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BRITAIN'S UNTOLD LOSSES

What Communism Has Cost

Our Vast Commercial

"Interests in the Peninsula

This article touches on a ride of the Spanish Civil War which ha been strangely weplected in puti- tical debate, the treatinerii of British interesta in Spain der the Valencia Governnient,

IAN

By

IN SPAIN

the end the British staff were therdupon issuel a tlecree of withdrawn, either for their "Nationalisation" of the said safety or because there was potassium mines and, formed a nothing allowed them to do. Committee to supervise all sales Then the Syndicalist organisa abroad.

COLVINtions amalgamated all the allied

concerns as the Servicion Elec- tricos Unificados de Cataluna

WHAT of British interest in

Or take the more recent speech

Whether they will get off with the Peninsula? The que of Mr. D. McAdam Eccles, Chair (S.E.U.C.) and their first action this official recognition of thoft tion may be thought sordid by

man of the Anglo-Spanish Con was to take possession of all remains to be seen; but the such as soar in the stratosphere struction Company, on the work credit balances of the Companies action at least reveals the fact of political "ideologies" but of the Santander Mediterranean at the local banks, as well as a that these things are done not after all, there are such things Railway.t

safe deposit of three million

I

per cent."

as trade and capital by which we "In the first half of 1936," he pesetas in gold belonging to the merely with the assant but with the support of the Valencia do still have to live. Even our

As for the wine Socialists are borne, protesting said, "things went from bad to Ebro Company and stored in a Government.

the worse, and the special legislation private safe in the Royal Bank trade it may ho sumclout to but comfortable, upon broad back of the Capitailst previously introduced threatened of Canada, Barcelona. The safe, point out that whereas sherry system." England drives a con- to impose conditions under which being locked, was burst open, and (under the Salamanca Govern siderable trade and has invested efficient working would have the gold was used in spite of ment) comes through much as protests-by, the Committeen for usual, corks (under the Valencin a great deal of money in Spain, been impossible.

Government} "Although the line was run the purchase of arms.

are difficult to. What are the chances of this

Such was the treatment not of obtain at any price. trade and these investments (a) ning at a loss, demands for in- if the Valencia Government win creases in pay and othor addi- these Companies alone but of

I might go further and show. the war, (b) if victory goes to tions to costs were put forward many other British and Belgian how those darlings of the British the Nationalists? Theye are which would have had the effect concerns in Catalonia. The Bri-

public, the late Basque Govern- to be of raising the wages bill by 160 tlah staffs, for their safety, were ment, rifled the Banco de Billing, questions that have got

shipped out of the country; the fneed.

Spain has long been an impor Then, in July, 1936. General Spanish directors fled for their stored the stocks and bonds in cases and chartered ships to tant feld for the foreign inves Franco took control of the area lives or were caught and "liquida- carry off the booty, and the con- tor. According to the Inst reserved by the railway, since ted." turns issued (for 1935-36) the when "the general sympathy An article in a recent number sequences thereof in the British

and French Courts. Hongkong Telegraph. centres of foreign companies had been sufficient guarantee of L'Echo dea

share capital, reserve funds and with the Nationalist use... of the French technical journal,

Mines et de la But as the story growe too in Spain amounted to 4,890 mil- peaceful and satisfactory work- Metallurgie, after giving other long, let me say that in these auch terrible examples, says matters the Valencia Govern- lion pesetas, or 23 per cent, of in conditions." the total in Spało. And this, of This is the contrast between that all business enterprises in ment are not likely to change course. left out of account large life for these Companies under Catalonia are under the control their "ideology"--which comes sums held by sleeping partnera the one Government and, under of the workers, and all business direct from Soviet Russin. As and in private firma. London the other. Let us now turn to correspondence must be approv- thore, so in Spain, if the Reds British administrators have had a great share in this develop the theoritish Company ed and censored by the Com- win, the sum total of British

- enviable reputation for ment.

The mines, railways, where there was no Franco to munist or Anarchist delegate capital invested is as good as

lost colonial government, It has power and gas-works of Spain, rescue it. Take, for example, controlling the firm.

Not only so, these Soviets set On the other hand, Gogora), been gained not only by the and its wine trade, were largely the case of the Barcelona Trac

run by British capital. Let us tian Light and Power Co. Ltd., the property and the stocks of Franco respects private property choice of men sent to the field see how these concerns and in- and its subsidiary, the Ebro the Companies concerned for and legal rights. It is true that of colonisation but by policy vestments fared at the hands of Irrigation and Power Co., Ltd., what they will fetch. Take, for he has requisitioned copper, built upon a vast experience in the Frente Popular.

important concerns with inter- exampic, the potassium mines in pyrites and sulphur from the ests in other electric power Com- Suria, Sallent and Cardona, Rio Tinto, but he has paid for every part of the world, backed by an immense“ přestige, and

Sir Auckland Geddess, if his pantes, all of them situated in largely owned by French and them in pesetas (fixed by his Belgian subjects. These mines administration at 40 to 12 pese- What zone. recent speech as, the Chairman the Government where

held large stocks in Barcelona; tas in the £). Apart from these forcefully necessary

of that great company, the Rio huppened to them?

a Soviet was formed under the exceptional measures he has en- carried out, without barbarity Tinto, gave a remarkable account

name of Sociedad Catalana de couraged and respected forsign or unnecessary pain, but with of the "progressive <leteriorn.

Materias Primes, which shipped capital and private enterprise,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1937

PALESTINE. POLICY

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sometimes rigorous justice. No-tion in the spring and summer A few days after war broke cargoes of these products to The terrible truth about him of 1936. To begin with, the out they were seized-"incau- several European ports, where is, of course, that he is not a jone can point to any instance of were mulcted of £56,705, being tacion" is the word "convey they were put up for sale. Socialist.

harsh treatment whore case his the wages of rebels, while fight the wise it call" by Syndicalist The true owners took action, These things being so, is there tories have not warranted eithering in, or in prison after, the te- 'Committees. The management and a French Court declared the any doubt what side a trading bellion of 1934, and they were was taken over by a Committee sale to a certain M. Nathan country ought to back-in its punishment or reprisal.

forced to take them back upon of the workers and the clerks of Block-null and void. Now own interest? And is there any "But in Palestine the British their pay-rolls, whether there the concerns. The British man- mark the sequel. The Valencia wonder if a good many English- agement protested; the British Government, acting in accord men at home have quite gone out position has been rather.dif. was work for them or not.

The Popular Front Govern. Consul intervened-in vain. In with the Catalonia Government, of their senses? maintain order at the mines," but was "progressively losingĮ control" to the Left, who were "anticipating a Red Revolution." After a series of stay-in, and stay-out strikes the Labour Leaders took over the mines, and about August 5, 1936, “conceived

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Palestine is no no calony. It is merely a British mandate. this expanse of rugged country resides one of the proudest and most ungovernable races of men -the Arabs. They are a self-

ers

SLAVES OF THE BELT

the days of my youth the voicing

Sinister Effects of

Mass Production

running factory. But there is_un- the fact that whilst it gives regular employment to so many young Its labour department is people. obliged to interview and test up- wards of 50 applicants a day in order to keep lis working statt "up to Out of those candidates some 50 accusation per cent. are found to be unsuitable,

other aspect, which is disclosed by

reliant people, great fight the idea that the English staff

of scathing and fortissimo com- and lovers of freedom. should be held as hostages."

ments upon the personal appearance, Only after vigorous repre- of passers-by was a pleasantry com- Their laws, are ancient, time-

sentations at Madrid were these manly indulged in by the profetarian tested and to these people

Englishmen permitted to leave masses of the industrial regions of

the North. eminently satisfactory. For cen- the mines. Then came General turies they have been prepared| Franco; order was restored, and

quite as keen perception for the By "AN OLD STAGER" establishment to defend laws, lands and flocks with 6,000 men they were soon peculiarities of others, was content

I am bringing: RO able to export 30,000 tons a that his observations should be heard by his pals and not by the objects

The Cockney, though pussessing!

I am

with force. It was to be expect-1 month more than with 8,500 man of his ridicule. London way, in that against the management of any fac.but the remaining 25 young persons works, where they replace a similor ed.that à mandate wouki not be employed in the month of Maya haven of repose to self-conscious tory-one which I have particularly are accepted and daily enter the

works reasonable hours, pays a popular with such a race. But previously-"a measure of the und dimdent youngsters who came: 12 mind is run upon; inodel lines, daily number of "casualties."

maximum rate of wages, and docs Broken Down to the sense of insult resulting economic waste forced on the to town after an upbringing of per-

everything possible for the social company by the decrees of the ecution in a harsher atmosphere.

In those days was commonly welfare of its employees-yet

That the outgoing girls are, casual- from the muridate- of“ 1929, | Popular Front."

accepted that the politeness of the convinced that, the mass-production ties only in the industrial sense I clear. Some of them arranged by the Treaty with

South was a national trait to be con- methods in general usage are having have made followed the Turkey which

The nominal value of the trasted with the ruder manners of use most seriously -effects upon teave because it is their habit to float Great war, was added the injury poseta being then 9.516d, or 25 the North. Though the distinction the psychological and moral fibre of round from one factory. to another, still inds expression, is to be the young people who "muke the athers because they are sicked."

whether it is any longer mills go round.

but the great majority have to go of the British decision (origin-226 to the £

†Reported in the Morning doubted

imply for the reason that their. applicable. ally approved in 1917) that Post of July 9, 1937..

Manners in the North have most The Chaplin Sermon ·

mentat balance has been broken Palestine should become, a пд-

curtainly Improved with better and

down by the relentless monotony Most people must have seen more general standinrds of education. BC- tional home for, the Jews,

Hysteria is ever present in the cause they saw their lands superintend the partitioning of They have also no less certainly de- Charlie Chaplin Modern Times and high speed of the belt.

generated in London, and Southern) and most people doubtless regarded; passing into the hands of anthe country, recognising the areas with the advancing ide of in the "t" incident la that most re-factory, sudbury" miel will shriek, markable and probably last of the another may burst into uncontroll- other people, the Arabs took up soundness of the Arab argument,dustrialisation.

In fact, the establishment of such silent films as nothing more than a solo giggles, or still more often will their arms. And again, this but remembering the pledged large numbers"

will start flinging articles from, the of factories in the wildly ludicrous hurlesque of factory become savagely quarrelsome and

belt at her neighbours. might have been anticipated. word of the British Government | Metropolitan area has gone to show life.

Yet to anyone who has studied the.

Each case is a casualty from the They have fought against the to assist the Jews to the estab- that rude and uncouth manners are

tical reality, Charlie's despair is 100 girl who has once broken down can Zionist

made. towards lishment of their national' home, not hereditary sa inuch as machine- working of the beit system in prac-management's point of view, for the movement

genuine to be wholly funny..

be regarded as 'reliable, Palestine as well as they know But the Arabs, or section of

Victims of Monotony

In the factory I have in mind Highly-strung girls who enter the them, are not amenable to how. They are still fighting.

What is it about a factory that, no everything is done on the belt sys-factory are soon out again, and it is compromise. They have sought,

It in a factory, in short, typ-probably a blessing for them that In this tangle of prejudices to disturb the British plans by matter how exemplary may be the cal of the working methods of most they are.

social lines upon which it is run, of our more newly established light| "It i

It is on those girls who manage to and conflicting ambitions. Bri- the only means at their dis-makek it have such depressing effect engineering Industries,

"tick it" and so on year your the manners of the young None of the processes employed in out in factory works that the bifcet Return: £76. tain has become involved. Her posal, and when British troops

people it employs?

injuricus to health; none of the upon policy of conciliation and

eyesterday burned the dwellings As one who has lived for some!

appalling..

We have been told recently by a couragement towards co-opera-of terrorists in reprisal and years. In a rowing Industrialised machinery is really dangerous to its on moral and mental abre is mont

suburban aren, I have observed re-operators, and Rerious accidents aro tion for the mutual benefit of arrested dozens of belligerent peatedly how boys and gift, after operatives, for the most part, puts these tiris generally find the anti- upon social welfare that almost unknown. The work of the ti brought up in no demands upon their physical dote to their boredom in day-dream- both races, Jews and Arabs, was men, they were only following being quite

the the advice of a disinterested/Bchool, have deteriorated almost Im- strength, and hardly any tax upon interpreted as weakness,

As the belt parises in front of mediately upon their entry into far their intelligence.

them and their Angers perform their into loud-valced. Permanent Mantites Commis-commission and implementing tory employment

It therefore a factory eminently monotonous fusks they nagine the employment of themselves living lives of ease and sion found. "A more rigorous" more rigorous policy." It is shrieking hooilgans and dappers,

It is among the girls that the suitable for policy might have repressed the pity that the situation should effects of factory life are most female inbour, and it does employ pleasure.

Such preoccupation may save them from hysteria, but it. In the cause of conflict but could not have re-have degenerated to this gort noticeable and most deplorable, An considerably more than a thousand

explanation I believe to be that the girls and young women. solved the, Commission be of warfare, but it is apparently feminine minu -reacts more 'un- From, that it may be thought there other ills, for it generally results In lieved. As a last resort the the sort of thing the Arab un-favourably to the deadening and soul is nothing at all that is alarming or determining them to, devels their destroying inonotony of mass-pro- sinister about the.condklons of work leisure hours to the amusementa nnd duction routine.

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