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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1948,

CHARLES FOLEY analyses what lies behind Schuman's yow to fight

the saboteurs'

ITH the collapse of the general strike, Communism has taken a decisive beating in France. The cost has been heavy. In a broadcast Premier Robert Schuman, said the strikes had meant a.. loss to the country of 2,000,000 tons of coal and 400,000 tons of steel. He added: "The Govern- ment will join with the workers in'an unrefont,” ing fight against food saboteurs."

But if the coat has been heavy, the result has been emphatle. In a straight showdown against all the rest of the political forces, Loft, Right, and Centre, Communism has shown that it can neither win power nt the polls nor get the people to the barricades. In the last three teat- ing weeks things have been happening which may make this battle the last one of all,

Above all, Communism in France has been ex- posed as an anti-patriotic force. Most French.... Communists are Frenchmen first. They did not want France to lose 2,000,000 tons of coal, they did not want her recovery to be thrown back six months or more, and they suspect that those are the only solid gains that the Communist execu- ̧ tive has won. Won, that is to say, for Moscow and against the Marshall Plan that is Franco's only hope.

France

TO SETTLE THE WAGES SITUATION, "THE" PATRIOTIC OLD HORSE CONSENTS TO FREEZE":

PROFITS AND HARRY POLLITT GO TOO.

ITS NOSEBAG, ON CONDITION THAT

OLD LOW'S ALMANACK

tears up the

Red

Ticket

What were the tactics and the weapons which the Communists used?

They exploited to the full trade union loyalty, having first seized the

They were armed chiefly with crowbars and bottles of ammonia -though boys of 14 and 15 were sometimes found with pistols. An eye-witness of one battle told me he saw one leader bring down

ham- mer on the head of an old mining comrade who threw himself in his path.

How near did they get to victory?

At Bruay broken shop windows' In Paris at one time very near. notices "No Tick Here." In his They might have defeated

the pillaged shop a grocer said: "I said Government by provoking it to I would not subsidise this strike shoot early on when the forces of which nine out of 10 men dan't order were almost overwhelmed, want, and this is what 'they' did."

Eut Premier Schuman was a miracle of suppleness and patience. Ho would not take the war Into the streets or make martyrs for the Com- munists.

At the dance

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PROPHECIES for

1948

HE'S WORTH HIS £12,000 A YEAR

FOR

By TREVOR EVANS

year Britain's coal down to the newest young, re- industry has kept its crult-have something, to con- most intriguing secret. "How tribute to its success. But 10 much are Regional Coal Board or 12 men can make or mar the members being paid?" Mr Shin- industry. well would never tell.

GRAND ball for the miners near A Valenciennes. The

Put the question another village hall I was up in Lille, metropolis of decked with Tricolors." The Red the north, when the man from way: "Who is the highest-paid mayor leads the hesitation waltz, Paris" arrived-M. Biget, Director young things jitterbug, the girls of National Security. "Il faut de man in coal today 7" wearing tartan skirts, the boys "tres l'ordre," he cried. "Order, but in the Recently I toured the coal- spiv." There is wine that taste of name of heaven, no shooting."

broke the fields, from Comrie, in Fife, to What zinc, beer that is paler than thought.

Williamthorpe, in Notts, And general strike?

made a discovery. Lord The inherent sanity of the French J

the of thore who Hyndley,

Coal Board's people, the couruge interest in the real needs of the Later we heard that a gang 200 strikers so long as they could be

the metal strong had rushed to

Etablissements du Nord, kept out by reciting slogans, works overcome the gendarmes and forced 1,300 workers to come out.

Every now and then-a collec- Suddenly tion "pour les mineurs." the accordion falters, the pianist

slience other men go too.

posts of leadership after the libera gets up and goes out. In a gathering did Aght back. The cynical lack of chairman (who gets £8,500

tion. They used all the old Socialist and Republican slogans for opposite purposes. They turned on the pro- paganda machine with ruthless emciency. And they brought a new terror weapon into play.

Let me

Eli Delfosse is the organiser of the Red Commandos, an International

Communist

back to work: a Delfosse column 'met

a

year), is not the highest paid. One regional director is getting £12,000 a year.

When nationalisation was be ing planned the Government wanted this man, wanted him

Irony No. 1 DURING my tour two major

Ironies became obvious. I went to three coalfields. The most impressive man in

each was the Regional Production Director.

Each was a leading conlowner under the old regime. Not one

far them, zo

08 I know, is a Socialist. Each would regard the failure of nationalisation as a reflec- tion on his own mining skill..

of

There are eight of these Produc- tion Directors throughout the coun try.

Truc, cach may have his own "hobby horse," Dr. "Willie" Feld, in Scotland, with models and plans said he would ac- of new pits unlike any previously

constructed in this innd, is out beat his father's peformance.

That means something in British Charles

to

Comrie

At Sains-en-Govelle, near Bethune, in the feddest helt of all, they have none the less a priest for mayor, Pere Laurent. Laurent led 400 men illustrate.... I looked brigade of French partisans, Polish them. "Beware, my sons," shouted down. In the Assembly in Paris, on miners and German prisoners of war

Pere Laurent to the attackers, and badly. He a grotesque scene. The debate had freed to win coal for France.

be plunged both hands into the cept only if he was not asked to Until the trouble broke out, pockets of his black soutane, been going on for three days and

Jose financially by the change. nights in Chamber now thinly Delfosse, a tough little

A

"Grenades," cried a Communist scattered with sleepy deputies but spellbinder, was both head of the road fought alongside Laurent So he continues his old salary, mining. The father is Sir. for a corner where the Communists Coal Board Council and chief cf in the Resistance. "He is the very Today, though, instead of being neid, main creator of the

the miners' unions. He sul, an it

grenades. devil' with

dozen plt. Britain's show pit, author of Let's go responsible for half a were jam-packed and rigidly awake. were, on both sides of the table. And when they left Laurent pulled his

the famous "reform" report. when he was suspended from the

They were pits, he supervises a hundred: On the tribune, reading inter-Coal Board by the Government ho puckets inside out.

Now is a man overpaid in a minably from a script, was Thorez. forthwith called the clerks on strike empty."

4 What will come next? State job at £12,000? There "Brutal tyranny, Fascist treachery and locked out his successor. and lles," the valce draped on. At

The Communists claim, as de will be plenty-not only in the each pause an explosion of handclap-

Gaulle once claimed, "We have lost mining industry to say that ping from all the Communists, and

WHEREVER a move back to work a battle, but we have not last the anyone getting £12,000 a year

France has been every time that Thorez raised

In War." Doual region, typical of half a poverished further, and La Misere, out of coal is wildly overpaid. dozen, there was a flying. column of they say, is the mother of all Com-

I do not agree. There may counterparts in other regions—are 25 lorries with 50 men to cach. munism." Night and day, with a roar of black But I doubt if the men and women be 715,000 men in the mining striving to make the industry "go," That is the first, irony, for, with pre- market petrol (at £2 a gallon) they who, in the last three wecke, had industry. And certainly all-sent shortages and difficulties, they raced through the villages turning a taste of life under mob rule by a

plenty of explanations misery into terror.

minority will submit 'again.

from the highest paid man could find

his

voice the whole pack stood to bay defiance at the Inert Government benches.

Beside

me a

reporter vawned. "It's magnificent but it's not French they're only making headlines for tomorrow's Humanite."

In fact, a propaganda debate on

the Eastern European model.

Eye-witness

Terror troops

began the Reds struck.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

Mr "Jock" Hunter, In Yorkshire, talks bluntly and colloquially about his plans for centralising production and preparation of coal. Mr

II. Watson-Smith, In the East Midlands, creator of Williamthorpe, England's show pit, strives for the same high mechanisation throughout his great region.

These and, I am assured, their

for going slow.

Irony No. 2

NOW the second trony comes from the men's side. Every region has its labour director to look, after LOVE it. I love it. And More philosophy

a portrait of herself as Miss Priority welfare and relations with the men. almost Sausage, auctioning kisses in aid of But the labour director-in who shall dare to chide me E production of "They Gouged the Society for the Prevention

ex-union, offelal-- every case .on of To get to the heart of the trouble, for loving the old armchair? His Eyes Out" at the litle Mor- Uncontrolled Farming. The gentle class. And the old muspicions

Minister of Education, gue Theatre has made people curious men in whose arms she is shown is which ones ho shared-are now his I pot off for the mining north The

about the Frustrationists. Frustra- a Mr Clamp, a wealthy grocer, who the welcoming Russian chess lonism holds

1 that everything is had just purchased klas for chemy. next day. By road, because rallway line was up; outside Arras team, "stressed the importanco non-existent, Including essence and eighteen shillings and nine-pence.

existence. and that therefore nobody Miss Slopcorner hopes you wo came on the upturned coaches of personal contact between can really do anything. And since like the picture. express, already reddening with rust, nations as an instrument in nothing is the only thing everybody

and twisted rails of the Paris-Lilto

And here in Arras were the victims building

of the sabotage-16 coffins to lle be- world." tween one kind of Frenchman and

The day before, a

Д

A

the

can do, we arrive at the nihilistic peaceful, happy quietism

and of Vaurien Neantutes. This is considerably closer to the

will

Yrs. faithfully, Amy Carboys, Secretary. of unbeing Forging ahead

petrol, salion having been THE Mrs T abolished. for all except those

Good (powdered) egg! During the which was "ante a reply

than

to

This uneasiness in working rela- tions is reflected in tell-tale returns from Mr Isaacs department; Twice as many days were lost in mining disputes in 1947 of nationalisation as in the previous year under the coal-owners.

What then is the best test of ro- ward in mining or any other Indus try? Surely a man's contribution to

success..

the next. Beyond the slag heaps winter everybody should learn chess Neo-Existentialism, and derelict. machinery, Lens, and in the hope of being able to get Palmer's "state of un-becoming," --the terror.

abroad for Dersonal contacts Say which she got from Dribbelbach and who apply for a ration of petrol, It you are going on a world tour to the Presuppositionists.

now only remains to appoint, a new

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of games agninst

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to receive if their appliquibbles should be about the: mini- Miss Slopcorner has asked me entitled beaten up and thrown in the river, Chess Section of Unesco, mentioning

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