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American Communists? Propaganda Splurge

American Communists are organising for a greatest propaganda splurge. A United Press survey reveals that Communist Party leaders have been holding a series of frantically urgent meetings from coast to coast to organise a campaign directed primarily at Congress. Their objectives are, first, to

delay Congressional considera:

tion of legislation to outlaw the Communist Party in the United

Sensible Sleep

States, and second, to make For Your Child

medicine against the administra- tion's firm policy toward inter- national Communism.

New

Communist Party headquarters in York issued instructions to Party leaders throughout the United States for the opening of a propa- nan-Com- through Rando borrage munist channels--the so-called Com- munist front organisations and fel- low travellers.

(Continued from Page 5)

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1947.

DAB

FLOUNDER

IF YOU CAN'T BE

will

you

FULL employment is on trial.

Can we rise to the height. of this great argument? Amid postwar readjustments and un- casiness it seems to me quite the most interesting industrial ques- tion of our times.

If everybody can be on his toes all the time at his job with out the age-old sanction of dis- missal hanging over him, then we shall have seen an immense advance of the free human spirit.

This condition, with the new pro- ductivity of the machines, opens up a prospect of prosperity and plenty never dreamed of in the slave em- pires of old or modern ages.

still

by WALTER

SACKED, hard?

work

asks WILLIAM BARKLEY

Jack Lawson, who as a fad read The monthly digest of statistics

bath. Tom Smith, tells you at a glance how the miner Gibbon in his his is working and how

output frat Socialist M.P. to champlon the compares with the day before yes agricultural worker..

lost, terday and the year before

James Crimths, big-hearted pater the postwar and the prewar. There familias to the nation as Minister of

Josh other National Insurance. are no such figures for any

steeped in the Scriptures, penetrat- workers in Britain.

ing, Incisive, with a poct's tongue. Many others of dignity and in- tegrity whom I take to be represen- tative.

This abundance of Information arises from the political pressure of the miners' movement. Bob Smillie, thou now legendary figure of the miners revolt, thou didst thy work too well!

Ritson,

ле

you

The worst elements arc being weeded out. These are they who did not rise to the new concept of full employment, who did not make the grade in conscience and Imagi nation.

Jests And Jeers

The campaign to make English the universal Inngange finds a staunch, practical supporter in the Inland Revenue Department,

It has been suggested' that, in order to make income tax-popularĮ Government should Ixxue coloured, badges pr buttons. to distingulsh taxpayers according to the amounts they contribute. It is thought that this would induce healthy com- petition and keenness to pay.

•

•

"Signs of Peace in Indo-China," saya na headline. Yer, they're Aghi- ing hard for it,

•

Women say that men are all alike. Well, they're that way, be-. cause women are all alike.

Among the new inventions that will be exhibited at the "Scotland Can Make 10 fair is a rat trap that kills the victim before it can get at the cheero.

.

•

•

Overheard on the Terry: "I'd emotions marry him if he were more hand- The Aner motives and of the nation as a whole nwalt some, or richer-or if he'd ask me." leadership and inspiration. It wants these postwar to be lifted from doldrums and told it is in the pre- peace era, on the verge of a great expansion of plenty, given good will and good worke..

The prophet

N this I have been reading a book which caused a stir long ngo in 1872, written at age 33 by one called Winwood Itende.

He made some astonishing pre- dletions--the use of electric power, the invention of "erial locomotion." He had broodéd a great deal on the blood-stained path which mankind followed, and he wrote:---

Brave men's rally

old That herolc

he REMEMBER Ritson telling me leader, ns seemed to most of his followers, with glowing pride how,

Durham looks down now, let us hope, fram any

miners' rally, some miners' heaven where the pick would see more Service medals than assembly of equal is laid aside and no dust grimes. In any other

"It is not probable that war will to see the completion of his plan for numbers. Patriotism burns in their

breasts like the flame of their coal. cease unl! science discovers some

WHY.

then, are the miners sub- destroying force so simple in its ad- nationalisation.

But the miners' demand for injected to so much

its nagging? Be ministration, so horrible in

gallantry ahead of all others in that develen. formation cut a stick that is often cause a percentage of slackers and effects, that all art, all

It's truants--genteelly called voluntary will be at an end, and battles wli

some absenteeists-are

the be massacres which the feeling of whole body,

mankind will be unable to endure."

To work without compulsion de- mands a high level of social con- the oldest united science. Britain, nation in the world, the land which first got over the toothing troubles of nationhood-civil wars-is

thal

emergency

far

worse

doubled.

discrediting

clearly

he strained to sleep for long periods just as adults should be trained to relax, in order to allow the nervous

fald across their own backs. ment, system opportunity for rest and re- freshment,

Devotion to one's job when it is broad back. Let us lay on must mothers and In practice.

also requires

higher mure.

The Agure was 4 percent before nurses are ardent advocates of the secure

The prewar output per man per the war, has been as high as 10 and much

measure of imagination than when long sleep because it is so

that shift working at the coal face was

now 15. These are not all it is precarious. We needed more convenient for the rest of the

tons. Today it is 2 tona 10 truants, but truancy lins They also want trade unions, union household. To anyone who has the quality in the war. We had to act 3

always without the spur of invasion cwts. I make that a fall of about 6

nation

percent. Is that so bad when you leaders, political lenders, churchmen, constant society of a turbulent, ener-

either upon our soil. Nobly the

of the. take into account

diet, rose to educators and others to rain tele- getle baby or toddler, never

President Trumon, Secre-

requiet or safe unless he is asleep, it

Kreater nge level, and in some parts, Krams on

Schwellen-is natural enough that the moment spirit.

The intangible and unseen perils wearing-out scams? tary of Labour - Lewis

Mr Schwellen- when the curtains

andof bach and Congress.

cot pulled up is

our economic position in

Just must

ust be grasped by all bach is getting attention because he the side of the can be drawn and told a Congressional committee he to which they will look forward with Communist increasingly

Joyous

anticipation clearly as they grasped the war favoured outlawing the

time dangers, Maximum output is the day. And if, after u throughout Party-

of advance, maybe even The Instructiona

few battles, some bitter protests and

of ood deal of crying, the child at

"It is a sad thing," said a well- These Instructions were as follows:

the line that the last learns that being tucked down 1. Adopt

darkened room really

ally informed MI, to me, but two men Schwellenbach proposal is unconstituin bed in n

a grent mnuy tional and is Gined not only at Com-means that fun and games are over applying for jobs at the work gates

for the day so he may as well re- today would stop

others knocking off 20 minutes be- munists but at the Bill of Rights.

2. Concentrate on Director J. Ed-concile himself and try to get off gar Hoover of the Federal Bureau sleep-well, from the mother's point fore time." of Investigation as the master plot-of view, so much the better. ter against Communists and

the But has the battle really

campvelop mass meetings in which have to be taken

2

3.

one

10

peace

s

Increased mechanisation may off- do not know. set these points. 1 But I doubt very strongly whether of bricklayers or ship- the output yard workers would compare favourably if the figures could be given,

Output must rise

£0

re? It is the challenge of Aation es la e much higher

than

the

it

LL the line, however, what the

prewar to feed output than been the new age.

1r all the 'tween-war period greater industrial effort and to in- Bill of Rights. Against Hoover the worth while? The answer. I think.

these employment issues naturally crense exports.

rangour. is an unqualified smear cannot be given as a simple 'yes' or

factors artused the most bitter 'no, for there are variotis prograinme

The fall in the miners' output is int con-

About every three weeks through

years listened to a parliamen- generally quoted at a higher figure

have seen 6 percent. I

arises tary debate on unemployment. mass campaign against anti-Com-sideration.

In the first place there is the ques-

1 At first found the House given nt 13 percent. This munist legislation and against United

tion of when the child has got to get States foreign policy.

begun shocked at the figure of a million from averaging output not over the anodyne of re- men at the coal face, but over the school) unemployed. The up. After school days have

two million whole industry. (even if it is only nursery and the day mist start at 7 or 7.30 petition in line made

time.tolerable. The figure reached three if school is to be reached in late bedtime may mean that the million. The FBI and Mr Hoover are child has to be wakened before he the is ready and that is definitely a bad pecially singled out because Communists hold they have been

developing thing. largely responsible for

Rogular Routing public opinion against the Party in

country.

4.

Tie the campaign in with defence of Gerhart Elster, alleged

Committnist subversive agent.

Iko's Outfit Target

THES

On that calculation the output per man per shift is said to have fallen Irum & prewar 1-ton 3 cwts.-to-a surely But this is present 1 ton.

Presumably "all the industry" in- most unjust to the coal face men. cludes even the extra clerks em-

P.A.Y.E. now ployed to work out

worked

Here, us

Maybe the atom bomb will out- law war. Maybe we can turn to our alloiled tasks with 'comfort and Joy, sure that we shall see the re- wards of our labour.

The pretty salesgirl smiled and said: "Can I help you?"

The young man looked somewhat confused, and said: "Oh, no, thank you. I'm just shoplifting."

WHACE

*kfadame must remem ber the cost of living for minks has risen, too.”

JAMES AGATE on BOOKS

TALKING POINT FOR READERS— Our book critic reviews 'a masterpiece' by Horman Molvillo, Ho namos him as one of America's two groatost writers. Who is the other 7 Sco if you agroo with the choico Mr. Agate gives.

Its

seams burst with grandeur

"Billy Budd." by Herman Melville..

HP

limited edition. then in 24

It Is #

master staggering picce, with grondeur everywhere bursting through the scams,

.The story, which begins im

Lurc

who concelves

An

Soine

at

Ingo-like them. So Billy hangs, and his last hatred of the young feretopman und words are "God bless Captain Vere." finally charges him before the cop-

years later, just before They remember

(John Lehmann. 5s.)

tain

with

crew Inciting the

to Trafalgar, Captain Vere was shot. mutiny. Now Billy stammers in in action. He died in hospital ERMAN MELVILLE'S "Bil- moments of THESE memories are burned deep

excitement: rendered Gibraltar, and was heard to murmur into the minds of working people

breath words in- ly Budd," begun in 1888 literally speechless by the unfounded with his inst If, on the other hand, there is nu

them and may often incline

to his attendant. They and finished a few months be- charge, he flings his fist in the face,' explicable the jobs they have. Plans to raise a US$250,000 cam-question of school and the toddler,

You might as well chuck the fore the author's death in 1891, of the master-at-ams, who has no were "Billy Budd. Billy Budd." paign fund have nirendy been who has gone to bed at 7 or 8 o'clock, to spin out

whole of Mr Shinwell's Ministry was first published in 1924, and more sense than to fall down dead. Note that none of this is Melville's. invention, that all of it is plain navál nounced in the Communist news-instend of the more conventional 6 The nation requires them to resist

often advanced in those upon the miner's back or userlbe a Socialists that

A drumhead court-martial follows, history. paper, the Dally Worker. The pro- p.m., hns every opportunity to sleep that templation.

brutal

argument that fall in the coal face man's output;

which is the occasion for an extra- days the

Why, then do I call this book gramme includes a protest demon-until,, 8 or 8.30 if he wants to,

to to an increase in the staf of the

ordinarily penetrating analysis of the masterpiece! Because of the master- stration scheduled to take place in particular point can be ignored. For

It win there is nothing intrinsically mure capitalist employers preferred

have large pool of unemployed. Coal Board.

mentally of the philosophic Captain ly handling of what might have been of the Washington in carly May.

Vere. We are told how the captain a serdid story. Because be a demonstration of war veterans valuable to the child in sleep which

from 6

Ba.m. then The idea was that a man

everywhere in Britain p.m. to

with Billy and realises polgnancy of the telling. Because of but on a small scale-not more than lasts

there is in

in sleep which lasts from 8 with more enthusiasm and at lower 500

to 8 a.m.

be ministrative charges carried on the Nore, concerns in the first place Billy that to supplant him if

as a naval commander. p.m.

he whole thing. Because, ns a last re- What is far more likely to happen, by ready

shoulders of the toiling worker. From Budd, young sailor who, ilke How.

Dickens's Joe Gargery, is fair, blue- must press for a conviction. How sort, of the way in which the Eng- however, is that the child who does slacked.

statistics again: The percentage It is a horrible doctrine for still may

This book confirms an impression not go to bed til 8 p.m.

penalty for homicide at sea is hang- proud and ploneering race. I al- of manshifts at the coal face an eyed, innocent, and all made up of he opposes mitigation of sentence; the lish language is handled. at 6 m. (or even 5) very

percentage of total manshifts in the good nature, sweetness and fun, ways set my face against it.

Opposite him, as the Alm jargon ing, and this is remitted the crew I have long had that Melville is one prewor so lively and I cheerful, anxious to get up

37.47.

has it, is John Claggart, the man-of- will hold that their officers, shaken af America's two greatest men the

But this is the day when faith Industry has fallen since

from 30.00 to postponed

sed at once and start the day's activities.

Turn now from. the arithmetical war's master-at-arms an evil eran by the recent mutiny, are afraid of letters. Whitman being the other. urgent

Some regular routine of bedtime is put to the test when labour Is scarce and when a million and Π their national convention, which was

to the human Agures. What an ex- God-rusting to scheduled for July. It is now set and uprising there must be, and 1 is

half are not-thank

miners' short time--this ment has wrought in Westminster. Prewar unemployment, for all its They have been the spearhead of blight and blast of individual lives, the Socialist Party.

An historian Escott writing in the was not necessarily a net wastage

1885 enld: "The dream

stil year petually produced more-worked

of sending harder than they would, with a English workmen

Parliament a number of greater sense of security arlsing from scarcity of labour.

wages so long as others slood ly today, you get more and more ad-mediately after the mutiny at the sympathises charge is faked. the spiritual glow which informs the

So for the Communits have not found a name for their new pro- paganda organisation, but they are "The Commitice for

cosiderin Rights." Parly leaders wake

erdit they

emergency

have

19

amy

for the autumn, by which time they highly desirable that a child's activ in idleness, but are removed in the traordinary change--and in what i

ch that

believe they will have achieved aties during the day shall be such

anu-Com-when 6 or 7 o'clock comes around armed forces from profitable "United Front" against

he will be willing to have his bath dustry, munist legislation.

and snuggle down to sleep. But it possible that different at least, 19, amounts of sleep.

in-

move-

recent pes, of children require different in productive cfort if those at work vaguely flits before the vision of our

of

1

Party Jarred That the Party organisation has been

by severely Jarred events is evident from the reaction

In this respect, far too little notice of known Communists. They cum- plain, for instance, that the FBI has in taken of the child's individual re-

for we have quirements,

gradually started

"whispering campaign become so used to a

the rules which has led persons formerly sy mothercraft as laid down in various pathelle to attack

In Communists

textbooks, that we tend more and trade unions."

members have been advised more to look at the book instead of

looking at the child. the personal feelings to

ppeal

to of prejudices of non-Communista. whose signatures are sought for peti- tions and telegrams during the pro- paganda manoeuvre.

ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS

2.

Questions on Pajo D

Compromise

The only rule which I think it is really necessary to observe in connection is one which I have in- vented myself, and that. Is that a child should not be for more than without half an hour' In the dark any toys, music or com trying to get to sleep..

How much loss? OBVIOUSLY what instlers in the

-And the rest of the books

"Pence Breaks Out," by Angela anywhere, and when you least expect

Thirkell. (Hamish Hamilton, 10s.)

to His book is not for heavyweight repre-boxers or all-in wrestlera. Nor

JL

"Miss Banks had a friend who had taken a very high degree at the University and was devoting her life to

"Don't Take It Seriously," by. Clara Midleton. (Longmans, Green, 8s. 6d.)

of

sentatives who shall form a Labour is it for young people who scamper defective Latin lessons to mentally HS book is a giba at the expense

Party at Westminster."

just 60 years the dream members of 1885 near 400 and supply the country's Government.

And:

children."

"Millions saw the dawn of an even Braver and Newer World, as if the present brave new one were not un pleasant enough."* ·

And again:: "Now

of those misguided people who write autobiographies and publish them. Here

1s wit. Tho again famous authoress whose spoof auto- blography this is confesses that the heroine of her new novel is a police- woman. Asked for her title, she re- the piles, "Brave Is Her Shape." And here. I submit, is a grand name for a publisher who makes his money out of dirt: "Frank Midden"

through a story to find out whether fitting Eric gets the glamorous Jennifer or number is fobbed off with plain Jane.

It not for plat-hunters, because Mrs Thirkell declines to deal in any- Is the miner M.P.'s task done thing so gross as a plot. Her genius

we'll have to switch gone? Under the is for sauntering along the by-waya mws back to peace and they won't his occupation nationalisation he will not be able of story-telling, and the judicious to question and debate every little reader will not care and perhaps not like it."

count is the individual output and exertion of those at work. And this on all sides one

hears that the output per man today is much be-

Does the reader think that taking action of the National Board na ho know whether she gets anywhere or

Just the book to make a railway low prewar

the plums out of the cake is an easy journey 'pass' quickly, at the end of How much is output. down per did the deeds of the private com- notoxers have been mentioned let way of reviewing? The reader is which the generous render will leave

of panies. man in Industry? Here is one the grand ironios of our

have me say that Mrs Thirkell writes as right. But what else can a reviewer, ton Ute seat for the next passen political Many striking 'characters life. It is only in the coal industry renched Westminster from the coal Jimmy Wilde used to box, meaning do when the book is all plums and ger. Not worth shelf-room, then?

that aho can produce a quip from no cake?

Well, perhaps not. that the question can be answered: face via unlon appointments.

of course, ho may take rather longer conscious- i. Ireland, Lesser Yellow Trefoll than usual to relapse into

night bo falls is sold as Shamrock on St Patrick's ness, but it night after

an Hungerford. 3. On

fall asleep within half an hour of Day. electric railway.

going to bed, then either he is being 4. Okapi. Brazil. 6. The Royal Norfolk Re-put to bed too early, or he is not

Pettina giment. 7.

B. Wonder worker.

Royalton, fresh air and exercise to make Central

Court, Courts of Justice, Middlesex-street. him ready for sleep at the appro-

OP: FGHIJKL. 1. Mazo de la printe time. Roche, Conan Doyle.

9.

Criminal

CROSSWORD SOLUTION Solution to yesterday's puzzle- Across--1, Pact; 4. Atrip; 7, Hiro- shima; B, Iraq; 11, Sudan; 13, Vulgar; 14, Oges; 15, Sambo; 17, Lanthanum; 21, Otto 23, Reef; 26, Tiger; Ram; 2, Yncawood.

sufficient interesting occupa

As a reasonable compromise be tween the rigorous theories of the text books and the undisciplined wishes of the individual child, would suggest that one should always aim at 6 of

7 o'clock bedtime, but when the period between bed- time and falling asleep is continuous- minutes some 20,ly more than thirty

action should be taken, both to in- Down-1, Philology; 2, Craven; 8, crease the daytime activities and to Toque; 4. Ass; B, Thug: 0 Fanto decrease the time spent in bed, mime & Mar.10. Regatta; 12, Dam;

tin

that interval can be shortened,

and

10, Shrew; 16, B. U. 18, Toga; 19,'bedume' and 'sleep' come to mean Aero; 20, Nero; 22, Tic; 24, Fid. the same thing to the child.

NANCY

'Inside Job

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IN THE HOUSE ?

WELL ---THEN MAY I GO OUTSIDE ?-

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TODAY

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