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RELIEVING THE PRESSURE

Worké i upp•1@N! Rangement Dolly Herako

THE STORY of the Poles,

'BABEL' Hungarians, Lithuanians,

GOES

Ukrainians, Italians-all working in one tiny village

UNDERGROUND

by GEORGE scotT

ROM the pithead cage colliery. Some, helped by their and "packing" Alling with dirt

the gaps at the face where çual step 80 men, all look Welsh tutors, have become skill-

cut-Lhe Welshmen ed men, caring, with overtime. has been ing alike after eight up to £16 a week.

have a chan.c 1: move on to hours down there.

more skilled werk There is a clatter of talk, and pink lips and tongues

gape

They have married local girls, and have bought have saved, houses it; the district.

Since the Poles there been Yugoslavs

The Southwestern Division of have the Coal Boar which in luje: startlingly out of

Hungarians, Somerset as wal) as South Wales grimy masks. They look Lithuanians, Polish-Ukrainians.would like 2,000 Italians. alike, but speak in the Latvians. Foreign workers

total 153 That is not counting tongues of eight nations.

As the people say round Windsor Colllery with wry good humour: "It will be the Welsh who are looked on as foreigners here soon."

The Poles were first to come Mountain four Caerphilly $ years ago. Most are still at the

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Wax

DON

IDDON'S DIARY

how

the Welsh. Add

call them to the Scots, the Irish, and English these last four British and WE have accounted for seven of the eight languages

All have been absorbed with little fuss.

The miners Iraders agree 1 the Coal Buard on the princ plo et employing lians with But agreement at high level" 19 a diferin malter from the fact being accomplished

Out of 100 pits where they in this are nee lef

area only seven miners lodges have agreed to accept them.

Where names were too difficult to pronounce, the Welsh award- ed nicknames as they do to their

folk own

So now the Twin Old fears persist in the valleys villages of Abertridwr and of South Wales. Fears of un- Senghenydd have not only Dai employment. born in the bony the Coal, bu: also

Peter

the Pole hirex fors that the coming Dusk is beginning to curtain of foreigners will end the labour of shortage which is such a strong the squat. while buildings the colliery now. Up comes the weapon in wage negotiations. cage again and out jumps a lone In the Aber Valley, at the

A tall mana big man.

seem to Windsor Colliery, they accepted But young or old, dark or fair, have

The Assurance it is impossible

that Welshmen will always come

ITEL.

الها

But at a single question, the first. mask cracks luto violent anima- tion. He turns out to be Italian which makes up the eighth of the town was those nations we mentioned. Scores of officials have already Rootes, and half

English to He speaks enough Lord Milford Haven, Sir be ofred. and scores more will there.

Wiseman, prove that he. Gianni Gemin, is William and Lady be kicked out but the dainage to

Wendell happy. Very happy. Mrs Anna Neagle.

He has just worked and Lady tha A ministration

willkle. Sir Robert

1wo hours

the time.

Micklem and all the resident British officials

har

Been

[12

water-dripping gloom

below

Savings

an extra stooping.

1 8001:

Lodgings

O much for the atmosphere in What about the the pits.

THAT means more money. But 1918 an

of

of the

of the old

new batch of this effect Italians on life in the villages?

It is carly to say. But here is one woman. slight, grey-haired, She stands wearing an apron. It's a ty that this mess should

akimbo, In entertainment the Broad-

her living- in the uncovered have been

100 yards way season is providing fine art-

room, within before Christmas Blunt weeks

ing if not ne plays. "Nina,"

pilhead and a mile of the old looks wonderfully

Universal

an October Everything

where in pit with Gloria Swanson and David

killed

439 well on the surface. New York

Niven and Alan Webb. opened.TH.

1915 201 explosion The and Miss Swanson showed she money is just a means to a men- the most grievous disaster is at its most magnificent.

The end that in British mining history, There The setting in the Pierre

city has just about completed its was a good critic when she said wished-for end.

the play was poor,

It is, and

is now only one week away

are still widows and children In Hotel was perfect. The oc- can do. I am not surprised that dressing-up for the celebration.

he says. "my sweet- these three gifted artists would

"Then,"

the valley getting pension from be here

from Italy. the 1913 disaster fund. not to appear heunt will casion, with 350 big busi- Paul Porter, chief European re-

has been have done better of Economic Co-

Only the weather

has two of Mrs Lucy Evans Webb wins the honours,I saved money to send for her. Administration the

unseasonable. We are all going in it. news men from Europe und presentative

as always, and Soon we shall be married." operation

the Italians as lodgers. As we the United States all Marshall Plan), calls Europe's around without overcoats in a Niven charms

are That is one reason for Gianni's talk they showed hersel Miss Swanson

asleep upstairs temperature of 65 degrees. Assembled,

ideal. continued dependence on Ameri-

Another is knowing after an eight-hour night shift. cool and resourceful on the first happiness. state of

of her bone there will be work for hire to-

"First day they came," she Everything in the way of can coal "a shocking

Sales in the shops match the night when one MI I do not blame

for as affairs.

many to- кауб, "I gave them spaghell!. Press Porte

མ" advance publicity.

saying he doesn't mercury, and I'm glad to see so stays come undone and suddenly morrow and Porter for

can Made it imagination costume and

with sugar and milk. goods are being shot out of her elaborate understand why Britain's coai many British arrangements.

back at dungled. She broke the stay off

They nearly threw it he lagging bought. three lan production should brochures in

Like the other 26 Italians in me. Now they get it bolled in unemployed Italian

this pit-there are 45 altogether water, with salt, and mixed with guages, (English, French, when

and went on with the play.

in three pits in South Wales- tomatoes. Then they're happy. German) had been workers clamour for the chance and

a two-

them-- he comes to Britain on

said to one of to work in the coalmines."

Beauty, brains

year

that the Nicolino Antonelli-as contract. prepared. And we fumbled

National Coal Board will pay the other day: 'One and faltered and fell by the

for his repatriation or he can notice to quit. Another wayside.

carry on the good work

wants to come here! Gianni-that means Johnny in "He was ma:. His arms few

10 the came

Aber all over the place. Tell him to weeks ago. make a Valley seven to do the play in London, and it English I do I will probably

Bis keep away from my home,' he That's how British picture. I'd love to take home was in Venice. But for him said. My home. a whack at British filme. I'm that name means unemployment, they've settled down here." crazy about your movies." The not gondolas drifting on a golden girl has beauty as well as brains. canal.

One man, the American Mr Paul Hoffman, former Marshall Plan chief, talked straight sense. He urged "hard thinking, strong in centives, and bold competi- tion" as the formula for

production increased Europe. He was very polite who had given for a man away tens of millions dollars to his audience.

The American mood is gelling Testy. The biggest of the big business men are wondering it the United States isn't over stretching herself

Damage is done

They are of wonderful quality But, uh, the and selling well. prices!

If tariffs and taxes were cul, the British export drive and really went into top gear, we could garner many more millions market American

hele

The

hasn't been really tapped, and

let the don't

Federation British Industries tell you differ- ently What we need are com- travellers to move in mercial bulter, and sell.

to

to

PRESIDENT Truman has been

juggling with guns, propaganda, and all-out aid in

Europe, but the performance is

Not coming apart at the seams. even the United States can afford everywhere. And of everything

Two travellers

UNE Havoc, whi's doing very well in "Affairs of State" on Broadway, says: "I've been asked

arrived.

morrow! conceive.

particularly not just now, when WO Bri.ish travellers, Mr C. eighty not eight-if they will want

It has been a full week. Major

FOOTNOTE: The United

to

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After

Promotion

by

Mother's

In

other

Lodger

Her 19 year-

2

Joke weck's

Italian

sons

ready for the

old daughter Maureen teaches them English. A romance, perhaps?

"Not on your life," says Mrs Evans. "Nothing like that. But

WITH foreigners doing the you've got to look after them.

unskilled essential,

work After all, they're some mother's underground, like road-making sous, aren't they?"

He earns from William Wil- Olivier and Hams with Sir

something like 40 Laurence

had some years' experience to buttress his TWO pairs of shoes glisten on Vivien Leigh have

the stairs, fabulous offers since they judgment, the tribule of show-

Welsh women lodgers These ing "good shape · One of £80,000—yes,

Gianni has said already he look after their men,

have

no husband." says another sign on for

Mrs Evans. "He died 15 years G. Robinson and Mr George so many hands are in the ill.

Philpot, dropped in on me this appear on television with their five years when his first two are

ambitions the hearth And he has

go. Of silicosis." in "Caesar and over.

lies a piano- which make the colliery mana. I passed through Washington week. I suppose they would be company

its black case. The men, but Cleopatra" for two performances.

ger a grey-faced, chuminy man, accordion the other day, and I tell you that called little business Our contribution

Salvatore Angelini, ideas and were No decision yel

Joke: "I'll have to watch out." corruption and scandals in the they had big

But that is not country reaping

But Gianni capital have

not exceptional is a musician. blown off a lid ranging the

I said to Mr Philpot: orders.

Audrey Hepburn is now being either in work or ambition.

quite the way Mrs Evans put it. Not bigger than the Teapot Dome. we do?

"He nearly blasts us out of The only test demanded "But where do you live? Haven't given star billing-her name is WHAT did

very much. Sir Norman

First there were mink costs you a fat or a house?" And he in bigger type and lights than the Welsh miners is:

the house," she says. But adds, "Are they

"He's good at it, though." and Florida said: "I've been here two years, the play "Gigi," and appears pulling their weight?" Nation- Kipping, director-general of and deep freezers

apality does not matter. the Federation of British fishing trips on the cuff for in- but I live from one hotel room over it. Gilbert Miller

and no one to another. I'm always on the parently thinks that the actress Industries, tried, but speak- terested parties,

minded very much. Now there move. I'm here for business, not will draw the audiences if the ing for Britain and Westeru are revelations regarding dubious for comfort."

comedy won't.

he Europe

said that oil lenses, illegal commissions on of Government property, the sales American success was "result of the complete set vast income-tax evasions, pay- Bill Ormerod gave a party for States would like results from

of fixings, and funny business. Sir William and the new Lady Europe, not requests. of circumstances geogra- phical, historical, and political"-in which the United States found herself. It wasn't just due to simplification, or specialisa-

HANOVER.

heavy three-year defence for the British garrison, West German Parliament tion, or

ruthless

RITISH TREASURY

programme. It is quite im- whether it is called occupa- refuses to impose heavier that tion costa or a defence con- taxation-apparently in the unlimited competition, or

have warned

possible to increase

belief that the Western darned hard work-no, Bir!

expenditure no matter how tribution. Whitehall that the Germans

Individual Germans Then Sir Norman added: "I

are much the Germans howl.

be Allies will go on footing a "Not a penny can would beg ["beg" was the are trying to dodge paying

paying only half what the

"If we fail to get the £175 added to British income tax large part of Germany's de- right word] that American for European defence.

After a secret survey of average British taxpayer million the Germans pay to maintain forces in Ger. fence bill. aid should take forms which

Germany's. new industrial provides for defence. And towards British occupation many." would help us all to help boom, British investigators constant propaganda costa it will mean ourselves, such us the

and say the 45,000,000 West against Allied occupation 9d. in the £ on income tax- supply of materials

8 and

the British Germans could pay double costs is being used as particular machines with-

the £550 million they now smoke screen to cover what afford it, out which our productivity cannot rise." Oh, dear: Alas reluctantly contribute to the Germans could pay.

wards British, French, and and alack!

and

This was our contribution to the great occasion. This was

golden opportunity.

GERMANS TRYING TO DODGE THE BILL

BR

men

From CHARLES WIGHTON

another

cannot

Senior British staff

Prominent Germans out- officers Bay that great economies have been made side the Government agree on garrison costs in the that there is widespread tax

The cuts evasion.

provincial past year. Further would seriously hit the Premier of Lower Saxony, The Germans, reported taxpayers cannot possibly fact that the British tax- soldiers and Service families British officials that Ger "The Germans ignore the living standard of British Heinrich Kopf, recently told an investigator, could pay afford more.

Finance Minister Fritz.

U.S. Forces defending them. Schaefer claims that his

.this

than $760

are

could raise much many the way we mulled a bright for the 18 Allied divisions million a year for the Allied payer is paying millions for in Germany.

of

more money if the Govern- "Why should British ment enforced the present being stationed along the garrison forces and a new wages and supplies

troops defending the Ger- taxation laws. Iron Curtain frontier and German Army. But the British Forces which

be mans

allowed to Muffed it

Treasury rejects part of Germany's defence. for a 12-division German British

"If the British taxpayer become Army as well.

poor relationa?"

Important Germans LEAVING the press room, with

Saldusenior British had to foot the whole bill said a senior staff officer, allege that the Government ita electric typewriters and

financial official: "We in- for those forces, there They are almost that as it is scared of big business. aheala of mimeographed hand- York

and Important would almost certainly be a "

barons in the Ruhr, who outs, I met some New

them But this double contribuist, Pierre newspapermen in the

British officials believe contributed big sums to lobby. One sold: "What's wrong tion would end the Germans Americans agree, that the clamour to bring.

that it is high time Finance Premier Adenauer's olec with your lot? Here's a 30-man attempt to seize British Germana are well able to home."

British officials now nego Minister Schaefer got down tion fund and were largely what and British delegation, has it done? What has it offer-export markets while find something over £1,000

Britain herself is busy re- million a year. That would tiating the end of the to collecting his own taxes responsible for his Govern- arming. And Germany, be about ten percent of occupation with Premier instead of accusing the ment getting in

·FOOTNOTE. Cost of attittide has been almost entirely thirsting for trade and rich Western Germany's gross Adenauer have been told by Tritish of extravagance.

Whitehall The Germanis living, profers to put her national income, money into new factories "If the Germans refuse, a must be made to pay. They These officials belleve the defence in Britain this year The first International Con- and let the Allier Thoulder most serious situation will must go on supplying every Germans are dodging taxes is about £56 a head of the ference of Manufacturerá taky da

very penny of the #175 million wholesale. In addition, the working population. well be the last if this is all we, the entire defence burden. arise. Britain has

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Another said: "The British

negative."