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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1958. *

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In favour of it. The Union do not; The chances are, he will not port and

General

Workers' like the strike, and in spite ofjoffer anyone a froe lift again, Union to come out on strike.

it was unable to arrange a basis refuse to come out on strike In 60 to repair his car. sympathy with Mr Cousins' de- The other night I stood at of general agreement mands,

watching the

Mr Cousins efforts, other trades and I am told it will cost him The Government failed. In that

The whole of London) Oxford Circus

WE dropped through the clouds and the plane began to level out, and my first glimpse of Town is sick to death of it. But people make their way home. It no for us can see, in all this was drizzling with rain, a miser- London was through a great lown of teeming millions, able evening, and the home going Not one person of workers were making for the hole in the clouds. There there is

sufficient energy or courage to Underground. she lay, ณ huge take the lead and demand an sprawling monster, do it all. bathed in the watery yellow light of a June

afternoon.

HUNGRY 30s.

SPIDER'S WEB

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LOP-SIDED

35

And

What A Howl

It Causes!

Sydney. TWO shocks of the week were announcements that the jackpot racing tote is to end and that the Sydney Turf Club is to ban bookmakers for a trial period beginning January 1, 1959.

They were

of the

was in-

-Didn't Work

It would be nice to see a piece of decent Australian fish occu- donally. City shops

are at

up

There has been a minor out- Csent advertising Danish cry against a suburban bus pro-

has Jacked founder African hake; Dutch prietor who herrings, Japanese flounder; school children's fares by six- Scottish kippers; New Zealand pence a week "to pay for their

vandalism." blue cod, English plaice and

Chinese prawne, but not a men- letion of anything from our own

neck of the sea.

The Transport and General

is about Workers' Union top-ailed as a conglutination of workers as you are likely to find. Of Its million and a hilf mem-' bera, the busmen number only NOT ONE

50,000. Most of the other mem- bers have nothing in common

shocks inasmuch the book's starting price has, in as an associate to one of our Those of you who know Oxford | with the alma and aspirations of as une quite expects any race many Instances, and particular-judges for a time while studying Circus whil

his Barristers' Admision with favourites, been the for appreciate this, the busmen. For instance, a gamble such as the Jackpot tole ly Look at what it means to the There was

pretty a queue stretchina provincial coffin

to end once it starts, and book- | same as the totalisator.

Board examination— maker is not

exercise Leaving aside the merits and hefty type of brain In spite of trans the station right round to going on strike because a London makers have become so much a average person, As we flattened

out to ap- London's huge spider'a web of the Palinálum. They were wait-

Australian racing de-merits of the decision, it is for anyone in their 50's, but no busman refuses to negotiate or is part prouch

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dimcult to the runway of London Underground Railways, there is ing for their turn to get into the adamant before any compromise. Beene

certain that Sydney race meeting doubt doubly hard for An commanding Alpert, the streets were plainly still a huge area, prineslly that stallon, after which they had to That is the

meetings without will not be the same withoul à | admiral used to situation at themagine race visible, the curs packed bumper arna served

them. by the sulmuaban wait to get on the trak.

But moment.

brawling booky.

and getting things done his way. Someone has got to WANTED – Hotel room and jobby) to bumper. It seemed like an

lines of the London & North there they were, sheep-like, not give way, and that means loss boys. Mul speak English, 1 in

The Jackpot tole army of outs about to swarm on Eastern Railway, where there is patient, but pathetically feeblent prestige. terested ple apply B

19 Mr Cousin

troduced for the specific pur- London town. 'Cos Mall."

Bul nowhere

no Underground. The only way Ant not one voice was raised in determined he will not give in: rose of wooing back cash that atong

kwarm was the

for the people to get to work is protest.

the Government is equally customers to the race track famblar red of the London bus.

to walk.

The trugle side of things is determined not to give way. Race club authorities hoped that And there begins this tale.

Motorisis ate offering lifts, most of the busmen are not in As I see it, ife affair of the lure of big cash for Bille Every relic of the motor age is favour of continuing the strike. Government and Unions

haseutiny would pack the stands. on the streets, but they cannot do not make this statement idly, moved away from the people. hope to deal with the situation.but only after checking up for Whatever inppens, Mr Cousins will not suffer unless his Union revolis, and in their own

It did no! work that way. Interests, they are not likely to Firstly, there were even

hit by junior's urge for destruc- He is not the first one to be do so. His huge salary, goes on people in the stands, and it was whether there is a strike or no

demonstrated time after time

tion. The Ralkways Department strike. Tho modern Trade that only

thal estimates with

school-going the bettors Union leader is no longer one of plenty of folding money had s

youngsters do between £30,000 the workers,

and £40,000 worth of damage but a bureaucrat chance of taking out the Jackpot. Reing

and

Motorists this week had their to electrle train seal eovers apari

above the workers.

The lane 5 punter had almost yearly scream of rago when alone. Making good torn fabric

Селета! of pleking the five On the other hand, Govern no chance

Motors Holden - mostly done with razor blades ment ran

makers of the Austalian car-keeps 17 men constantly bold out, because Jackpot winners, but those who They do not want 10 Government salaries

record profits continue, could afford to bet four, five or announced

of employed. see their Union broken, for they it is the people who suffer.

six horses in a race-they were 11,872,000, after putting away Once people are home, they ore loyal Trades Unionists, but Food prices bathe their sore feet and stay in they feel that there are at least high. strike pay is totally in-cash.

are unbelievably the people taking home the big for the night, as a consequence, reasonable grounds to resume adequate to meet the demands suburbur: London is dead.

And there was some really The work white negotiations proceed-of indern prices,

Since the advent of the Holden big money about. } streets are deserted after seven ed in a lega bitter atmosphere

The Jackpot operated for 29 in 1948 GM-H has earned a It seems monstrous that in the o'clock at night. A casual visitor than in the

and £750,000 atmosphere of a twin grip of these modern meetings

was total of £0.4 million. This would imagine that a plague had strike.

Furtheonore, they are bureaucratic institutions, the Invested in the pool. visited the town, and the people couselous of a lack

Only at and the fact that more than £22

had flown off to safety.

been paid to US of public prople are strangled.

one of these meetings was the million has Kympathy which accompanies

£14,198 Investors, has stirred the critics Jackpot not wen and Iz

the the etike, characterisie style,

was carried over. The largest deeply. London Evening · Newa started

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I am Londoner brol and horn, und in my time I have seen the Londoner take many trials ad tribulations in his stride. I can remember the General Strike

of 1920 when London was shorn

by JOHN LUFF

of all transport. I can remem-Ola people wall at bus stops, and myself. I visited the depots of ber London of the hungry thirties wave the car owner to stop, the following London Transport

hadn't the which Re Invariably when people just

does, and Depots, Tolteu hum and Wood

I remem- takes them on their way, but Green, and spoke to some of the

only a few can hope to profit by this Samaritan service.

seney to god about. andber with pride London of the forlies when London Cant Take I was a phrase that set the Free World ablaze with pride, and all of London heritage #hared, even by proxy, the pride That London bore.

CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED

But this Ume it is different

Most of the

strikers,

a few.odd millions for taxation, and another million or so into various sinking funda,

cm-

Man Alleges

Beating By Policemen

A 35-year-old unemployed man alleged in Kowloon Court this morning he had been beaten up by three or four detectives.

Never before have I seen the Cockney put his tail between Js, and whimper In potheile

The quarrel continues as I 13 HEREBY ceptance of yet another heavy NOTICE

burden.

type this out, and there seens

pold was While there may be truth in GIVEN that the thirtieth The Landones I knew would

I was fortunate in looking up hope of a settlement,

the argument that the car should плица!

ORDINARY. GEN- have done something about it awarding a prize for anecdotes Hungkong girl who is studying THE PEOPLE During the period that jack-be sold cheaper and less profits ERAL MEETING of China They would have risen, theyut the strike, which were chiefly Social Services in London, and

But most

of all I blame the puts operated, attendances drop-made, the boot is not all on the Underwriters; Limited will bel would have forced someone to

at a humorous nature. But the was able to discover the outlook

the same Holden foot.

About 08,600 Australians held at the Head Office of get on with the job of getting the buses on the streets again. But

stries is ended, the strike is not of many of the strikers' wives. people of London. Not a voice ped by 10,000 over

Of course, the brunt of a social has been raised in protest about period last year.

„Sydney Turf Club decision lo depend directly on the company the Company, Third Floor, as 1 write, the bus strike is in its funny any more.

they tramp get along without bookies for a stories printed upheaval folla on the home, and their pathetic lot

for their weekly pay envelope. Gluverster Buliding. Des thirty-eighth day, end not a thing

real Nearly 17,000 people are Voeux Boad, Central. Hong has been done. This time the weet, due taki of sore the very few pounds a week miserably to work. They seun trial periodo o

own factories and feet, or of middle aged char-strike pay coming into the home to me us wretched and dejected shock. It was also the best kept ployed in its Londoners are too feeble, too

a lot as I have ever come across. secret of the year in an industry it is one of the largest employers Kong on Thursday, the 19th apathetic, too weary; in short, women trying to get a lift in Rees nowhere with food as an

Surely these eldit million which as a rule does not keep in the country. The rest is could

'something Surely a secrets too well. June, 1968 at 12.30 p.m. to they are licked. One man, Mr competitoin with charming young alt time high.

made up by salcamen employed 1ypists. But the fun has run On the other hand, many the Ceisins, the Trade Union leader receive

realise

that they oul. Tired people find it dif- blame the Government.

They

The STC Committee claims by various firms, sub-contractors

und so forth. end, el power and policy is in that by abolishing bookmakers

Indirectly it gives Directors Report and State- can kick them round just how cult to laugh at the same thing feel a stronger Government their hands. But no. They put the club

The defendant, Wong Sung- to give employment

muny more could have done something."

will be able

who is charged with two ment of Accounts for the year and when he likes.

ineant by up with it, their famous historical bigger prize money and offer thousands. The fuel in the Public docs day after day. ended 31st December, 1957,

Then there is t side to it which asked what they

13 1oct.

counts of larceny Involving the Eight belter facilities to the public - funny. One motorist something but

to up

thedeflance

theft of two watches valued at Bullion sheep who have lost their but

Just to elect Directors, to appoint not like the strike, and is not

before burning the at to two moment, no one has told me.

$30 and $50, told the Magistrate stopped to offer

way, bah.. bab...bah.

bookles' båg wants to see if this From employees' wages, sules that at about noon on Monday, women. Ho drove them to

The fact of the matter is, the Time was when their very theory works out in practice tax on cars and stranght-out he had been arrested and 88- destination, bul when whole strike has settled down to wrath would have said, "The hence the trial run,

and

consider

Auditora, to sanction

Divi-

dends and to transact any NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES their other business of Att Or- dinary General Meeting.

The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 121 June, 1968 to the 19th June, 1958, inclusive.

Ey Order of the Buard,

E. W. WILMOTT.

Secretary,į

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Taxation

The case was heard by Mr T. Creedon,

yee,

taxation of company profils, it saulted four times in the C.ID.

a estimated that the Federal

room of Police Headquarters.

다 number of by £34 million because of the When asked by the Migis-

he got home, he found all the

personal conflict between Mr buses shall run and Government! Bookmakers, of course, are upholstery of his back seat Frank Cousins and the British and Trades Union will putting on their war paint. They Government last year was richer slashed to ribbons, and a cord Goverment, Mr Cousins has negotiate." But London has lost have quoted to tell him he was a black-lex, | failed in that he has not sue- its famous pride as my next figures, incidentally, (and which | Holden success. Of this amount, trute if he could recognise any and not to offer people free lifts, ceeded in getting his vast Trans-article will tell you..

| have not been disputed)—where | £6.5 millon was straight-out taxation on profits, which is a nice shot in the arm for any Treasurer.

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BY

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• WAY

by

Beachcomber

of

tho detectives who he

defendant pointed to - plain clothes detective,

claimed had assulted him, the

Defendant claimed he had been given 20 to 30 blows with ahommer on each occasion by the detectives,

nuded he had not made any suport to the Police about this.

The Magistrate remanded him in gaol custody for three days,

Court Inspector taken to hospital

Immediately for examination.

One of our "brains" has worked il out that in 1957 a Holden standard sedan cost £040 to make; the profit to the company was £170; the deators margin € 100-but sales tnx

£220-by for the lion's share. OFTEN wonder

whether do not follow you," said the Flashback: It is interesting Cabinet Ministers take on man. "If you did," riposted the to note that while for the last Intensive course of

have you few years GM-H has churned Instruction magistrate. "I should on how to answer questions in arrested as a pickpocket." "On cut record profits, there are the House. It requires training what evictence?" asked the man, pouple with the outilt today and asked the

who to say

The evidence of my eyes,"

can palatully remember to have him "Hoving regard to my pre- responded the magistrate. "You record losses,

In 1931the deep part of the Philippines, Italy, France, Bel-vious answer, in which I'ex-look like a pickpocket." "What

General Motors- glum, Netherlands, Germany Bet plained that it was not possible has that got to do with my depression,

go beyond what I said in having my hat picked, or rather Holden went £501,000 into the Malaya, Aden, Egypt, Great Bri-reply to the question, and hay Pecked?" asked the man. Let redan unheard of amount Ing regard to the circumstances pass, let it pass," said the thong days. In the nex!

a jest. months another £207,000 went obtaining at the time, and stil magistrate," "Twas but

and it seemed obtaining at this moment, I do Now. Did the beal penetrate down the drain

your hat?" "It left hole. as that the next job to be offered not feel that any useful purpose forge as a shilling, right through would be to a liquidator. would be or could be served by

the Uning." "Then, undoubtedly, Today GM-His riding on commilling myself to a more i was after your head," said the balloon tyres, and the road definite answer 10 д question

"You should wear ahead seems smooth and clear. which, taking all I have said magistrate.

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Was it a headpecker?

You say," said the magis-

trate, with a wry smile, "that this woodpecker pecked your hat. Do you think it was trying

to get at your head?" noi made of "My hat was wood." replled the man. “And what about your head?" queried the magistrate sardonically.

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Oliera y sing the charm

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