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VOL. IV NO. 153

Industries' Forces Marshalled For Big Clash With Govt

Britain's Railways Face Inevitable Chaos

London, June 30.-Britain's railwaymen and London's waterfront and electricity power workers were tonight marshalled for the big- gest head-on clash yet with the Labour Government on industrial issues.

There seemed to be practically no hope of averting a "go slow" movement which from midnight on Sunday may bring chaos to the railways.

with a

The Naked

Postman

Paris, June 30-A post-

ITALY

who went out naked

for a moonlight walk be- cause of the heat was mr- rested early today in the village of Damimarle-les- Ly, near Paris.

This was the fourth case of the kind in France since the heatwave began last Saturday, The highest temperature recorded in France today дз 03.2 degrees Fahrenheit at Per- pignan, near the Pyrenees.

Montpellier, Bouth of France, touched 91.4 de- grecs Fairenick, The Paris temperature dropped to 75 degrees after reaching '87 degrees on Tuesday,-Reu=' ter.

Lapham Resigns The ECA

The Port of London is threatened developing work stoppage, arising from a Cana- dian union "war," which has already involved well over 7,000 men and nearly 70 ships.

Washington, June 30- Roger 'D. Lapham, more hips Attempts were being made to

under- 'Mr were

former Mayor of San Fran- -settle the differences over a new manned.

wage agreement which have led Mass meetings in the Docks cisco, resigned on Thursday to a threat by workers at seven tomorrow will seek to extend as Chief of the Economic

London's biggest power the sloppage Ihroughout the

Co-operation Administration stations to plunge the metropolis | Thames. Twelve hig

ECA also un- into darknows by a strike next golug vessels-four of them in China,

that Mr Robert carrying thousands of tons of nounced meat-ure alrendy aftesied. Allen Grifin has resigned as Deputy Chief of the China Aid Programme,

The agency gavo no reason

but in resignations

Wednesday.

Thic

new conciliatory

Ocean-

LOCK-OUT CLAIMED

The Ruation parallels that

on an earlier offer of wage in Canadian vessels. The dockers creased to

150,000 lower-paid maintain that this constitutes a railwaymen of from six penec lockout. to three shillings a week,

Tomorrow, the employers will

Mr Hoffman made it clear, however, that the resignation of his two top China experts does not mean halt in Chinese assistance.

FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1949.

Cripps's Battle

To Save Britain's Dollars

NO AGREEMENT YET ON

COMPROMISE PLAN

Paris, June 30.-Europe's economic "Inner Council". failed in two meetings today to agree to a compromise plan to break the dead- lock over. European payments and satisfy British fears of further drains on her gold and dollar reserves.

Working against the clock-the present intra-European pay- ments scheme ends at midnight tonight the "Inner Council" (an eight-nation Committee of the Council of the Organisation for Euro- pean Economic Co-operation) was reporting failure to the full Council and then meeting again tonight.

Observers had the impression that yesterday's optimism about breaking the deadlock over the intra-European payments plan had proved excessive and that the Council of the OEEC was tonight heading for a temporising solution.

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Three-Day Working Week

Ordored By John L. Lewis

Coplon Found Guilty

Spying Charges

· Washington, June 30.— | Miss Judith Coplon, former employee in the American Department of Justice, tax day was convicted of being a spy for Russia.

The Jury convicted the 28- year-old, five foot bruselte, n. ono Ume

honours: , collego graduate, on both counts of the indictment against her. Sho' faces a maximum zentence of 13 years in prison and a US$12,000 fine.

Tho jury announced

the

verdlet after deliberating for almost 27 hours.

The crowded courtroom wag deathly silent when the jury began filing In.

TO APPEAL

The pollte, former Justice Le- partment employee: was tenoo as she stood up to receive the verdict.

on

Mr Jim Figgins. General

Defence lawyer Archibald It was thought that it might now. be agreed to renew the existing pay-

Palmer announced that the Secretary of the 400,000-strong National Union of Railwaymen,

nients agreement for a few months pending further search for a solution re-

verdict would be appealed from shattered all hopes that the rast-

conciling British, American and Belgian views and interests.

to the United States Circuit way "go.slow" movement could at the West Coast ports for the

Court of Appeals and, it neces- The existing payments agree- The firm stand put up by the Belgium today appeared re- be averted when he announced Avenmouth and Bristol eariter dicated they stemined from the

sary, to the Supreme Court "no agreement" after a meeting this month.

cutback in the China proment has been criticised by the British Chancellor of the Ex-luctant to do as much as her

Miss Copion still faces trial in " The dockers re-

Aid chiefs chequer, Sir S.afford Cripps, creditor position would render

New York along with Valentine with the representatives of the fused to handle cargoes on the gramme as a result of Commu- American Marshall

further drains Railway Executive, which runs Canadian

on possible and ns is necessary f as silding iat advances. Congress bas

competition; • and against

A. Gubitchov, Russien engineer the State-owned Railways.

vessels Beaverbrac forbidden the use of ECA sup-bolstering up prices above the Britain's gold and dollar reserves gold is not to drain away, n and Argamont because.crows of plies in Communist held areas

but France and

with the United Nations, on led to a Belglan offer last night only Britain

White Sulphur Springs, espionage afflelency level.

and conspiracy. the Canadian Seamen's Union

Holland. also. MORE PAY DEMAND

American pressure was switen- of h £12,500,000. loan. fut China:

West Virginia, June 30 charges. “4) are on strike,

Mr Paul G. Hoffman, ECA ed from Britain to Belgium

Mr. Averell Harriman, Amert-John L. Lewis today ordered A governinient lawyer salti, The QEEC Minister's are the second day's Railway Executive, he

today during

"We definitely intend to prose- Administrator, The employers have ruled that

praised both

tussle between the, Ministers of seeking a payments scheme that can roving Marshall Aid Ambas the bulk of the nation's BOLL | cute the New York-case." asserted, had refused to join no wore shall be offered on any and devotion to duty" in super- the 10 Marshal

men for "their resourcefulness

Ald coun'rles will both caferuaril Britain's sador, has conceded Sir Stafford coal miners

to work only move tonight. other vessels until the dockers

Miss Copion was charged on It had refused, too, to improve | willidraw their boycolt of the Vising American ald to China meeting here to thrash out a new reserves and allow greater free- Cripps's point that it is-prem-three days a week starting two counts-1.

Takding secret ture to think of establishing con- during the past year.

European payments scheme, dom of intra-European Irade.

on Tuesday,

from FDL Ales reports vertibility of European

counter-esplanage and subver- rencies into the dollar.

The miners' contract expires sion with intent to benefit The main dificulty

midnight Thursday, but foreign power (Russia) and in- over the Belgian desire to be Lewis directed them to stay on jure the United States and --- pald in gold or dollara for their for a shortened working week2. The removal and conccal- export surplus to the rest

of "to remove stresses and strainsment of such material.

which could cause the industry The case against Miss Coplon, Americans are understood and the publie frritation."

with Its Jury of eight men and to be urine and re-lend all Belgium to "do

Thus he abandoned the tradi-negre, has gone on for 10 four women, half white, half in much the same ilonal policy of "no contract no weeks. way as America is giving its work."

Miss Coplin has declared her, exports, to Europe under the

Miners will work-on-Tuesday, saying that she has been "fram. Innocence from the witness_box. Marshall Plan.

Wednesday and Thursday nexted." The payments problem

Adweek and therent er will work deadlocked the Marshall

Mondays, Tuesdays and KISSLESS ROMANCE... organisation for months

Wednesdays only. It threatened indeed

with:

Dally, hundreds agreement have been engaged in contract the Stafford

Cripps's last night to consider the new | negollations.

offered compromise proposal Ly the Belgian caretaker Prime Minister, M. Paul-Henri Spook, held out fresh hopes.

He said in a statement; "ECA is continuing on a reduced scale in the areas of China · not dominated by the Communists."

A NUR conference on Tues-circulate --- Hotice stating: day deelded that the "go slow" "There la no quarrel be.ween movement should

nhend any section of the employers unless the Rallway Executive and

work people in our conceded a blanket 10 shillings a industry. In the vlew of the week wage rise.

employers, the ruggle between The Acting Chlef of the China the Canadian Seamen's Union Mission will be Mr Norman The Minister of Labnur, Mr and

the Canadian shipowners is Meiklejohn, n special assistant George Isaacs, was expected 10-not-the-concern either-of-the in ECA's China organisation. He consider full reports on the Port employers

of the will assume his new dulios situation tonight, and may again wor

workers, and no ques.ion of immediately.—Associated Press. throw his Influence into the

black-legging balance to preserve Industrial pence.

wrise,"

can,

or

therefore,

The Port of London's Dock A full report on the unofficial Labour. Bourd announced to-dock stoppages by special night that 7,203 waterfront officers of Scotland Yard is being workers were idle, 00 chips studied by the Home Omce, it were lying untouched and six was learned tonight.-Reuter.

EDITORIAL

THE

New York, June 30-News- week Magazine today reported: "The United States thinks the Vatican proposals for Interna- tionalia'ng holy places in Pales- tine are impractical and will not support them."--United Press.

Something Really Valuable

THE Foreign Ministers' Deputies are about to settle down to the task of

writing + peace treaty for Austria- responsibility fraught with difficulties and problems which the recent Big Four conference in l'aris did Intle 10 alleviate. Nevertheless, that there should not be a real possibility of an Austrian Treaty after two years of international deadlock is one of the most significant diplomatic developments since 1945. And Its real, though less obvious Importance Is that it creates at Inst a breach in the "diplomatic blockade” between Russia and the West. For example: there is to be another Council; there

be are to discusalons during the United Nations Assembly meeting in the autumn; there are to be four-power "consultations" in Berlin; some, maiters are to be dealt with. through "diplomatic channels," There are rent possibilities Here, Agreement in › principle on an Austrian Trenty, was, of course, a big step forward, but that the Big Four reached any mutuak ofrange. ment concerning Germany was even more important. There was at least one very definite nehlovement. Not only, was the Hfting of the Berlin blockade endorsed, but all four Powern gave a pledge to accept the obligation to keep communica. tiond open in the future. Unforeseen af the time, naturally, was the strike...of German rallway workers fh the Euslern sector which has made it Impossible to "givo full" effect to the Paris agreement. There are difficulties in implementing the German agreement, but they. aro... anything but insuperable. One Ullustra............ tlồn can be quoted: It was' agreed, that in the development of Last-West trods” In Germany, there shall be n · separate.

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balance between the amounts of essential goods. That is 2. vital point. But almost at the last minute there was divergence of opinion on the definition of "East" and "West." The Russians have different currencles, and that is n material point raising the whole question of the position of the two Berlina in such an arrangement. Nevertheless, the Paris Conference can be described as a victory for realism. After four years, all four Powers have tacitly ogreed that the "Potsdam system" of control is unwork. able. It has been quietly scrapped, and for it is to be aubstituted a new system of co-operation, based on acceptance of the fact that for the present the Soviet Zone and the Western Zones must remain separate. It la acknowledged that economic unity is impossible without political unity, but the latter is not yet obtainable, for the Russians will not allow in the Enst political institutions of the lype now being established. In the West, while the three Powers will not allow In the West (nor for that matter will..... the Western Germans) - politicùl Institutions of thú typh now being crented in the Enst. The only way out of the dilemma is de facte partition. The four Ministers openly admitted that, nt The Hame time being resolved to continue to work for unity. The reality behind the facade is that they have all, in practice, accepted something which seemed to be - incapable, even in the first months of the occupation. Their policy on Germany in the immediate futuro la going to be Vased, not on fiction but on hard facis, And that, though it may seem heretical tò Bay, - seems by far, the most valdable? outcome of the Paris Conference.

Australian

Coal Strike Settlement Hopes

CENTRE ON TODAY'S CONFERENCE

Sydney, June 30.-Hopes of a settlement of the nationwide coal strike, which has paralysed Aus- tralian industry, centre on talka here tomorrow between the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Miners Federation."

Mr A. E. Monks, leader of the Austrian Trades Union Con- gress, said in Melbourne that he was melther optimistic nor pessi- mistic, and the miners' leader, Mr Idris Williams, said that the talks were not likely to end the strike immediately.

Reports of dwindling stocks of east in Sydney tonight were followed by an announcement by the State Cabinet's Emer- gency Committee that further drastic cuts in the use of ele- trie'ty would operate immedi-:

HK-Bound

Ship

Hits Reef

ately. More transport cuts are All Crew Rescued:

Arrive In Colony

also expected.

sald

Miners' leaders on the New South Wales coalfelds that, despite the "freezing" of union funds by the Federal Government, they could stant a three-weeks' siege.

on Saturday

the big

her surplus

has

And on

complete stultification, but Sir Lewis and the Bilneowners with little chance of getting into

Early this evening, however, reither experta

who worke

all last night nor the eight Ministers of the OEEC "Inner Council" charged with finding a solution had succeeded.

BELGIANS GLOOMY

of curious

courtroom have stood around courthouse corridors Lewis said he acted, because for bours merely for a chance "additional time was required to Miss Copion's romance with

to see the bruneito, realise expecta.lon for a now

a Russian-she described it as a agreement."

Klasices one-but the Federal The order

does not affect Bureau of Investigation on her

The mines West of the Mississippi trail

twa Indictments- River, but most mines are in followed-one in Washington

the other In New York During the hearing

Judy

the East and South.

Lewis cald the coal already Coplon hinted that she suspected above ground and to be mined | Valentino

Gubitchev-the man "whil' only

cry over

deeply emer-loved"-might have had a hand national in bringing about her arrest. the wago

She, and Gubitchev were continues,”-As« | arrested together in New York-

on March Associated Press.

Sir Stafford Crippa sald'nt in the three-day week

avoid noon, "Everything is

sny possible going Lency and fulty tha along nicely," but the Belgians, requirements while

cheerful last night. conference who were looked gloomy.

It was

Bome sueri.

Dominion Day Service

Of Remembrance

A service of remembrance for the Canadian War Dend was held at Sai-Wan Military Cemetery, Hongkong, this morning, when wreaths were laid by the Canadian Government Trade Commissioner In Hongkong (Mr Kenneth F. Noble), on behalf of the people, of Canada, and by others with former association' with the two Canadian battalions which served in the Colony during the hostilities against the Japanese.

It is understood that wher socioted Press. the experts and Ministers got Thirty-eight members of down to working out the details the crew of the ss Inchmark, of M. Epanic's compromise pro

found that Sir Messrs S. T. Williamson & Dosal,

not pre Company's 5,736-ton ship, Stafford Cripps was

pared to sacrifce

any vital which struck a reef of Brilah interests GLOOMY MELBOURNE

and that th Tamaban Island In the Ara-Americans were now urging Melbourne wil be a gloomy fura Sea, Netherlands East Belgium to make Jcity this weekend with the Indica, at 2 a.m. on May 29, fices in the common interest.

Observess tonight thought State Government's decision arrived in Hongkong this cancel train, street-car and all morning having been rescued tomorrow, or the whole maller

that

at the talks might continue bus services. Most of the city's by the salvage tug Caroline might be postponed for several shops and businesses aro cx-

months with the existing pay- Moller. preted to close

ments agreement renewed mean morning.

The Inchmark, a freighter,me. was on a trip from Sydney to "Sir Stafford, who is due back In view of the coal strike Hongkong when the disaster in London tomorrow, morning.

Victorian State Premier, occurred,

told the OEEC Council that ho T. Holloway, stated today The ship is said to be a total wast their disposal up to fiva that an appeal would be made loss.

| hours' tomorrow.

The Rev. E. Morris, Senler and Auxillary:." -Mr- George lo union Inbour tomorrow

Chaplain to the Forces, enn-Lomay "In themory of ""; "Our unload the 7,000 tons of Indian The Inchmark left Sydney on M. Spaak has arranged to re coal which 13 aboard the May 16, and was heading formaln in Paris until next Mon- ducted the service, st which Fallen Comrades, from

more than 100 were pretent Grenadiers Winnipeg Associa Canadian steamer Haligonlan Hongkong via Tarakan

M. Robert Marjolin, highest

The Last Post" and "Retion; and Dr. M. Bandll, "Ther Duke.

Alter hitting the. reet

DEEC offelal, hoped that "dur-veille" were sounded by bugions are not forgotten, from the ship remained firm on the rocks! Ing the night" agreement would from the Royal East Kont Regi-Roval Rifies of Canada, The ship has been lying un-and at low tide half the vessel

Wreaths were, also, fald on reached "In principle."

ment (The Buffs). loaded in Melbourne for fourwns high and dry.

He told Reuter, “Sir Stafford The service ended with the behalf of the Hongkong Volun months because of a union dia- Hongkong Was uskod for Cripps said yesterday pute.

he was firing of a salute by a party of teer Defence Corps, which had assistance and the Caroline prepared to envisago a system 12 members of the Hongkong such close associations with the The Miners Federation Seere. Moller was sent to the stricken of the transferability of indirect Defence Force, paruding under Canadian Brigade i 1941 and inry, Mr G. W. S. Grant, today hip, erriving at the scene on American aid and to accept somie RSM F.C. Top, who formed during the Occupation 4 years, called for a conciliation conte:- June 22.

risic of loss of dollars and gold the Firing Party, summed and by Dr J.S. Willis on behalf ence. “Instead of letting the dis-

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reception of honour ot later, he declared. Ife ah-Zealander) and 20 Chinese, wore to an said that Ideas on Mr HT. Peters, fuerinten-Dominiot Day will be held at

Lane w Other- Invins nowiced that the miners would ¦ jaken off the Inchmork by life- MA Marjolin be represented as a conference bont and transferred to the tug, all sides. vere now sumelanilyant Conan Immenf'où, the Hongkong Club Annexe toż called by the Australian Couricll The Inchmark was command close to each other, to justify the "metnory aur gemunden, night, followed by a dinner. of Trade Unions for tomorrowed by Captain OV Bosham, hope that an agreement in prin- who died in the Win E, 1941- danice given by the Canadian (not today, as reported earlier), who was interned in Hongkong ciple would be reached tonight. 40.34.

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