Britain would call he

effective organisation with a constructive Generally

The Chinna Town police the approach will win the confidence raided an oplum den yesterday, is Impossible to branch, they call a union; there organisations, however, are

INTUC and HMS. The stately tempo set by get a fair picture of Indian trade are hosts of them, of the total craft basis, neither do they think] lective bargaining with reason- eradicating the tell-talo smell of There is no of employers and eventually col- which had escaped detection by unions without and mentioning the conditions average a membership of less They go through all industries

understanding number of unions 75 per cent in terms of industrial unionism. able relationships will prevall. obtaining which produce them than 500 members and only about horizontally.

Employers will be constrained the drug." and which colour their outlook. 10 per cent have, a membership of general worker unions.

They are, in fact, to accept full managerial respon-thought he had a winna.

Just when the divan keeper factual industrial 1istory of the If one were well versed in the more than 1,000.

Their afbility, while the unions will leaders, almost without exception, slowly but surely raise the star- The small size-of- the unions are drawn from the professional dard of life, ensuri United Kingdom frem

The mother of the Dionne quins 1840 on restricts their financial position, classes, doctors, lawyers, and the and conditions and this sub-con- good wages

rumoured to be expecting and the growth of the trade

especially A contributions are like. union movement, then an almost small-it is generally two to four cause until they

This is unfortunate, be- tinent will stand

shoulder to another multiple birth. true repetition which is taking annas per month,

can produce shoulder with the rest

This is the quintessence place in India makes a compari-

leaders from their own ranks, Commonwealth,

fertility. son quite proper, making allowa once for the fact that India is 00 per cent agricultural.

neth W. Catton on 21st June 1060 at Queen Mary Hospital, ason Brian Cedric,

TAKING TIME FROM PEKING

Years behind

con-

the People's Government in its correspondence with the British Government seems to have been adopted also by the Foreign Office. In thus taking its time from Peking, Britain took six weeks to send in a reply to the Chinese Note asking for a clarification on the two main issues raised as a prelude to Peking's re- cognition of British recogni- tion. In between the ex- India is '100' years behind the change of Notes, Mr. Bevin from the trade union viewpoint. United Kingdom in development had made his "unpleasant de-This does not mean that it will cision" speech, with its emo- never catch up. On the tional reactions in Peking, where it was hinted China wanted our love and fealty too. It is not the custom to make matters of the heart a subject of formal negotia- tions, of course. Recognition is as recognition does, and comment on motives can only with propriety come from off- stage. On this it need only be said that if the motives of British recognition were de- void of passion, they were certainly hot maleficent. They were, in fact, utterly respect-

able.

various

groups.

of

the

You like nice present, yes?

the first session of the Peo- ple's Political Consultative Council. Mr. Mao Tse-tung lugging those smothering loads of They are to be met everywhere, warned the extreme wing of carpets, handbags, trinkets, and, his Party, which doesn't like course, gally decorated "pout- the Common Programme, To earn a laugh from British and American holidaymakers they are still saying that "Becz-

pouts."

By John Hall

•

•

from

of

An ambitious wife: the power behind the drone.

Surveying local journalistic efforts in the past few days, I can heave a sigh. how high you would like to know how far you can raise a problem, just how fair is sex, how deeply spectators exactly how totally the huts were were rooted to the spot, and

destroyed.

of the Continent and parti Christmas time.

Around the holiday resorts dater which you pick from Pre-war the British were the cularly the West. Mediter-

brightly coloured boxes at best buyers. Now they are the

poor relations. The Swiss holiday By mid-May Bound's farming makers are the wealthiest this ranean-the "pouf-pout" men year is closing the dry season is year. After them the Belgians in pre-war Numbers. are back on the beat this year coming--so he briefs his wives then the Americans, then the

for the summer work, packs his Swedes..

and shops for his wares-carpets and make certain of catching There he meets wholesale agents "make friends with the visitors bag, and takes the bus to Algiers. "At all times," says Bound,

The Nationalists have bought £500,000 worth of silver in them a few hours before they are London, due to leave. They're certain to Yes, they got it for sterling. buy something then."

Few international bankers can: With regard to the British equal the "pouf-pour" man's protests against unauthorised knowledge of International cur-} landings, the Argentinians are rencies,

expected in reply that there is Tunisia, camel-leather Get to know Bouad and he'll no Deception; it's simply M "pouts" and wellets made in fish out of a back pocket the big-far-flung suburb of Buenos Aires, men are Arabs from French and rings made in Casablanca

the "pout-pour" Algiers, Algerian silver bracelets gest roll of currency you ever

saw-French, Swiss, and Belgian "Ive been married since I last North Africa. They call from Algiers to Marseilles late in May, work in groups and help each ers,

Many of the "pouf-pout" men franca, Italian lire, Dutch_gulld- saw you" tramp the sidewalks, and the other out, but profits are not

wheedling, bargaining, until late September, makes.

cajoling, shared. Each man carns what he then return home to their wives

ness is lousy".

from What they earn

beaches,

and families.

Sales psychology

have two or three wives.

The majority are Moslems and Only few work on commis- glon. Not men like the Belaids, During their 13-15 weeks as "We work for ourselves," they itineran; aulesmen they reckon to say. average £10-£15 a week during

Swedish kronor, dollars, "So I heard. In fact, I knew Treasury notes-and tell you, in your wife before you married

dash, the exact value of each. her." When it comes to currency the "You're lucky. I didn't." "pout-pout" man's mental arith- metic is instantaneous and flaw- less. So is his "nose" for dud currency.

Most of the stuff he sells is made in "sweatshops" and he a fair season, £20 a week during with half a dozen colleagues, are price" for a "pour" may be £6, This year the Belaid brothers, buys at rock-bottom prices. "First

that this is the fundamental law of the country at present and must be fully carried out. It is concerned with the co- operation not merely between Nearly ali State and private enterprise in economics but between the Communist Party and all other groups associated there- with in the Government. Britain's reply on the ques That principle also applied tion of Chinese representation to China's foreign policy, in in the United Nations and on spite of certain reservations, the aircraft in Hong Kong in- The two specific issues taken dicates there is no change in up with the British Govern the attitude outlined by the ment do not appear in any of Foreign Secretary in the de- the articles, but Article 56 did a good season. Living carefully, working the Cap Antibes-Juan- but if you beat him down to £2 bate in Parliament on May provide that foreign Govern- they bank on arriving back in les-Pins area, sharing a house, he still makes a nice profs. 24. The Chinese tactics, ments must sever relations Algiers with £200 to £250 in working the territory from mid- He'll ask £12 for a rug that; hinted Mr. Bevin, seemed to with the

their pockets. Kuomintang re-

morning ("People won't start cost him less than £5, 12s. for a have been taken from Mos- actionaries and adopt a friend are the Belald brothers. Bouadi he sky tell late at night,

Typical of the "pout-pout" men buying until the sun is high in bracelet that cost him half-a- cow, which was holding the ly attitude towards the new Belaid, who is 37, have been fore the first essentials of a suc-

crown or less. Belaid who is 43, and Meziane Peralatence and good humour United Nations to ransom on regime. Britain has got as visiting the French Rivera for 20, costul "pout-pout" man. this issue. The United States | far in-severing relations with years with a break during the

If your wife fancies one of his Ask Bound Beleid if he ever large handbags the "pout-pout" had offered to accept a ma- the former regime as she has war, when both served in the loses his temper and he is hor- man says: "For you, mādam, jority 'decision but

would ever done in the past in the French Algerian forces,

rified at the thought,

£4." Then, as you beat him neither vote nor veto. For many transitions of the civil hüls of the Atlas Mountains near chology; talking to the men visi- est bargainer he's ever encounter- The brothers live in the foot-) Another essential is sales-psy- down, you are in turn the tough- its part the British Govern wars. A single Consular of- the old French outpost of Fort tors, but at the same time keep-ed, you are heartless, you are ment had tried to get it clear- fice performs purely routine National, 00 miles East of Algiers. Ing a close watch on the rene- asking him to give it away. ed up by seeing if the functions of an administrative Helped by his three wives,

Bouad is a prosperous farmer. tions of the wife or girl-friend; necessary seven votes

he picking the people who have the of 30s. and he'll turn away smil nature for the mutual con-grows oranges, olives and those money. the Security Council could ventence of Chinese and Bri-:

ing, go off that evening to write be collected. Britain tish citizens and interests.

to the factory in Algiers asking for more handbags. thought it better for

on

Surely Britain can fairly ask

the new China to be inside that this situation be appre- the United Nations, and ciated for what it is and not, didn't want to ostracise any-be used as a pretext. body on political grounds. As for the aircraft, their dispost- tion remained a matter for the Courts to decide owner- ship.

Little ship with

a big idea

By Eric Bennett

Mr. Bevin has declared his Government's desire that Peking should be represented in the United Nations. It is unjust to hold it responsible When the Tom Jay comes, One famous marine engineer said for the policies of others, chugging up

that the oil supplied to the whether it be Russia or of any towing a line of dumb barges, dangerously overheated. In fact, the Thames, hydraulic motor would become other sovereign member of she does not appear to be any a miner problem was to maintain the Security Council. The different from the other small the oil at a sufficiently high tem- law says admission must be a tugs which fuss gbout the perature. collective decision, by a ma- jority of the Council.

river.

But the Tom Jay is not merely Two problems

different; she is unique.

ship in the world whose main For one thing she is the only engines are placed across the ship and, not fore and-oft.

One-man job y Mr. Jones solved the

After the British Note had been handed over, a spokes- man of the Foreign Office re- peated the view that the dead lock in the United Nations caused by the dispute over Chinese representation should be broken, and that any de- It seems to us that a more

Two main requirements are cision should be a collective co-operative attitude on the

and paying proposition: one is the needed to make a tug on emetent one.. The spokesman was part of the People's Govern-

ability to stay in service con- commenting not so much on ment in this and other aspects

tinuously, and the other is manoe-j the British Note as on certain of foreign policy would be

uvrability. Press reports from Lake just as wise and timely as the

Arst problem by breaking down his Success suggesting that Bri- strategic retreat on the home

And it is quite possible that prime movers into four units, tain had decided to adopt a front. Decisions of far-reach- when you see her in action there three of which are sufficient to more positive attitude in } ing importance to the whole of is not a single man in the engine- drive the ship, and the fourth is future on the, question. It the Far East are soon to be 500m-because the skipper on the always in reserve,

bridge can control all the engines These power units consist of was pointed out by the taken, and they will certainly and machinery directly by the diesel engines coupled to specially spokesman, that although involve Japan. Statesmanship operation of his ship's telegraph. designed radial oil pumps.. The Britain had abstained from would have second thoughts Tom Jay is driven by a pumps deliver lubricating oil

new system of hydraulle power under voting so far, she would vote on a sterile campaign of pro- transmission known is hydro-hydraulic motor, also specially

„pressure“ to work in favour of Peking's reprépaganda attacks on General pulsion. It has been invented by designed, which turns the pro- sentation when a majority of MacArthur, and open in London consulting engineer. Mr. poller-shaft. members showed the same stigations to the Japaneseydraulic machinery, which was manoeuvre are provided by the G. F. Jones, who designed the Bpeed and simplicity of disposition in any competent Communist Party. It is a time constructed and erected under the ease of control, With what Committee. The onus remains for diplomacy and for o cer- supervisions of his partner. Mr. appears to be an ordinary ship's with the Russians, whose tain flexibility or

Michael Petty, does

telegraph the man on the beldge walkouts were responsible for "leaning to ona side" call for voiced Mr. Jones is modost about the engines and operates the Short, grey-haired, quiet-regulates the speed and power of the fact that the Security permanent hostility, perman- his achievement, although it is the reversing valve. Council is not working ent antagonism, and perman- first time that a hydraulic system By the unique arrangement of The Peking Government ent isolation from the frog has been used: successfully to the diesel engines athwart the

power & ship.

stilp the pumps and all the hy has admitted the error of its world and those who, like He admits that It has taken draulle gear aro on the port side. ways in domestic policy, and Japan, may be associated with four years to perfect the design. A large skylight, which is remov has reverted to the Common |'it?" Timo is just as pressing and ut couro, we had our able, enables an engine to be rem Programme agreed upon by on this front as it was on the number of technicians told breakdownaged by an teething troubles, Cali moved quickly if there te a major all groups who took part in economic front.

him tie was wisting "bla Dmal: • (Continued On Page 8):

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A

--A-sale-is-made-

But, settle on his "last price"

And then he will alt down to a dinner which по £50-limit British holidaymaker would dere

to order.

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