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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1947.

T

'KING' BUSTAMANTE

HOLDS ON

HERE is a dull murmur

in the air out in Jamaica. People are restless. The murmur is like that of the. Caribbean when ♫ hurricane threatens.

Striding across the scene in electrical Alexander Busta- mante, who can certainly make a storm, but has never proved that he can break one.

He now has his chance and he has helping him all the skill of the Civil Service here and in the Colonial Office as well as mil- lions of British money.

Bustamante ("Great God Busta') has amassed a fortune as president-and treasurer-of the Bustamante Industrial Trades Union. Also nominally the Minister of Communications. he is de facto Prime Minister.

Gone is a lot of the glamour of his fantastic autobiography seafaring before the mast, dietician, stock-market operator. All that doesn't matter so much now. He only boasts to- day that he is worth £75,000.

masses.

He is still the hero of the but they have beaten him out of his greatest strong- hold, the Kingston Docks, which used to enable him to tie up all

| business activity.

SILLY STRIKE He faced charge

met.

...

he is still the hero in Jamaica but the people are restless

'Socialist plot to kill me

by

THEODORE SEALY

Associate editor of The Daily Gleaner,

Kingston, Jamaica

Bustamante addressing his supporters on Empire Day.

culties, on which Bustamante cannot wish to have overmuch public attention focused.

Bananas, down in production frora

27,000,000 to the

10,- prewar 600,000, because of disease, are only 103 percent up in price, Imported cotton goods are up, 353 percent

Even rum, which has risen 335

percent on the pre-war price, in topped by imported boots and choes, which are up 378, percent,

The task to be accomplished

So that Bustamante knows that might well dismay the bravest.

whlie Britain has spent millions on With 50,000 Jamaicans back Jamatea. Jomalen is still subsiibing Perhaps having in mind how and mostly unemployed, after Britain who buys our goods. tough some of these boys were tasting higher standards of

Jamnalea is getting for this year's in Britain, he lost his nerve, living in the U.S. as farm pulled revolvers from both hips workers

in Britain as sugar £23 a ton, while Cuba sells to and made himself liable to pro- Servicemen, there is a wide- Britain for £4 a ton more.

much secution by firing a bullet. spread derhand for a higher and The Canary Islands get a

better price than Jamaica for bana- fuller economy.

It struck the pavement dan- gerously near his own foot. Nothing happened.

Faced with these reverses, Bustamante has now started a stunt which has never failed to appear when he is playing for high stakes, when he wants to ride on a live martyr's chariot into popular favour.

and

NOT READY Plans for reconstruction But reconstruction plans are not yet ready.

1153.

*

Rice, the staple food, in five times dearer than before the war.

seem

Bustamante is faced with all these problems, and they

to growing worse,

The ten-year plan, to cost

The Civil Service is openly restive, £2,000,000, is in its second

This demanding more pay and less poll- year theoretically only. year's £2,250,000 programme tical interference,

He has been announcing that the Socialists plot to have him

The colony's national debt ing frequency from the Government killed.

will be increased by £2,000,000 service.

So

has not yet been approved. Doctors are resigning with menac-

Semi-skilled

!

workers Bro

per-

They get scant heuring from Busta-

be more than The cost of Civil Service salaries

A 13-year-old candy pedlar this year under the plan. who admits that Bustamante we shall owe £11,000,000, with petually demanding more pay. When sent him to give evidence told a the export trade only £8,500,000 they belong to the Socialist unions arbitrate and got his claims Government inquiry that he sat at the peak in 1946.

in a tree at the Socialist head- By the time the plan is ended mante. Since then two of his main quarters, Edelweiss Park and the debt will sugar area leaders have been saw ammunition and arms being £20,000,000. As the British alone has risen from £940,520 in It was here that the United sent to prison-one for pocket distributed to a gang of men taxpayers are finding only 1938 to over £3,000,000 in 1946. Port Workers' Union was starting workers pay packets: the with orders to kill Bustamante £6,000,000, this leaves £14,000,- So Scottish Sir Norman Struthie, and meek but ed by the United Fruit Com other for leading a riot against for £250.

000 to be found mostly by Financial Secretary

Anally frm Governor Sir John Hug- pany. Bustamante called a silly the police.

Jamaican borrowing..

gins have made it plain that salaries strike which tied up shipping

while he faced a manslaughter

charge just a year ago.

The Port Workers' Union used that chance to musele in on all wharves. Now they call the tune right along dockland.

Bustamante may stage comeback there, but in January he went dangerously near losing the sugar sirike at Tate and Lyle's big Frome factory.

Using power tactics, he re-

Then on Good Friday five of

his party members in the House of Representatives throw off his yoke, said they were fed up with one-man rule in the party. Bustamante failed to get the 22 votes to eject their leader Minister of Agriculture Evans, from the Cabinet.

FIRED SHOT Lost his nerve

Ex-Servicemen fresh from fused to arbitrate and swore he Britain recently staged a mon- would win his claims by "a ster protest parade about their strike to the death,"

slow re-absorption into industry The strike was being broken and surrounded Bustamante as when he gave in and agreed to he left the mayor's office.

debnitely,

King's Counsel Norman Man- ley who is a first cousin of The colony's hopes lie along and wages cannot continue elsing in- Bustamante and leader of the two paths. Socialist Party told the inquiry that the story had absolutely no 1. Stopping soil erosion by ter foundation in fact.

LUCK Always on his sido Bustamante, is worried. He came

people. Now he has to keep wage levels from rising higher.

to power by getting more pay for

Pressed on all sides, Bustamante

racing mountainside peasants" farms, the abolition of the shifting Another Socialist commented habits of cultivators, and encouraging that the price of Bustamante's them to settle down on Axed hold-

ings. life had now dropped---£600 was named in a previous plot scare. 2, Industrial development to solve Greater In unemployment. But the assassination plot Kingston alone the last Government has cancelled trips to Britain and

23,500 unemployed the U.S. tale, however discredited, may check showed yet fan the passions of the out of a population of 200,000.] masses sufficiently to make it worth while.

In any event, it is a diversion from the present national diffi-

BAGUIO PREPARES FOR

ECAFE

MEMBERS of the United

Economic Com-

mission for Asia and the Far-

CONFERENCE

by

East will meet in Baguio on JAMES HALSEMA dressing up its battered buildings,

November 24 for a two-week conference intended to lay the groundwork for a broad recon- struction programme Eastern hemisphere.

in

the Zealand are expected to be ad-

to

The Philippine Republic has made a considerable amount of money available to the city of Baguin for

Etreets and parks. An auditorium is being bullt for social events, which will include a continuous round of receptions and balls. Roads leading to the city-owned resort on the Mountain 7,500-foot Santo Tomas

But while he fears the Soelalists and envies Manley's hold on the . EXPORTS

lower middle-class and Civil Service Vital to them

group, he knows they have little chance of coming to power, But there is little sign of indus- trial development.

Luck has been on Bustamante's alde ever since 1930, when he Meanwhile, the life of the coun- marched his way to jail and power try still depends on exports-sugan in the labour rioks. Like the old bananas, oranges and grapefruit, man of the mountains, he seems to

to fancy rise cigara, rum, spice, down

tino stronger frull which fetch fancy, prices in thrown down, Covent Garden.

every

he is

Sugar, the main export, is feten- So perhaps the cards wlli favour ing only 200 percent higher price him again and Jamaica will pass than before the war.

this crisis.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

I

弱 from

scientine

Imitted to membership at the and at Asin Hot Springs are being! AFTER weeks of mental idle is from me or

ness. I have almost forgot nagazine: The Philippine Government is November meeting. Viet Nam, repaired and buildings put in orten how to write. And as I Some of the rocks, besides being

Indonesia, Malaya, der.

highly potassic, are ultrabasic. They learned to use a resemble olivinerich ankaratrites sparing no effort to attract the Korea, delegates to the famous moun- Burma and Japan (represented Bagulo, the site of the November have never

ECAFE meeting

machine, lies 110 airline typewriting

am or melanociatie okvine nephelinites, tain resort city as the per- by SCAP) are expected to send miles north of Manila in a 5,000-foot evidently lower than the apes. with the diference that the nephe

high plateau cradled among the Ben- manent home of the organisa- observers to Baguio and

For any ape, we are repeatedly line or kaltophlitte-like mineral is guet mountains. The elty hid tion. Much has to be done. press again for admission, .

told, If set down at a machine, could really kalsite. prewar population, including suburbs produce Shakespeare's Sonnets b It is from 3 magazine called Baguio, headquarters of the

Officials of the Philippine De- in the adjoining mining districts, of accident in about 3,784,841 years Science Progress. Japanese 14th Army Comman partment of Finance, who have 5,000. It suffered heavily during (ur Don Quixote In Spanish In der, Lieut-General Tomoyuki

charge of preparations for the the war and the population is Yamashita, during the final

meeting, say that from 100 to stages of the American libera 120 persons, including, dele- tion of Luzon, is one of the most gates, their staffs, and the heavily bombed cities on earth. ECAFE Secretariat, are expect Over 90 per cent of its build- ed to attend. Seats will be ings were destroyed or

furnished to 30 members of the damaged in a three-month air and ground siege in 1945.

less than half this figure.

now

d'art

Int a

from me

rather longer time). The answer And this? to this popular balderdash is that

or from Shakespeure produced the Sonnets AND is this

the magazine? on purpise and in a shorter time. THE city is best reached from

Majurite, and the closely related abroad through Manila. Airline Ravel's priceless treasure lavar kakungite and upandite, are regarded as Theomorphic products facilities are available at low rates.

VERY precious artele about due to the action of ultrabasic The ult ride lasts approximately 50 minutes from Manila. Baguio has A collecting antiques and magma on rock material belonging blotite. frequent through bus connections,

le recalled

to the abjets press.

blolite peridotite 200-mile trip accomplished in seven story of Maurice Ravel, the com- pyroxenite glimmering sulte. The session hall is located on or night hours.

Na still the magazine. Al feast two planes poser. He had a good collectcn. top of a grassy, pine-covered daily will be operated during the and one day placed in full view of

convention. overlooking the rich

his gursta DELEGATES from 19 partici- hill,

a curious-looking bulb Without comment The Convention Preparatory Com-cf smoky glass,

exquisite!

Some thirty

discasce, shricloed

deadly pating nations and possibly Baguio. gold mining district

entrancing" mittee is endeavouring to obtain How

normal methods of five observer countries will 2,000 feet below. Baguio is additional radio-telegraph facilities nesthetes. "I'm ad you like it against wrot meet in a session hall built over above sea level, but its climate between Manila und Bagulo. At Ravel. "It's an electric light disease control would be relatively the ruins of the Mansion House, is Spring-like, with a tempera- present only the government Bureau bulb." I suspect that he composed useless, are recommended for usa in war in a ruport on germ warfare summer home of American and ture range of between 65 and of Posts radio is available for com- "Bolero" in the same 'spirit of fun!"

published in New York, The doctors mercial use. U.S. Army telephone Fillpino chief executives of the 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

smiss smallpox, bubonic plague circuits may be made available. An important synthesis

and cholera as of little use in war. islands until it was smashed by

be From Manila intimited communteu- Delegates and newsmen will bombs two years ago.

(Morning paper.) housed in 21 government-owned cot- tlon facilities are available to all THERE seems to have

good deal of progress white China, the United States, tages on the Baguio plateau. A fleet points. Great Britain, India, the Philip- of 35 new sedans will be placed at Delegates and newspapermen will have been away, and by progress 1 Tail-piece

of re- mean Progress. 1 have for long pines, the Netherlands, France, their disposal. Food will be served be offered a wide variety

the rebuilt creational facilities during their been passionately Interested in the Nu French train Australia, Russia and Siam are by the Manila Hotel

mers hall of Teachers' Camp, a pre- stay, as well as tours to the famous volcanic rocks of Uganda, and I must already members of the war vacation centre for Philippine Igorot rice terraces-Associated now ask my renders to decide pablon: ECAFE. Pakistan and New educators:

Fress.

NANCY And That's Definite

I HOPE I CAN GET SLUGGO TO SAW OUR WOOD TODAY

VERNIE

the

been

n

I

I heard Englishman, say to his com- "They're all gabbling

an

whether the quotation which follows French,"

HELLO, SLUGGO--DID YOU SEE, THAT WOOD

OH, YES

YOU DID--

IN THE YARD ?

NOPE

I SAW YOU

SEE IT

WELL -- MAYBE YOU SAW ME SEE IT---

By Ernio Bushmiller

BUT YOU AINTM GONNA SEE ME

SAW IT

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