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"Hope its answers are better than they were in 1929"

WERE THEY SET FREE

FROM SLAVERY FOR THIS?

MONTEGO BAY (Jamaica). TT was dark. The moon was

trees. The sound of the occan lapped snugly against the beach. The outline of the bay and the rugged mountainous surround- ings showed proudly and plainly against the deep blue of the night sky.

The new 1946 model Chrys-

Dramatic, moving and significant is this docu- ment-an exclusive report from British Colonial

hospital. by

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No

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France Flatters Her Miners

By MAURICE EDELMAN, M.P.

Baits

IERRE BOURDILLON is The Communists who hold land- one of the miners of the Ing positions in the union dinlliced the idea of a large influx of Poles. Pas de Calals, who have raised

Germans, and anti-Russlan total coal production from the into their key industrial areas, But weekly rate of 915,000 tons in they recognised that without theoni 1938 to 1:070,000 tons in Fob- France would not rench

sumer target of 75,000,000 tons; and ruary 1947.

He is a contented man. He lives in a newly built, tom- porary, woollen house, erected under the general plan of the Ministry of Reconstruction.

Although there were more than a million houses made uninhabitable in the North of France during the war, and there is a great lack of accom- modation, Bourdillon wan given priority for a house-because he is

miner.

a

Each morning he cycles to work on a

a bicycle provided with new tyres, Throughout France there is a critical shortage of rubber, but Bourdilen has priority for tyres--because he is a miner.

her con-

without conl France can never re- cover her industrial eminence, but must dwindle into a country of gon-

col-peasants.

Bourdillon welcomed the fact that of the 218,163 underground miners in February, as many as 30,707 were prisoners of war. "Is it morally worse, asks the logical Bourdillon, "to persuade P.o.Ws to work In mines than In fields?"

Now that the Americans want the return of the German P.o.Wa whom they lent to the French, the man- power situation of the coalmines

is as already threatened, particularly many voluntary Polish miners have gone, or are going home.

The French Government is hoping to all the threatened gap by seeking contracla with former to make German P.o.Ws to stay as voluntary workers.

During his seven-hour shift at the cual face he eats a "snup" of meat sandwiches, a special ratión-because

The mineworkers union is doubt- he is miner.

ful about the wisdom of this, but When the shift is over he is not acquiesces. Coal at all costs is the worried by the cigarette famine

Coal from the French demand. which his cousin, an engineer in mines, coat from America, coal from Bellevilic, Faris, is always grumbling the Sabr and Ruhr-and if possible, about. He has a ration of as many coal from Britain, as it was in 1938 as 20 cigareties a day, compared when we sent France more than

with about six a day for the general population because he is a miner

When he changes his clothes at the pll-head baths he is able to wear n new suit. bought with the extra clothing points which are allotted to flowers or personal possez-miners. The shoes he wears were alans decorate the austere wards.er

awarded to him as a production No toys or playthings deck the bonus. He takes home as much as children's quarters. The children three litres [5% pints] of wine a when they leave their cots, sit de- week-the average ration is four a jectedly beneath them on the con-month. And he sits down to a meal crete Boor.

with his family in which extra The St James's Hospital, Montego meat and bread bring his calory total

to 4,000 a day. Bay. was built in 1920. The full horror of this hospital is told in a

Encouragement very few words. IT WAS BUILT FOR 72 BEDS AND NOW HOUSES MORE THAN 200 PATIENTS.

.

The staff are adequate in number. Two doctors, a matron, 27 nurses and 11 probationers. The medical supplies are good and the theatre is a model of its size. The food is planned on the modern diet system. Extra food is allowed to be brought in from outside, but it is oflen eaten by the patients before the nurse has and

a decide

POURDILLON

was

6.600,000 tons.

Incentives

We

IF we could export another 6,000,-

000 tons of coal to France would make an aliance with her more binding than any treaty,

If we could produce enough coal to export 30,000,000 tons of coal year, we could reussert Britain's leadership in Europe and raise our standlord of life by the Imports which the coal would attract.

If we could raise our present coul not always output over our 1038 output "by the B such an enthusiastle worker. same amount as the French have During the occupation he helped, in raised their coal output we would 1043, to reduce the weekly overall get those 30,000,000 tons. average to barely 817,000 tons a

Is. Jack Jones of South Wales then, week.

Bour- worse miner than Pierro dillon of the Pas de Calats? ·01 course not. But Jack Jones needs help and encouragement.

When France was liberated, it took him some time to get into his stride again. Absenteeism was often as much as 22 per cent,

But there were two circumstances which encouraged them all to reduce their absenteeism to something likte

fer in which I was driving came PAMELA CHURCHILL chance to dete 18 per cent.

to a halt in front of a large building.

A two-storeyed white and green house situated on 1 curve of the harbour.

I climbed the steps on to a porch and turned into a room where ů Hght was shining. Near to me, ly ing on an iron bedstead, a body moved. The outline of a second @gure the same bed stirred also. Then I saw two feet: they separated the bends of the other two people. Three grown men sharing a single bed.

Round this room

were

22 beds: Fifty-three people were occupying them. Those 53 human beings were all sick, They were patients 197 Government hospital in Jamaica.

Few groans or moans came from these men. It was 10 o'clock Et night and they were sleeping Sleeping as best they knew how, Curled round each other, as if even in sleep they were conscious that one move would pitch their com panion or companions ùn to the con- crete floor.

Only the critically sick or dying had a couch to themselves.

Like Corpses

FR

FROM

the

end of the men's ward we climbed an outside staircase to the floor above. As I mounted that stairway I could see the moon shining into the room we had just left. The white shoot-draped Agures looked like corpses awaiting burlal. So sharp, so still, and so grim was their outline,

The passageways that

separated

Priority Number One for the nation. His work must be considered as aircraft were Priority Number One in the war.

The first was the system of priori- right kind or ties for miners, introduced by the He must receive benefis and in- quantity,

Government; the second was the en-centives in the form of special allo- word from ward were also Alled This happens because though couragement of miners' trade union, cations of goods and services. with patients, They lay on there are certain visiting hours, the The first circumstance meant that His union must welcome foreign stretcher couches; there were not rule Is not kept: relations and the moro he worked-payment is by workers, under contracts in which enough bedsteads to go round. friends wander back and forth by results, with special bonuses-not the unions participate, to lend him

Their Faith

day and by night.

Discipline is an unknown word. THE surgical wards were the least Inmates from the men's ward wan- crowded. In one 1 counted ns. der in with the women patients and many as six beds that had only one sit on their beds. occupant-patients that had operated on that day,

been

only did he get more paper money, u hand, and raise the labour force but he was also able to buy more by 50,000 young men; and the Na- real goods.

tional Cool Board must seek to en The second circumstance meant gage new labour under contract for that his union did everything in its dixed periods. power to make him feel that he was Once coal mining is seen to be both h commando of industry, a leader in a patriotic and a rewarding occupa- the task of national reconstruction. tion, the industry wil gel the men From the overcrowding comes Bourdiliion's union added to material it needs, and the country will get

its cool. the disorder and the appalling at-incentives a patriotic Incentive. mosphere that pervades the build- ing. The patients, the visitors, the children, all intermingle.

the

The women's wards

were the same as the men's-two and some. times three to a bed; women, young and old, the sick and the very sick. The Jew who surred when the light went on looked curiously atIt is, in truth, sad...and bad me. Their expressions, haggard example of the provision that is and pallent, made me realise that made for they were mateful to be in the hos-

Jamalean people. pital at all. They had faith that How car those people who were they were being cured even though freed from slavery little over 100 they must sleep their way back to years ago, be educated to cleanli- health heaped together in the heat

ness and decency when such a low of a bug-infested Caribbean night.

standard is set for them in their In one of the male wards

hospital? overcrowding was so dense that kind two iron park benches, the that curl, had been put together. A blanket was thrown over them, for there was not an extra mattress, On this bed of varying levels were stretched 'three young men. in the corner on a wooden box. ing patient sat; no sleeping place hod yet been found for him.

the

& moan-

Mothers' Ward

NE of the smallest rooms was the maternity ward. It has no annexe or labour .room attached. The waiting women watch the auf- fering of their neighbours.

In one bed were two women. Between them lay a few-hours-old

It was such irony that this beau- tiful Jamaican moon, that reflected like liquid gold across the smooth still water of the bay, should come

overcrowded ward of sick human be another, beings.

to rest on a sight so terrible as the babe: by the morning there might

In a corner was a

was

And this hospital is situated on one of the most beautiful bays in the world. Rich, elegant tourists pass It every day, on their to the beach, a beach where they le in charming

gazing at the case. beauty of Montego Bay.

way

They do not know that close by, In the building which from the out- side is a fiting adornment to the landscape, many sick people must share a bed.

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BY THE WAY by Bacchcomber

THE nows that there will be prising as some people seem to think. because her 70-year-old mother threw

an international Eisteddfod The Sorkalium Lapps call any bear her over a garden wall.

Most of this year in Wales worries me. that is not brown an albino, and the women I know, when their mo- they have a superstition that the thers have reached that age, relax Imagine the effect of a chic appearance of three albino bears in their vigliance, imagining that all French choir on those Druids, any locality means that the reindeer such dangers are over, But..onc They will begin to add frills and will die. once argued about this society woman I know was knocked ribbons and things to their austere with a Lapp. I said, "You see, your out by a vicious uppercut from an

alive,"

"Yes" 81-year-old mother. She felt auch a nightshirts, and to make rhetorical reindeer and still

contented On the second floor we reached young mother with her new child. the children's ward: Little

at her son, from She smiled proudly cols were crimmed close together. while the other Inmate of the bed Inside the harsh blacie bars, two, sat on the end and rocked herself three, even four black plccnpinntes slowly to and fro. Jay huddled. Thoy lay as puppies

I clambered down the iron stair-gentures at the harp. Llangollen's sald he, "but they will die later." fool that she explained to her friends do, pushing against one another case, to the ground floor. It and Aberbananer's boarding houses "Of course they will; they have to that she had walked into a lamp In their sleep. Seeking comfort difficult to realise that what I had and hotels will become Hotel de die tome time," said I. "They have post in the dark. and sympathy.

seen was true.

Linngollen et de l'Univers," "Pension to die, as you say," replied the Lapp. Dy day when I had visited Toinette." "Villa Colifichet," "Chez "and when they die it will be because Reprieve. Audible whimpers and small crles hospital it had not seemed so ter- Didi," and so on.

The albino bears of Lapland Lurking danger · corners. I have never seen, a more ran, leave their,communal beds and pitiful sight. And the children who sit on the balcony benches. But THE report that albino bears nive

ayhen he reads that there: Is', to be clustered together in those cots did even then it in a grim and sordid appeared in North West Lap- r other day a woman" of

47 th power station in the lovely Vale land is interesting, but not us' sur- A complained that she felt depreșed of Úsk. And so say all or Uşir.

the

of pain came from diferent rible. For by day the patients that

not even suffer, &- sirullar Illness.

sight:

NANCY Warmest (Corner in Town

BARR --- THIS ́ IS - THE COLDEST DAY OF THE YEAR.

SLUGGO SAID HE'D WAIT ||FOR ME AT THE CORNER

OF STATE AND, ELM

BRRR

I WONDER

WHY HE PICKED THAT CORNER

AH-H-H-

of these albino bears,”

Ey Ernie Bushmiller

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