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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1937.

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PEACE

Apart from the London bus- men's strike, which marred the Coronation celebrations, there has been a welcome absence of serious labour trouble in Eng- land for some considerable time past. True, there have been a number of "unofficial" stoppages in various industries, but these have not assumed large propor- tions. The Ministry of Labour, in its annual report, recently issued, stated that "there can be no doubt that the existence of constitutional machinery, based on agreements between organi- sations, maintained wages dur- ing the depression at a higher level than would otherwise have been possible and stimulated other means of reducing costs." It is also remarked that "the

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dustrial conditions gives en- couragement to unconstitutional action." The fact is further stressed that unofficial disputes "so often result in failure less obvious than successes here and there." The growing desire to extend the system of voluntary collective regulation of working conditions has given rise to a large number of disputes as a result of employers refusing to recognise unions, and of trade unionists refusing to work with non-unionists. It is conceded by the Ministry of Labour

France Learns to

Use Its Leisure

The man who docs a job

S

like this...

EVERAL million French workers who have never had spare time before have suddenly found themselves, thanks to the Blum Govern- ment's forty-hour week Act, with precious leisure to spend.

Leisure to play, leisure to read, leisure to learn; leisure to travel when they have the means, to stay at home when they have not.

And their number grows each month as the Act extends to cover new professions.

Alive to the proverb that "Satan Bnds work for Idle hands to do," M. Blum naturally cast round for å way in which to help the workers enjoy and profit by their new- found leisure hours.

A Socialist Minister for Sport and

Leisure was appointed - young, energetic Leo Lagrange. himself an athlete and footballer, who remains head of the Sports, Leisure, and Tourism Ministry In the new French Government.

The French T.U.C. created central Leisures Committee, work- ing in close co-operation with the Government; Individual unions got busy on long-dreamed-of schemes of centres for sport and culture; Left-Wing organisations of every kind drew up their plans, France suddenly became busly "lelsure-minded."

The problem confronting the nuthorities was a double one. Here was the henven-sent opportunity not only to encourage sport and to develop the "côme to the country" campaign, but also to give the workers increased opportunities for cultural and educational pur- suits.

TOT only must the workers be encouraged

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to spend their week- ends in the fresh air and their evenings in intelligent relaxation, but they must be taught to love and appreciate beauty, to enjoy. good reading and good plays, to

has a right to be able to enjoy himself...

study and fit themselves for their increasingly important place in the life of the country. The first thing the new Minister did was to demand £1,000,000 credits for the development of sports centrča ali over France. This was voted.

The million is being used largely in aiding municipalites all over France to create permanent sports centres for workers. The Govern- ment will buy the land as a per- manent site, but the municipalities must plan and exploit their centres. The Government will also help in the purchase of equip- ment, so that each centre may have

first-class gymnasium, proper hygleolc arrangements, with shower baths, and so on.

Q.

M

ONSIEUR LEO LA- GRANGE has already

put this scheme Into operation, and everywhere town councils are responding to his nation-wide broadcast appeal for their help.

A compulsory Slate "Sports Cer- tificate" has been created, so that eventually every French child, girls and boys alike, must be able to pass rudimentary sporta tests just as they have to pass other school and college examinations. There is a campaign to make swimming a campulsory part of the school cur- riculum.

The Workers' Sports Federation. the main left wing sports club In the country, which corresponds to the British Workers' Sports Association, has submitted to the T.U.C. a comprehensive plan for the organisation, not only of na- tional sport, but of leisure as well,

Giving material form to the dream of that great social re- former, the Boclalist M.P., Albert

by JOSE SHERCLIFF

and Leo Lagrange, French Minister for Sport and Leisure, sees that he

cant.

Thomas, whose death in 1932 de- prived the workers of one of their keenest champions, Leo Lagrange formed in the Ministry a" Leisures Committee." to which were ap- pointed not only Government officials, but representatives of the trade unions, travel associations, well-known writers, dramatists and artists.

With the colaboration of the trade unions, they now organise popular evenings" in the State theatres, where in turn each union fills the house with its members. many of whom have never had the opportunity to see great artistes in world-famous roles.

Cheap visits to museums and all national monumenta have been organised, and a scheme for the In- stallation of clubs where music and literature may be developed, of a company of strolling players to visit every town and village of France, and of travelling libraries and lecturers is under discussion,

B

UT perhaps the most important innovation

in the field of art is the foundation of the "People's Theatre" by the French T.U.C. Opened at the end of 1936 with the help of a subsidy, the theatre had refunded every penny of the sub- sidy by February thus year, and was paying its way,

Progress of the theatre is so steady that the founders' dream of a huge people's theatre in Paris, to be followed by others in overy France, Is Important town of

Aircraft Are No Defence

that such disputes are difficult I KNOW, as all pilots know, that

we cannot muke Britain or any

hilation.

Give me a squadron of up-to-date night bombers, and I would guarantee to run the gauntlet of the nest air defence force in the world (the) French), and bomb effectively any

By Captain H. C. Biard

(Test Pilot and Schnelder Trophy Winner)

be

done.

the human skin anywhere.

But I am mainly concerned with

on my original conclusion-that scouts

nearing realisation. Encourage- ment of leisure centres all over the country, especially wherever under the new housing scheme workers are being grouped together in. modern, labour-saving homes, is one of the Important Items of the ministerial

programme.

These centres, like that opened recently in the Champigny Garden City near Paris, form centres of recreation and culture of every kind. Lecture halls, a theatre and cinema, library and gymnasium 'form the nucleus, while in many cases welfare clinics for woma and children, special club rooms for the old and play rooms for the young will be included,

The Workers' Sports Federation, which has 5,000 members in the Paris district alone, was not ben hladhand in realising the import- ance of extending the field of let-- sure, and immediately set to work. Exploiting the week-end, such an Innovation to the French worker. 16 planned organised walking and cycling tours; subtly underlying these excursions is the effort to teach the public the pro- tection at beauty spots, and to en- courage the intelligent visiting of famous buildings without too much dry technical instruction,

The Federation also plans edu- cational and technical courses, the- collection of archives, and the ex- change of foreign workers in a vast. holiday scheme.

T

HE individual efforts: of the trade unions were naturally not be-. hindhand in their aim to extend. the organisation of the workers' leisure,

The Engineering Workers' "Union, which in one year has increased its membership from 17,000 to 250,000, has opened in Parts new headquarters, where not only. its technical offices are rooms, housed, but where club

a library, a theatre, n café, a gymnasium and a lecture hall are all included.

8ix thousand

have pounds

contri- already been voluntarily buted by members of the union towards

new its

headquarters which, a company controlled by At the the Union will exploit. same time the Union has acquired. the beautiful Château de Vou- acron, 135 miles from Paris, as, a rest and holiday centre for its members.

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Aports fields, swimming baths. and a children's colony are in pre- paration there, with a hospital and convalescent home, while it hoped that by the organisation of the festivals in huge popular château grounde, factory workers from the cities and land workers from the country round may meet on common ground.

The Railway Workers' Union has acquired a vast sito at Achères. twenty minutes by train from Paris, for sports grounds, a modern swimming bath, allotments for gardening enthusiasts, woods for picnickers,

and grounds for campers, which will be at the dis- posal of union members.

The T.U.C. itself centralises in a Leisurea Committee the activities in all branches of organisation of the workers' new-found "spare time."

F

URTHER Impetus has been

to given

the founding of workers" colleges all over France. These which there are colleges, of already twenty-Ove in existence, were founded with the collabora- tion of the TU.C. in industrial towns in order to train the workers in the social and economic field.

The latest of them, opened re- cently in Troyes, takes as its main: studies the French language and literature, and the history of the workers' movement in France.

On no matter how small a scale. - the workers themselves have en- thusiastically collaborated in the plans to exploit profitably, their leisure.

You have only to live opposite one of those huge tenement build- ings in Paris where hundreds of

But thermite still exists; and I have no doubt that the great chemists re- to adjust, "as employers other country safe from aerial aoni-

other tained by the British and Governments to evolve polson gases, are naturally reluctant to dif- ferentiate between their cm-

incendiaries and so on, have already discarded mere thermite as something. ployees or to use their position

10 mare suited an experimenting to force membership of unions."

schoolboy than a scientist hiring his On the other hand, it is added.

brains to

means evalve

for the there was on both sides an in-city they tried to protect. They could I shall employ some less common- slaughter of babies..

However, gas bombs will not be creased desire shown during the time out by day, but at night place method.

night as well try to stop the It the sky were black with scouts negligible. Lewisite is another sub- year to make voluntary agree-advance of a thunderstorm.

and fighters, night-hombers could stip stance, also voted very old-fashioned The sky is n ments generally effective. There

a big place. I have through to their objective. Time after now by really go-ahead analysts, but can be no doubting the point spent the last 25 years flying about time, the R.A.F. manoeuvres have capable of killing if its gas touches

in it, and I know.

it. that trade unionism has 80 If all the aircraft agreed to ny ut

bomber nowadays can carry developed in Britain and become one altitude, of course they could be several tons of bombs. It only halt Ships Helpless Against Aircraft such an essential element in spotted night or day. But they won't. the machines in a projected raid got collective bargaining that ample They may be only a hundred feet through (and that would be clumsy means exist for the peaceful about the rooftops, or they may be raiding), incalculable damage could the flying side of the question, and

anything up to fifty thousand feet adjustment of such disputes, as the air, or they may zoom from one A more score of aircraft might un- and fighters and anti-alreraft guns arise. The resort to strikes, to the other in a matter of seconds. load enough incendiary bombs to set cannot keep out bombers any more

Clouds, wreaths of mist, and London flaming from end to end. In- than they can drive off rain clouds except as a last resort in the

shadows from clouds make the sky a cendiary cargoes will be the fashion am adamant, and I speak with event of employers being un-

weird place at night. Scouting in

all types, propagates while wide knowledge of reasonable, is no longer justified. machines can rour past within a few poison-gas, for instance, dissipates. modern war machines. Happily, there is growing use dozen feet of a big bomber, and It is not generally known that in The most elementary mind can never see it. Searchlights would be December 1010 vast numbers of tiny surely grasp the simple fact that a made of the machinery provided splendid to pick out balldons, but an bombs were found at German air-warship, top speed about 40 m.p.h. workers dwelt means to thent. for adjustment of differences aeroplane, travelling at four hundred craft bases. Ench bomb welghed | la helpless against aircraft which

about two pounds when they happen to arise. Un- miles an hour is another matter.

and contained can fly ut 400 m.p.h. The Spare time" may be filed with constitutional methods usually Cities in Flames

work-but it is individual work thermite, a chemical which Ignites to Navy fanatles claim that the ships

'There may be clothes to mend and make an Intensely hot blaze. A big can drive off the, raiders by gunfire. trouble serve to aggravate

bomber could carry 3,000 such bombs. Imagine trying to hit a thing that is furniture to repair, meals to cook rather than to compose dis-

I am not talking through my bat. They fax on alighting; the sound travelling at seven miles a minute! and children to care for-but POWYSERAAJreements. British trade union I was a test pilot for a dozen years would not be heard during an dir rald. Our navul gunners had better start those few added hours ench week

nican much to the leaders are fully conscious of to a fem that builds a good proportion Thermite is almost impossible to trying to shell gnats,

working Besides! A warship carries about family. Now there will even be this fact, which is also apparent

time to rent, relax, to read, think to the great majority of the design, and gave a report un ita of the war, sald that these bomba Money is no object to the war lords. workers. Nobody gains, in the qualities and abilities.

could have ruited London and Paris, They will cast a hundred aircraft maybe even to dream. The memory of some of the night- even with the inadequate bombing against each battleship, if need be. long run, from policies based on a refusal to acknowledge hard bombers I have tested has left me aircraft of those days to carry them can't hit a hundred at once.

with one very clear idea in my mind. They were not ready for Usc

Meanwhile, I still have my Income- facts; and that is a lesson which would appear to have been learned by employers and employed alike.

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I another war looks likely to break September, 1018; and then, as Ger-tax forms to complete. Income-tax out, It's me for the great open spaces many had already lost the war, she is higher this year, we are told, to instanter. I'm not going to sleep in abstained from making things worse pay for more aeroplanes and more any town, once, hostilities recom- for herself by obliterating two capitol | battleships. mence. If I want to commit suicide, citles.

We pliots wonder why.

forty-hour week

To-day's Thought- ABROAD measure of icisure, is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book,!!!

---H. D. THOREAU.