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SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1948,

The ugly fact behind the

London Dock Strike

By W. J. BROWN

Independent M.P.

London, June 24. that Government.

to

bring the

Na sane and ordered world, workers into condict with "It, and there would be no chance of 0 to create the conditions for its supersession at a later stage by the

that "forcible overthrow of Communists, purpose is kindred and

all existing social conditions" The

discredit the

which is laid down by Marx, in parallel. It is lo

omeint leadership of the trade the famous Manifesto, as the union involved, in order to captura. declared object of Communist the union for Communism. activity, Therefore, it is an

through Communist shop- can contrive to essential part of Communist towards you strategy to create as disorderly which the unton, In honour bound unofficial strike bring about an

and crazy a world as possible.

such as

under the agreements it hos

thefr

at odds-with

the way for

too.

If anything tends to promote the negotiated, must oppose, you put

the strikers record the Marshall Plan, it must leaders, and stop, to

supersession, be prevented if possible, and if not,

To all this the grievances of the then sabotaged by strikes. It any men, real or imaginary, are purely thing promotes peace in industry, incidental. The Communist is not such as regular conciliation and concerned with them at all—except arbitration machinery for the settle in so far as they provide the raw ment of dimculties, that, too, must material on which he can work. be discredited and sabotaged.

This may seem a very Indirect way, of approaching the London

None

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dock strike. In fact, It is the most NOW let us, look at the strike. of the biggest achieve. direct approach of all, and the only one which makes this craziness

at ments of the Transport and General

all intelligible. For the dock strike Workers'

Union (with which I

is a classic example of the Com- have sometimes been in conflict) - munist technique of using whatever has been the de-casualising of the

material comes to hand for the dockers' work.

creation of crazy and disorderly conditions.

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肉 * T THE purpose to be served by this technique is two-fold. Ond purpose is political. It is to harass and embarrass the Socialist Govern- ment and to push it, if possible, into the position where It can be charged with being the workers' enemy.

First help a Socialist Government to achieve power for that "outs" the Tories. Then seek to discredit

"Whitehall Fellahs'

MONDAY June 21, 1940-

GREAT EVENT. Last night

in

I woke up and had to pull the blanket over me before I could sleep again. First time five months. Only com- plaint of the old-timers here in Kuala Lumpur is the weather's monotony-glass never goes above 90 degrees. Not yet seen a fly or a mosquito.

Yam

on British soil again. Karachi, Delhi and Rangoon are sad places for the travel- ling Briton. In Kuala Lumpur, -capital of the Malay Federa-

tion, the flag still flies.

I

Get No

No Orchids

ESUMATRA

Miços 200

MALAY

STATES

English beer? What brewers doing?

THURSDAY

The dockers have been registered,

and a Goor has been put to their earnings by a guaranteed minimum weekly payment, whether the amount of work done would, under Justifled the old conditions, have

not. this amount.or

The docker may get more, but

than get less he does not amount, whatever his hours. There is comprehensive negotiating ma-

for chinery dealing with issues, and an "appeal board disciplinary cases.

ihls

wage for

But 20,000 men were thrown idle because 11 men were punished for refusing to comply with perfectly proper orders. The punishment took the form of withdrawing for a period of 18 weeks the protection of the guaranteed minimum I have mentioned.

Whether this was too harsh or not? I do not know. But if it was there was appeal machinery for dealing with the matter.

But the men do not walt the result of inquiry before they pro- ceed to tie up the shipping of London river, cut off supplies by are our the jungle in rubber shoes and water from millions of the popula

in single file at 3 a.m. Peter tion, and deal a-heavy blow at the

de the Malay Porn withmen Rice,

vital export trades which already enough difficulties to contend wears a rat-gnawn Airborne Division bonnet. His force

HAD three significant taxi- drivers today, The Sikh wanted double fare, but took one and a half times, with an

MAURICE CHEESEWRIGHT reports from troubled Malaya

includes Gurkhas, Malays, one

Sikh, a Chinese detective, and a Forest Officer.,

at

to official leaders try reason with the men, jeer- leaders break up the meetings.

When the union calls an official

the meeting of dockers

the Albert Hall, the unofficial strike- leaders call a rival meeting, for Rice has the only real jungle precisely the earne hour, In the boots-they were parachuted East End. to the guerillas in 1944 and re-

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captured from the guerillas THE objects are perfectly pla

last week. I envy those boots a lot...

Every two minutes my Army spectacles have to be de-steam-

a bill for The Malay asked for three-

ed.

home-washed hankies on the ill grace. The cheerful Chinese was already bound for bathroom tiles. The Chineso asked only the official fare. Singapore in a B.O.A.C. flying room boy gave me bont when the Communists $5.50 (129. 10d.) for two days' quarters, and was happy to murdered three British rubber planters last Wednesday. But washing. Must buy some soap part friends.

it was not this single incident flakes with instructions on the which brought me here. The packet.

Communists are attacking in Burma and Siam, and now

years you

Nice people, the Malays. They despise dull jobs like rubber-tapping and tin mining. They live contented lives.

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Communists know that no Government can sit still indefinitely while, the food-and-other-supplies

of the nation are held up.

But by forcing the Socialist Government into using troops to unload, it becomes possible to accuse the Government of acting as capital- ist strike-breakers, of being as bad as the Torles, and so on.

At daybreak we enter clearing-four hundred acres All this is grist to the Communist of blackened tree stumps

and mili. the damp trunks burning over

the

if the union can be pushed into open conflict with its own members, .fires.

the alternative leadership of Communiats can be made to look But the Communists went preferable to the old leadership. But what chance have they? ton days ago. We find only

Meantime, a heavy blow is struck The Chinese population is now three Chinese

cultivators and at the nation's painful efforts at the only 100,000 fewer than their

Industrial recovery and the proa- 4,800,000, und still growing, a pretty nine-year-old girl who pects of economic crisis already a passion seems to look after them, Her grave-are brought nearer. cold-

The Communist is and face remains calm and serious blooded. As through ruin does his

architect of social saving, one multiplying the Malays have for chocolate, smiles

because only path to power dollar.

The for

Chinese have working,

Wisdom from Tungku Abu Malaya. This is a vital spot in Baker, a son of the Sultan of

Johoro-"For 15 our still-remaining Empire.

Without Malnya, people keep have been sending the wrong warning me, Singapore and people out here. We want Hongkong would be straw men, not mechanical brains." houses, British shipping would be on unwanted vagabond in dollar, gents 50 cents admis- not. the China Seas.

sion"-Chinese taxi girls have Sir Edward Gent spoke on Bitterly the Britons in better figures than those in the radio tonight. It was a Malaya--most of them spent Singapore. Respectable plan- copy of Churchill without Chur- four years in Jap internment- blame the Colonial Office and ters pay 9d. a dance.

At the casino-“Ladies

the British Government "fel- This is the day's best moment Fahs" for their weakness and −2 a.m. at the swimming pool. failure to grasp local prob- Moonlit trees, green lawns and lems.

distant hills. Still only 7.30

chill's substance. The planters confidence is less than ever..

* FRIDAY

for a

the

ruin

The unions must fight this We feel silly after charging with strategy for all they are worth. It weapons thrust forward. Our total they falter or compromiso with il,

they

will seal their own doom. capture is two membership cards of

For lis part, the Government must the Pan-Malayan Labour Union, shoulder its

and responsibilities, .ond .ono old lotter written in Ree that the port is kept open and Chinese "for my son."

the ships unloaded.

frek

And all of us must consider Two hundred weary men

whether the time has not come to back to the valley-having wasted 12 declare Communism to be the foul hours in the jungle. That is war and unscrupulous conspiracy that DRIVE from Ipoh to Tapah. against the Communists.

it is, and place it-together with its twin-soul and blood-brother, The shops are stacked with p.m. in the Dally Express The tin mines are an eyesore.

Fascism-outside the law.

export-only goods from Britain. office. I start my night round.

Quite a lot are shipped back to friends and relatives. English shoes £4 a pair. Very good local ones 2ts.

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

The roads are first class.

Three-quarters of the country

SUNDAY

is virgin forest, but makes good agricultural land. Wonder why BACK in Ipoh, I find more plan- overyone eats vegtables from

have ters

left their estates. Java, tinned butter, milk, and. Arms and guards had been taken Movable To Ipoh by tram.

bacon imported beef at 6s. a away for yesterday's abortive opera- easy chairs and a bar and lb.? Something wrong hero.. tion. dining saloon at one end of the The Communists are obvious- The planters have a laugh a day, coach. Same view all the way ly preparing for a big show- The latest is a speech by Major- CALL in at the Selangor -miles of English-looking down. Former members of the General D. A. L. Wade, G. O. C.

Club-otherwise the Spot-

Malayan people's anti-Jap army ted Dog, because it was the 5s, patches of jungle, and which had Allied support dur- well armed, well trained, and rendy

palm trees, stilted wooden ing the war are all joining them for the task." first to admit non-Europeans.

In the hills.

Two hundred men of a Yorkshiro Stored in police Grumbling planters on wide bungalows, verandahs say: "Gent has sat Ipoh is a pleasant, well-tend- headquarters at Kuala Lumpur Infantry regiment (KO.Y.L.I.). are 2,000 American automatic mostly conscripts, have been with- drawn at the request of the poller.

Malaya District:

"Our troops are

in Whitehall for 25 years. What ed little town of white buildings loading carbines-unfortunately in their last operation they were does he know about Malaya? and green lawns...Chinese bar- without magazines.

a day We have been warning the bor charges two dollars (48. Government for 18 months of 8d.) for haircut and shampoo Spitfires arriving there without Gurkhas reached the same, objective

Those who were in Singapore eating three cooked meals In 1941 remember a shipload of within three miles of the objective. and took a day and a half to get

Including alaps, massage, and

propellers,

this trouble."

No embraces here for Sir hot towels-eight times Edward Gent, Malaya High Commissioner. Nor for Somer much as pre-war.

Bet Maugham. He once put a

After five months east of

SATURDAY

in seven hours.

Gurkha orders have a paragraph headed: "Murder of a Christian. sahibi” The young Chephias Bah Suez I'am accustomed to pay THE moon has turned Com- mer

gunned at Sungel Siput was a for- Gurkha officer. Now the Old P. is drying smalls on lag 3. for a small bottle of munist. She is on as like: Gurkhas are fighting, mad. It is ñ the balcony and plastering Dutch Inger. But why no a searchlight as wo act off to pleasure to see them.

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