1951-03-28 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH

28, 1951.

BID TO SETTLE STRIKES FAILS Paris Transport Board Workers Determined To Hold On New Signs Of Labour Unrest

In The Provinces

Paris, Mar. 27.

Parisians will be without unde rground trains and buses for the 13th day tomorrow.

A two-hour meeting between the delegates of the Communist and non-Communist unions backing the 12-day-old strike and the Paris Trans- port Board, a State-controlled corpo ration, gave no results, a spokesman

of the Strike Committee announced tonight.

He said that the delegates had asked to see

the Transport Minister, M. Antoine Pinay, and TIBETAN

discuss with him direct.

The workers want a 25 per cent wages increase and are being offered 12.5 per cent, the spokesman said.

The spokesman for the Strike Committee said that 32,000 out of 34,000 men and women em- ployed by the Paris Transport Board were on strike and firmly set on holding on as long as will be necessary."

some Ministers, it said, believed" that prices and salaries should be allowed to fight it out themselves since world prices of raw materials had stopped rising.

The Government's official figure for the increased cost of living since August, 1950 is 12.5 per cent-Reuter.

transport Mr.

Salaries among workers range from 18,000 to 28,000 francs per month, he said.

Ninety underground trains Has

against 450 in normal times--- and 20 buses, out of 2,000, maintained a skeleton transport

For

system today supplemented by For

more than 1,000 army lorries and private coaches..

While the Ministries con- cerned worked out the 10 to 12 per cent increase granted to all

throughout wage earners

the country by the Government last Friday, new signs of labour un- rest flared up here and there.. AIRPORT VOTE Thirty per cent of the miners in the northern coalfields con- tinued to strike in support of the workers of the Paris area.

All miners received a 10 per cent increase last week.

Air France workers at Orly and Le Bourget, Paris airports, will vote in a strike ballot to-

morrow.

Welles

"Policy Today"

New York, Mar. 27. Mr Sumner Welles, former American Under-Secretary of State, said today that--if ex- President Hoover's advice were adopted as American foreign policy," war with Russia under conditions far worse than those of today would be inevitable.

Mr Welles, who served at times as President Roosevelt's Acting Secretary of State and played an important part in shaping American policies, also opposed present Western plans for re- arming Western Germany.

He gave his views in a new book, "Seven Decisions That Shaped History", published to- day..

Sixty per cent of the workers at the Toulon arsenal walked

Opposing present Western out this morning while tramcar plans for rearming West Ger- employees there staged a

24- many, he said that without pro- hour warning strike.

per safeguards, such a step in- The 48-hour nationwide rail-volved immense future dangers. way strike of last Thursday French statesmen were con- and Friday gave the Paris tele- vinced that without proper phone system an all-time boom. | safeguards, Germany might in The French General Post Office said today that on both days of the strike the Paris telephone exchange put through 105,000 calls against a normal average of 90,000.

The General Post Office added that this result was achieved in

spite of the difficulties the staff had in getting to work owing to the transport strike.

CABINET'S TASK Town Hall employees walked out for a 24-hour "warning" strike today in six suburbs of Paris. They claimed an imme- diate monthly rise of 4,250

frames.

MISSION

HOPEFUL

New Delhi, Mar, 27. The Tibetan Commander-in- Chief, Dzasa Kunsang Tse, is very hopeful that his country's mission to Peking will reach a settlement.

The 52-year-old Commander- in-Chief, a member of the three- man delegation, expects to leave. here by air for the Chinese capital on Wednesday.

I am unable to give details of the subject for discussion at this stage," he said. Full instruc- tions were with the leader of the mission, Sawang Ngabio, a travelling direct, to China from. Cabinet Minister, who was

Tibet.

ing

Kunsank Tse, who was wear- robe, saw the Secretary of the a gold-edged black silk

External Affairs Ministry, Mr. K. P. S. Menon, today. Earlier he met the Chinese Ambassa- dor in Yuan Chung-shien,

New Delhi, General

With him on his New Delhi visit was the third member of the mission, a portly, 44-year- old monk-adviser, Trunik crimson robe, Chempo Lautra, clad in

Sara Monastery; said that they The latter, who is from the

had brought a special letter for Pandit Nehru, from the Indian Prime Minister, Lama and were being received the Dalai

by Mr Nehru tomorrow..

Router.

the future be the ally rather, Pope At

than the opponent of the Soviet Union,

He described the present Ad- ministration's policy in the Far

Vatican Ceremony

Vivacious 19-year-old Yorkshire blonde, Margot Holden, makes an attractive jungle girl in one of the many scenes from the current edition of Revudeville now on at the Windmill Theatre in London.-Central Press Photo.

Allegations Made By Sultan

Cairo, Mar. 27. The Sultan of Morocco, Mohammed Ben Youseff, said in an interview published in the news- paper "Al Ahram" today that the French authori- ties exercised pressure on him, accompanied by a march of tribesmen on the capital.

Vatican City, Mar. 27. The interview was with the men, who had no idea of the Pope Pius XII today attended Veteran Egyptian journalist Dr real situation, and their camp- East as a record of ineficiency the reading of decrees authoris- Mohammed and of vacillation.

Azmy, who was ing at the gates of Rabat, Fez ing the beatification of a monk sent by the Egyptian Govern- and Sala. Mr Welles posals in what he termed

made these pro-Land two nuns. They are Fran-ment to investigate the situa- "policy for today":

acesco Antonio Fasani, of the tion in Morocco.

Franciscan Friars, Minor Con- Vittorio Teresa

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(3) The Sultan's desire (1) Continued economic aid jventual Maria

avert serious consequences.* Dr Azmy is the Middle East to Western Europe.

Couderg, Co-Foundress of the representative' on the United The Sultan said the cause of (2) Exclusion of Communist Society of Our Lady of the Nations Commission on the the crisis was the French de- China from the United Nations Conaculum, and Placida Viel, Freedom until it had recognised that it Second Superior, General of the formation.

that of Exchange of In-mand

he denounce the " had been guilty of aggression Institute of the Christian Schools

methods of the Istiqlal Party, and his refusal to do so. and agreed

He to the

unification of Mercy.

In a written question-answer added that of Korea.

the French In addition, three other decrees interview, the Sultan said his dent - General,

Resi- Parisians travelled free on the

General Al were read, approving the mira- Paris Metro today as the non-

(3) United States refusal to

25 Feb.

protocol cles proposed for the canonisation

eulogising phonse Juin, made the demand French "contributions", striking employees operating the return Formosa to. China until

Ignazio da Laconi, of

to "in language denoting threat." the skeleton service collected

the United Nations no

had con- Friars Minor Capuchin, Emilla Morocco was the result of three fares.

The Sultan said his hope for sidered the best interests of the de Vialar, Foundress of the factors:

the future was Arab-Moslem- The evening paper Paris-Soir Formosan people and the mili- Institute of the Sisters of St

Marocco development in all said, that a Cabinet meeting.tary implications of such a step Joseph of the Apparition, ard (1) Threats made by the fields along democratic lines. tomorrow would work out plans and until a recognised Chinese Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Co- French authorities to replace a

He called on the French to give to prevent prices from catching Government had been admitted Foundress of the Sisters of Mary certain Minister.

such development due up with salary increases. But to the United Nations.-Reuter. the Helper-Reuter."

Isideration.-United Press.

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