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THE CHINA-MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1951.

Shadow Of A Economic Discontent

Sabre. Jet

Stafford Cripps Improving

London, Aug. 19.

Sir Stafford Cripps, 62- year.ol}} former British Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, who 1135 been seriously ill in Swis ellate

with a tubercular Infection of the spine, may be fit enough to relum to England before the end of the year.

Mr Charles

Nell, body

posture specialist, fore- cart this in nu interview here today

on his return from a fortnight at the Zurich clinic where he bas

teaching Sir Stafford been

to walk.

Sir Stafford would have to remain at the clinie for some months, but it was possible that he would re- turi 10 Britain this year. Mr Nell sald-Reuter.

State Governor Going To Japan

to

Sacramento, Aug. 19. Governor Earl Warten is leave today on a flight to Japan to inspect California soldiers in service and in training there.

A U.S. Air Force F-86D Sabre jet fighter casts its sleek shadow on the dry

lake bed at Edwards air base in California as it comes in for a landing. The shadow, distorted by the camera angle, appears as a designer's dream of the plane to come-AP

Picture.

Occupation

Of Tibet Completed

Delhi, Aug. 19. An Indian official who has just returned from Tibet said today that Chinese Communist soldiers had now occupied the roof of the

In Japan On The Increase

Tokyo, Aug. 19.

The hard core of Japanese opposition to align- ment with the United States and the Western Powers is Japan's nearly six million trade unionists.

Economic discontent in Japan is on the in- crease. Officially, 390,000 are listed as unemployed and receiving Government assistance. But in fact at least two million Japanese are believed to be unable to find work and are surviving on the charity of their relatives.

If the Korean war ends,

Government

experts

expect another sharp rise in unemployment owing to the discharge of workers from factories which have been supplying the United Nations war offort with a variety of equipment and supplica.

Should that happen, inbourį Trade union leaders believe unrest, as yet still only seething that is

only the continued below the surfare, may break: Decupation which has prevented out into the open.

the Government from revising the labour standard lawa originally adopted at the suggen- fion of Aliled advisors.

Already, mittee recommended changes would relax the regulations on the employment of women and children and give the Govern- ment power to prohibit strikes under certain conditions.

But the Socialist Party in Japan has a strong hold over organized labour. Only recently, the Socialists and the trade

with unions,

the vociferous backing of

of their rank and bla, drew up a programme consisting of three principles.

In these they express their opposition to:

1-A peace treaty hot signed by Soviet Russia and Communist China,

com-

thoy say, a of the Government has which

BAN ON STRIKES

After the peace treaty, the Government is almost certain to retain the ban on the general strike, which was first imposed

Geneml they by

MacArthur February, 1946.

2.The rearmament of Japan, whose constitution, they slate, renounces an army "for ever."

3A Pacifle Pact with the United States and the British Commonwealth

which, declare, would necessarily place Japan in one of the world's two armed camps.

can

WAR

BOGEY

was

in

To dodge this, the unions have in the past used such tactics as "general strikes piece- meal" in which, at a given signal, one or more districts go on strike, followed after a cer- tain period of time by other districts and then later, still others.

These have proved disruptive but not as satisfactory politically as a general strike.

Communist influence continues

Portugal's New President

General Craveiro Lopes' salutes the flag of the Guard of Honour as he enters the National Assembly building in Lisbon on August 9 to take the oath and to receive full powers ns. President of Portugal in succession to the late Marshul Oscar Carmona. The new Presi -deni's first public act was the laying of a wreath on

the tomb of his predecessor. — AP Picture.

Kremlin Annoyed

By

Cancellation

Of Trade Treaty

London, Aug. 19.

Russia accused the United States tonight' "further worsening" relations between the two countries by cancelling the 1937 American-Soviet trade agreement. The Soviet monitor, in a hand- out, distributed the broadcast Soviet note,

To the rank and file of labour, the worst of all eventualities would be a third World War in which

Japan would almost certainly become an advanced island outpost,

Industrial Japan's

workers suffered in the last war. Ameri-

bombing strategic admittedly aimed at rocking out the nation's labour force to be dominant in only a few by destroying its morale.

and Com- small trade unions The workers cling to the munist trade union members are The Finance Minister of conviction that a neutral course estimated to total no more than

is not impossible. 100,000. Saurashatra Stats, near Bombay, for Japan said Chinese Red soldiers were though many Japanese

labour admit privately

According to American'officials, lenders will

The Tass Moscow most Communist labour leaders that is "unrealisile,"

conscious of .the have simply vanished in the past of mass opinion in year. They are believed to have

been ordered underground,

world.

now stationed along all of Tibet's borders.

it

Possibly looming larger than any Communist threat in Japan today is a possibly et ec- operation between labour and an to important portion of

the

old

The last reports from Kalim-st pong, near the Tibelan border, the large unions, «vill say 50 said the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, publicly, however, for fear of tempered reier of Tibet, returned | being removed from office.

the capital of Lhasa on Friday. Addd to the, working man's anxieties for the future, there The reports said he was borne is always his dally fight to his palane in a golden chair make ends meet. He is better militanist right-wing.. Mr Warren will By from Backed by his Cabino! Ministers, off than his counterparts in Travis air force base near Son

Reports said Chinese Com the rest an air force muni representatives and mil. about all. Francisco aboard

The exact plone.

time of thetery "advisers" nltendy were

Japanese reconstruction con-opposition to a foreign policy inke-off was not announced.

times at a prodigious rate.

which makes Japan an advance Lhasa,

the base for the West. As occupation and the purge near an end, these have grown more vociferous.

Some 10,000 Southern Cali- According to these reports, the fornians are serving in the 40th | Dalai Lama may have invited his Division of the California Nn-young pro-Communist rival, the tional Guard now training in Panchen Lama, to visit Lhasa,

Japan United Press.

United Press.

A British

Crossword

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of Asia, but that

The Soviet agency Tass announced the text of the Russian charge, which it said had been handed to the State Department in Washington by the Rus sian Embassy on Saturday,

"The

despatch in contradiction to the appeal of monitored here said the Russian the United States Congress to, note was in reply to a note by the Supreme Soviot of the USSR the United States Secretary of and the message of President State, Mr Dean Acheson, in Truman 40 N.M. Shvernik, forming the Soviet Union that President of the Supreme Soviet Americo had decided to cancel of the USSR, which speaks of the 1937 agreement.

shriving for improvement, of Soviet-American_relations. SonThe Soviet Government

Soviet Government sp- appraises the above decision as praises the above decision as th an act directed towards further net directed towards further A number of former military worsening Is

of Soviet-American worsening of Soviet-American officers have made known their relations, for which all respon relations for which all respons!-

sibility rests fully with

the

bility resis fully with the Gov- Government of the United States ernment of the United States of of America," said the note. America-United Press.

The text of the note was as follows: "The Soviet Govern- ment confirms the receipt of the note of Mr Acheson, United Until now, past has proved too unbending and

States Secretary of State, of June 23, 1951, which informs it But the prosperity

the two groups have shunned is not

of the decision of the Govern evenly distributed.

working together. But if they Growing did decide to join hands, ot

ment of the United States of inflation has struck straight at least

America to annul the trade policy and the working class family, which servers here agree that this is

agreement between the United has never been much above the possible the political situation States of America and the Union

Since 1948, the price of food overnight with

of the Soviet Socialist Repubiles in Japan could change almost

́of 1037. unpredictable

INFLATION GROWING Tokyo, as one example, is a city of sturdy new buildings and factories springing up, it seems,

on every street comer.

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on foreign.

has risen oficially by 40 per consequences.-Reuter. cent and rents by 10 per cent. The price of rice is shortly to

Nor does this tell the whole story,

antagonism

Pledge By

Communist

Youth

In the case of rice, for example, price controls exist on the legal. markets where purchases

But ure rationed. housewives, who cannot oblalo enough rice on the legal maricet to feed their families, resort regularly to

a black market which exists quite

Berlin, Aug. 19. openly, in what one omelal operating

Two million youths from 104 themselves called a "legitimate ilegitimate countries pledged

here tonight to campaign for a manner."

Wages have also risen, but "Big Five" peace pact "to create peaceful, neigh- only on an average of three and the basis for a one-half times the 1948 level.bourly life

e among all peoples." The "peace vow," concluding. The yen buys less and: the in- crease in wages means little to East Berlin's Communist... World

Festival, will those who have lost their jobs Youth

romain In the past three years.

secret until tho demonstration begins. An unofficial. transla tion of it said that, "the shakable will of the young

PREMIER UNPOPULAR......

is aimed at pre-

For their economic plight and generation of all countries and their international fears, or-

peoples ganised labour

largely blames serving peace and winning a the Conservative, better future." one man, hard-working Prime Minister,

The declaration said that Mr Shigeru Yoshida.

world youth realised that "a Yoshida's unpopularity Mr

Industrial work- great threat of a new war" was Among the ing classes

even ETOWE

08 banging over the world, and that

the enemies h

Conservative

of peace were Coalition doing everything in their power backed by the 'now middle class

disturb friendly relations and the prosperous farmers, bo-to

ery | bótween

the

peoples of the powerful in como mord

every

#world. election.

- In recent focal and

unrestrained arthanent race and Lives „polled "moro than 75 per in certain countries, they moved cent of the vote. Labour and to open aggression. We believe

tural elcellons tho They borny carriefing in an

"IN CONTRADICTION"

SLUMP IN

JAP TRADE

WITH HK

Tokyo, Aug. 19. Hongkong, Japan's third. "The Soviet Government best. customer last year deems it opportune to remark with $53,000,000 worth of that the trade agreement be Japanese exports, fell to tween, the USSR, and the United sixth with $33,000,000 in States was concluded in 1937

the first seven months and then renewed annually up

of

to 1943, when, at the proposal of this year, according to a the United States Government, survey of the International the decision was taken renew Trade and Industry Minis-

the future this agreement for without standing a period its operation.

for try

Tị

The United Nations embargo decision against. Red China was **Tho Soviet Government

sold to be the cause of the deems it

to draw slump. necessary cttention to the tact that the

Indonesia proved to be the decision of the United States best customer next to the United Government on denunciation of

States. the trade agreement of 1837 is

Of a total of $852,000,000 ex- port, the United States was top. with $112,000,000 against $170,- 000,000 for the whole of last year

Atlantic Pact Extension

Indonesia, In

placo

twice the 1930's