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Under carller mepauces of decentralisation national com- mittees today direct about 25 per cent of the inbour force, 22 per cent of the national wage fund and about 22 per cent of investment construction. They are now to receive further wide powers because they are "closest to the masses of the people and know their requirements best." all-powerful first time have powers to deal Ministries in Prague to enter-Independently from Prague with prises and regional organs, the many problems, Including the national committees.
purchase of raw materials and the marketing of their product "where appropriate."
In the biggest reorganization of the economy since 1948, re- sponsibility for everyday affaire ta for the first time to be shifted Hends of fariories will for the from the hitherto
The plan follows the changes recently Introduced by the Sovie: Communist party chief. Mr Nikita Khrushchev, in the Soviet Union. It was approved at a recent meeting of the Central Committee of the
Czechoslovake Communist party.
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In the wake of greater power facicry oMcials and managements, Prague Ministries are to be thoroughly reorganised, their number reduced and many as 50 per cent of "white 'collar" workers in some of them ordered to find productive work away from the capital to help remove persistent "Berious shortcomings" said to beset the economy,
The aim of the changes, which will affect also long-term plan- ring methods, is to give greater Rexiblity at the helm and in- crease the share of the working people In the management of
the economy."
According to Mr Antonin Novotny, the Communist party RECOMMENDED Children's core leader. Czechoslovakia must rld anță are Great Comporers. Hymns. The Orchestre, Bong Parede and herself of the "discrepancy Rodger A flammeredain's Show between the level of develop. Munic.
Nursery
To nvold time Яops In deliveries, which have often caused bottlenecks, a regrouping of industry is also to take place. This la almed at putting all
planta
produeing parts of the same finished product under an inified command. Hitherto. responsibility for factories con- tributing to the same completed arlicle was often divided among the Ministries, with several result that, for instance, motor- car. production could be held up through delays In the merely delivery of a minor component, like geur shift levers, beyond the control of the official re- sponsible for marketing the car.
Encourage
Part of the trouble, according to Communist ofeirls, has been the system of paying a bonus to workers in a branch of on In dustry as soon as its Individual target was fulfilled, thus giving workers no interest In the over- all picture. Under the reform. the bouus ia to be paid, E sald, only on the basis of the fulfilment of the plan for the completed
Alko available Nurseryment of the nations! economy production; of the Xhones. Mother Goose. Songs, Happy Birthday to. Ewen & which has been achieved
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SOMETHING
new
Collec
veries. Bouth
and
and product. It is hoped that
synchrunisation in the efforts of workers throughout particular industry.
Communist party complained that' initiative of The been suppressed.
offiefals have until now the workers has
ally
Economy
THE COWBOY
OST of you will not
of the
Mnced a review of "The Blue Lamp." opening at the Queen's and Alhambra as you must have seen it the from setting down in industrial, better relationship to costs of first time it came round. work, had managed to and new production enabling the Govern- It is considered one desk jobs in the factories toment to Judge more accurately best British flims made, and I
how which they were assigned.
profitable, or olherwise, and no reason to quarrel with are their undertakings.
that opinion. In splic of shortcomings, however, the overall economic What stand out is the ne situation of the country is acting associated with Jock believed to be relatively sound, Warner and Jimmy Hanley who and statistics for the first half represent the old tinte copper
and the young recruit, of the year show increased pro- duction in nearly all branches of the economy, though these in some cases were not as great as originally planned.
Envisaged
Other changes envisaged in clude alterations in planning methods, with new tea to 16- year plans on which the five- your plans will be based. There is also to be more elasticity in sear to year planning, and
National Com- transfer to the mittees of the task of working attended to by the Ministries, out many of the details hitherto
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In addition to bottlenecks, Czechoslovak press and offcials have complained of a failure to reduce costs and at other short- comings Art engineering and many other branches as well as serious absenteeism, especially among coalminers.
the
Production
Interest, even in the opening sequences of the film is the peep behind the scenes sluff. The police choir, the canteen, the routine relation to petty crimes, the young recruit's row mistakes fn recognising the "plain clothes" man while un duty.
film earned favourable cominent on its first showing for the intense excitement t built up us it progressed along the plot,
ordinary Starting with an hold-up, in a London cinema Dirk Bogarde lets fire with his
Industrial production went up by 9.5 per cent during the frat Outside the law, we meet six months of last year, while Peggy Evars, as the gul who is public spent 42,200 million tired of her home and
who milton) crowns (£2,110
on seeks
and living. easy money consumer goods, a rise of 13.7 and Dirk Bogarde, in the rule per cent compared with the of a young crook. corresponding period of 1050. The According to Mr Siroky, one A major part of the of the most serious shortcomings Czechoslovak industry's prob. from the wide continues to be the secondary lems come rale played in the economy by obligations undertaken by it on Binance and credit. He said that behalf of the Communist bloc. In future these would be used These include playing a leading to force a greater sense of role in the bloc's drive to responsibility
enterprises. penetrate the Middle East and With this almi, and to make the the under-developed Afro-Asian
From then on we are involved economically as well as must of the capitalist" principle states
less in one of those tragedies that of proat and loss, there is to be commitments to help the
reform
the follow what is conveniently in state-controlled developed countries wholesale prices at the New Communist camp itself China labelled youthful delinquency. Year.
In
situation, such These
Mail Special. 4111 stand
could find any authentic, one young fool who is led away with
the modern. pense of toughness. And as there had in been cares of this kind England arising out of the species known as spiv, the film made a memorable mark
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BYZANTINE JEWELLERY
SHOWN AT MUSEUM
Athens, Dec. 9.
The National Archaeological Museum of Athens has acquired an unique collection of ancient Greek and Byzantine jewellery of great archaeological and artistic value,
gun.
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The chast itself through
το
Paddington and out the While Clly, is one of the most thrilling in the history of the cinema.
The finale, which takes place in the White City during Greyhound Race Meeting, is again one of the best criminal hunts over on the screen. You will recall the betting boys, themselves na law-abiders, re
Audie Murphy, Charles Drake and Mary Carter in “Gun- smoke" which opens today at the Star and Metropole.
UN
Well, if we have to bring a Miss Cabot, who appeared fim back, this is the kind of along with Murphy, in the im to bring back. It is like a spectacular "Duel at Silver good book, worth dipping into Creek" Is cast as the screen many times.
daughter of Kelly in "Gur- smoke,"
She is perfectly into the TNIVERSAL-INTERNA- hackneyed role of the good girl TIONAL'S Techni- who is now willing to be woord colour "Gunsmoke" which by the bad man turned good.
There is nothing new in the opens this afternoon at the plot, but the presentation, and Star and Metropole, is the the revision of the situations, latest local contribution to wil Interest the Western the "quick-on-the-draw" ta Anthology.
Here you are then a mid-week Western, recommended on fresh This time it is Audie Murphy faces in old situations.
honest Ministries
who does the fancy shooting, nnd fames the town with some į fancy shooting. Cast in the role of a notorioun Western Kun- fighter, he gives the now all too familiar characterisation of the hard hitting nullaw who turns
to defent
Greedy frontier gang, and, need I say, win the pure affection of the
IL "Gunsmoke," Murphy shares top willing with Susn Cabot und Paul Kelly, the latter in the role of a Montana rancher whose holdings Murphy wants to take over when be brrives in Billings, បាន the deadly hired killer of a frontier the renegade who secks to build up
a Western Empire.
There are also three necklaces fuse to harbour a criminal who girl he loves.
STAMPS
EXCLUSIVE,
But there is to be no increase At the same time, tore packels of assorted atampe in the workers' share In the dealing with economic affairs From 20 cents per packet upward actual running of the factories. are lo be reduced to "small, An entirely China Morning Post Lid., Wyndham Factory managements and the highly qualified units, primarily Street, Hongkong
Ballbury newly-elected national
concerned com-
with the future
The collection was given by
wealthy Athena Boad, Rowtoon.
lady. Mrs with gold bends, a gold diadem. individual milices to whom the powers are development of
has broken not only the law of STAMY ALBUMS-AU Nation"-94 | being transferred will be urged branches (of
Helen Slathatou, who has spent a gold belt, bracelets, tiny gold industry and
the ath
gangland's own century the land, but Balmoral-13. From South China to make more use of
40 years gathering and sorting boxes from workers trade), their economic manage-
harm Morning Fort Ltd., Wyndham Street
by frequent con-ment and control."
out anelent jewellery found in BC., silver pins and safety pins, law that you never experience
The scope and Salisbury Road. Kowloon
cup. She and a number of clay objects. |sultation with the trade union. of the planned
various parts of Greece. eform can be
fnda, Including
statuelle of personally arranged her
You will recall how the real seen when it is realised that no
the signal
TRUZ- Jess than 21 out of 31 Ministrica displayed in a special room of Mercury, probably a copy of a tic-the men
tamous plece by the neulptor, derer's whereabouts, and pass in the Czechoslovak Govern the Museum.
Onala.
Ant the information to with concerned
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1. TAIPING"
Arrived 7th December, 1957
Damaged cargo ex this vene) will
Anarchy
Like the Soviet Univo. be surveyed by Mern. Goddard & Czechoslovakia has turned down. Dougies at Hong Kong & Kowloon the Workers' Council as a Whart Godown at 10.00 am.mens of giving the worker
December
more interest in his factory.
Wednesday, 13
Thunday, 12th December, 1957 coratgnees representatives are re
a veiled attack on this Yugoslav
Are
inent economic affairs.
The last major reduclion in took the number of Ministries place In June 1956, after a Party nation-wide Communist conference, when ten Ministries were merged into four. -On Goverment
quested to be prosent during survey. Innovation, the Prime Minister. | August 1, 1957, a
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Mr Viliam Siroky, sald speech: "We are not in such a situation that we need basically
Now
In a decrce abolished the Ministry for Manpower, whose functions were handed
to local over
and different forms of authorities. workers' participation in the production and management of Over 10,000 "white-collar” workers from Ministries in enterprises."
One group Includes Minoon currings with representations Two round mirrors dating Police.
and
of a goddess, a golden "ear-back to the fourth century BC pick"
geometric-style have covers depleting Hercules amphora of the Eighth Century and other warrlors, while four EC with designs from a horse Phoenician fare belong to the
Sifth Century BC.
Mrs Stathatou's collection and Includes some Byzantine
and posi-Byzantine Jewellery statuettes-China Mail Special.
race.
TREASURES
Three other groups comprise treasures from Helleniste tombs found in Thessaly and dating from the Third Century BC. These include a beautiful golden
The Czechoslovaks criticise Progue were last year moved brouch depicting Venus, two point of trival Special winter the system of Workers' Councils from their desks and cups of gold belts, a gold ring and a Recommended by La RAG carrying decentralisation too coffee, and sent to work on the gold necklace, Another master-
sowing the aceds of production line. But the Com-pieces
is a on view
golden Any make of new car mappiled far and without purchase tax for use in possible chaos and anarchy. Mrmunist press complained only a model of a temple, about 7 Europe and export after your via Siroky added that forms of few months later that investiga- Inches high, with statues of Write now for free colour brochure
in man- tion had shown that a majority Dionysus and a satyr. dating to AUTOHALL Dept. 133, 303. Ring workers' participation
here. of the ousted bureaucrats, far back to 150 BC.
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The two physicists arrived here yesterday to receive the awards from King Gustaf Adolf tomorrow.
China · Mail” Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Omar Khayyam." Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie and Debra Paget. Holly- wood version of his life,
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "The Blue Lamp." Dirk Bogarde and Jack Warner. The London Bobby. ROXY & BROADWAY: "Run Of The Arrow." Rod
Steiger torn between two peoples. STAR & METROPOLE:
"Gunsmoke," Murphy is the bad-good gunfighter, HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Hot Rod Rumble."
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