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LABOUR PROBLEMS,

25. 1919.

conferences designed to settle the most SOUTH CHINA COAL SUPPLY

AUSTRALIA CHALLENGING

awful war of all known wars and the whole future of the world, to sit, sur rounded by subordinate Ministers and high official from many Departments in

Downing Street, for the purpose of a ranging the meaning of a report and the piecework rates of one of the Yorkshire coalfilds." Its a striking picture which Lord Askwith Sketches, but it would perhaps be better described as a low "of

JAPAN'S TRADE,

OUR OVERSEAS TRADE APPEAL TO PRIME MINISTER Mr. E Maaville, president of the Asso Unless the output of cost in Japan is fciation of Chamber of Commerce, in greatly increased or the industrial situa-forwarding to the Prime Minister, ou tion in Japan is greatly edited, there behalf of the association, letter addres is every reason to nuticipate (says theed by the connet to Sir Arthur Sterl Consul General at Hongkong) that Maitland on his resignation trans the De

partment of Overseas Trade, states: Japan will lose its hold on the fuel trace of South China in the very near future.

You will readily believe that this assu

try of the country, we have witnessed an personal dignity than a degradation of For a decade or more Japan has hadiation, compdseď n« it is of a large sees »

Not a work seems to pass now without a strike in som important branch of in dustry. Following on the sheels of the very serious strike of the Yorkshire coal miners, which threatened at one time to [paruly e the entire manufacturing, indus. attempt to bring out on strike the entire Police Forfe of the country, and, at the same time, to induce a number of labour organisations to strike in sympathy with the Polige, This, happily, proved a ruiserable failure. Out of a tóqul strength | of $2,000" only "a"little over a thousand | tuenthera "of the Police Force responded: to the appeal of the Executive of the Police Union. The pembers of "the Police Futen have no substantial "griev

The Government had generously,

44.

government, having regard to the whole of the circumstances. Here, however, is Lord Askwith's own summary of his ne cussions against the Prime Ministeri

trade of South China and North China imunity of the country, attaches the of the entire coal tior of the commercial and industrial about 70 per eat. IncidChina having most of the remainderatnost injurtar to the development of the price of Japanese coal of ordinary

the department baling with coversens grade is so high in Japan at the present

We have had experience of the wine, however, that, in spite of the

penérgy and ability which Sig Arthits

I have accused the Prime Minister of opportunist prodigality, with which 'pria-"} surrounding himseli and his Ministers of tongkong and South China, Australian interfering with gel government in the

coal dan cut under the Japanese quota-), country and particularly with the oral

riple he has imbued the colossal staff, I greatly redated freight rates on tonl for Stof Mainland has exhibited in the or-

of the Civil Service; of entering into and supporting a systematic interference of the politician in industrial dispam, and thereby achieving the double result of fomenting aroulle ini? degrading Govern ment; and of promoting and condoning "lavish waste and expenditure.

'

(ganisations of the department up till the

tions in this market, and is already tak present time, and we believe that. hah be received sufficient support from the Only the ing a share of the business present lack of tonnage moving fromther departments of State condirne'n. Australia presents Australian mines from would have brought his own into a satis taking the whole of the trade.

factory state of efficiency. We partien

At the present time Japanese cual is being said in Japan at higher rates than

arly wish to draw sour attention to the

A stem of dishes and political Sribery year, quotations running at from fact, of which you are doubtless well

toyen, or from 811 to 813 gold For the maintenance of personal power canon, while Australian cunt of the firstware. that his signation was caused b

never last.

Let the Prime Minister, tell the people 2 rent situation and reach to them the sensity of economy and thrift, and above all, ner upon it hithsoff ** The indictment seems to have enlisted singularly little support in the Press or elsewhere, had even the Prime Minister who is generally ready at any moment to reply to his crities, took no advantage of the opportunities he hng siger haslain the toss of tomon to notice the indictment.

READING FOR NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer dur

quality

- far better fuel from every his appreciation of the fact that unless

en be

be hatt at Australian bix department received that adapte ports at from 15 to le shillings, or from support, success could not be achieved. and, since we believe that there is no

43.60 to $3.85 per ton.

Several cargoes of Australier, coal have already come into the Hongkong jret unire important to the welfare of this country than the development of our market se fur this year, and negotiations are now em for a large portion of the brace, we take this opportunity dis supply of the port. Were it not for the f impressing upen you our rent fact that the chief users of coal bave overens at the continued lack of that support which is essential contracts for Japanese cual, trade would if this department is to he of service to The thus he almost revolutionized increasing eas

easier situation Fram il tetight standpoint renders the increased

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if tardily, rectified "ali legitimate griev ancoi ag régarda pay, pensions and con. ditions of service generally, and, as one writer remarks the pay of the policë unst now make many a eleṛk and curate envions" Roughly, the new scale of pay is, for the ordinary constable, about treble the pre-war rate. The Government is Bro busing to set up an organisation by which the Police can repreht their views to the authorities on all questions that affect their welfare, and among the police any more than among the army, a tralle usion of the ordinary" kind will it be tolerated. It is as protest against this attitude that the Union Executive called | the strike. Every police officer who with. drew himself from daty. watomaticallying the past week has told the House of; lismissed himself from the force and Commons that the Budget position is forfeited all pension rights and other distinctly and seriously lese Javourable benefits. No doubt the Executive of the that it was when" be made his Budget Union advised the strikers that this was

cot being statemen. The reast is mere bluff and that the Gorernment, realised, and "if we cannot increase pro would not dare to maintain it; but the duetion beyond what we are producing men have found that the Commissioner's how we shall go to national bankruptcy," notification meant what it said. and the Mr. Chamberlain told the House that the vacancies in the force have already been, Government are determined not merely filled by men who have served in the war that reckless waste shall be stopped, bur in the army, navy on mercantile marine that rigid economy shall be exercised. Few strikes have collapsed so ignomini The Prime Minister, in the same debate, A number of Japanese experts and ously as this one. The city which suffered emphasised the necessity for a full appre-workinen are shortly to visit Europe and most from it wa, Liverpool, where 700 outciation of the perils of the position, The America in order to acquaint themselves of a total of 2,200 came out, and hooligans Eouse of Common, he insisted, has got with the modern methods of tunnellink. seized" the opportunity for embarking on to look at expenditure not merely from prior to constructing a railway under the Daily Represe of August 8th.) revended the point of ex of cutting down but Shimonoseki Straits in substitution for the fact that 100,000 people at kast are before a suficient military force could be from the point of view ut net piling up the ferry service which now connects tu awe sing steamship passages from Ens

Kyushu. brought to control the situation, being Be alluded to a petition signed by 380 placed at £170,000.

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coat being landed there at about $14 exist in the Government departments con ton for Japanese coal Lo.b. Japan port.

per ton, as compared with $12.75 per cerned are entirely removed and replaced whole-hearted *upport. "We There has been an increase in thi imearmastly, hope that

that you ports of Knilan or North China coal inte lews consideration, and that we may Hongkong during the current year aver crive from you" same assurance that a 1518 for similar reasons, but, quality and better state of affairs will prevail in the all considered, Australian goal will take future than has been the

case in the past. the marke; if present conditions continue. This is the only way, we believe, to allay the alarm which is felt. in commercial circles all over the country at the attitud hitherto adopted by the Government to wards the future of our expert track.

A JAPANESE TUNNEL

GETTING POINTS FROM THE CHANNEL SCHEME.

the

RUSH FOR OCEAN PASSAGES. LINERS WAITING LIST OF 1000.

Inquiries made yesterday (says. The

members of the House the previon4 my way system of Hinshu andern-land at the present moment:

understand that the Japanese'

to the

Son o

the

Unfinished repatriation LE troups. an unauthorised strike by drivers and tween four and five millions on some of examining the plans and

In sympathy with this strike there was ing asking the Government to spend be-ment railways have expressed a wish that.

their

experts should have the apa

scarcity of ships, and the necessity of reconditioning ships für passenger trade I have no doubt it is good, sive reports draw the Londoy, and South-posal. Up

drawn

Up for the Western Railway and motormen on They are all good," said the Premiet tunnel under the English Channel, It is after their surrender by the Government the City and South London Electric raising a baugh, "but you have to con-

state of affairs, " Railway. As this occurred in the holi- sider what the nation can bear and toe regarded as probable that the aid of given as some of the rauses for this

British experta will be sought for in

Nor do day week-end the dialniation of traffic. between"them.

things promise to grow better. determining the geological formation of all steamship companies report waiting. especially on the L. & S. W. line, caused

the sea bed under the Straits which lists of thousands who are anxious for This is not the first time by any means serious inconvenience to the public while that members of the "Government base thas rendering unavoidable some delay has on its wa

not b present has been found possible.

Te passage, The Union Castle Line nin it lasted, but when the failure of the uttered grave warnings of this character, Police strike was realised, and when, but so far the public has seen little proof in arranging a definite plan of opera thousand, soning is more than twelve

of whom have been na tions, The new line to seen that the Labour that either the (evernment or the House W completely under the sea and its controj our vessels. said an official. ·

be constructed Fty in Parliansent were unable to reef Commons has been greatly concerned to-

he seven miles long, one mile of itaiting list between two and three years. The Government departments still The Real Barley Cigarette the question of direct action," reduce expenditure. The tendency completion, which is expected in People who desire to go to the Colonies.

the policy of industrial strikes on purely been rather the other way. Of course, the will permit of a through service between to foster British trade are given priority political questions. "and, what of still russation of hostilities and the subsequent Tokio and Kagoshima, a urination according to public and private neces- greater importancy the Excentive Comemobilisation has sensibly reduced the the railway system and untold advanity." mittee of the National Union of Rai expenditure on the Army and Navy, but tazes to industry.-Y.-C. Daily News, waynen which et tu discuss recommen; evil charges are constantly growing. dations by branches in different parts of the Chancellor of the Exchequer recently! the country for a stoppage of work in told the country that the average daily Mr. Chamberlain bas told the country support of the police, decided that they national expenditure from the beginning that it ned have no fear that the Govern cou'd not undertake any responsibility to the Soancial year, April 1st.. to Julyment will rush into experimental course "An entirely New principle in a strike in this matter, but urged goth, had been $4,412.000, but he added such ne nationalising everything in the asked if it was a case of first, came irst

all their members on strike to return to work immediately, the men went back to their engiang and there was once more pozmal railway service.

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The strike among the bakers was for wage of $1 for a 44-hour week. The at titude of the master bakers is that they want the Government, to recognise the increase in the cost of production which has orcurred since the price of bread was Exed at 9d. This increase, they say, re presents 10. on the tib loat. They take the stand that they have horne these)

Thousands are desirous of getting to British East Africa Adventurous men who will not wait have been signing on as fremen and deck bands in tramps in order to roach Port Said. atory. An official of the White Star Line.

Wn the western ocean it is the same

that the expenditure for the early purt hope of getting revenue. That is some served, explained "No. If some one with of the financial year was ao guide as to thing be thankful for when we bear in business important to the Empire or the total expenditure for the year. What mind the reckless waste of money that travelling to take up some essential Mr. Chamberlain meant to convey by many Committees of Inquiry, have re appointment came along he would have this remark was not very chrious, and rently revealed in connection with enterpriority over some one whose reason his subsequent warnings rather suggest prises dertaken by the State during the less imperative. Joy-riders come Inst. that he did not mean by it that a sub wat.

The There has beer. a veritable orgy of tantin reduction might be expected, extravagance and it seems far yet from in ocean passages, that people reserve suggestion that there is speculation ales something is done to check the being at an end.

passages and then sell them at a premium. prodigality which still prevails, it is Drastic measures of retrenchment will is ridiculed in shipping circles. It was Government subsidies alone will amount the bottom of the trouble is the even more made out in the name of the holder of the anticipated that the next financial year ret alone suffice for our salvation. At explained that no one enn leave England

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VOLUNTEERS

they are going to agree to the demands of tire national Budget on the eve of the foreign trade to rise to expectations, TheTom Jones to sail on Juho Smith's ticket. higher costs long enough, and that if to a sum closely approximately to the important factor of the failure of our passport. Therefore it is impossible for war-that is to say £200,000,000. This balance of imports indeed, in the word the men either they must get their four year's estimates provide for £60.000.000 of the Minister of Labour, is risin cheaper, or the price of bread must go for payment under an agreement by against by to an alarming degree. B up. For the time, being, it is pretty safe which the railways were taken over and fore the war we exported between seventy to conclude that the price of bread will pre-war dividends guaranteed to share and eighty million tons of coal a year. go up. The Government has evidently holders; Canal compensation claim, valued at that time at fifty millions ter come to the conclusion that it can do no further £950,000; the Coal subsidying. It is officially regarded as doubt Bl more in- the way of subsidies. To keep £21.000.000; keeping down the price of the whether we shall be able to export this the quartern loaf down to ninepene is quartern loaf to ninepence entails a year, a quarter of the pre-war quanti already costing the national exchequer subsidy from the Treasury this year The diminution in the production of other £30,000,000 a year,

amounting to £60,000,000. Then there is important commodities is equally ser

AND ACTIVE SERVICE. JUDOMENT „AGAINS

AGAINST THE

M.S.V.K

Judgments were delivered on September

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THE PREMIER'S "OPPORTUNIST PRODIDALITY," the out-of-work donation, which continuasious. Si Robert lorne has stated the 16th.. by Mr. W. Pryde (agistrate) at After the any arbitrations on indus to November 24th. in the case of civilians, position in these pregnant senten Klang Police Court, F.31.8, in the two trial dispute that we ate had aines the and for a year after demobilisation in the Prior to the war the commodities we Armistice, it would seem not reasonable case of men who served in the fighting imported exceeded by many millions the cases ard at Klung the previous week. to conclude that general basis of forces That is estimated at £34.000.000 value of the goods which even thea we which are of great interest to member, of, Labour remuneration bagnow been estab.or the current year. Altogether the were able to export in return, but we fished, which should form a guide to the State subsidies to which the Government made up for the adverse balance by the Malay States Volunteer Rifles. settlement of all other Labour disputes is already committed are estimated to services we rendered by carrying the The first case was one in which Frivate without resort to the dislocation of indus amount this rear to £177,000,000. Pen world's goods in our ships and by the Stephen Winthrop, M.S.V.R.., appealed. try and tande at a time when it is of the ions form another big item. The interest dag to us. on securities which we against the decision of his Commandant, utmost importance that our industrini Minister of Pensions, in submitting to owned abroad. Now our ships are fewer Lieut. Col. J. P. Swettenham, refusing output should be maintained at its Parliament an estimate of £73,000,000 in number and the bulk of our securities to grant him his certificate of discharge. In this case, in a written judgment, fullest capacity. But now comer a bomb. few days ago, explained that this has been sold in order to pay for muni shell from Lord Askwith. formerly Chief penditure covered only portion of this

That is not all. We have in not on active service and that Private Industrial Commissioner of the Board of year, and that for a full year-at:lenet tions which we required during the war. Mr. Pryde ruled that the M.S.VR. inte Trade, who has played, in his day, as long as the huber of pensioners recurred lebt to the extent of over a then Winthrop should be struck off the muster- important part in the settlement of many mains at or near the maximum-the rate sand million sterling, and, we have to payroll.

The second case won that of Private G. trade disputes. In a lengthy letter to will be about £93,000.000. The memorial the interest on that debt, and finally the the Timer, making a vehement attack to which the Prime Minister alluded in principal itself. We can only do this by R. French, M.S.V.R., Klang, who ap

which I have already re on the Prime Minister in connection with the speech

making and exporting sufficient manu. peared in answer to a charge of failing to" the present industrial situation. Lord ferred was me to increase the Penions of factures. It is hardly necessary to add attend a compulsory parade to which hu A-kwith tells us that there are many other Civil Servants who had retirer. The that talking alone will ner achieve this had been summoned on May 23rd.. there pute, equally as big as the dispute of Chancellor refused the request, but he object. We need in Prace the national being a further, charge of a sirailar th miners, going on, or just coming on

was cacerned to know whether the House leadership and organisation that we had asture in respect of June 27th. if Caramona would support him as the in the War, and the country, now In this case also the judzment went and many får higeer dispate, looming inf the near future fir describas verity memorial was signed by half the members that it is beginning to realise the gainst the MSB authorities. Mr. a degradation of Government, the spec of the House and the member who brought gravity of the economic and financia! Pryde diamissing the arres against tale of the Prime Minister coming back it to him said that he believed he could position, will look to the Government for Private French on the ground that there from acting as the representative of the have got it signed by the whole of them an early pronouncement of a national seno proof that defendant was summon. greatest Empire known in history, at

ed to the parades. (Continued at joot of next column.)' policy and strong leadership: