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Mr Robert Copping, 28-

year old headmaster of Horsley inil School, near Stafford, would like to see all school- children Join A union, and ho recently held a meet- ing at Kings" way Ilait, London, t.o attract "mem- bers."

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"It all Join- ed the union, it would be the strongest body in Eng- land and #t would mean That children would be lu control of the

country," Bald

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1949.

If the Honourable Members over there will kindly stop playing nap, we'll get down do this 'debate

the corporal punishment of adults."

on

Is the U.S. on the

edge of a slump

UTTER is cheaper in

the United States than' it was a year ago, but a butter knife is as expensive ever. Cotton cloth is cheaper, but scissors to cut it have not decreased in price.

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Flour, for instance, has declined much more sharply than bread-giving rise to, charges that the bakers are profiteering.

GERALD JOHNSON

But

?

he will get something. because the situation in so ob- vlously dangerous that Core will not dare refuse to do any

thing.

British

Reds' New Tactics

By Walter Kolarz

RITISH Communists are

B showing a tendency to

go underground.

Political observers may they are reverting to prewar

Their, camouflage tactica. object is to meet more successfully the anti-Com- started munist campaign both by the Labour Govern- ment and the trade union leadership.

The new tactics, accord- ing to these observers, re designed to protect indivi- dual Communist Party mem- |bers against purges now In progress among both civil servants and trade union officials.

The British Communist Party is believed to have members instructed its

Among the civil servants to resign outwardly from the dissociato Party and to themselves from it but to keep discreet contact with. the Party machinery.

SECRECY SOUGHT

Thus the Communist Party

are

"This is n formidable power would have in future a category which Congress was reluctant to of secret members known only

trusted

party officials and geant Roosevelt, and will be still to

considered as "non- more reluctant to grant Truman, otherwing

or as "sympa- party people"

tactics Nature has added a com-

Similar thisers." It seems clear, however,

All winter

The debate is sure to be long known to have been applied acrimonious. and it is successfully by numerous Com- that if the farmers are plication.

violence has unlikely that the President will munist parties before the war,

quarters allowed to bear the brunt of series of snowstorms, of un- and

British trade union the great cattle get all that he asks.

believe the Communist camou- the price decline, the entire precedented economy will be shaken and swept

will make manoeuvre general depression may fol- ranges in the west, destroy-

trade Bogo itself fell in the British

The union movements as well Food prices in general

prodigions numbers that the

Communist Party politburo, it is have declined from 10 to 15.The metal industries are low. Hence the risk must ing cattle and sheep in such price of meat may be sen-

sati, is taking for granted that percent, but the overall cost highly organised, and Rali- be taken.

the front-rank Communist trade So it happens that, alsibly affected.

union leaders will have to leave of living is only about two cal leaders are saying that

11. is certain that the livestock two percent, percent lower than it was in rather than reduce prices

their posts before long.

eventuality, has ensed by

In view of that January 1948, when living they will restrict production, though the cost of living

ito industry will be impoverished, not are

inion circles suspect, Americans

thereby reducing the national more expensive than

That is why President gether happy about the income, and

second set of Communists will huge national

standing, ready lo step in ever before in United States

Truman, in his inaugurai

taxation.

and to carry on the Infiltration history.

address, suggested that he future. They feel they are income, is essential to support

work. In these circumstances Pre-

Such new

·Communist agents they must descend over the

asked sident

bas What this means is that be given power to build on a high peak from which the burden of

in the trade union movement, the ravages of war are at, publicly owned steel mills if ice-covered slopes. Let them congress for authority to restore

commentators.trade union circles gather, are slip onee, and everything some of the price controls that

likely to operate most carefully last being made up, but in a private industry refuses to

were abolished in 1946.

and are

to will be spilled.

expected

seek ragged,

fashion produce at capacity in a uneven

election to trade union posts in which threatens hardship period of declining prices.

the disguise of "non-Commu-. to some people while others

nists."

AVIA

continue to prosper. Grossly

First to fill up the gaps

left by the

war were

Inflated

farms, which explains why ECONOMISTS are agreed food prices

that the price structure -are coming down faster than anything is grossly inflated, The dis- pute is over the way to de- else.

ilate it evenly.

Chiton is a farm product which has dropped from 36

In 1929, when a similar to 31 cents a pound, but it is situation existed, nature was also a competitor of nylon, allowed to take its course, with the result that the so the decline in cotton is forcing down the price of farmers - went

first

nylon

Truman

BADGER'S IN A HOT SPOT

By DOUGLAS LARSEN

THE rapid pace of China's Inkrupt tao probably the one major U.S. command where the man in charge wouldn't have When they could no longer time to get advice from the before taking crucial netion.

Demand & Price buy, industrial unemploy Pentagon

became monstrous.

ment

Badger's ships one evening in

Cork sons, including the mayor, were guests. As Admiral Badger was the prominent introducing guests, he noticed a young sailor at the top of the gangwhy. The and a girl having some trouble sailor fad just been married and in the excilement had lost the ticket for his britic. The Ad- Then the manufacturing

miral abbed the girl's elbow In that hol-spot right now is

Charles with one hand and that of the Admiral Oscar

the Witth

other BUT the farmis produce-companies crashed and, last

the banks went Vice nothing that competes of all,

Badger, commander of the US, sailur Navy's Western Preifle, one of steered the surprised newlyweds with steel and the demand down.

act wisely duced them to the group and for sted is still tremendous,

the few men America's defence to the affelat party. He intro- chiefs believe can so the price remains high

and quickly without their help. Inter had them sit in the official

section at the fights, This is true also of copper, aluminium, tin, and other metals,

.

To prevent a repetition of U.S. that calamity, the Government has adopted a programme of price support for farm products.

☆ Physically and mentally.

command of

America may be headed for tremble, but she will not stumble blindly into another 1929 diss ter.

Gerald Johnson, aged 58, is one of America's outstanding his turians and lie lives in Baltimore.

Vice Admiral Badger: The esign got'n free hand.

trade

br

10 of

CAMPAIGN SUCCEEDING

Trade union quarters admit it wordf · be more difficult counteract the manoeuvres the new type of underground Communisis than the intrigues of openly-operating Party mem- bers.

They

agalent

campaign clalm Use the fatter, which was started list November, has been successful SO far, eminently since more than half of the al- most 20 unions affiliated with the TUC have endorsed the offi- chai anti-Communist line of the TUC General Council.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

The unions-are- hotring

committee meetings, and almost all of them are expected to subscribe to the purge of Communist trade unlon officials. The TUC pam phlet warning the Individual unions against Communist in- a best- filtration has become seller, and three editions were sold out in December alone.

The official art-Comununkom of the TUC met opposition only Cruz. Mexico,

in April 1914. Isolated cases, such as the His belief that an officer ip collected more medals during Scottish mine workers-United should stick to the rules isn't World War I for anti-submarine Press. something that has come with service aboard destroyers, in- the Navy Cross. For The price of any articlo

Butter, for instance, as, Badger is the kind of nomira high rank. Once when he was cludin

the directing action against the Japs inen at Annapolis to become. dianapolis during wor games, during the second World War he picked up the Legion of Commencing To-Morrow: Chinese Picturemarle of metal is almost as.

high as it was at the peak. this is written, is selling at to teach the midship executive office;

a retail price of 69 cents a At 58 he's in perfect shape, all the officers except a young

Merit with three gold stars. Building materials are so b. in Baltimore; if it drops shit, full of energy plays golf ensign had been ruled dead and

cents the in the low B0's, can out shoot the ensign look

practically any man in the Navy the ship. The admiral who was high that the total of new as low as 59 construction, especially in Government will step in and with a pistol, and has never scoring the gaines kept giving

ensign ,nervous rigorous schedule. Boil Badger, then a commander, rewarded when, he commauled houses, dropped sharply in buy all that is offered at that been known to tire under the the price, continuing to buy most until other prices-that of his hair and his bushy eyebrows his sunburned brow is deeply Part of this, unquestion- the butter knife, for in are almost completely gray and stepped up to the admiral and Task Force 33 as it led ably, is the normal levelling stance-are reduced propor-ined with wrinkles. Only these

marks are a clue to his age. off process to be expected as tionately,

"Sir, according to the regula-

Although there is universal re- Badger Young fleers who come un-

tions the ensign is in charge.

for his ability. spect production catches up with

command are der his

almost

It's up to the official scorer to

xomellmes leaves-a few ruffled the demand that could not

by his decep fanit himself to keeping score feathers in his wake. Such was be satisfied during the war; has had to support nothing fooled nt arst but there is a widespread but potatoes, but the experts Lively soft voley, mild manner

lian branch of his government advice for when it's all over." soon discover suspicion that part of it is predict that the next hur-and intellectual approach to nil to save his comments and the case recently when a civi The admiral flushed and said notified him that it was remov- vest will bring farm prices problems. They

The ensign then ing a section of temporary hous- artificial.

down to a level at which the the almost savage way in which

he insists that everything should he was sorry.

managed to carry his job off in ing which his men, were using for quarters. Badger told them The Senate appointed a Government must support be done properly.

that if they did it he would Conservatives

His enlisted men have a hun- good order. Are to in them.

Admiral Badger is one of the about anecdotes special committee

move the Pacific Fleet, which out of Sun the Congres- he commanded, vestigate retail prices be therefore apprehensive of dred

Navy. He holds them. Here is a typical one! cause of the suspicion that the cost of the programme things which he has done for most decorated men in the US.

A big boxing match was being siano) Medal of Honour for his Diego.

lanilings at Vera. He won the argument. the spread between producer and the, Liberais are none

held aboard one of Admival part in the and consumer is too great. too certain of its success.

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