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MODIFY THE CENSORSHIP
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We revert to the 'question of the censorship of the Chinese (DB-1762) press because it is abundantly clear that the system has been
in
for operated which there can be no justifica-. tion, covering, as it does, matters which do not bear the slightest It relation to political issues. will be recalled that during the Council debate on the subject, the Government spokesman took the stand that the censorship is neces- sary on the ground that control is required in respect of news and comment bearing on Chin- ese politics, in order that good relations with China should not be jeopardised. Mr. Forrest went even further, when he de-
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French Revolution Without Tears
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HE French," re- marked interest" to Charles Dickens a century
ago, are revolutionary and always at it."
After a hundred years, it still servos the purpose of "monied Interest" to describe the French that way, when-as now-they are making history.
The truth is that without blood- shed and without anger they have undertaken and carried through a revolution. Without tampering for an instant with France's demo- cratic constitution they have raised the material and moral standards of an entire class-that of the Industrial workers.
of France's forty-two million people, half work. All but a few of the rest are too old or too young. Then there are nearly a million who can find no work.
BINCE THE WAR, the Frenchman's way of living has become * steadily worse. Blowly, but irresistibly, the town worker's meni mallon has been halved, while the country and out--" of-town worker. has been reduced to practically no ment at all.
His clothing has had to last for longer and longer perlods unti often he has been reduced to rags, while boats have sometimes be- come an unattainable luxury.
His greatest privation, however. has been in the matter of lodging and firing, Hundreds of thousands of French town-workers live in tuberculosis-infested slum-dwell- ings that have been condanned by Health Inspector for twenty years. They live there, sometimes geven and eight in a room, with perhaps one small bed-either because they cannot afford anything belter or because there is nothing better to be had.
Coal is usually beyond the range of the working man's purse, sa when winter is upon, him he goes to bed out of working hours and stays there.
In 1930 the workers in the metal And textile industries struck in the North, North-West and in the East. The next year was tho beginning of a disastrous period.
A LONG CAMPAIGN for a reduc-
tion in the cost of living
(lt_did__not..... secm. 10. occur to anyone to try to raise the means of purchasing) decided the Government to take action.
Tardieu and men of his stamp- all of them have been since utterly
·To-day's Thought-
JF it be possible, as much as Beth in you, live praceably with all men.
-NEW TESTAMENT.
by JACK SANDFORD
"DAILY HERALD" PARÍS CORRESPONDENT
"AN IRRESISTIBLE WAVE OF ENTHUSIASM.”
discredited-set about attacking wages as the source of most evils" and in particular as the cause of the high cost of living.
By cutting into the salaries of elvil servants, they gave the agreed signal to private employers that the moment had come when they might slash wages without fear of - Interference. Promptly wagen
came crashing down.
The first of a series of cuts reduced the average wago of male workers in the Paris region by slx per. cent. At the same time, the women suffered terribly.
Paris clothing workers Jast Lwenty per cent. of their wages in one operation, while down in Laval's-country-the-Jaco-workers- were carning no more than a·· shiling a day on full time.
The women who wind silk off cocoons in the Ardèche, skilled work, were given one and six a day. Those who tolled on the land in the "Brandy Country" had one ment As well as one and fourpence a day. The stambn of the mercantile, marine lost thirty per cent, of their wages--when they had any wages to cut:
the general run of workers fared little better, The weavers and the unskilled labourers suffered cruelly and the unrest of the preceding "year redoubled.
Strikes broke out everywhere, but now it was not to increase wages; it was to defend them.
No money was spent-there was none to spend. Trade wilted; bank- rupteles became more numerous than ever before. Unemployment, practically unknown in France .since the war, began to loom.
THERE WAS NO provision for the unemployed. Those who lind relatives on the land drifted back to the farms, where they lived on fainly charity since there was no work for them in the fields either.
And all this time the big finan- elers with the Bank of France at their head were shouting for more and more economy, demanding new cuts in State expenditure on the threat of cutting off supplies. Craven ministers obeyed the com- mind of the "Two Hundred Fami- s" and paved the way for lles' These were the worst cases, but yesterday's bloodless revolution.
BULLS AND INNERS
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A man arrested for trespassing "Depression Poker" has
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of public danger," which will CHATER ROAD. continue "until a definitely stable.
Government exists in China." Incidentally, we, dispute the in- ference that because the Kwang- si trouble has not yet been ad- justed, a state of “public danger" exists in this Colony. We also quarrel with the implication that the present Chinese administrá tion is not a stable Government. The existing regime in Nanking is without question, the most Abolition"? Or, to take an in- stable that China has enjoyed stance involving no controversial for many years: its authority is issue, but which merely concern- more widespread and its writed a local stabbing incident, on runs throughout a greater part what possible grounds of public of the country than at any time policy could objection be taken to during the life of the Republic. | publication of the names of the Suggestions to the contrary not parties involved? Examples such in a man-hole in search of gold eently come to Hongkong. In only conflict with the facts, but, as these give some idea of the dust, was naturally found gilty. spite of its name, we understand at a time when Anglo-Chinese omnibus powers, of the censors, friendship is being sedulously powers which go far beyond the fostered, can hardly be consider-grounds upon which the Govern- ed as diplomatic. So much by ment defends the necessity of evacuated from the Island to the were way of parenthesis. Mr. Lo, in the censorship. Our view, which Mainland. Ruther a come-down | Tuesday.” Now they'll have to his speech on Wednesday, cited we have already stated, is that, for Penkites. instances in which the censorship in these normal times, complete had been enforced on matter freedom should be restored to the quite distinct from Chinese poli- Chinese press, for, as wo show-with tics, even to the extent of suped in our comments on Thurs-business is a censor proportion. pression of an article comment-day, there is ample provision in
O ing on the recent Council debate the existing laws to deal with on the cost of Government in any abuse of privilege. But if
Auntie Cyclone thinks that the Kiosk being built for the Travel Hongkong. Even more striking the Government still adheres to Association, will be a place where the examples of excised the view that some measure of she will be able to buy soft drinkė,
A politician recently stated that matter to which we gave public control is needed, we suggest|
most people pass through life; ity yesterday. What possible that such control should be con-
A lady reader wants to know without a policy, A number justification, for example, can be fined exclusively to news and what it means to dream about of Hongkong people only realised claimed for the suppression of a comment relating to Chinese pheasants, Probably that sho's this after the recent typhoon. hendline dealing with the censor politics, thereby freeing the ver-game.
O { ship debate which read: "The nacular newspapers from irksome Portuguego Representative, Mr. Interference in regard to mat- Bragu, To Support Mr. Lo: Theters which should be no concern Chinci Representativo, Mr. T.|'whatover of officialdom. N. Clinu. to Oppone, Motion for
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According to a contemporary, "The now stamps exemplify the prevailing demand in art coicles for simplicity." In other words, real wolks of art!
We sympathise with the lady who slept on a picco of wedding cake overnight and slipped on it in the morning..
The workern waited for 1930, and when election time conte they acized the opportunity and swept Leon Blum, the Socialist leader, to power on an irresistible wave of enthusiasm.
They chose no dictator, but a man whom they trusted to repre- sent them and attend to their burning needs.
The realisation by the workers. that
they had, by constitutional means, won the upper hand was, I. believe, the main cause of relens- ing the greatest spontaneous, un- organised strike movement in Industrial history.
Beginning with the engineering workers of Paris, it spread through all the industries and all the regions of France. The workers. felt that they were giving impetus to the work of the Government they had appointed.
THEY DID NOT want political re- volution: they wanted better conditions in the existing order of Unngs.
An overwhelming majorly of the strikers belonged neither to unde unlons nor to political parties and their action was in obediener to neither pollient or trade unica discipline.
In occupying the factores, they wete, according to the cumproyers, acting legally. But beestele movement was not political tapır action stopped at the occupation of the factories.
Nothing was wrecked. no pre- perly was harmed. No attempt was made to retain possession of the factories for political ends.
The
political maturity moderation shown by the stekkers was, on this occasion, reflected by most of the employers. They do clared that they had never seen their
$12 establishments
such smart condition, and they made no attempt to have the men ex- pelled. Within forty-eight hours- they had granted all the de- imands of most of the first 100,000 strikers.
ing.
But the strike was spreading fast and the enemies of the new Government went about whisper- What a terrible plight! " "Leon Blum neither abdicated nor betrayed the workers. He did what no other Erench Premier had been able to do: he brought together the biggest employers' organisa- tion and the biggest workers' or- gantsation for the first time in his- tory,
AND HE SAW TO IT that they did not separate until they had reached and signed 1.1
Their agreement. agreement, with the signature; of France's first Socialist Premier at the bottom, not only improves the material situation of between eight and ten million, workers, but it raises the prestige, self-confidence and diguity of the French worker to a point hitherto only dreamed of.
It gives him a standing and a backing that seem heavon-sent after centuries of victimisation. It stipulates that no employer may discriminate against a workman on account of his beliefs or trade union membership.
It enda for ever the maleficent practices of those employers of the Comité des Forges who, in Eastern France, had a secret method of hounding a trade union man out of industry.
The method was to use a certain, seemingly harmless, form of words In the statutory certificate of inbour that must be produced by As any man seeking a new job. soon as this was recognised, the men were told that there was no work for them.
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The agreement prevents ployers aide-tracking their men Into the powerless "associations" favoured in place of properly con- stituted unions. It provides for collective agreements giving un- dreamed of guarantees of fair play and It providen for the appointment of shop stewards to represent the men in the day- to-day dimculties that arise botween employers and their workers.
THE MEN NOW HAVE the law be- hind them, and to make all safe they are pouring into the trade unions
by thousands. French trade union membership has already phased the peak gure of 1921, and is still forging ahead.
Wages are to creased by varying amounts, and starvation The eight- wages ere to cease. hour day is a fact, and with it the annual holiday with pay-so much more leisure, and a break in the year's toll for the first time in the ilfe of most French workers. And of course, more work for the un- employed.
No, France needs no Hitler,
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