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BRITAIN'S UNTOLD LOSSES

What Communism Has Cost

Our Vast Commercial

Interests in the Peninsula

This article touches on a side of the Spanish Civil War which has been strangely neglected in polt- tical debate, the treatment of British Intereate bi Spain under the Valencia Government.

By

IN SPAIN

the end the British staff were thereupon issued a decreo of withdrawn, either for their "Nationalisation of the said safety or because, there was potassium mines and formed a nothing allowed them to do.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.'

IAN COLVIN tions amalgamated all the allied

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concerns as the Servicios. Elec- WHAT of British. Interest in

Or take the more recent speech tricos Unificados de Cataluna the Peninsula? The ques of Mr. D. McAdam Eccles, Chair (S.E.U.C.) and their flest action this official recognition of theft Whether they will get off with tion my 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 na trade and capital by which we "In the frat half of 1936," he pesetas in gold belonging to the merely with the assent but with do still have to live. Even our

the support of the Valencie Socialists are borne, protesting sald, "things went from bad to Ebro Company and stored in a Government. As for the wine the worse, and the special legislation private safe in the Royal Bank trade it may be sufficient to but comfortable, upon broad back of the "Capitalist previously introduced threatened of Canada, Barcelona. The safe, point out that whereas sherry system:"England drives a con- to impose conditions under which being looked, was burst open, and (under the Salamanch 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 Committees for usual, corks (under the Valencia great deal of money in Spain. been impossible.

Government) are difficult to Such was the treatment not of obtain at any price.

a

per cent.'

What are the chances of this "Although the line was run the purchase of arms. if the Valencia Government win creases in pay and other addil these Companies alone but of- I might to further and show trade and these investments (a) ning at a loss, demands for in- the war, (b) if victory goes to tlons to costs were put forward many other British and Belgian how those darling of the British SHOWROOM

the Nationalists? These are which would have had the effect concerns in Catalonia. The Bri-

public, the late Basque Gavern- Phone 27778-91 questions that have got to be of raising the wages bill by 150 tish staffe, for their safety, were

faced.

shipped out of the country; the ment, rifled the Banco do Bilbao Spala 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 field 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 last re- served 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 share capital, reserve funds and with the Nationalist cause.... of the French technical journal, and French Courts.

Mines et de la But as the story grows too debentures of foreign companies had been sufficient guarantee of 'Echo des ==In Spain amounted to 4,890 mil peaceful and satisfactory work. Metallurgie, after giving other long. let me say that in these

lion pesetas, or 23 per cent. of ing conditions."

auch terrible examples, says matters the Valencia Govern

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1937.

PALESTINE POLICY

enviable reputation

colonial government. It

lost.

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the total in Spain. 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 partners the one Government and under of the workers, and all business direct from Soviet Russia. As and in private firms. London the other. Let us now turn to correspondence must be approve there, 80 in Spain, if the Reds of British British administrators have had a great share in this develop the fate of a British Company d and censored by the Com- win, the sum total

for ment. The mines, railways where there was no Franco to munist or Anarchist delegato capital invested is as good as has power and gas-works of Spain, rescue it. Take, for example, controlling the firm.

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

run by British capital. Let us-tion Light-and-Power Co. Ltd., the property and the stocks of Franco respects private property choice of men sent to the field sce, how these concerns and in- and its subsidiary, the Ebro the Companies concerned for and legal rights. It is true that

has requisitioned copper,. of colonisation but by a policy vestments fared at the hands of Irrigation and Power Co. Ltd,, what they will fetch, Take, for he built upon a vast experience in the Frento Popular.

important concerns with inter example, the potassium mines in pyrites and sulphur from the every part of the world, backed

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eats in other electric power Com- Suria, Sallent and Cardona, Rio Tinto, but he has pald for by an immense prestige, and|

Sir Auckland Geddes, in his panics, all of them situated in largely owned by French and them in pesetas (fixed by his zone. What Belgian subjects. These mines administration at 40 to 42 pese-: where

recent speech as the Chairman the Government

held large stocks in Barcelona; tas in the £), Apart from these necessary forcefully of that great company, the Rio happened 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 foreign. jor unnecessary pain, but with of the "progressive deteriora-

Materias Primes, which shipped capital and private enterprise.

sometimes rigorous justice. Notion" in the spring and summer A few days after war broke cargoes of these products - to The terrible truth about him one can point to any instance of were mulcted of £56,705, being tacion" is the word" 'convey they were put up for sale.

of 1936. To begin with, they out they were scized-incau- several European ports, where is, of course, that he is not a

- Socialist. 1 harsh treatment where 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 either ing in, or in prison after, the re- Committees. The management and a French Court declared the any doubt what side a trading punishment or reprisal.

bellion of 1934, and they were was taken over by a Committee sale to a certain My Nathan country ought to back-ta its 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- position has been rather dif. Was work for them or not.

agement protested; the British Government, acting in accord, men at home have quite gone out The Popular Front Govern Consul Intervened-in vain. In with the Catalonia Government, of their senses? ferent and exceptionally difficult. ment "did all that it could to Palestine is no no colony. It is maintain order. at the mines," merely a British mandate. Iri

but was "progressively losing control" to the Left, who were this expanse of rugged country "anticipating a Red Revolution."| resides one of the proudest and After a serica of stay-in and most ungovernable races of men stay-out strikes the Labour the Arabs. They are a self-Leaders, took over the mines, and about August 6, 1986, "conceived [reliant people, great fight the idea that the English staff IN the days of my youth the voicing

ers and lovers of freedom. should be held as hostagea.” Their laws are ancient, time- Only after vigorous repre- of passers-by was a pleasantry com- tested and to these people sentations at Madrid were these monly indulged in by the proletarian Mass Production.

Englishmen permitted to leave masses of the industrial regions of

the North, eminently satisfactory. For cen- the mines. Then came General)

The Cockney, though possessing turies they have been prepared Franco; order was restored, and

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

able to export ·80,000 tons al that his observations should be heard I am bringing no accusation with force. It was to be expect-month more than with 8,500 menor his ridicule. London was, in fact tory one which I have particularly works, where they repince a similar

by his pals and not by the objects aguinst the management of any fac- led' that a mandate would not be employed in the month of May haven of repose to self-conscious in mind is run upon model lines, daily number of "casualties.”

popular with such a race. But previously measure of the and dimdent youngsters who came works reasonable hours, pays

SLAVES OF THE BELT

...

the

of scathing and fortissimo com- ments upon the personal appearance

quite

Sinister Effects of

Manners in the North have most The Chaplin Sermon Certainly improved with better and more general standards of education.

of

made,

have

+

seen

running factory. But there is an- the fact that whilst it gives regular employment to 60 many young people, its labour department obliged to Interview and test up- wards of 50 applicants a day in order to keep is working stalt "up to Out of those candidates some so per cent. are found to be unsuitable, but the remaining 25 young persons enter the are accepted and daily

other aspect which is disclosed. by

..

but the great majority have to go that their simply, for the reason, mental balance has been broken down by the relentless monotony and high speed of the bolt

on the to town aller an upbringing

of per

maximum rate of woges, and dors Broken Down to the sense of insult resulting economic waste forced

company by the decrees of the sccution in a harsher atmosphere.

social everything possible for the from the mandate, of 1920, Popular Front."

That the outgoing girls are casual- In those days it was commonly welfare of its employees-yet I am accepted that the politeness of the arranged by the Treaty with

South was a national trait to be cone convinced that the mass-production tics only in the industrial sense i methods in general usage are having have made clear. Some of them The nominal value followed Turkey which

float of the trasted with the ruder manners of the most seriously lil-effects upon teave because it is their habit te Great war, was added the injury peseta being then 9.516d. or 25.- the North. Though the distinction the psychological and moral fibre of round from one factory to another. still finds expression, it la to be the young people who "make the others because they are "sacked," of the British decision (origin- to the

Reported in the Morning doubted whether it is any longer mills go round. ally approved In 1917) that

applicable. Post of July 9, 1037. Palestine should become a na- tional home for the Jews. Be-

Most people must CAUBO they saw their Jands superintend the partitioning They have also no less certainly de- Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times,"

Hysteria. Is aver, present in the generated in London and Southern and most people doubtless regarded passing into the hands of an the country, recognising the areas with the advancing tide of in- is "belt" incident in that most ro

factory, Suddenly a girl will chrick. 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 able giggies, or still more often wilt-

become savagely quarrelsome and their arms. And again, this but remembering the pledged large numbers of factories in the wildly ludicrous burlesque of factory will start finging articles, from the

life.

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

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 too girl who has once broken down can management's point of view, for the Zionist movement, towards lishment of their national home. not hereditary so much as machine-working of the belt system in prac

genuine to do wholly funny;

nover -bo. regarded ins ̈ reliable. Palestine as well as they know But the Arabs, or a section of

factory I have in mind Highly-strung girls who enter the how. They are still Øghting. them, are

In the not amenable to Victims of Monotony

What is it about a factory that, 20 lem. It is a factory, in short, typi- probably a blessing for them int everything is done on the belt sys-factory are coda out again, and it is. compromise. They have sought In this tangle of prejudices to disturb the British plans by! matter how exemplary may be the cal of the worlding methods of most they ard.

social lines upon which it ́is mm;|

It is on those giris who manage to and conflicting ambitions, Bri- the only means at their dis- makes it have such depressing effect of our more newly established light

engineering industries.

"stick "it" and go, on year in your Singlo: £47.10.0d. : : Rorum: £76, tain has become Involved. Her posal, and when British troops upon the manner

None of the processes employed out in factory, work that the effect people it employs?

to health, none of the upon morni policy of conciliation and en-yesterday burned the dwellings As one who has lived for some injurious couragement towards co-opera- of terrorists in reprisal and years in a growing industrialised machinery is really dangerous to 11s appalling, and mental fibro je most We have been told recently by, u tion for the mutual benefit of arrested dozens of belligerent peatedly how boys and girls, after

suburban area, I have observed re-operators, and serious accidents are: almost unknown. The work of the

theso girls generally and Ulo-anti- no demanda upon their physical both races, Jews and Arabs, was man, they were only following being qulic steely, brought up in operatives, for the most part, puis lecturer upon social welfare. that

dote

in dùy-dream- interpreted as weakness, the the advice of a disinterested school, have deteriorated almost in-strength, and hardly any tax upon to their boredom en ny stort of

their Intelligence

ihëm and their angers porform their loud-voleed, Permanent Mandates Commis-commission and implementing tory employment Into

It is therefore a factory, eminently monotonous taske they Imagine sion found. "A more rigorous more rigorous policy." It is shrieking hooligans and flappers, suitable

the girls that the female labour, and it does employ pleasure.

for the employment of themselves diving lives of eme, and noat policy might have.ropressed the pity that the situation should effects of factory life are

Such preoccupation may save them conflict but could not have re-have degenerated to this sort noticeable and most deplorable. An considerably more than a thousand

explanation I believe to be that the girls and young women.

from hysteria, but it is the cause of solved it," the Commission be of warfare, but it is apparently feminine, mind reacts more.un-. From that it may be thought there other tils, for it generally results in loved. 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 devote their destroying monotony of mass-pro-slaister about the conditions of work leisure hours to the amusements and British Government offered to derstands,

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