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The Railway Strike
LTHOUGH thousands of
miles separate Hongkong from England, the Colony's interest in the current rall and docks strikes is some. thing more than academic. Committed s we are tu substantia! importa British-made commodities, our traders, building con. tractors and other business- men may eventually have to suffer unhappy repercus- sions from the strikes if they continue over a pro- longed period. This prospect is an additional reason for. Hongkong devoting "lively attention to the efforts now being made to resolve the
Nevertheless, any misfortune
industrial crisis in Britain. which the Colony might suffer from the stoppages but a shadow of the
is
anxiety which is plaguing Britain at the moment. In
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Ties Russians Down This Man VAIN PLEAS
To New Policy Declaration
MILITARY BLOCS CONDEMNED
Belgrade, June 2.
Marshal Titó scored many victories in his talks with Soviet leaders which ended tonight with a joint communique signed by the Yugoslav President and Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Premier.
First and foremost Marshal
Tito prevailed upon the
HUGH DALTON
BY
TUC LEADERS
Railway Strikers Remain Adamant
London, June 2. Britain's top trade union chiefs argued and pleaded in vain for hours today in an all-out bid to end the five-day-old railway strike which has plunged the country into a state of emergency.
They summoned the 10 leaders of the strike
Knifed To Death
CHICAGO POLICE SEEK SLAYER
Chicago, June 2.
A Roman Catholic priest from India died of a knife. wound over his heart today and the police sought his slayer.
The victim was the_Rey, John Chiramal, 40, of Travancore Kungalongi Cochin, India. "The authorities said he had come to
the US to raise funds for an institution he had founded in dis patterned after the famous Boystown, Nebraska, .......
According to the police, Father Chiramal rang the door to Transport House, headquarters of the Trades pel of the Little Sisters of the
Poor Union Congress in an effort to find a peace work among the poor of the
orcer of importance the heirs of Stalin to recognise that "different forms of Socialist Has Plan To formula
development are solely the concern of individual countries." What the Soviet Union obtained from this conference is a mystery
effects of the strikes must
be: dislocation of indus tries; mass unemployment; placing the nation's economy in jeopardy. There is also the question of public inconvenience, which, if it is
reactions.
of any duration, might provoke disturbing The leader of the railway strikers asserts that they are a reasonable body of men, restrained, reapon- sible and democratic." It is not so easy, however, to square this up with the fact that by their action, these disgruntled men are throw- ing hundreds of thousands of workers out of employ- ment,
same time at the
the gravely imperiliing economic equilibrium of
the nation.
to Western observers, since there was nothing in the final communique to offset the important triumphs which Marshal Tito has gained.
At first sight, the only tangible results which the Russians will be able to take back to Moscow are the prospect of re-establishing contact between the Soviet and the Yugoslav Communist parties and the show of general conciliation which they will be able to face the Western powers at the next four-power conference.
4.
Whether or not the Russians have obtained advantages which are not visible can only be shown up in course of time.
These are the principal causes for Yugoslav satisfaction in the events of the last week:
Any
Western point of view. supposition that the Russians would be able to use Tito as their messenger for a proposal on Germany which would put the West in an embarrassing position is not backed up, at least in the communique.
1. The Russians came cap in and to visit Tito, the renegade.
Mr Nikita
Khrushchev, Secretary of the Russian Com- murist Party and delegation lender, committed on landing what is generally described as a ¿plomatic blunder of the first order by supposing he could persuade the Yugoslavs that ended with an inter-government their expulsion from the Comin-
governmentChina form was the fault of Lavrentiment signed by both heads
police chiet of
Special. Begia, executed in 1953.
secret
3. Marshal Tito secured a joint Yugoslav-Soviet
condemnation
of military blocs within a month of the Soviet Union's conclusion of the Warsaw pact which sets up an Eastern military alliance Rejection of power blocs is the keystone of Tito's foreign policy. Soviet guarantees
4. He has secured written
that
the
„Tito's final triumph was that ho-won his point that these talks were to be inter-state, not inter-party, talks. In fact they
"I
Killed 3
Husbands
Rejuvenate Opposition
Our Own Correspondent
But the TUC statement which followed soon after the meeting said: “No progress has been made. The facts of the situation are being reported to the Minister of Labour."
Complete. deadlock still, pre vailed tonight.
The
!
Congress thiefs had earlier had a long session with Mr Jim Campbell, the General Secretary, and other leaders London, June 2. of the second fail organisation, The Daily Express poli- the National Union of Rail- tical correspondent writes: waymen, which does not sup- Socialist MPs are saying to port the train drivers' strike.
Mr Campbell said pessimis- night that Mr Hugh Dalton, former Chancellor of the Ex-tically after his talks: "I see no chequer and lone wolf of the unmediate hope of any solution
And Mr Charles Geddes, the Party hierarchy, is going to shake his top colleagues with TUC Chairman, declared equally Things cannot happen
Bribing Of Conscripts Allegation
an order of nuns who
neighbourhood, at 2 am, Aldert. Desmarlas, doorkeeper at the Sisters"
the home, answered bell,
"I've had an accident," : mumbled the priest and handed Desvarias the key to his car, Then he doorstep.
collapsed on the
Taken to Mother Cabrini Hospital, he was unable to tell the police what happened before he died.
LONG WOUND The doctors said he had been slashed from the left shoulder to died the heart and apparently from loss of blood. He waS WELT- ing a habit and a sult, the cont of which was not slashed. But Edinburgh, June 2 officers found a bloodstained Allegations that British blue shirt in the rear of his car which had been slashed as if national servicemen were
with
joalie. The car itself was undamaged being persuaded either to get sent to Malaya were an immediate investigation in
the theory of murder. Pe made today at the British
·Father Chiramal's watch; and
ware Tonnd- -on his person and Co-operative Party's annual $20
the police discounted robbery as conference in Edinburgh:
a motive.
With the advice they are too old ausiness, Thin 20 and dient sign on for seven years or and homicide, defectives began
Rat Poison
quickly,"
and should quit.
Mr Dalton, 68, is expected to refuse re-election to the As the trade unionists mat Sir Oppositan Shadow Cabinet Anthony Eden's Cabinet were and to suggest that other Party also leaders over 65, with the excep- situation tion of Mr Attice, should follow his example, "
leaders will
discussing the strike
PREMIER'S DILEMMA The problem facing the Prime Minister and his colleagues was how to keep the country run- ning without taking extreme. measures,
A representative from Mans- [4 field, in the English Midlands, The Little Sisters of the Poor Me A. Witts, told the meeting are situated in an old west Side that his son was one of a drači neighbourhood Inhabited by of men conscripted for to years many races and nationalities.
Police Captain Redmond Gib who had been given this alter- native at Normanton barracks, bons said Father Chiramal had.
visited this equntry at intervals Derby.
on
Mr Witts said the men were during the last four years called together and told by their fund raising trips and made bis:
Philadelphia, officers that if they would agree headquarters in
bure to serve as regular soldiers for He came
し
∙last
must be recognised that its Soviet Union will not interferesident Josip Broz Tito, signed a to the neighbour's house to-and Griffiths will be 65 in Union of Mice Workers today bribery and corruption?" he Not Yet Chosen
countries."
Tito
of the individual
other's domestic Treaties on
Mrs
The average age of the
"normalisation" one of the four who survived Its present younger members his most vicious attack on the
40,
Dr
the
cir-
On the other hand Sir Authors Eden and his minis- 39.
Agitation is growing inside the ters are coming up against Party for getting the older criticism even from their own With very little supporters that they are sitting prospect of another general back doing nothing to settle the election until about. 1960, many great rall stoppage.
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SALDIZ
Bonn, June 2. Official West German sources
denied foreign today agency reports that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had chosen the first 13 generals for the new. German Army yesterday The Hague, June 2
The appointment of generals The outgoing government of and other high officers lá, to be Willem Drees made by a special personnel Labour Fremier returned to power tonight after commission which has not yet a two weeks Cabinet crisisbeen created, it was explained France-Presse.
bere.-France-Presse.
MR Baty, General Secretary
Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 2. of the striking railway
"Grandma" Nannie Doss, who union, also maintains that
confessed that she fed coffee
Míost of the and pruces favoured with rat the Amalgamated Scelety of
THE AGREEMENT Locomotive Engineers and
poison to four of her husbands, indignantly refuse,
Over the Dalton age limit ar Firemen are "maintaining
Belgrade, June 2. was sentenced to life imprison
67, deputy leader Morrison, The Soviet Union and Yugo-jment here today. an old principle-not an
of Chief Whip William Whiteley, She was also accused obsolete one the principle
slavia decided tonight to step up improvement in their relations, having poisoned her mother, but 72. Emmanuel Shinwell. 70
Already some unions are that a man is entitled to a
embittered by a rupture in 1948, in spite of testimony by toxi- Philip Noel-Baker, 85, Chuter
angry at the goverment's action reward commensurate with
and declared their agreement on cologists, she indignantly denied Ede, 73, and Glenvil Hall, 68.
seven years, they would not be Captain Gibbons_said,” Y his skill and with the re-
a wider-ranging variety of inter- this charge, who is 49, said she will be the only representative gulations into, forte: The Scot instead.
If they quit. James Griffiths in calling a state of emergency
st to put comparatively mild re- to Malaya but to Germany the Indian delegation to the national issues.
Rotary International Convention. sponsibility attaching to his
Mrs Doss,
"What is The Soviet Premier, Nikolai killed her last husband, Samuel, of the Socialists "old brigade"
the Co-operative-United Press. position." The principle will
Party doing to prevent such not be questioned, but it
Bulganin, and Yugoslav Pre- because he would not let her left in power apart from alles tish conference of the Rational resolution condenning passed pledging concrete watch television and forbade September.
Sir Anthony Eden's administra- asked. unqualified application is in the affairs of Yugoslavia or statement
any other country "for whatever steps to "pormalise" relations her to use an electric fan..
The coal The Party secretary, Mr Jack subject to considerations.
Doss's first husband, "Shadow Cabinet" which is tion for its move.
miners asked the TUC and the Bailey, said that if the speaker The locomotive engineers and reason, whether of an economic, between the two countries and
political or ideological nature." promising non-interference in Charley
elected by secret ballot among Labour Party to rally against would give him details he would firemen are demanding
try to get the case taken up in cach
affairs Atlantas, is still alive in
He is the only | Socialist MPs is 80. be
THE SOLE CONCERN what they consider to
demceratic rights of
trade Parliament-China Mall special The explanation for this
is economic agreements and differentials in
Co- the rat poison diet.
Galtskell, are Hugh proper
unions.".. that "questions of internal orga operation in the peaceful use of wages, but they are doing nisation of different social sysatomic energy, were recommend preceding the trial, the police!
During
Investigation Edith Summerskill, 54, Alfred
GOVT RETURNS so in a manner which sug- | tems and of different forms led in the statement as ways of dug up the bodies of, a dozen Hobens, 44, and Harold Wilson, geats that the question Socialist development are solely intensifying co-operation be- relatives of Mrs Doss, who had allows for no compromise. the concern
tween the two countries...
died under suspicious "Give us all we demand or
Agreement on International curistances-France-Presse. to the problems we strike and remain on
has subscribed
included statements that Communist strike" is the attitude of the declaration
arging admission of Communist United China
to the United Nations, ASLEF, which hardly justi-China should join the fies the claim of being Nations and that her claims in settlement of the Formosa issue respect of Formosa should be 50
to satisfy Peking's "restrained
More frms today gave warn- Satisflet.
"legitimate rights" and aclution sible" men.
This was his policy in any of the German question "o
that because of shortage of supplies workers were bein The public of Britain are re- case.
basis in conformity democratic References in the communique with the desires and interests
London, June 2:
laid of from next week. But ported to be completely out
The Monthly Record organ of Parliament reassembles, next desplie the rising wave of un of sympathy with the to "disarmament, prohibition of
Manchester Chamber of week,
employment whitch next week railwaymen in this parti atomic weapons, the establish of the German people and in
may reach a million, the gov of a general system of the interest of general security." cular dispute. That does not collective security, including 4
statement was signed Commerce, today declared that
BEVAN BLAMES ATTLEE
ernment is reluctant to tak any London, June 2. a week of negotiations It was with "anger, consterna-
direct of col mean the public have no t
action to break the strike Anturin Bevan, the left-wing by using troops. Ministers fear sympathy for their claims. Europe based on a treaty," are here
palacetish cotton industry learned last; but that they resent the not necessarily contrary to the setting of the summer
on the Adriatic Island of Brioni month that the Government had rebrand, today accused for this drastle action would im
be the signal for methoda employed by the policy of the Western Powers,
COLLECTIVE SECURITY taken no steps to protect it from Prime Minister Clement Attlee mediately
of other workers ASLEF in trying to get
crucial point in. this
losing last week's election-by Tito and Bulganin signed the untaxed imports of Indian and and giber Labourite leaders of the their demands conceded. clause is how the Soviet Union
"Me tooism"
plus "a weak will down tools, plunging the couITY try into the worst Industrial The trade journal, said that and a vacillating mind."
chics it has known since the The dispute appears to be and Yugoslavia consider the role lengthy statement in the Guards Hongkong cotton goods,
Right-winger one that could and should the Atlantic Pact and the Club here tonight amid the flash-
Hugh Gaitskell,
General Strike of 1926. West European Union ining of news photographers bulbs the publicity given in the world be settled by arbitration, relation this proposed security and the whirring of newsreel press to the crisis in the Briese of Bevan's most bitter politi. but even this is out of the
cameras It was read out in tish cotton industry had doué cal enemies, said at the same So far Sir Anthony Eden's has been that the that "party discension attitude question while the railway- On Germany the statement is Serbo-Croatian by the Yugoslav much harm to Lancashire,
from nexceptionable men remain on strike., A
It added that Lancashire could bore a large responsibility for dispute is largely a matter of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, Koca Popovic, and in only overcome its difficulties if the Labourite defeat There was discord between the two- rall
unions--the Locomotive its industry recovered confidence little doubt he blamed Bevan for sineers and the National Union Russian by Gromyko,
in itself and was relieved of the dissension. The statement called for
of Railwaymen and should the menace of foreign competi- collective security system in tion.-France-Presse, Europe and condemned the policy of "military blocs".
and respon-
ment
The
system.
The
as
the
ANGRY WITH Opposition MPs think this is the GOVERNMENT
collective security in after and in the luxurious tion and regret that the Bri-
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UNEMPLOYMENT
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backed thinly velled hints by Trades Union Congress, Atflee and deputy party chief Herbert Morrison that their first task will be to reunite the Party to speak to the voters with one voice.
Was
Tonight the Trade. Union Con gress showed aigns of annoyance that all responsibility has been shoved on its shoulders, so far,
In the statement reporting no the progress had been made,
UC general purposes committee
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