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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1948.

JAMES CAMERON goes among the men

who dread to break the news to their wives

MANCHESTER.

HE 9,000 workers of A. V.

Roo's aircraft factories have the expectation to- day that one in three of them will shortly lose their jobs.

They are the people who build the Tudór airliner. that the Cabinet committee have de- cided not to use for B.O.A.C.

The loss of this order will causó a henvy depression through the two fac-

tories. In the big,

Heartbreak

Then he said: "B.O.A.C. buys' a Constellation for £315,000. A Tudor costs about £150,000. You buy it, and scrap it, and there you've got a Constellation that's cost you best part of hálf a million,"

House of Tudor

quarter-mile long hall at

Chadderton, larger of the nien know that they will be foundryman or a cotton opera- two works, hull sections of reached from their desks by tive. He will not want to have Tudora stand in rows. Some the process of depression; many to seek work far from his home. will be finished, others will not. of them will go, too.

Tho, aircraft workers, a com Many hours of intricate work While the Cabinet committee pact and specialist crowd, think that make a large aircraft into in London was reported to be highly of the Tudor They feel a functioning flying-machine debating the form of words for it odd, that the same men who will be written off.

rejecting the Tudor in favour of were so lavishly praised during In the factories are 16 Tudor the Canadian-built DC4M, the the war for making the Lan IVs nearing completion and A. V. Roe workers and manage caster bomber should now be 42 Tador .a. Those whose ment brooded on a disappoint- told that they have been making

was next door to a civil aircraft that is "un fate seems certain enough are ment that standing with no workers at anger. For anything up on economic." them. On others,

3,000 to whom the decision minutely busy among the order would mean their jobs the ed wilderness of wires that fill the unseen cavities of the Tudor's body.

men aro

bitterness was real enough.

are

'It's hard. ECONOMIC or uneconomic, For some there will be work the problem is abstruse converting Tudor I.n to Tudor enough. They do not under- Final tasks

IV.s but when that is done there stand the principle of paying will be no more. It will certain- 25,800,000 dollars for Canadian FAR down the hall men and ly be impossible for local in- machines when Tudors

womon work among wing dustry to absorb 2,000-3,000 standing about the line before section, fuselage frames, tubes, workers dellevered on to the their noses. cables, curved sheaths of bright alloy the limbs, skeletons,

"It's hard to explain to your veins, nerves, skin. In a little Most of them will be men, wife," said one, "that she can't. while that work may be done.

many of those family men. get this or that because of a Many of them have been in 'air- dollar shortage when we're Around and above the work- craft factories mostly here spending millions of them on a shop, behind partitions and with Roe's-for years. An air- thing that's going to do me out glass doors, clerks and draughts- craft worker cannot become a of a job.”

market at once.

MAJOR GWILYM LLOYD-GEORGE, former Minister of Fuel and Power; oxamines the first report of the National Coal Board and asks

What's wrong

would be unfair when examining the Coal Board's first annual re- port to direct criticism solely at. the Board. They had to work an organisation created without adequate planning.

As Sir Arthur Street, the vice-chairman of the Board, said last year: "It was as if the members of the Board, as busy us bees, would have to start making honey before they built their. hive."

Many of the Board's troubles have, been due to netion taken

with the mining industry?

was to be given until December 31, 1947.

It is true that the nationalisa tion of the mines eliminated one party to the agreement. But the Fuel Minister, on being ques

The Report refers to the, improve- ment in absenteeism between April and May, 1947, when the five-day week was introduced,

But a close examination of the Agures will show the real position.

The figure of absenteeism shown in the reports is purely a mathe- matical calculation; it is the relation- ship between the number of shifts that the miner can work and the number of shifts, in fact, that he does work.

The official economics of the affair ore so obscure-and the channels of communication from maker-to-buyer so claborate that the suspicion has grown up throughout the factory that the whole thing is some kind of a racket or at least ม

powerful con- spiracy to denigrate the Tudor for some. unex- plained purpose. The Ministry of Supply sent the contract to convert Tudor I. to Tudor IV. Bs, ostensibly for B.O.A.C. But delivery cannot take place until the Ministry of Civil Aviation allocates the aircraft to B.O.A.C.

It has become an accepted opinion in the Tudor works that all these high-level convolutions are directed their personally against them and

very least, they aircraft. At the think, the Tudor has got itself strangled in the coils.

Moreover, they realise very well that to lose the Tudor will bo A body-blow to the industry as a whole. That is a matter of concern to every one of 42 shop-stewards in the works. Leonard Waywell, their convener, who has been with A. V. Roo's, said:-

11 years

"B.O.A.C. complains it loses money beenust it has to operate

"Harry icemis very sure of falmself this morning."

C.V.R. Thompson

Smiling

through

NEW YORK.

economic British machines. Right, say it flies Tudors on a deficit for IT te beginning to be more

like old times. five years-in Ave years the Tudor

won't be uneconomic; the only way With the Yanks back for the to mako aircraft efficient and time being at least in East economie is by flying experience. Anglia, there are definite signs How can you build an aircraft in America of a let's-make-up- dustry by keeping planes on the

with-Britain movement. ground?

"Remember, both the Constellation

Douglas are they've had a long development life. 1930 designed;

**What a loss to the Industry! B.O.A.C. Atting up all its

world bases with American maintenance equipment that's the expensivo stuff. What is it going to say when other British machines come along

instance? Hermes, for We're all tooled up with American gear: we can't afford to buy British any more."

Tho now

Cut-throat

There is less and less of this Zionist New York Post): "All sort of talk (from the ultra- over the world the British are now regarded as the enemies of liberty."

And there is more of this cort of talk (from the Zionist Now. York Herald-Tribune) :—

"The damp climate and warm beer may bo once more among cadless subjects of complaint for our air- men. But they will not lack satisfac- tions among this people which shares with them the same feeling for free- dom and the same willingness to ND Frank Robinson, 10 years with fight for it when necessary." A ̈A. v, Roc's, pointed out: "Tho Sensing all this, even tho Zionists Canadair job is getting the latest are on the defensive for the moment, Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, probably presenting long arguments to justify for better than the ones wo get, i their. threats. to Anglo-American because the new engines are for ex- unity. port only. So we export engines to cut our own business's throat.".

DRESIDENT TRUMAN'S stock has columnist. The management says there has risen, wisecracks always been a terrific spirit on the Leonard Lyons, "from desperate to Tudor job. The workers liked the hopeless." machine.

It is obvious, therefore, that when shifts it is possible to work are re- duced in number, as they were by

Now they have a big, complex, ex-IN CONTRAST with all the squab-. the introduction

bling within President Truman's of the five-day | port machine that has been debated week, oven if the shifts actually by a committee whith, they: feel. party, his opponent, Tom Dewey, is the figure of absenteeism would be worked remained the same as before, is being wrongly and cruelly advised, putting on a dazzling display of unity within his Republican, or greatly reduced.

Tory, Party. Already ha has made peace with Senator Robert Taft, once his top. rival for the Presidency: And he has persuaded Harold Stassen to mako-poace... Stassen had pro-

In fact, the number of

shifts

FACTS

shown as being considerably lower. MANY physicians say that climb-mised, he would never serve under

COAL EXPORTS

ing stairs is likely to injure the health of people past their youth, reports the World, Book Encyclo-

WHEN the Fuel Minister an-pedin.

nounced towards the end of last

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Band and orchestra justrunient year that there was to be an increas

an allocation of coal for export, manufacturers use electronic some of us were a little surprised, fault-Ander to achieve tonal perfce In view of the fact that Sir Stafford tion. Cripps had said earlier in the year that an output of 200 million tons of coal in the calendar year was the bare minimum for

and domestic purposes in this country, and it was uallicely that even that minimum target, would be then Output, in fact, was three million

MOST ENVIED MAN in Hollywood today is the fabulous Cecil B.

Millo. With

else everyone do. economising he announced that his next super-colossal eple, "Samson and Dalliah," starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, would cost at least 21,250,000.

A 30-calibre bullet will puncture a three-eighth-Inch sicei pinte, A square of 14-inch multiplate, bul- FAMOUS as the man who wrote let-resisting glass will stop the same missile.

worked both at the face and over-all by the Government rather than toned, said during the passage showed a reduction in 1947-as com- by the Board. For example, the of the Coal Nationalisation Bill pared with 1946, yet absenteeism is loss of £23 million, which that despite thus of Commons results from the first year's the altered situn- working,, was due-largely to the tion the principle of the agree institution of the five-day week.ment would not be impaired.

WH "The very fact that miners had Although this only came into operation in May. 1947 it had to be asked before the end of been accepted in principle by 1947 to work the 5-day weeke the Government in 1946. Later again is proof of the lack of in that year, it will be remem- realisation by the Government bered, the Government were of the seriousness of the fuel compelled to ask the miners to position in the spring of 1947. work extra hours. These extra hours were treated 48 over- time, which, of course, increased CLAIMS have been made fre. quently that the psycho-

River in Oregon, Indians still sup- costs considerably.

tous short of the target.

ply tribal larders by spearing and logical effect of the transfer of

the netting salmon in the same the mines to public ownership The Report, however, gives

their ancestors did. why the Government a beneficial effect real reason TT is difficult to understand would have

to Increase the export why, with the coal position upon labour in the industry. It decided

allocation. what it was in 1946, the is, therefore, not encouraging

It was largely owing to the Government were considering to note in the report that un- dumculty of transporting internally desired point. the granting of the

being produced. five-day official strikes in 1947 were the coal that was

wagons were scarce, as week-particularly as there 23 per cent higher than in 1946. If railway | could have been no question of and the tonnage lost in 1947. Indeed they were, they could any breach of faith with the as a result of these stoppages employed more economically in the miners.

was more than double the ton- short haula from pit to port than in long hauls from pit to Inland con- nage lost in 1946.

FIVE-DAY WEEK

OFFICIAL STRIKES

For in April, 1944, an agree· ment had been reached between Many of these unofficial strikes the miners and the owners that are caused by grievances in In- during the currency of the dividual pits. In the past much of the criticism directed against the agreement no variation would larger groups of collieries was that be sought in the rates of wages disputes which formerly were sellled nwarded by the Porter Tri- promptly by the pit manager had to bunal. The agreement was to wait the decision of the manager of continue until alx months the larger group.

terminata had been notice to AT 2.30, 5.30,

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INCREASED COST

LREADY in 1947 there have been two Increases in the cost of coal, but unfortunately the loss in 1947 is not the only one; for, as the Report points out, there was a debt ewing by the coal industry to the Exchequer of some

£27 million. which has since been written off. That is another sum which the con- mumer has to pay in one way or

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About half of every ton of new

steel produced in the United States is born of scrap metal, coming from woyer, con see ends fans, call

demolished buildings, factories

and even the ocean..

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"How to Make Friends and In- Auence People," Dale Carnegie lost some friends in America recently. Reason: The following quote made

for upon sailing

Britain: "The English speak better English than

Americans do and have better man- ners. We'll never reach the culture of the English in our lifetime, be- cause we don't have the background. They had culture and grand manners when there were only Indians here."

A TWENTY - FOUR - YEAR - OLD A former paratrooper, Clifton Che-- shire, fell more than 11,000 feet before opening his parachute and have achieved a world claims to record.

Cheshire wan less than 000 feet from the ground when he pulled the cord and the parachute opened.

He says he has a parachute that

will open safely in jumps only 100 feet from the ground, and he intenda to test it in a fump from a building. at Houston, Texas, in August,

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