1937-11-20 — Page 7

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER

20, 1937.

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WOMEN LIBERALS

PROTEST

Government Has Forgotten

The Black Areas

Margate, Oct. 16. Thousands of British lads-van boys, errand boys, lift boys and pages are working between 60 and 90 hours a week.

In London alone 5,000 page boys aged 14 and 15 are working 72 hours a week.

en-

These scandalous conditions dured by an important section of Forgotten Britain came back to memory to-day when the Women's Liberal Federation resumed its annual conference.

"It is terrible to think of," said Miss Jean Henderson, prospective Liberal candidate for St. Albans.

"All women Liberals should unite In an indignant protest against the scandal of exploited children.

LEGISLATION

"In March Home Once depart inental committee recommended statutory limitation of these hours to 48 a week, but since then nothing has been done.

"The time has come for us to urge the necessity of immediate legislation on the Home Secretary." Miss Henderson was moving a resolution calling on the Government to implement the departmental com- nittee's report with the important amendment that young people under the age of 10 should not be compelled to work more than 40 hours a week and should certainly not be subjected to overtime.

The resolution was unanimously carried.

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volco falls to reassure as to the contrary.

"That plain fael remains that thou- sands of people are losing the habit of work, and until we start a fresh agitation the Government will refuse to do anything about it.

"Belonging as I do to a family of almost professional agitators, don't mind asking you to agitate and collate and agitate again until the Rip Van Winkles of Downing Street wake up."

Was South new

Lady Carey-Evans's sally mode during n debate on a Wales resolution demanding a deal for Britain's phantom towns and villages.

HIGH HAT PERIL

The resolution, which was carried, demanded schemes of national de- rates velopment, equalization of throughout the country, establish- ment of new industries, measures to prevent the drift of industry from north to south, development of coal by-products and increased oppor- tunilies for land settlement.

On behalf of the Barnet Women's Liberal Association, Mrs. B. A. Bay- field, ex-Liberal candidate for Gor ton (Manchester), successfully moved a resolution protesting against the FAMILY OF AGITATORS

Government's deliberate raising of Carey-Evans, Mr. Lloyd milk and other food prices and Lady George's eldest daughter, was scnth- urging that facilities should be ex- ing about the Government's niggard-tended for the provision of cheaper ly attitude to the distressed areas. milk for maternity cases and children

sold, "The real trouble is," she

under Ave. "that long ago the Government sign- ed an Act of Abdication with regard to these districts.

RECLAMATION

Still batting on home ground the "All their old plans are grossly, women then passed to an agriculturni inadequate and even the bassoon-resolution from Miss Megan Lloyd of Anglesey, like quality of Mr. Ernest Brown's George's constituency

Week

The English couple, Mr. Wells and Miss Sissons, who won first prize. In the German ballroom dancing championship seen here performing the Marble Hall at the Berlin Zoo where the competition took place.

Moved and seconded by Mrs. Lloyd, this country. Davies and Miss Madge Owen, J.P the resolution demanded a compre hensive rural policy to secure:

Reclamation and reconditioning of land,.

A new marketing system, Extension of scientific research and credit.

Botter housing in the country, Removal of tariffs on agriculture raw materials, and

Restriction on increases in farm

The conference closed with a pubile addressed by Miss demonstration Megan Lloyd George and Lord Meston, president of the Liberal Party Organisation.

to

"The old Idea," said Lord Mesion, that the impending struggle a political thought and action is going And between capitalism Socialism is out of date. The real siruggle will be between two other syslems-the system under which and with mea, in free discussion

rents, Miss Megan herself left the chair equal rights, rule their own and each to urge the importance of agriculture other's civic lives, and the system to national defence. It was vital, in which men are compelled to obey I she said, that we grow more food in one self-labelled superman."

SURPRISED TO FIND SHE WAS SLIMMER

Due to Taking Kruschen

for Backache

She wouldn't believe ft-but the scales insisted! You sco she did not take Kruschen Salts with the idea of riding herself of that superfluous fat. She hind backache--and that what she was treating.

Was

This is what she wrote about it:- "Allow me to send you a few words to tell you that Kruschen Salte has done wonders for me. My backacho has gone, and what is more, Krus- chen is slimming me down in a way that I would never believe if it wasn't for the fact that the reales show 18 pounds less in six months. This is catirely due to Kruschen Salts, and I shall never be without them."- J.F.

The condition which caused this woman to put on weight was also the cause of her backache, The whole trouble was due to the internal organs failing to expel from the body, regularly and completely, the waste products of digestion. The combina- tion of mineral soils in Kruschen arsiats the internal organs to perform their functions properly. Then, little by little, that ugly fat goes-slowly, yes-but surely.

One drop on

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