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ANNOUNCEMENT.

conclusion of the report" is that thero in still, notwithstanding the heavy migration; a surplus of la bour in Industrial South Wales. It la estimated that there la o sur-

DAY BY DAY

The Ban Line B. Benmohr, from Homo via Straits and Manila, is due here on October 5th.

IF YOU WISH A SINCERE, FAITHFUL plus of at least 80,000 men in AND LOYAL, FRIEND, YOU MUST YOUR coalmining, and of 5,000 ar 6,000 BELE FIRST GIVE OF YOUR FRIEND. in transport, with other consider- SHIP. able surpluses in iron and steel, among deck workors and ship re- pairers; and no the general popu- lation is declining there is also a

Members of the Hongkong inter surplus in the building and fur-port lawn bowls team returned from Shanghai by the Empress of Russia nishing trades. The total Bur-

to-day. plus is probably well over 70,000. "But if a substantial number of the miners," says the report, "And alternative occupation within the region, and if a number of wo- men, who formerly would not have thought of entering indus- try, take up paid employment

within the region, then a renew-

ed demand will be created for the

inbour of transport workers and others. formerly dependent upon the activity of the coal industry. The surplus available for new in-1 dustries and services, if develop- ment takes place, is perhaps in the neighbourhood of 40,000. The surplus to be transferred, if decay continues, wa shall not attempt to estimate." The problem is com- plicated by the fact that owing to the increase of births in the

A BLACK YEAR BUT-

By MAJOR H. L. NATHAN, M.P.

rt la almost exactly a year since) "Vory bad" in written on every of National Government came paragraph of the Ministry Into existence to save the nation. Labour Gazette, which is concern-

ed with the position of the main- Has it saved it?

Judged by the ordinary tasts, industries in the North and Mid- our economic and industrial posl-lands. Here are a few extracts, it was a year ago, tion is substantially worse than

Unemployment has

"In the iron-mining Industry employment showed a slight. decline and was very bad." "In the pig-iron industry, em- ployment showed a decline and was very bad.” "In the engineering industry employment showed a slight decline and was very bad," "Employment in the hosiery trade showed little change and remained slack,"

increased. The August figures are not yet available, but the figures for the.

show end of July of this year that there were 2,811,782 unėm- ployed. In August last year there were 2,733,782 out of work. To The Rav. Fr. D. J. Finn will give the acknowledged increnae must an address on "Queries of an anti-be added those who have quary in Hongkong" on October 7 at off the Regiator of Unemployed 8.15 p.m. in the Union Assembly Hall, by reason of the Anomalies Act Hongkong Univeralty Union.

and Intor legislation, to Buy

So it goes on. Every prosaic nothing of scores of thousands of statement could be made a flaming unemployed black-coated workers poster against the crass stupidity who appear on no register of un-of the gamble in Protection, employment. But far more than Railways.

Mr. W. C. Felshow will speak on "Is Theosophy Now Religion" at the usual weekly lecture of the Hongkong Lodge, The Theosophical Society, 17,

Queen's Rond to-day at 6 p.m.

Amongst tho passengere who arrived by the Empress of Russia this morning were Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. A. Hyde Lay, Mr. D. M. Goodall, and Mr. R. E.

Coxon.

years immediately following the ember 16. One man selzed her

The development of new indus.

over.

worse.

come

creep-

Mr. Hore-

an extra two or three hundred The decline in railway receipts, thousand unemployed is involved evident for some years, has been In these figures. They were con- in the last few months acecle- sidered not only quite unprece-rated. Passenger receipts for the also overwhelmingly current year are down by £84 dented but burdensome.

millions or 7% por cent, com- Last year we regarded two and pared with the corresponding three quarter million unemployed period last year, while there is a as an unprecedented figure. We decline in goods receipts' of £51⁄4' An offence committed almost a attributed it not merely to the millions or 0% per cent. year ago was recalled before Mr. world situation, but to specia! The Counterclaim. Wynne-Jones at the Central Polico causes peculiar to ourselves, like Court this morning when a Chinese our unbalanced Budget and à That is the dismal record of six was charged with larceny from the Government apparently unwilling months of tariffs. What can be person of a Chinese woman of a gold to take the

Wah Leo

necessary steps to offset against It? bangle valued at $31 in Lano on December 16 last. Detective balance it. Those special causes Bolisha, when challenged in the Inspector J. Murphy intimated that have been removed, and still the House of Commons to state the number of man that had been put the complainant was stopped in Wah unemployment figures are Lee Lane at 8 p.m. on the night of ing to the three million mark and into employment in now Industries coming into the country as a re- another relieved her of the We have changed our doctors, sult of tariffs, had to admit that bangle. The defendant was standing but our war, the number of children leav-close by keeping a watch for the

pain is only growing in actual fact they did not exceed

3,700. ing school and entering the labour police. His Worship pointed out the

We have undergone the surgi- It is not a question of making seriousness of the offence to the de-

of cal operation of tariffs, but it has up on the roundabouts what we The marriage has been arranged and market will be exceptionally large fendant and passed sentence

done nothing but harm. Our have lost on the swings. Practi- twelve months hard labour. will shortly take place, between in 1933, 1934, and 1935. Geoffrey, Edward Ross younger

volumo of trade has shrunk. Our cally speaking, there is no return. son of the late Mr. John Roas

imports in August, 1931, werent nll from the roundabouts. Divett of

Last month thay £65,261,086. 97, Enton Square, trics is seen to be one of the neces-

Scarcely anywhere in there a London and Mrs. M. B. Cuning-

were £61,021,493. Our exports in crumb of comfort. The Budget August, 1931, were £32,986,969; seems to have been balanced on last month they were down by the basis of unemployment being £400,000. We may have achieved stabilised at about 2,500,000. It a reduction in the amount (though has not been down to that figure be it noted, not in the percent-once since the Budget was intro- of duced. That means B further age) of our adverse balance trade, but we have at the same strain on a revenue already de- time diminished the amount of pleted by the fact that income tax trade that there is to balance, and surtax are now being levied Coal.

in respect of years of acute de- The trade figures examined inpression. detail reveal even more depress-Unrest. 24.2 ing results. Tariffs have dealt a

Industrial unrest that was not staggering blow at some of our a factor in the situation last year chief industries. The con figures is breaking out again in all its this month, even allowing for the tragic futility. There is a strike effect of the cessation of exports in the shipyards at Falmouth, and to the Irish Free State, are truly following on the cotton stoppage. appalling. On August 22, 1931, there were 822,300 men employed; threatened with a breakdown, and at Burnley, all Lancashire Is on August 6 of this year the there is talk of a busmen's 'strike number had fallen to 783,000, in London. while in the corresponding period the output of the mines has fallen from 4,242,800 tons to 2,505,000 tony.

hame of Southampton, England. sitles of the situation. In their and Eileen Margaret, younger absence, decay will continue, and daughter of the late Mr. Ninian

BIRTIL.

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

Adair and Mrs. Adair of Tientsin, some of the region's equipment in China,

docks and railways, warehouses,

The following table issued by shops, hotels and houses will be-the Kwangtung River Conservancy redunant, Commission ahows the height of more and more whilst in other parts of the coun-water in English feet on the dates and named in the West, North try money will be spent upon new East Rivers:

houses, roads, new docks, new

ROXBURGH! At the War Memorial Hospital, 29th September, 1932, to Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Roxburgh, a daughter,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1982.

AN INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM

come

Bhighing

包

Highest on Leweel Seat, Sept-

recard. on record. 21

+-41.7

28

28.4

Q

14,3

16.0

16.5

-

.. +15.0

-2.4

4.5

6.0

new drainage and so on. A de- West River at liberate effort to secure the intro-North Itiver at

Telnrysen+427 duction of new industries into the North River at

Bamshul +27.3 region, remarks the report, "is not East River at

Shehlung only desirable on sentimental or compassionate grounds, but is justifiable as a sound measure of public economy."

Jockey Club Case.

It is unfortunato that the Stewards of the Jockey Club,

CORRESPONDENCE,

Appeal to the League

[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

which are

SUGAR MARKET

for

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS

Shipping.

But Here Are Rays of Hope.

The only hope in the industrial situation is that so many people think that there is hope. While British trade has deterio- rated, British psychology has improved. There is less de- featism to-day.

The British people-little thanks

to the National Government--is . now seeing our problems in n truer perspective and is recover- ing its nerve,

will to recovery evidenced by

of the splendid success

the Conversion Loon is a potent factor in prosperity, The right psychology cannot pro- duce prosperity, but prosperity cannot come without it.

Yet it would be unwise to blink ship-facts. Though the popular view may be right that the tide is now on the turn, judged by every

All the heavy industries record | objective test it is further out

the same tale ofwoe.

now than it was a year ago.

Equally steep is Britain's de- cline in shipping. Lloyd's Re- One of the districts most ad- when announcing the disqualifice». Sir, I wish to thank all who gister Book issued last month versely affected by the industrial tion of Champagne Bay and the have communicated with me in shows the greatest decrease in depression in the United Kingdom suspension of the jockey, Dr.

connexion with the proposed ap-tonnage of any country in the peal to the Longue.

world. In Great Britain and Ire- is South Wales, from which, with- L. Reidy, did not also disclose the The letter to the Secretary-Gen- land it WAR 631,230 tons. In in a period of ten years, nearly a grounds upon which the protest eral has been sent to-day, support-other great shipbuilding countries, Other signatures like the U.S.A. and Germany, it quarter of a million of people, re- was lodged. The hush-hush policy ed by 60 names.

to hand, and was 95,000 and 89,000 tons re-The presenting over twelve per cent. adopted has had the opposite to have since come

the desired effect; Publie curio- these will be forwarded by ordin-spectively. Our tonnage is now 80 much in excess of what is re- of the population, have migrated.sity has been stimulated; the im-ury mail. Unemployment has risen in the pression has been given that the will, with your permission, be

Any reply which is received quired that a proposal is made by n Sunderland shipping firm in the [area from about 5 per cent of the Jockey Club wishes to conceal the communicated to the press.

Times of August 22 that a de- finite number of vessels of 20 years |insured workpeople to nearly 32 facts. In consequence, every en-

E. L. ALLEN.

old and over should be scrapped per cent. The total number of couragement has been given to the

by agreement among the workpeople insured against un- circulation of rumours regarding

owners every year. heavily, the. riding, rumours employment has fallen

Heavy Industries. but the fall has taken place possibly very wide of the truth. It is obvious, perhaps, that Dr. amongst men workers whilst the

Reidy was not suspended number of insured women has twelve months for a purely techni risen considerably. Those are cal breach of rules, but, at the some of the striking facts emerg- same time, it might still be in the ing from the "Industrial Survey" real interest of the rider if the carried out by the University of authenticated facts of the in South Wales and Monmouthshire cidont which occurred were pub- from on behalf of the Government. [lished. Apart altogether

this particular and unfortunate In South Wales, economic pros-

case, sufcient criticism has been pority dopends mainly upon

lovelled against racing in Hong- heavy industries, contmining and

kong to demand that when the iron and steel. The principal Stewards of the Jockey Club do cause of the decline revealed intake disciplinary action, the full-

New York Terminals." the survey is the depression inent publicity should be given to

September 1932 these industries. How they have the circumstances. Visitors como December 1932 1.08 up 3. pts.

March 1933 1.03 up 2 pts. been affected by the prevailing to Hongkong, go to the races and

May 1933 1.07 up 2 pts. economic crisis is illustrated by when they arrivo elsewhore pass

July 1038 1.11 op 2 pts. exceedingly disparaging remarks the unemployment figures. The about riding in this Colony. The

Caban 90°-Spot N. Y. 1.15 up 2 pts. general increase in unemployment, racing public in Hongkong London (28/9/32).-Cuban Raws stated above, is from an frequently voices the complaint 96. C.I.F. Hongkong Shanghai, average of 5 per cent in 1923 to that it does hot feel' assured of a October November shipment, we over 31 por cont in 1930. But in fair deal. Bumping and boring is quota 6/1% per cwt. the principal industrial groups the all too common and there seems increase la staggering nearly 26 no necessity for the looking round

the

The following cable at the close of the sugar market yesterday has been received by Messrs. Pen- treath and Co.

London Terminals. December 1932 5/10 up 140. March 1933 6/- up 1d May 1933 6/21⁄2 up ld August 1933 6/5% up 1%d Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-%d more.

that goes on. The public docs backers of the declared winner, por cunt in coalmining, over 60 not want examples made. But it but there is prohibition of open per cent in Iron and steel, over 68 desires to feel that if it backs a activity by bookmakers and this per cont in tinplato manufacture, starter, it is going to have a fair difficulty does not, therefore, ap and 15 per cent in the distributive chance of winning. One action pear. The backer to-day rightly trades. Over half the insured which might provide a useful step feels disgruntled if his "fancy" is population in the area was at the in this, direction is the abolition pushed out of drst place by a beginning of the period employed of the "pay out on first past the borso subsequently. disqualified poet" rule. It is an illogical rule and his money goes to the sup- in conimining: in 1980 the pro-and it is unnecessary. The oxis-porters of the delinquent. In portion (of a much smaller total tence of "bookies" might compli- other words, the Augean stables of insured workers) had fallan to sate the handling of bets on a wys might improve with a little clean- less than 48 por cent. The broad item which, unsures grandes Warmesine-up in amanda digestions

He treats the terribl