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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1954.

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He can't go on strike and he can't hit the boss, but he has no complaints.

THE WORKER

W

IN SPAIN

By lan Mercer

and

Majorca. counterpart for example- 7HEN Communists and France, where lock-outs

their follow travellers menplace than

lock-is are even more com- festos south uf have no one else to abuse the Pyrenees, (a rarity) they invariably An give vent to that odd mix-

unskied

labourer only ture of wrath and plety net, (about six shillings and six- cuta thirty-five pesetas a day which in the basis of their pence), but the cost of living is nolay creed by turning their less than one-third of what it is rhetorical guns on General in neighbouring countries.

Instance. Franco.

the Spaniard pays one shilling and threepence for a

For

The Spanish worker, they pound of good ment, fourpence scream, is nothing but a for a lost of bread, threepence slave devoid of all human for a litre of wine, ten stillings rights. He is outrageously for twenty cigarettes.

for a pair of shoes, and sixpence

exploited, more or less starved, and has no trade

His French counterpart across

unions to protect him from the border has to pay, for the same commodities, five shilings his avaricious employers. wund sixpence, tenpence, one Many Socialists in Britain and shilling and threepence, thirty- elsewhere believe these stale- Ove shilings, and one shiling ments,

and fourpence.

The fact is that although the Spanish worker cannot strike, be has a far better time than his

FIND THIS BOY! And, with the fifth day of the hunt, time is slipping fast

The TIC-TAC

man vanishes, but where is TONY?

Tony Rowe, aged 10, vanished when his father was arrested for the murder of his estranged wife Diana in London. Tony has an Illness which well! KB him unless he is given an Injection. Superintendent Stanley of Scotland Yard lakes up the trail—and is shadowed by a stranger as he secks Tony In the Edinburgh house where the boy's father lodged. At the house he hears from the Macdonald family that Tony was kidnapped by a man and a woman--- after telling a playmate that he saw two men kill his mother..

"D

REDCAR. Then they were off, at speed,

the cume“.

Henry (otherwise

Harry)

Trake. Occupation: tic-tac mati. Inside the car, too, we found a racing

KUITENKILLE paper, and hol been making CHT runners al one of tomorrow's zt.cotinų“.

I telephonecÍ the Yard and then went Into the cominis- sioner's office. "I'd be obliged,”

"What for?" he asked. “Guing racing?"

O you hear whatever got close enough to see

the face of the driver this tumm. I said. " 1 could have a car Johnny said

But

I saw it number, NXA 538, and

driver to Lake inc to asked Edna Mac- ne more. And I saw these todoar." donald, urgently, large vkita hoop earrings her face alight with hope, bouncing us the car went bound "According to little Tony, it was TWO

men who beat Diana Rowe to death, and I'm certain George Rowe one of them. He's wasn't innocent! You must set him free!

"We'll set him free he's innocent,” I said. "This story doesn't prove any

Was

"Just that," I said. And all

possibili

it 4 genuine number? That's what I had to know. And the time the terrible did the man who had been ties were Jangling in my head. That poor kid. Where had they shadowing the realise that I was hidden him? What would they on to him?

do to him? Then remembered. They didn't need to do any- thing to him-except keep him away from me--and the doctor until Friday.

called up the Edinburgh police and got them working, Then I walked up Leith-walk and walled for a patel er to

When i canne pick me up.

hear the rari could already

I'm

an

as

**Ere," he said, "what's going

on 7

yesterday.

...

Illustration by ROBB

No Better Off

Thus the Frenchman is no bet- ter off, even though his wage as an skilled labourer comes to about seventeen shillings a day affor he ទ contributed 141 Nationa! Health -Insurance, Unemployment Insurance and other toils,

Ая Iar us social welfare is concerned, the Spaniard has no complaints. All medical treat- ment is absolutely free; so, wu, are medicines. If a man falis 11 he receives his wages in fuil while he is absent from work. When his

wife is expecting a baby she reccives free milk, goes to a specialist for examing- tion and advice once every week, and on being confined enters a Arst-cles nursing home where she has a private room and the best of attention.

The Frenchman's wife goes into a public ward to give birth to her baby if her hustmand is of the working class. He does not get full pay any time he is laid up; he has to pay his doctor and chemist in cash,

and

only receives a portion of this money book (if he's lucky) months later when the bureaucrats employed by the National Health Insurance Department have checked and cross-checked. the-dozen-Dre:80 Fclaim forms he has to fill in.

Pays More

The Frenchman, Incidentally, pays mibstantially more for sick benefits than any other national in Europe.

Spain's hospitals and clinics (State-run

nursing homes) are the Just word in streamlined modern architecture,

and their equipment compares favourably Ere, I know you!" shouted

with that to be found anywhere. Joe Trent, leaping to his feet

not excluding America-and not "Joe," 1 told him, "you'll be in **How?" I asked, startled. thing, except that it's more spelling out the number of the I walked into the interviewing cube yourself-murder trouble

Union, of "He's coming here today," said excluding the Soviet Important than ever to find car and warning the patrols vont at Redear Police Heud-

Furthermore, contrary - you go on like that."

"That was the arrange- course, Joe. Tony Rowe."

pick it up I hadn't much hope, quarters. "Superintendent

ment we made abaht the car. general belief, Spanish doctors

the Stanley

finest in the from the Yard, ain't it? said though. And I was right.... "Poor wee

He swallowed, Tony,"

"That's dif- He said he'd an important date are among Seen you at the Albany Club ferent. It was in Manchester, at Redear races day and he'd world. Mrs Macdonald, "What do

of an other places crannd Town, day before

I ran drive dahn in my car and return cannot go on strike; nor can he course, the Spanish worker you think those swine will

Come superintendant, tell into Harry Thrake. He used to 11.

Now

don't tca! me he's these geezers do to him? Kill him-like

make uncomplimentary remarks honest do tic-tae work for me until his amashed it up!" bookle and let me get back to last stretch. Then I jest touch 1 stared down at Joe Trent for for if he does

about the regime with impunity, they killed that woman?" About half an hour ago they me star

stand,"

he will soon be with him, until I ran into him a few seconkis, wondering, came into the office

had I said: "We won't keep you, in this bar.

wondering. wondering

Then borrowed

jout of a job. with the information Joc.

If you

He can be sacked on two other tell us the truth,

looked at the clock and remem- I was seeking. First, they had that is. And if you haven't been

bered that time, and a boy's life, counts: One, the hile his checked details of the car. It

were both running out, So employer; two, he is found belonged to a London book-dong anything criminal.

me His fot

guilty of theft. maker named Joe Trent.

But

face-no wonder he calla hester on u job, but it hadn't dealded to take a chance.

TOMORROW: A day down to the courtyard of the his car was in Edinburgh. He a wrinkled Dutch cheese as he there. Only trouble, Harry Bald, buildings, and told him to peep was between racecourses, sald strove to express innocence and was that he didn't want to travel

at the races... round and look at the thin- his wife, and would not be probity. "Ask the boys-they'll by tram. fared man on the earner, the available until be arrived at tell you I'm the straightest man why."

Doncaster tomorrow.

said: "They don't need to. All they've got to do is keep him nway from the doctor unt

Friday. That'll take care of

bim, from their viewpoint."

I took little John with me

inan shadowing me.

"No, never,"

"Ever seen him before?" esked.

he said.

1

and

"He said he was in trouble. His boss had sent him to Man-

worked out--and now he had to

Joe wasn't available to say why Genial Joet-looked like go to Edinburgh to meet his bass

found

I didn't ask him

Joe Trent gulped and looked anxiously. "So I was feeling generous, having had a good week-end, and I told him to take my car."

In the business. Never cut the odds for welshed on abet in Meanwhile, they had the car itself-abandoned half- me life!" way up the Glasgow road. An saloon car bearing the number at me

Then tell me, do you own other car must have pleked them NXA 538" up. and taken them on. They checked the abandoned car for gave him a shilling and fingerprints, and there

we had went down the road towards the our frat stroke of luck-one of thin man, debating whether to the prints was in the police files. grab him and take him off to It belonged to a gentleman with face. the station for questioning. But

ut a long record for thaft and black Don't tell

I didn't get a chance. Just as i marketing. came within halling distance the car I had seen earkar in Princes

upt"

A wory leak came into his

I said: "Did you ask him who "That's right. Why? is his boss?"

me he's smashed it

- Joe shook his head. "Honest, Who's smeshed it up?" superintendent, with people Uke When I looked at his picture "Ere," he said, beginning to Bury Thrake It can bo em- Street drew abreast of him, o my heart gave a leap. For the look alarmed. "what's going on? barrassing to asic questions. 1 white, woman's hand with a thin face belonged to the mah You're not trying to "trap me was just glad the geezer was large ring on the finger beckoned who had watched me while I into saying someing, are you, working." He paused, suddenly him through the window, and visited the flat in Buckdami superintendent? I don't want brightened. "Anyway, you can he climbed aboard.

Street. Bincath it was the maine: to get anyone into trouble." ask him yourself."

Uncle Egbert Upside Down? Never!

London.

gent,

SORROWFUL

1

By LES ARMOUR

A who describes himself august body hung one of

of the fancy. Every day it can be something now.

At least onco a week, it can his side up-but it would still be an be used to prove that your

obvious subterfuge.

friends, who think it looks like an elderly tried egg pitched at Moreover, the oil painting of the wall, are unthinking, idiote Uncle Egbert will always be, and ill-bred. Uncle Egbert or, at best, by a

as a well-known artist and works wrong side up, remarks an exhibitor, at the Royal it looks just as well on its Academy, is advertising for side and anyhow it has been

Gold."! customers at bargain base-* ment rates,

Completely disconnected?

Or has the public been

4

The technique is simple. You long stretch of the imagina- gaze lovingly at your upalda-

zo tion, "Hippołumua Sunning down abstract, remerk that For, one presumes, the captivated by art, that can be Itself." usual "short time only," he hung upside down or on its side

not

"seldom has an artist so, com- pletely captured the inward will paint portraits from at whim that it finds a conven-・ You cannot have him,, one void of the human soul." photographs at 50 guineaa tional portrait small beer? day, as "Nude Figure ExpresE-

Your visitor will gasp, ing Jealousy" and turn. him. a throwInstead usual fee

him daring to ask what the vald 200 guineas."

ziona-In (rubrizg thing. Equally" "Manchurian Landscape at in a human soul could possibly' (obviously, "you 'just can't hang"" Sunset.”

m·portiuit unelde down. Soms:

obviously, the portrait bumi around the next and call $2.00 Mounted

SOUTH CHINA MORNING. POST BENZHONGKONGA KOWLOON

At the same: time, - another exhibitor at the Royal Academy, who has, discovered that that

of is no doubter MORALA KLODk Modern ́art, mon the': dlher" much more: alluring the wrong hand; Is amenable to any sight

look like, and go home feeling

(a humblee mahalle

That is, 17 he doen't werd for piralshjacket.

From what I can understand, he is perfectly content with his lot and would not change places with anyone certainly not with a Russian,

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