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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1937,

THE GROUPING OF NATIONS

W

All these strikes are

a

sign of better

times

by

FRANK OWEN

In July a thousand engineers

And that fellow has got some ·

at Whitehead Torpedo Works, arguments on his elde. Thero Weymouth, struck.

ARE profits, and big profits, now

Austin Motors had 9,000 on being made out of Britain's re- strike in November.

armament. Mr. Baldwin said

Higher wages was the general there wouldn't be, but he doesn't demand.

know everything, or how to do it.

ᎪᎢ

T the beginning of this

ycar A. V. Ros and. I DON'T BAY that the Co. had 150 fitters out. Their

factory owners are pro- complaint was against the fiteering, though I trust that "speed-up," introduced in many they are not losing money. They factorles because firms had fallen are up against a serious factor in behind schedule for arms de- the rising cost of raw materials. livery.

The price of zinc is double Then Boulton and Paul Air- what it was twelve months ago. HY all these strikes? tancy" reached its peak in the

General Strike, though unem craft Co. at Wolverhampton had Lead fetched £16 105. per ton Strikes have come

the 500 men strike for a 25 per cent. then, £31 15s, now. back in fashion, like the ployment persisted still

members of the big unions did increase in wages.

Copper was worth £36 108, per short skirts. We thought both

pretty well.

At the Rolls-Royce works, ton; to-day it is sold at £72 10s. had gone out in the late twenties.

They could afford to kick up Derby, 270 grinders preparing Spelter? £15 128. Gd., Now we are treated to stay- in strikes, sit-down strikes, stop out strikes. Miners are striking again: London's busmen have started a strike in time to create a Coronation chaos. Most al arming of all, Britain's great armament industry threatens to squabble between boss and work-

become the battlefield

man.

of a

"solidarity" too.)

48.

a year ago.

a row and walk out every now the precision tools downed their against £33 168. at present. Tin? and then: 1929, 1930, 1931 put own tools and brought 4,000 £213, as against £296.

a standstill. Sugar, vital for munitions, 69. an end to all that. Trade dwin- other workers.to died, wages dropped, trade union The grinders carned £3 148. per 9. per hundredweight to-day. contributions fell off, and mem- week, and they wanted another It was 4s. 10d.

ten shillings.

Wheat has risen from 6s. per bership fell away.

The years of the National At Fairey Aviation Works, 100lbs. to 10s. Government have been years of Hayes, Middlesex, the "Gring" of Of course, the demand has. industrial pence, not from any a fitter brought a thousand men driven up the price. So have the merit of their own, but simply out. (That incident shows grow- speculators. Those gentry have because Labour could not afford ing "militancy" all right, and "cleaned up," and are "cleaning to fight.

up," pretty extensively, the In the discussions which are

At the present moment 2,000

pests. taking place with regard to the engineers of Beardmore's Park- possible conclusion of new un-hend Forge, Glasgow, are "out."

a boom, even thought

and publicists of the nice mess of the wheat market at derstandings in Europe, with a They are demanding another it is attended by considerable kind who look under the bed this very moment. It is the spe view to preserving pence, a sug-penny an hour. Their wages unemployment has changed the every night in case poor old culators, and not the agitators gestion has been made that now are 63s. a week, so they situation once again.

Joseph Stalin should be hiding who are the real "sabotagers." want 678. The employers say. The arms programme has put there see the Red Hand of Mos-

Just as

I write this there Germany is becoming less an-

No!

a premium on the services of cow in all this.

comes a communication on the tagonistic towards Russia, and

The Amalgamated Engineer- skilled workers.

Especially na it is taking place strike moverment from the Com that she might welcome # ing Union, powerful body a quar-

The result isin politics, in the arms industry, though, in munist Party addressed to all friendly agreement with the ter of a million strong, with a Cripps; in industry, strikes. fact, Moscow is only too happy newspapera. Soviet. At the moment, it is treasury of £2,000,000, are keep- In March 1936 engineers at to hear that Britain is going to Cutting out the bank there's difficult to discover any definite ing discreetly out of the way, De Havilland Aircraft Co. walk- be so strong that no tinpot dicta- less of that than usual-these tor in Europe will spit in our fearsome firebrands are asking- indications of such a develop-hoping that the thing will settle ed out.

In May 1,300 workers at direction in future.

for what? ment, but the view has been

It they recognise the strike Handley Page works at Crickle- I see no mysterious clenched Higher wages to compensate- expressed that the war of words as "official" they'll have to dip wood staged a lightning strike. foreign fist in these strikes. In- for higher cost of living, holidays between the two countries can-into that war chest, and probra- In June 300 men at Parnall stead I recognise the outstretch- with pay, and decent retiring not continue indefinitely, as they bly not only for the Beardmore Aircraft Co., Yate, Gloucester- ed palm of the well-known Bri- pensions for the old servants of

tish workman."

industry. The boys. For the rest of the en- shire, came out. really lead nowhere. speeches both of Nazi leaders gineers in the country will say "We're in this, too, we all want and Russian spokesmen scarcely pennies from Heaven," and then encourage the hope of an early we'll have a real strike on our

THE boom-for there is SOME of the politicians Their operations are making a

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often disappears with the pass- age-of-time, with the result

STRIKES are a sign of prosperity. Workers

WHAT THEY SAY

Give me a newborn child, and In

Dr. George A. Dorsey.

-Christopher Morley.

It is not that I mind the jungle so much, for the jungle is cleaner than Mayfair has often been.

Dr. F. W. Norwoood.

*

The best way to gain a good edu-

-Henry Ford.

Referees need to be men of Iron. C. E. Sutclife, President of the Football League.

The

great majority of people. though they have perfectly good brains, do not in the least know how to use them. We neglect our brains just as we neglect our limbs.

-Hubert Phillips.

When a woman's plain she's always told she has beautiful eyes or beauf!- ful hair.

-Chelcou

I appeal to the young men of this parish to marry girls living in it.

-Rev. B. P. T. Jenkins, Vicar of St. Mary's, Sanderstead,

If people give me what I ask that is their look-out.

-A pediar fined recently.

12

Croydon

The lips should be as cloon as pos- rible to the transmitter mouthpiece -almost touching it. If you speak

A child has no natural appetite for smoking, and if he smokes It is be- cause he wants to be grown up.

A. S. Neill, Headmaster, Supimer-clearly it is rarely necessary to speak

hill School.

+

The country child knows less about | birds than the lown child.

that history records many in-will not lightly endanger their ten years I can have him so scared cation is to read newspapers. stances in which former enemies weekly wages if times are bad. he'll never dare to lift his volee above have become firm friends. The When wage cuta, heavy un-a whisper, or so brave that hell fear policy both of Germany and of employment and mass distress nothing. Italy is, without question, to are the order of the day-no make kick from the principal victims. create

and

There is only one rule for being a contacts

When slump descends upon in- good talker: learn to listen. friendships wherever they can,dustry men are more concerned in order to keep as many Powers to find a job than to chuck one. as possible out of any potential It is not Despair that makes combination against the Nazi-revolutions, but Hope. Fascist partnership. Germany When trade picks up and pro- has thus far falled to induce fits rise, and there is a call for more of Labour's services, ah, France to renounce her

pact

then Labour feels its strengthway from Rome, Italy, or some place She writes to me every day all the with Russia, but it is conceiv-and develops the desire to use just to tell me how she's getting able, when the matter is viewed its power.

along, a woman would do that, from another angle, that she Then the worker says, "1 she's worth fighting for.

Max Baer: |might draw the sting from that

agreement by effecting

"There is a very thin dividing line rapprochement of her own with

between the man dispersing justice and those recolving It.". Moscow. It is not so muny

Alderman J. Toole, Lord Mayor years ago that the Soviet stood

of Manchester. in a position of complete isola- tion from the rest of the world, but she has since then contrived to make herself diplomatically respectable in the eyes of most nations. Whilst the tendency nowadays,, in international life, is for nations of the same ideology to get together, it Then Mr. Lord-President-of- is clear

that Blasting the Council Ramsay MacDonald, Viscount Snowdon (as he was peace can be built on parti- to become), anti Mr. J. H. sanship. Thus it is evident Thomas performed regularly on

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want MY share of the profits, aand, what's more, I'm now in al

position to exact it."

So you get a rise in the indus- trial temperature, or what the long-haired, lop-eared social! theorists call "an increase in labour militancy."

*

Charles Darwin relates that when He took a basket holding snakes Into a monkey's enge, curiosity brought

Scarlet Banner over Buckingham frightened. Palace.

Meat

*

Miss E. A. Duggins, at an Oxford Educational Con- ference.

SLEEP

loudly.

-Telephone Directory.

I don't think my pictures are very good, and I'm always surprised when they ask me to do another.

Gracle Fields.

ON IT

THEN you are in a cleft stick pluse, that would seem to be.

and can't wriggle out, the best peculiarly preselent with some peo-

CAST your mind back to the animals down to raise the lid. thing is to go to bed and let Nature plc, in the transition from what we the ramping, roaring They fled away, screaming and do the trick for you," is the advice know as slumber to the gradual

But one after another given days of 1920, when trade union chattering.

by one of our leading realisation and action of the conscious

that we know as awakening. leaders were going to hoist the crept back to have another peep, and psychologists.

another thrill. They liked being On examination, one finds that this Unconsciousness is little under-

strange advice had nothing to do stood as yet by

the physiologist, Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell. with the possible predicament of a How It is that all sensation is cut off

tree while by certain states-sleep, small boy caught, in a

injury, &c.-bas not had disease,

yet been Clark engaged in nest robbing, but helps emotion. If

the fact that. beyond Gable ate steak before each scene he relation to the matter of the human ascertained- would be twice as romantic.

brain in its dealing with apparently there is a cutting of the current be Louis Albers, Head of Metro-

Insoluble problems.

tween the grey cells and their is an old-fashioned ganglia and cicadrons (or branches) "Sleep on it maxim, and has sanse behind it, for in the brain. Life still goes on be-

has a knotty point has been solved cause the system many a

D'separate brain during sleep by the continued action headquarters apart from the

we are itself, and the beating of the heart Oscar Wilde,

of the grey cells. When bothered over a matter that puzzles and the breathing of the lungs is on by the sympathetic The new Non-Intervention Agree- us and appears insoluble, it la good carried

we doze off in a nap. mate triumph of the Bolsheviks, who the thing and go to bed..

Then, often as not, the unconscious have received so much more help in see men and war material thap General element of the mentality, that never Passing It On

really, slumbers, carries on with the Franco's Nationalists.

thing, turning it over and over while the conscious element and the sense are sleeping. Solved at Dawn

that world concord, or even the Red Flag Anthem, which I European concord, for that mat-think is not included in Ernest ter, cannot be attained by leav- Bevin's repertoire in these days. All through the years after

*

Goldwyn-Mayer restaurant. There is no sin but stupidity.

ing out of account such a the war until 1926, when "mill-ment is designed to secure the ulti-dvice to make an effort to shelve ganglia, or, we should die every lime ·

and powerful nation as Russia.

The whole world would welcome

improved Russo-German rela- amongst those who want to

ita

C. G. Gray in the "Aeroplane."

tions for these very reasons. world peace preserved and The movement for 巋 new foundations strengthoned. .It ....

Britain may be premature, at the mo

understanding, between

and Japan can be

*

Morality is always the produci of

Aldous Huxley.

a

The fact is, often, that the conscious: brain gets tired and goes on strike, refuses any longer, to deal with worry, that has too long accupied · its: looked mont, to envisage Russo-Ger- terror.

attention. Thus it is that by dropp- ing the matter, it we can; and going man friendship, but stranger upon in the same light.

How often has a problem revealed to sleep wo give the other element things than such a development Indeed, any stops which serve to have before now upsct calcula- Any efficient dancer has under- its solution with the down! How an opportunity to take it up. It is work of Inspiration, art, not only that we give the brain a THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. iron out misunderstandings be- tions in the sphere of inter- pore a training which is like a moral many

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(Continued on: Page 4.) tween nations must find fayour national politics.

S. Ellot.clear to its creator in that curious

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