1957-09-16 — Page 4

THE CHINA' MAIL; MONDAY," SEPTEMBER 16, 1957.

FROM Germany comes a startling story of what German trade union leaders themselves call "the return of the slaves." It is something that could NOT happen in Britain. But it IS something that Britain's trade union leaders will find disturbing reading when they consider their attitude to the European free trade plan.....

What I see here looks like slave

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labour to me

WI

JILAT would our British tendes unions may if a big British iron and steel works paid a Inbour contractor to supply them with gangs of non-union labour to work

at cul rates, outside all trade union agreements, and subject to dismissal without notice?

Con you imagine the works of the Mulheim-

THE SOLID GOLD VOLKSWAGEN...

regular ahios mambers of Meiderich concern loading by SEFTON DELMER

the works staff putting up up the are trolleys and with the presence of a man- pushing them 200 yards to power enutractor's men and the furnaces. working ponceably alongside The men are naked to the not on our payroll. They Then there aro Ex- them?

waist, steaming with sweat count as outside labour." convicts and workers who Inconceivable as this is to in the rain as they do this Well, in England I am for one reason or another anyone accustomed to in-back-breaking work; work sure that the men would have been dismissed from dustrial conditions in Bri- which during thhe war was walk out rather than work their jobs. They may have tuin or British Common performed by the foreign besida fellows who are been dismissed in circum. wealth countries I find that workers and prisoners undercutting them in every stances which would cause precisely this is happening whose places ជន cheap way. For these men doing the shop stewards of the today all over Western Ger- labour these

contractor the same work as the re- works they are applying for many country to whom gangs have now taken in gulars do not receive the work with to turn them we lire to throw open our the German industrial benefits or enjoy the security down. The contractor can own markets if Britain joins machine.

obtained for the regular get them in without diffi- staff of the works by the 'culty. trade union agreements.

the proposed European free Why is there no walk-out, trade area.

no protest strikes? Out of the

It is happening in the West German mines, in the big chemical-factorios - particularly those producing fertilisers and in the roa and steel industry,

Gangs of "slave werkers" that is what my German

Shop Steward's

reach.

Students in search of They can be dismissed holiday jobs are another without notice. If they fall category ready to join the sick it is their own affair- army of slave workers or at best that of the con- which is estimated to vary tractor-but not that of the seasonally between 50,000 works.

and 300,000.

Amark

"Deutschmark, uber allër!**

FRANCE Voluable property-delightful aspect |

|OWNER FINDS DIFFICULTY

IN KEEPING UP

ESTATE

"We could put in a bid for it, Dr. Erhard-after all, we know the property well

•Cummings

Dr Jagan has had further discussions with the Governor of British Guiana, following his success at the polls. The Daily Telegraph correspondent on Commonwealth Affairs here outlines the economic, racial and political problems facing the Colony. :

BRITISH GUIANA'S

SECOND

CHANCE

from R.H. STEED

GEORGETOWN, British Guiana,

No Colony has ever strugled so hard through the centuries for a bare subsistence as did Guinn, which finally

became British in 1814. Herole colonisers, first Dutch, then British, overcame fantastic obstacles of geography and climate, only to be confronted with new dungers from wars, from international polities and from the vicissitudes of world markets.

At last, by about 1950, it seemed that the Colony's troubles were over, and that a reasonable standard of living for all was possible within a decade.

An enlightened technical and social polley was-trans--- forming the sugar estates which supported 80 per cent

They get no Christmas To me, however, the must gratuity. They are not en- amazing aspect of this of the population of 500,- trade unich friend call A shop steward whose titled to holidays with pay amazing situation is the 000. The aeroplane and thum are being supplied men work with the "slave and there is no guarantee patience, not to say the new technology provided the by manpower contractors gangs" has been trying to even that they will get the apathy, of the German key for the opening up of whose names I have to 20 explain it to me.

same rate for the job on unions in accepting it, the hitherto Impenetrable out of the 30 big iron and "Although these

men which they are working as For the German union hinterland, with its un- steel works here in the work on jobs assigned to the regular stuff.

has been aware of the limited water power, them by the foremen and Thus, the point that slave system dangers to i mineral resources and agri- And they are working engineers of our works," he comes up again and again organised labour since as cultural potential. All that

the regular or says, "they do not figure on is that these men have not long ago as 1949. ulongside

was needed was foreign ganised trade union workers the staff list of the works. been taken on by the works.

capital and political stabil ity..

Rubr.

or

contractor.

without any

"They work with us but Their services one of the

have been Redundant Workers workers

shop do not belong to us. And bought from the manpower their stewards making a fuss. under German factory and

Just around

shop the corner trade union laws we

The firm pays the con- from where I am you can stewards cannot raise

a tractor who delivers It Ace thent in the vast steel finger on behalf of anyone these human goods and

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Then came the disastrous

tics, which the recent elec- tions falled to remova,

but jobs for Slaves setback from internal poli

there the firm's respon-

In that year the Mulheim The sudden introduction in Mannesman sibility ends.

stoel works 1953 of universal suffrage For the big iron and steel ofleging a slump dismissed for a population still largely

600 of their workors as ro-literate, resulted in and concerns

the other

dundant, employers this packaged

sweeping victory for the muscle power which can be

But less than a week later People's Progressive party supplied and withdrawn at they engaged 650 slavo led by Dr Jngan, of Indian he shortest notice has, of workers from a local man origin, his American wife ourse, immense attractions. Power contractor. These, of Janet, and Mr Burnham, a So much so that some of course, they can dismiss at young and ambitious políti

a moment's notice and thoy cian of African origin. managers have pro- had no need to ounced it to be "indispen-

pay them any of the benefits agreed *able,"

For six months Dr Jagan For it cuts their inbour with the union. costs-in any case German 650 were quite a number of

Among the contractor's and his Ministers defied and insulted the Governor and

he

DR JAGAN — bass of the P.P.P.

stcel workers' wages are the the sucked 600. They went systematically aimed at second lowest in non-Iron back to their old jobs but at establishing a Communist- Curtain- Europe-by freeing less pay and without any of type totalitarian regime. them from the substantial the pensions, holidays, sick- |Finally the British Govern- would be given another Communism and

contributions they must make to pension schemes, insurance benefits, and all the other charges imposed Lover and ́above the ordinary

wage rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. LTD. Over the border

POPULAR

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ness

benefits proviously guaranteed to thom,

What the unions have succeeded in, doing in their pressure campaign against the contractor system is to

indentured workers from India Liegen. This countinued until 1017 About half the present population is Indian,

In the 1880s the dumping of European beet, sugar on the world market brought hard times. Later, around 1930, Imperial preference shielded the Industry, and finally in 1950 the Commonwealth Sukar Agreement brought stability. By this time Intense competition anti relatively unfavourable local growing conditions had concentrated production into a small number of large and highly mechanised estates. The most elaborate mechanical world irrisation system in the

the fortilised the catates and rice fields which had since been developed,

and pumped the flood water from the landword swamps to the sea.

1

In the meantime the country's first major mineral' enterprise. £15m. Canadian bauxito: undertaking, had been started at Mackenzie, 65 miles up the the Demerara River, where

its own company had bullt model town on the mud that is the curse of the coastal plains. In 1856 a £15m. extensión for the conversion of bauxite into elumina was started and will be completed in 1980.

One event which has trans- formed British Guiana is the complete elimination of malarla by 1930 by the use of D.D.T.. based on the researchs of tho Italian malariologist, Dr Giglioll, As a result the population will double in 20 years,

This is a problem which doles em- from the British taxpayer can they never solve. The only way out issue. is the rapid economic develop

their ment of the country, especially have of the interior, which calls for

in large-scale investment,

Fear of Federation

will be FOREIGN capital

chory for years to come of

now

their barrassment whenever ment suspended the consti- chance this year.

were challenged on this tution and vested the A split in the P.P.P. be- They have never called Governor with full powers, tween Dr Jagan and Mr party Communiat, and

been equivocal Burnham, who had decided usually Brief Intimidation

in favour of constitutional public.

Dr Jagan now describes hin- methods, may have given self as a Marxist, adding that the British Government there is now no such thing as only Marxism

different countries." Last year,

have

bo

in so long as the Jogana are

а

get a clause added to the THE Jagans then led a hope that Dr Jagan's star Communism,

different forms írz. German labour laws intend- campaign of intimidation was past its zenith. But taking ed to make the hiring out of which fizzled out quickly in one unfortunate result was at a private party meeting after making any unnecessary workers an offence punish the face of firm police that the vote was split along the Burnham split, he gave sa commitments in British Guiana

tulk en discipline which, $ 9,50

able with imprisonment. up action, proving that the racial lines.

In major influence in its destinies. Jargon and content, woR to two months.

easygoing Guianese

The ultimante solution for 18.00

Who, you ask, are the

distinguishable from a Moscow But akhough this new clause no aptitude for the bar-

A Racial Vote

British Guiana, both politically party pronouncement. 18.00 workers who agree to be has been in force since April 3 ricades. The British Govern- 25.00 come

How little this country can and economically, is member- contractors' slaves of this year not a single pro- ment decided that the elec- 8.50 under the full-employment And the contractors continue to British Guiana should have rice areas, in both of which per cent of the population live judices of his Indian

secution has yet taken place. torate and politicians of sugar estates and in the background and history. Ninety fluenced by the ignorant: pre- The Indians on the afford political experiments wai chip of the West indies Federa- seen from a glance at Its Blon. Hero again; De Jagan is ailability because he lo ins Germany of today?

The majority are refugees It is very difficult to do any a political holiday for a few they are in an overwhelm in a coastal

strip 200 mlles who fear they would suffer 7.50 from the Soviet zone. They thing about it," said an official years to digest, the lesson ing majority, voted without loud between th

have entered Western Ger. at the Central Labour Ofice in of the Jagan episode.

Nuremberg whom I have con- many illegally without

sulted and whose job it is to proper papers.

Considerable progress was inke proceedings under the new clause.

mude in house-building for them to obtain work "We are studying the ques social services and labour Georgetown went to Mr and polders

by some blological Instinct, A 3.00 through regular labour ex- we have not received any com year economic development can-minorities tended not to from the sea and on the other consillution if they can get

tion cnxiousty. So far, however, relations and a £20m, five Burnham, Indian and Afri- wall on one side protects changes without these plaints trona the

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five miles wide, all of which is from belog in a racial minority reflection er hesitation for about four feet below sea level.

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It now seems that the Jagani, their co-racial Dr Jagan. The Dutch originally made It

while remaining Marxlets, have The big African vote in habitable, building dykes, dan realised that their crude tooticn

If Impelled

and

of 1953 were mistaken; and are prepared to work with

the

it

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De Jagan now declares that

vote in hopeless contents, side from the flood water from papers.

And do not forget that up. Well, if they have to wait for But a backward country The people of Chinese, the inland swamps, fed by a to 6,000 Germans o woek complaints from the waves still suffering from the Portuguese and nilxed origin

themselves they will wait are still crossing the zone long me.

shock of 1953 could not be and the middle classes were

Indian Influx 30 borders from the Soviet

montly too confused or dis- I suggest, however, that be transformed in a few years.

he would not take un in Paradise in search of work fore our own trades unions In the spring of 1956 the interested to vote at all. 2.00 in the West. For them rush into any further enders British Government, chi poll was only 36 per cent, so that founded on slave labour. the

The result was that the total CUGAR GROWING... was dependent British Guiana out of

Commonwealth,

On the work, even as a slave in plan they might do well to tako barrassed at the way Bri- Dr Jsgan, supported by only a After the emancipation of slaves" past record the Jogans - one. On Sale At

these gangs, is promotion to a look at this German slave tish Gutarin was dropping quarter of the electorate, won In British turritories in 1834 can only hope that when the

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