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TYRANTS AND TRAITORS.

THE SUFFERING OF THE WEAK.

Harold Begbie writes in the Daily Chronicle thus:-

A fairly intimate acquaintance with the chief industrial centres of Great Britain convinces me that the number of revolutionists' in these islands is very small;".

moral revolutionists, all these

COMPANY REPORT.

THE DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMBI LTD.

The repart for presentation to the | shareholders at the thirty-sixth Ordinary General Meeting of the Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd, on Saturday, 27th September, states.

The General Managers beg to súb- mit to the shareholders their report on the thirty-sixrth year's working of the Company, ending 30th June, 1919.

After paying all running expenses, docking charges, premis of insur ance, bonus to officers of steamers and making provision for the amount due to H. M. Government on the working of steamers under the Hongkong Liper Requisition Scheme, the amount at credit of sake of the fanity of a few im-Profit and Loss account is: $999.-1 good and honourable people will32.39, out of which an interim divi- dend of 6%, absorbing $80,000, was be plunged into ruin.

paid in May last, and subject to the SO-CALLED "WAGE SLAVES." The revolutionist is fond of approval of shareholders, it is pro describing the employer as a posed to appropriate the balance of tyrant. He likes to call the work-$239,322.59, as follows:- man a "wage-slave," although To pay a Final Dividend be, knows very well that these wages slaves," are absolutely free to exchange one employer for another, one district of the country for another, and even the country itself for any other part of the world.

But I am also convinced that that the apathy of the multitude is so considerable that oven a smaller body of determined revo lutionists might be able to bring about, if only for a brief, time, such an upheaval in the industrial workman: and under any con- world as would almost amountceivable form of Socialism the to anarchy.

The clerk in the Civil Service is. of course, less free than the

he much longer permits the revolutionist to direct his con- science, will come to be the greatest tyrant. who has ever existed in the history of mån..

There is no human action can be separated from moral con- siderations,

and industry is perhaps more closely interwoven with ethics than any other factor in the national life..

workman could not possibly No builder in this country can enjoy the same degree of freedom say at preseent "I will build a which now exists under the pre- certain type of vessel for "sosent conditions of individualism. much." Fluctuations in the He is not a "wage slave"; and prices of raw materials and the if one of his masters should be cost of labour make that impos-tyrannical he can throw up his sible.

service and go to another employ- Prior to the war, writes our er. But the workman himself, if northern shipping crrespondent. the average cost of a cargo tramp steamer was somewhere between £5 and 6 per ton, whereas at present it works out at between £25 and £30 per ton. The present system is to construct a vessel on terms that assure the builders a certain percentage of profit. As a rule, 10 per cent, and the purchaser does not know what his ship will cost him until the whole is, completed and the final expenses are reckoned up.

Obviously, these conditions cannot continue, and very soon those who require ships will not be in such an urgent need for new tonnage as to concede the builders what is nothing more or less than carte blanche with their orders.

Looking abroad. we find that labour is cheaper in Japan than in this country, and that our Eastern rivals are rapidly extend- ing their facilities for output: so that they may ultimately prove a serious menace to this country's success in the market.

Scarcely a day goes by but brings me letters from unknown correspondents in different parts of England, suggesting that I should bring before the working classes of the country the suffer ings of the writere, many of whom belong to the working classes, and all of whom are certainly in poorer circumstances than those enjoyed at the present time by a first-class

mechanic.

Every workman is either a good or a bad servant of the State. If he does.his best at his work, if in all his actions and and decisions he is mindful of other people, if he is unselfish and temperate, a wise' parent, and a peaceful citizen, then he is a good servant of the State; but if he does not work as well as he might work, if he is careless as to the welfare of other members of the community, if he does not exercise his brain and his con- science in deciding all political and industrial questions, then he is a bad citizen; and indignant loquence on the subject of his rights" is so much disgusting hypocrisy.

COWARDLY ACTION," Does the workman realise that the present extremists in the trade union movement are fast making him both a tyrant and

traitor?

Does he realise that to with-

told his labour at a time when great masses of the world are suffering from something in the nature of famine is the cowardly. action of a tyrant?

And does he realise that to

These correspondents are either women or old men who have done their duty to the family and the State, and are now struggling, hold up the industries of this before they go hence, to keep country when Great Britain is head above water on their poor staggering under a most appalling savings or their little pensions.urden of debt is the action of a They have no means whatever of adding to their incomes. The day has gone by when they could earn money. In many cases the day has gone by when they could even wait upon themselves.

traitor?

There are, of course, & number

of revolutionists who have banish- ed morality from their thinking, and who even go so far as to express contempt for Eng- THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HIT.

land in the high excitement In one case recently brought to of an: _economic cosmopoli- my knowledge, a girl handsomely tanism.. I have met a few of employed in London and with ex- these people; I have been amused cellant prospects before her, has, by their inordinate vanity and been obliged to give up her wages, their inexhaustible, ignorance; and sacrifice her career, in order and I know one or two of them, to return to the country and there very active just now in striving wait upon an invalid mother, secretly to foment a revolution, who, up to this point, has been to be rather trivial cowards, nobly struggling to support her- threatening all sorts of terrors at self and a blind" sister on the one moment and running away scrapings of a lifetime, but has directly those they would intimi now fallen into so great a state of date stand up to them. weakness that she is physically helpless.

It is surely impossible to be- lieve that тел Bo contemptible │" There are number of such peo- and so ridiculous and so immoral ple as these in Great Britain; will be able to demoralise the and numbers of others who happy, cheerful, sporting, and through no fault of their own and just-minded working men of these no fault of the community, "areislands, who have shown all the able to earn only a very small other nations of the world that wage; and numbers of others real revolutions can be brought who, having faithfully served the about without violence, and that State in various parts of the Em: changes affecting the whole field pire, suffering in their absence of industrial and political life can from home a poignant separation

created by constitutional from their children, ara now living on the fixed income of a pension only adequate to their circumstances when times are normal.

To all these seople every strike - which seriously affects the cost of commodities 18 ́s disaster of great magnitude.” “But if strikes

to be prolonged, and British His to be held up for the

be

means.

THE ONE DANGER. 7

The one danger lies in the apathy of the working classes. A few wicked egoists in Yorkshire and elsewhere are striving in secret, and behind various cloaks, to overturn the whole fabrio of British life. Their intention is war. The Government will of course, prepare for this war" it

of 6% (83 per share) ...$ 50,000.00 |

€0,000.00

To pay a Bonus of 5% (83 To write off from the value

per share)

of the Company's Steam- ers and Properties To place to credit of the

Reserve Fund ̧.

To place to credit of Un-

derwriting Account

51,322.59

25,000.00

$0,000.00

$239,322,50

from Government Requisition on The S.S. "Haiyang" was released

3rd December, 1918, and S.S. "Hai- ching' on 17th February, 1810, both; steamers had to undergo an extca-; sive overhaul after their strenuous work of the last 20 months. The 5.S. "Hai Hong" and "Haitan"] came off Hoogkong Government] control early this year. The charter- ed S.S. Quinnebang is running satisfactorily.

CONSULTING COMMITTEE:— The Hon. Mr. David Landale and Mr. A. O. Lang resigned on leaving the Colony and Mr. William Adamson also resigned, their place being filled by Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar and Mr. W. E. Clarke who comprise the Committee and now retire but offer themselves for re-election.

AUDITORS.-The Accounts for have been sudited by Mr. A. E. the year to 31st December, 1918,

Lowe and Mr. C.. Bernard Brown and for the second half year to 30th Jane, 1919, by Mr. E.-A. M. Williams and Me Frank Maitland. Messrs. Lowe and Brown now retire but ofer themselves for re-election.

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