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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which in strletly copyright under the provisions of the Telecomumuni- rabona Ordinance, 1938. Buch news ** bears the indication "Ujj", is received in hongkong on the date of publication by the United Preta Anõelations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previoua
American Aims
deals
in-
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*** Any American "picture" at the kind of world that should be sought grows most naturally out of those and interests which are inherently American. Freedom * the escapable keynote freedom speech, of religion, of individual Initiative and economie enterprise. The United States would prefer work in which such freedoms have as full play as possible.
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To such a world America could and should make a greater contribu- tion than it did to the post-Versailles world. Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador in Washington, has rightly pointed out that the economic sina, of Versailles were far greater than its political mistakes. We might go farther and say that with more Delive operation of the Covenant's plans for political adjustments and without such economie Blindness the political tristakes would never have caused war. And on both counts' the
dem. Americans are
Americans are bound
Cady mention
to
United State has a share of blame proportionate to its power.
The American dream has had three main ingredients-Christian
idealism. political union, and economic free- think In those terms. In whatever settle- ment is made there will be need for their reliance on what Lord Lothian called the "everlasting arms of justice, mercy and
love”—-essentials of
peace. making that nothing fosters so well as Christianity.
in pence plans there is of: federation, of democratic peoples or of The nation. Here American ex- should be useful in finding One of America's most, essential
in economic disarma- ment and economic federation. For
the hopes of political whatever
unlon, they must necessarily be harder nohieve than economic co-operation. America in her own experience has proved the tremendous value of free- dom of trade among her states. In- 'deed, political federation for the
United States- has been
Tooled economic union
all
ons to the pearo 'should be:
to
STOP
SPELD
SPEED
BREID
FULL
SPEED
British WAR INDUSTRY
"And if thoro's anything faster than full-speed they can havo II.”
(Mr. Herbert Morrison has paid tribute to the untiring efforts of the munilion makers.)
She can't make
munitions
H
1
ER husband had been called up and she was planning to take up war- work.
am going to join the Bevics,' she told me.
This was a new one on me and A asked her if it was a troupe of glamour girls in an ENS.A. tour- ing company.
Good heavens, no," she said, Bevin's been saying he wants women in industry-well, here's a recruiti"
She had been a receptionist to a dentist before her marriage and while I could imagine her taming the most truculent toothache, 1 could not visualise her charms being anything but a disturbing element In a machine shop.
FACTORY RESERVES THOSE Angers might be nimble enough at fancy stitching, but 1 could not fancy her stitching a bar- rage balloon.
But I could imagine ner being a valuable auxiliary to industry,
For instance, there was always in peace-time a big turn-over in semi- skilled female labour in modern mass-production industry.
Gurls fresh from school learned machine-minding, became expert, stayed a few years, got married, and were replaced.
Because industry was just an in- terval between school and marriage for so many girls, it was always dimcult in pre-war days to get
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And there are
thousands
like het, but they can still help.
BY RITCHIE CALDER
effective trade uuion organisation Among them.
That very process bas, however, created a vast reserve of machine- experienced women now in homes with families and domestle re- sponsibilities In an emergency such as this, they could be called back to the factories If they could be relieved of their homse duties,
Buch a possibility is visualised in the creation of the new Board which is taking over the Factories Department of the Home Omce. created 107, years ago and trans- ferred to the Ministry of Labour.
This Board will continue the fine work of factory inspection, of Indus- trial safely, and medical supervi sion.
. It will also initiate schemes of communal feeding, of crèches for the children of parents sharing the industrial war effort, and of ex- tended medical care.
There is work for battalions of "Beries" in that direction.
My ex-receptionist friend, for in- stance, possesses many qualifica- tions.
She took a domestic science
THE VOICE
MUSSOLINI FEARED
T last Musselini has succeeded. And for many years the Duca Kas dona in gagging the "Osservatore his utmost to cramp its circulation.
If the "Osservatore" published an
•Romano." the Vatican's news-
the Fascista dia- article of which approved, Blackshirt gangs world awoop on the bookstalls and buy up all avalí- abie cuples.
paper.
More recently, infuriated by the news.
Every afternoon in Rome a pro- cession of boy cyclists could be seen streaming over the 'frontier which divides the Vatican City paper's unbiased presentation of mar smallest State in the world-from- St. Peter's Square.
Their job was to deliver coples of the "Osservatore Romano," the Vatican's own evening newspaper, to bookstalls all over Rome..
In recent months they carried bigger and bigger loads, for the..." Osservaloro Romano was the only newspaper which gave the Italian people uncensored news of the outside world. --
This year its daily sale, rose from 50,000 to about 250,000.
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news-and by its outspoken comments on Hitler's Biltzkrieg—the Pracists have used terror tactics instead of trickery.
When Hitler invaded Norway, the. Osservatore Romano dared to speak of King Haszon and his Ministers as "zien of honour." And it added
*Every man of honour who loves hils, country cannot but feel respect for these diminutive people, who, despite their stall forces, attack, even though,
with scant success, to defend their. land."
And, when Hiller invaded Belgium and Holland. It declared that the total war launched by Germany has Founded 19 years ago, the “Claseryna, clearly revealed itself as a pitiless waN, . tore · Romano” la_ the semi-oficial of extermination which is being, cuzi organ of the Vatican. The omcial organ ducted in defiance of the laws of war". is a bulletin' called the ** Acta Apos«
tollem 'Sedla NAME **
· But you can be sure that the Popo ap- proved of every word and every sentence. printet in the " Osservatore." "In fáriner In
daya, as Cardinal Pacelil, he was him- self a frequent oðritribular,"
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But America so far fively applied lesson national sphere. Her tariff barriers have been among the worst offenders in the economic warfare which has denied, freedom of economic opportu nity and access to raw materials to nations that have become, war-
Lact must be borse in mind, and Americans may, well attempt to pro- mote in a new International order the economic freedom which has been so vitkaza part of their own national strength.
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Mussolini, Hitler's vazzal, could not slomach comments of this kind. Ho drdered his Blackshirts to begin a cam- paign of violence,
It even left out headlives—because these might be interpreted as commenta on the news and simply printed the various war communiqués under the Headings Britain,” “France," "Der many."
In the and the "Osservatore * decided This Cservatore'e was published by to present nows without any comment members of the Balesian* religious an all order and printed by the Vatican Poly-
lotes great organ
Ila editor, Count, dellu Torre, is a bit tough-looking mats in his middle files He has always barn hated by the Fat **M 1987 they tried to kidnap him, and Tet Mussolini was still afraid. Afraid for many weeks/ha” was virtually on that stailans, should learn the truthe prisoner 16 Vatican City, PALKER
Hey, afraid, in fact, that they should read medyada Angthing to which Goebbels might
For many years the "Omervators? Bo he has gagged the last free news- has been a thorn in Mussolini's side, paper in Italy.-K. 174
course when she was married, and is an excellent cook and house- keeper, whose skill could be used in she communal feeding-centres.
She has a "way with children" which would be ideal in a crèche. Her receptionist experience would mako her a valuable helper in the works' surgery or welfare depart-
ment.'
They Will Keep Men FIT
By Ritchio Calder
VERY man and woman in
EV
England has been called to "Action stations." Holidays have been postponed in all Indus. tries even remotely connected with the war effort until Octo ber. Machines are to be kept producing 24 hours a day and seven days a week the equip- ment which the Allied armies desperately need.
The response is assured. Men and women are prepared to work
night and day.
Neither Ernest Bevin, in charge of manpower, nor Herbert Morrison, mobilizing machines and materials, had
any doubts or hesitations in making the demands which mean perincing hard-won conditions of employment.
They knew the temper of the working-people of this country-and the working-people know, too, that (the men who went into the Govern- ment and gave us Socialiım over- night wil look after their interests. Taking the Strain Twelve hours a day
and five months without holidays!
It is a heavy order, no matter how willing the spirit of the workers may be. The Minister of Labour known that, and he is taking stepa, to acc that the strain is not too great
During
the next Icw critical months, men and women will be working to the limits of their capa- city. There is no option and, during such a spurt, there are not likely to be any bad effects.
[ tell,
Afterwards the strain is liable to
Better Conditions
#
A 12-hour day produced no more than 10-hour day would.. The Committee recommended the reduc tion of hours, and regular days off and holidays.
Factory conditions-heat. Eghung, ventilation, canteens and welfare supervision-have to be considered and improved to the utmost.
itte
When the new Industrial und trained recruits, now being mobilised, avaliable, and factories organised, not in terms of profit but of maximum efficiency, the demands" upon the workers can be eased.
Again, big transfers of labour may
create
ore billeting difficulties. Hostels will have to be set up and staffed, She might make an ex- cellent matron of a girls' hostel.
Indeed, on the periphery of the
· Industrial effort. there are in- numerable necessary jobs for woman like her, without factory ex- perience or aptitude.
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Hota systems can be organisect which will make it possible for the machines to work continuously night and day, seven days a week, but pro- vide workers with necessary rest days.
Already, in well-organised fac- tories, that la possible, and, in addi- tion, workers can have "breaks," apart from meal-times, throughout the day.
Applying modem scientific know- ready-ledge, the Industrial Health Be- search Board in conjunction with the remove Ministry of Labour, could But it would be a wholetime job for most, if not all, of the bad effects. the best experts.
For instance, there could be part- time "Bevica" in every street or dis- trict, selected women prepared to take their share in relieving those ' reservists" of in- married women dustry of their nousehold chores.
There
to seema made army of women “reservists with factory experience which could be adapted readily to new processes; the recruitment and training of other women who want to play their part in industry is going on.
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Schemes are in hand and, in many instances, in operation for training these women.
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One of Mr. Bevin's many pre-war campaigns for the well-being of the workers was his demand for an In- dustrial Medical Service. I rement- ber him arguing the case 10 vigor- ously and conclusively at the annual meeting of the British Medical Asso- eistion that die-hard doctors cheered
It is now imperative.
TIME TO SPARE WOMEN are going to play an in-him. creasing part war-service. The calling-up of husbands and the evacuation of children are leaving lots of women with time which could be usefully employed,
No one is going to suggest for the * moment, anyway, conscription for
women
What the R.A.M.C. Is to the soldiers, an Industrial Medical Ser- vice must be for the workers. En- lightened Arma already provide it and have their own medical ofeers. Food and the Man The Industrial doctors would be But there is a very good case to be
and additional to made out for the registration of all different from
the Factory Department and the women willing to take part in war Certifying Factory Surgeons, who work and for expert local selection have hitherto been under the Home committees to decide the way in Office. but who should really func which they would best be emploved. tion under the Ministry of Labour.
Lo
some
need
П
Bus
"The Minister for Labour and
The industrial doctors would be National Bervice has the powers to concerned not only with casualties mobilise women, and, if he sees at but with welfare, with communal.
reorganise existing services.
feeding, with factory conditions and of these services
with everything else which concerns reorganising.
the health of the workers. This war will be won by efficiency. Hitherto there has been not by self-flattering goodwill The picion, unjustified, that works doc- parish bazaar spirit will not do in tors are "employers' varka." A ser- these critical times. Although many vice under Ernest Bevin would leave of the voluntary organisations have no such suspicion. done good work, it is in spite of The Born Leaders who regard war-work as a glorified bridge-party.
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NO MORE MAYFAIR
Communal feeding is another of his lively concerns: In industriol press the canteens which will have to be organised to supply the workers might usefully be extended, on a food economy, to their families as well,
Everything that
2 Demands will be
HERE is a real distrust among of the women's ipost women
can be done, for military services the ATS the the benefit of the workers will be WAAFs, etc.--because as Mis done. Nothing will be allowed to Ellen Wilkinson, now a junior min- stand in the way of efficiency in pro-
duction.
and health and well-being ister, used to point out so vigorously, there Wis "too much Mayfair are indispensable to efficiency
heavy. Leisure about them."
Anyway, byen if those milliary ser will be scarce. And it would be vices were put on a proper basis there silly to try to "organic" that leisure ina vass body of women who dislike or to restrict diversions and recrea- barrack-square methods and long-term tions. enllatment. There are many who want The Minister for Home- Security to serve in any way they can but whose bus wisely declined to interfere, commitments and responsibilities bar until the war, situation makes it ther from Joining up for the duration absolutely necessary, with the cine-
Regulars
·In addition to the
Dimas, dog-racing, and so on. these services (including the Land'
Army) who could act as the Expedir A New Order tionary Force, ready sa at present to But what the workers will need. be sent anywhere as the need arises, will be rest and fresh air. there.qught to be: Local Corpa ̈
One thing is certain. This drive
. Di course women are already playing will have Its. compensations not only s big part in Jocal AFLP, services and in there seems to be hundreds of sporadic cessful war-machine, but in the
building an irresistible and suc voluntary organisation. But then must revolutionary changes which will be „be”co-ordinatioquia impadre frame da
And there are millions of women will wrought in industrial organisation.
The old system is in the King, with proper direction, and, some
guarantes of thelent and democrade pot: The old abuses of pricing ploitation are rising like. neutr --organisation, to make themáelven:uanis,
and join the war strength of this and being skimmed off. A hew order als being fashioned in thes mould of Socialism.
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