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THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1038.
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He
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Rigid refugee and currency laws brought the modern smug- gler into existence, and until these laws are roscinded men and woman'will continue to take
THE NEW
SMUGGLING
each event, as it occurred, struck death. a chill of terror into the hearts
act.
scarched, but
nothing
I
across
1
ed an oilskin pouch containing- notes of the largest denomina- tions, and had then stitched the appalling risks for the sake of tiers, but prefers to use his in- turn. He asked if the replies wound up again. Once the big rewards involved.
genuity in getting money out of to his advertisement could be the frontier the smuggler called Events on the Continent over those countries where the smug- sent on. The newspaper people on another doctor, was put under the past 10 years have given gling of currency can, in very were obliging and, because the a mild anaesthetic, the pouch. the world many shocks, but bad cases, result in a sentence of paper had high official status, was extracted, and the wound their letter to him sailed sewn up once more. The smug- One of the earliest devices through the post without any gler is now living in comfortable of those likely to be singled out was to purchase large quanti- questions being asked. He has and hard-earned retirement. as victims of a purge. Those ties of valuable stamps, take stayed out of Germany ever Even chickens have been who could afford it -wasted no them out of the country, and since!
pressed into service. One man RESPONSIBILITY time. They got into touch with realise their value abroad. This
arrested on the Italian-Swiss the smuggling gangs that were was done on a large scale in
frontier was trying to take a FOR REFUGEES
springing up, and, with their Germany, until the Gestapo saw lives at stake, did not haggle at through the scheme and arrest-
BUT for sheer brilliance number of chickens out of Italy, but something went wrong with few schemes can equal The problem which the Evian the price asked for safe conduct, ed several very wealthy Ger- that of a professional snuggler his plans, and the birds' gullets Conference sought to solve is to freedom.
mans who were caught in the who got immense sums out of were each found to contain
valuable share certificate, the one of very considerable difficul-
several European countries be- But that reverse only spurred fore the dodge was discovered.
total amount involved being ty. It was, in short, to discover
is THE price how best to deal with the many
much the smugglers to greater efforts,
This man appeared one day at more than 40,000 lire. higher now as a result and huge sums of money, in the
a frontier station, limping along thousands of German and Aus- of the watch kept by certain shape of precious stones, passed with the aid of a crutch. Не trian refugees who are being Governments on the movements out of several countries, Ger- told the officials that he had a
THE battle between au- driven into other countries by also helped the smugglers
of their citizens. But time has many included, safely concealed bad wound in his leg, and was
thorities und Customs to in flowing Continental beards. going to have it attended by a goes on unabated, and as soon the ruthless "purification" of build up organisations that now And when that ruse was detect- famous specialist in another as one exit has been closed an- the Nazi regime. Some of these set to work scientifically. The ed smugglers promptly opened capital. His belongings were other· is opened. But unfor-
whole oporation, from the forg several book-binding works, and fugitives are suffering on ac-ing of the necessary passports, concealed large sums, in bank found and he was allowed to tries that have nothing to do was tunately the results touch coun- count of their pacifist or so- the night dashes across lonely notes, in book covers.
pass, to the accompaniment of with the laws that cause the cialist opinions, but by far the frontiers and the clearing houses
expressions of sympathy. smuggling. Scarcely રા week greatest number are persecuted set up in other countries, is done
It was only after he had made passes without some German be- with a skill and slickness that simply because they are Jews. must earn admiration.
used a dozen trips through the fron- ing held up at a British port, one of the largest tier that the officials began to and charged with attempting to Britain and the people of the No frontier in Europe is German newspapers to help him get suspicious, and they actual- smuggle valuables
such RS U.S.A. and of the democratic immune. If bribes are needed, in getting a fortune out of the ly examined the leg, touching cameras and optical lenses into the money is soon forthcoming. country. He inserted an adver- the wounded spot to see if it the country. The object, of States of Europe are under-
If aeroplanes have to be hired, tisement for a clerk in the paper, was genuine. All they could see course, is to sell them here, and taking the responsibility of their the machines are soon provided, and then laboriously addressed was a long, ugly scar, and when so obtain ready cash. absorption partly in a spirit of It is no longer a case of in more than one hundred replies to they touched it the victim let off But these are only pity and partly, no doubt; as a high-class organisation to trans- letter containing a large sum of pain.
genious concealment, but of his own advertisement, cach a shriek as if demented with amateurs, The professional wouldn't think of anything 80 Chater Road. police-measure to prevent dis- fer each item of human cargo money in notes. This done, he He made three more trips in crude. He takes a pride in his orders which are likely to arise from one country to another promptly left for another coun- complete safety and was seen no job, and, judging by the many from the presence within their and the minimum risk of deter-
with the greatest possible speed try.
more. Too late did the officials tricks that have been devised,. borders of large numbers of tion.
When he arrived at his new learn how they had been hood- he has something to be proud of hendquarters, he wrote to the winked. The wound was ahis ingenuity. aliens, work!ess, and very often The money
smuggler works newspaper and explained that genuine wound, but was not the destitute and stateless. But differently. He does not take he was engaged on a business result of an accident. A sur- some of the more far-seeing the risk of rushing across fron- matter which prevented his re- gcon had opened the leg, insert- among their workers realise that whatever immediate burden may be cast upon them to help these strangers in their dis- tress, there is in the refugees a potential asset. The case of the i
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Where Work Means Starvation
Sands of
French Huguenots may come to THERE is a general belief that it work is far below even this standard., the whole family for the other three j in kind. In fact, they are deprived
people are working they must Increased mechanisation has led days.
of every chance of being physically mind. That, however, is ancient be comparatively well off. Un-to on immense amount of part-time As the man said: "Just working at themselves or of rearing healthy history. Far more recently it the case.
fortunately, this is far from being work in Industries where, only a few means starving!"
children. years ago, everyone was fully cm-
People talk contemptuously about I will be remembered how Dr. The unemployed are admittedly ployed. This entails endless hard-
workers who are lazy and prefer to maintained at the bare subsistence ployed for three consecutive days in ships, since, unless a man is unem- Nansen, working as League of level, but, in many cases, especially any one week, he can get no help of deliberately destroyed by the miser- and under-nourished for so long that be idle. My experience is not that The health of hundreds of theu- they do not want to work-that is, Nations High Commissioner for where there are several children, the any kind for the days he is not able pittance that the breadwinner they have not the stamina to be cap
familitics
being unless they have been unemployed Refugees, settled hundreds of family income when the father is in working.
is paid. thousands of
able fugitives
of working. But so many men Unemployment is Greece, where their industry on national and international example of the suffering caused by fare, in his Foreword bad enough, cannot get any work that does not Miners' conditions afford a glaring and people cannot possibly remain reduce the whiple to virtuni
healthy for more than a few months starvation, and m and enterprise has made them lines and must be brought, under-employment and low wages
they do power for good in their therefore, into the scheme) In practically all calllery districts horrible part of it is that, in spite of to the Report of the Unemployment
employment Assistance. And the Lord Rusheline, adopted country.
the average wage earned by an adult this, the income of the unemployed Assistance Board for 1937, points out. which is almost certain to be miner, affor the The work of the Evian Con-adopted at the next Assembly have for a full week's work. This nearly twice that of the miner off as they would be if they were re-
usual deductions made,
.man
with a wife and several children that some 30,000 applicants in re- ference is the better for the fact of the League of Nations, to is te enough, in all conscience, on than twice that of the colller work celving their normal wages, and ha
working
ceipt of Public Assistance are well tour days week, and more off which to keep a wife and children.
so that he does not have three con- give rise to anxiety." Later he
states that, "
they" (the Board) "cannot disregard
their primary duty of meeting need."
two
of
pument.
that its organisers kept in mind | co-ordinate all Refugee Workten, however, a min gets not aizng three days a week spread-over, says: "The position is one that must Hot merely their immediate under the auspices of the but four days work a week for secutive days of unemployment. charitable duty but a çon-League and as a responsibility months or even years on end, sciousness of the valuable to be borne by League funds. Four days' work means an income of 203. a week, since tho deductions
are
Many of us would argue that Un-
human material with which The second comment pertains for Insurance, welfare, ele, are the they were dealing. Yet the im-to the danger that Germany, Isame whatever bis carnings may be. who suffer in this way, Titere
And it is not only miners' familles, mediate burden is an Important and indeed other countries with
Recently I went to see a family innumerabic, workers in other trades factor in the problem. Two unemployment or Semitic prob- was earning 20s, a
in the Rhondda where the father who are in exactly the same post-employment Assistance is so meagre comments are necessary. So lems of their own, may be family, which included seven child the man on short time for whom "meet need." What,
week. The Lion. What more, it is not only that it does not, in fact, really then, is the far, voluntary societies have tempted to use the charity of under fourteen, as well on the working means starving. In some position of the family whose Income father and mother, had to live en- raised auch funds as they could. neighbours as an easy way of tirely on this income. The man had tiles, there are fathers of familles of the unemployed?
en-industries, particularly in the tex-ist far below the wretched standard. In future very large sums will ridding themselves of nationals been unemployed for years
who are forced to do juveniles' work be needed,
Surely it is not too much to ask for training, for whom they wish to discard. In ten months ago. Since then, he has for as little as 22s. 6d. for a forty- in 1930 that the social conscience of emigration, for preliminary 1937 Germany netted £7,000,000 apart from an occasional red-letter
been working four days every week, eight hour week.
the nation should insist upon meet- Nor must it be forgolion that for ing the needs of those who are work- settlement schemes. These may from the property of emigrants, week, during which he has worked all those who are registered sa working as well as of those who are un run to millions-perhaps over Jewish and Non-Jewish, before so has been able to draw Unemploy employed for three consecutive days
for three consecutive days only, and ing-that is, people who are not un-employed. as much as a battleship costs they were allowed to escape.ment Bonent for the other three It is quito clear such sums are The Evian Conference must not days.
In those weeks the family income The children cannot get froo
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in any one week-the law does not
allow relief of any kind, Barbara
neais or free milk at school. There is no coal allowance for the family in the winter, nor can they get any public assistance either in money or
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