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SHOWING TO-DAY

SHOWING

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1949.

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STARRING V

TYRONE POWER

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John Sutton Lee J. Cobb

Directed by

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FIRST EPISODE *

What sinister forces aro behind the weird happenings

on MYSTERY ISLAND7.

MANHUNT of

MYSTERY

ISLAND

SHOWING

1

TO-DAY

MAJESTIC

7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

NEW TORY PARTY LEADER

OLD AUSTERITY

1952

UNCLE JOS shouting new Life

MOLOTOV well known Timon curta

TW, CHURCHILL

Policin

I. DEVIN- cricbrated ramont of democracy

Firm Hand al

Helm of Ship of State

ANNUAL DISINFECTION OF THE MODELS

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AS AN ARGENTINO MIGHT SAY

WHAT A WAY TO RUN A RAILWAY

BY FREDERICK COOK

NEW YORK. INCE they took over the British-owned railways eight months ago, the Argentinos have mado Interesting discoveries. On the Government sido. they have found that to own railwayu Is one thing. but to run them at a profit is another. The travelling public in general, and the senson-ticket holders in particular, have found that the chief result of home ownership now

now is that they have to pay their fares. American railwaymen are watching the Argentine experience with interest.

reaching hero

Repoway administra-

praise the punctuality of the new

tion under Lieut.-Colonel Juan Castro. But Argentina hoy discovered that, if their railways are to be a success, they must be allowed to do all the things they would never permit the British owners to do.

Government have also found out that there

The

was no truth in the ancient myth that the "exploiting British" were zending home huge profits wrong from the Argentine railways.

They have, on the contrary, publicly ndinitted loss of ground £65,000 a day, and live begun lo prepare the public for big increases in fures and freight rates, which they would never sanction under British ownership.

DUTY OF DODGING

U.S. railwaymen, who want to rolse fares here, have been especially interested to note that Colonel Castro has had to take in hand the historie unwillingness of Buenos Aires suburban dwellers to pay

WHAT COMMUNISM DOES TO

THE WORKER AND HIS UNION

By S.

some

Burton Heath-

of the left-wing munism. He

must attend

every

A check list

labour unionfats could study meeting, every parade.

Is kept on attendance. In Our what is going on since the central office there were three meet- Reds took over Hungary, they ings, a week, addressed by high- would kick the own Commun- powered party propagandists. ists out fast. That is one con- clusion of Paul Ruedemann and who George A. Bannantine, have seen with their own eyes what Communism does to the worker and his union.

"To

was a

Paul Ruedemann (left) and George A. Bantastiner The union became merely a stooge for the government.

their

fares.

The British administrators always knew that thousands of people rodo daily for

for years without paying a penny. All they could do war to TP their teeth, since the Govern- ment would go no further than to allow a ten percent surcharge on | a]៛ tickets bought on trains

Under British

ownership, thousands of Buenos Aires people considered it clever and patriotic to defraud the railways. Conductors charged with the examination of tickets were somewhat perfunctory, and it was not difficult for a traveller to keep ahead of the conductor, anyway, by moving along the train.

Many jumped out at suburban stops, ran down the train and back. Since got in again at the the conductor had to issue tickets at almost every sent, thousands got their rides free.

EVEN WOMEN MUST PAY

Colonel Castro has now ruled that passenger's caught without tickets must pay a fine, of £1 on the spul.

The first day this rule

went into effect a conductor was thrown. off a moving train. In the next

few days a dozen conductors were- beaten up.

Colonel Castro then

frauds

illustrate how they work, there was the meeting at which the criticised for giving company was too much to its workers by way of social welfare, such as in cases of births, sicknesses, deaths, and similar emergencies. 'American extrava- rance, the speakers called it. is president of Ruedemann,

assigned two armed policemen ta each MAORT,

Standard Oil the

"'Does anybody have anything to

MAORT was the second impor- tong: Soon they are replaced by conductor. Now the passengers Company (New Jersey) affiliate say against petitioning the company

reduce its contributions?" the tant foreign-owned industry seized party Invourites.

mostly have tickets. Hungary, to

The Arst by the Red government. recently seized by

former Extent of the inan mumed Szego, formerly "A Ford assembly plant. All with

revealed by an official Russian-sponsored export-has been L Bannantine is a director and men were asked.

industries em import company, was made deputy announcement that receipts on production expert. They were. "Not one voice was raised against Hungarian-owned

as 100 persons general manager of our big oll com- suburban lines went up more than among the first businessmen to the motion. It carried unanimously ploying as many

In pany. The manager's naine is £5,000 in the first two days of tho return to Budapest after the. That is how Communist democracy were nationalised last Easter. functions at labour union level."

addition, the government seized all Szekely, and he was the Hungarian new rule, and that at the Retiro

certified liberation in 1945, and stayed

public station in Buenos Aires 103,090 "One sabotage charge agalust us, property of the owners-their homes, equivalent

tickets

first were sold on the on the ground accountant. until they were forced to sign sald Bannanting, "was that we spent cars, bank accounts, "confessions" that they had too much money on workers hous- tnt they had been paid for with

Sunday, compared with an averago "Forgacs. an ex-salesman, not of previously of 40,000. sabotaged the country's oil ing. We built a lot of neat, modern profits from the businesses.

The Reds said

oll, was made head of the technical production, and released subse- homes for our men.

"There were reports thni all department in charge of geological, obliged to grant free travel to civil they were too good for workers. The quently.

pro- servants, soldiers and sallers, post- wrey could better have been used businesses employing 20 or more geophysical, engineering and

were to be nationalised," said duction work. Benda, salesman for men, policemen and thousands of Bannantine, "bul that had not a chain in other ways.

of alores selling healery, others, Colonel Castro has abolished free passes. Women, children sweaters, etc., was made head of all happened when we left.

purchase, sales and necounting. under 14, and students-all favoured "That's typical of the background by law when the British ran the of men chosen to operate rationalised rullways-must-also-pay full fares.

These extorted "confessions" were for seizing and used as an excuse nationalising MAORT, which controls and produces...about 90 percent of all the oil known to exist in Hungary enough to supply all the country's some domestic requirements, with left for export.

"When an industry is nationalised, sometimes workers are promoted to

never lasts industries,"

FOUR CATEGORIES You-know-how-American_labour unions feel about speed-up' and

Well, over there management, but Incentive plans. bonuses and special privileges for of speed-up are fundamental parts

Red propaganda is using the the Communist three-year plan. And "confessions" in an attempt to show a man who doesn't produce what is that MAORT was holding back on expected of him frequently is fred the charge, of production, under orders from the and blocklisted on home office, as part of American pre- sabotage." paration for a war against the Soviet Union.

The government, Ruedemann said, has grouped all Hungarian Industrica "As long. as a industry was into four categories. A, B, C and D. owners," said according to production volume and operated by private Rurdetnann, "the union had a big number of employees. MAORT is. In volco. Management couldn't even Group A.

bire and fire without its approval. "Like overy Industry in Group A, But the moment that industry was the top group, MAORT is entitled to

the union nationalised,

beenme one top man who can be paid 3,500 merely a store for the government; florins a month. At the artificial through which orders were issued

exchange rate that US$200 a and workers terrorized,

month, but in buying power it is TOTALITARIAN BALLOT about $100.

than

that

of

The British administration

now.

SKY-SNOOP ON ATOM MEN?

RADIO LAST

200 JEL

By Chapman Pincher

were

And at this height the rocket They could step into space without would move round the Earth at the same rate as the earth rolates.

So people in the rocket would sce the earth as stationary. And three such upace-stations could waten every country. Large-scale cx-

But how to construct It? TECHNIQUE

PLANS for a real flying plosions would be reported.

saucer, [111 inhabited

The chief designer, Mr. H.E. Ross, of High Wycombe, Bucks, described 1 to the Interplanetary Society in London recently.

The space-station idea is based on this theory:-- THEORY

falling and jet-propel themselves about by squirting gas trom cylinders strapped on their backs,

One man could lift the heaviest Eirder because it would be weight- less, Hammers and screw-drivers could he put down on nothing, and would not drop. They would follow the man at the same speed at 8,000 m.p.h.

which could "The schedule tells how many space-station

the world's atomic "Cominonists like to have every men, in each company in any group. control

Power from the sun's rays would So the workers thing 'voluntary,"

The saucer would be 200 ft, wide be needed to spin the saucer round shall be paid each wage rate. There's energy, have been completed almost required, 10 no collective bargaining. The union by British rocket technicians. and weigh 2,000 tons. It would be its hub and

produce an artificial urged, arc

But the debale in like a has no

up piece- gravity. For without it the men in prefabricated and taken 'debate'

more to say about it

meal by piloted freight rockets. the It has a place

float in station would

tho. totalitarian ballot.

management does. A foolish worker

chemically-made air. only for 'yes."

Mr Ross belleves that 60 journeys questions, or even who says 'no,'

would do the job. Each load would

A huge rudilo-mast underneath be dumped into space to be pleked would be the anchorage for "liberty rockets" which would ferry tho up Inter.

crews

Other for "earth leave", "The bits would not fall, but everyday purposes of the station would circle the earth, parsing over would be to provide accurato- exactly the same.spot at precise weather forecasts and to give a If a rocket could be given intervals," says Mr Ross. "S5, speed of about 6,500 miles an hour although we might lose an odd boll, at a height of 22,000 miles, gravita- we should be able to pick up all the main parts-especially with tion would be balanced.

rocket-and ony man or thing leaving it--would therefore radar to help us.” circle the earth, which is the half- way course between flying off at suits supplied with oxygen would shortly in Amerien is expected to tangent and falling..

put together the dumped pieces, reach a record 235 miles.

"When we were there we had a ean expect to lose his job and, when 44-hour week, with time and a half he tries to get another, find himself for overtime and double time for At 2.30. 5.20,blacklisted from all employment. Saturday, Sunday and holiday over- time. Now, under nationalisation, "This goes beyond matters of party the men work a 48-hour week before It is almost a total thing, overtime begins. We have had no policy. One worker, for example, ventured word about what is done after the 48

functionary for hours have been worked." to criticise a party

to chase using the company car around the night club and red light districts. tie was fired, and black listed. The funellonary wasn't even reproved.

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SOL LESSER presents

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS'

AND

TARZAN MERMAIDS

JOHNNY WEISSMULLER

and BRENDA JOYCE

and Interqueing

LINDA CHRISTIAN

Produced by SOL LESSER

Directed by ROBERT FLOREY!

Original Story and Screenplay by Carrot Young

Taryf Upon the Characters Civated by Edgar Rice Burroughs

NEXT CHANGE: "TEMPTATION”

"Becaust food had been so scarce," said Bannantine. "we formerly had trucks scouring the farming areas, exchanging kerosene and gasoline for food for our company stores. The "Nor can a worker get by pns- Kovernment now has abplished the

He has to work at his Com- company stores.” alvely.

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