Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 18, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 6 Winnipeg free press wednesday december is. 1945 today i history Premier Blum s Compromise results in a weak French government Paris a can the political Outlook Here remains Bleak today despite the fact that France monday finally achieved a government. Leon Blum s Laist resort single party socialist regime is momentarily assured of major party sup port but its life is bound to be a Short one. The drastic emergency measures immediately necessary to save the country from bankruptcy will precipitate so much inter party Fric Tion that if the new Cabinet can hold out for the five weeks remaining before the presidential election it will it is generally con ceded do Well indeed. Beyond the current worries that plague political observers Here As they View France s Helm of state guided by the weakest government since the liberation loom even Graver portents. Those versed in the ways of political mane vering Are asking such questions As will this government solely composed Orr members of the weak est of the big parties in the socialists hold Only one sixth of the National Assembly establish a dangerous precedent both the nazis and fascists started As one party minorities later to gain Power by turning major party rivalries to their own Benefit. Tt7tll the consequences of the by distrust of communists which France s moderates once More displayed in refusing to join a coalition government under Blum be bad for French democracy the communists Are the leading party in France at the moment. Was the refusal of the socialists to Adow them to head one of the key Cabinet namely that of National defense by Paul Ghali which they with democratic traditions the three Day crisis during which Blum tried in vain to obtain popu Lar Republican and Radical socialist approval for a communist headed War ministry undoubtedly has merely dug a deeper Trench Between the communist and anti communist blocs formation or a purely socialist government ends two years o prudent foreign policy unde Georges Bidault s popular Republican leadership which has Don much to regain for this country its prestige in International affairs the socialists Are expected t take a much weaker position re Garding the future Germany of example perhaps resigning them selves to the formation of a cent ral German government. They May also press for the immediate con delusion of a Franco British Al Liance. High Cost of living French living standards by Edwin a. Lahey Tessier Genera Secretary of the Christia workers federation sigh wistfully when the question o comparative standards of frenc and american workers is Brough up. He says is much Easie for the worker in the unite states. He can get so Many thing More for his Robert Bothereau the Youngish Jeneral Secretary of the Genera confederation of workers shrug is shoulders holds the Palms o is hands up and says these countries in Europe a impoverished. America is Rich. The 48-hour week in France is not matter of principle but one a the need for a Universal 48-Hou week has been stressed in an official report recently issued in Paris. Labor management an government officials participate n the drafting of the report which with a noticeable air o desperation sets Forth the proper ions of the Job ahead for Thi ahead of the cold weather re for prompt delivery xxx chocolates French people if their nation is to recover its economic and Socia health. Tarance has a 40-hour Law but the average work week in French factories today is a Little More than 44 hours. Over time of 25 per cent above the regular scale is paid after 40 hours by american standards the organized French workers do not have a very Bountiful life. The average hourly Wago for factory workers in Paris today is 47.11 francs approximately 40 cents or about 518 for a 44-hour week. The wage rates generally Are about five times As High As the 1939 rates but living costs have increased at least eight times since the pre War Days. The offi Cial Cost of living Index which takes the year 1914 As a basis equating 100, was 763 in Paris in 1939, and in october of 1946. These figures like All French statistics Tell Only part of the Story since they reflect official prices. Actually there Are so Many foodstuffs and other Basic commodities diverted to the Universal Black Market in France As to make it impossible to live without patronizing illegal but accepted channels of distribution for every rationed item. Rent control is the one Field of activity that seems to have proved effective and the principal squeeze on the worker is he Cost of food. Labor and gov rement officials estimate that he average worker spends so Pel ent of his income on food. Despite the French failure to Force Price control and Distri Ute food equitably under their rationing system the workers Are till subject to statutory wage filings. But in some industries there profits Are High Black Vages Are being paid according o one labor official. The meager wages of the French Vorker Are supplemented slightly y child allowance payments Erom i fund into which employers pay 2 per cent of the amount of their payrolls. This amounts to francs per year or which would average a title More than per week Hunting All workers. In the face of these depressed ving standards French workers re increasing production and Are sked to increase it Many times moire in 1947. Coal production in in newly nationalized mines has sen steadily and reached 00 tons in october which was Bove the average monthly pro action for the Boom of 1929. Mexican artist 4pproves present Art trends by Jeanne Bellamy Mexico City Rivera Mexico s first Painter whose revolutionary inter to stations Are world renowned Low views his work As an express Ion of a past Era. In fact the 60-year-old artist proves today s mexican Art trend which is not inspired by revolutionary class consciousness. An artist must be of his ays the muralist. My generation was in the midst of the struggle o it was inevitable that its work hould express it. The americas should develop an it tradition indigenous to the new world Rivera believes. Mexico itself has 30 or 40 Youn artists who will carry on its new it tradition with distinction he ays. But he feels that the people f the United states have so far aled to recognize the importance f native Genius. There Are Many Young artists n the . Today better known in Mexico than at Home. The . Till looks to Europe. Thia is wrong. Every nation in the Western ice sphere can and should look to to own artists for a new and veg Rous expression of the spirit of Tiese Philippines an amendment has been passed o the Philippines Constitution which will give american citizens qual rights in the exploitation of hat Republic s resources. President Lanuel Horas in supporting this amendment said he saw nothing consistent with the Basic rights of filipinos in inviting the Aid of to americans and american capital to Elp in the task of recovery. He described the Amend ment As an integral part of the re habilitation plan approved by the United states for the Philippines traffic has been re opened on More than Miles of Waterways in the soviet zone of Germany. During the reconstruction period 750 ships were salvaged the remains of 80 Bridges cleared away and 220 damaged Bridges provisionally repaired. Latest russian attitude towards the West finds German settlement nearer Moscow the impression created Here following the u. N. Assembly s meeting is that despite some difficulties Many arising from the British Side the u. N. Performed a valuable instructive task. The Endeavor by the soviet Union to reduce friction with the United states was particularly marked and exceptional Promin ence was Given to the speech by Deputy foreign minister Andrei Vishinsky at the soviet american Friendship meeting in new York. The rank and file soviet citizen is reacted very favourably to All his. Passages from Vishinsky s speech which attracted special attention vere quotations from Premier Stalin s statement made in 1927, about the peaceful co existence of he soviet revolutionary spirit and american business Enterprise and especially Stalin s reference to credits to Russia being a profit Able and reliable investment. The Vishinsky statement May be Aken in conjunction with a re ent authoritative article written Here by professor Varga on the in viability of an american business Lump which he puts at about 18 months hence and which he says by Alexander Debth Manchester guardian special Only measures like Large scale credits to foreign countries Are Likely to mitigate to some extent there is no doubt that the rus sians have lately been keeping a close watch on american trends which reveal hostility toward the soviet Union in a Large part of the u. S. Press coupled with wild talk about world War with Russia in the midst of a Long arduous re construction process difficulties which Vishinsky emphasized Russia is Little inclined to engage in an armaments race and she would like to see the last of the atomic bomb which As Vishinsky indicated at the u. N. Meeting is the most disturbing psychological Factor in the world today. And being unwilling to take anything for granted she won t take for granted that advocates of an at Omic War Are a non existent Spe cies. Russia needs credits for reconstruction on a larger scale than has been hitherto indicated and Vishinsky s inclusion of this ques Tion in his soviet american Friend ship speech is considered highly symptomatic. How does the clash of ideologies in Europe fit in with All this the russian View is that Europe is in a state of ferment and conflict of interests and ideologies that is completely inevitable in any Case Between the left and right Between those tending to turn East and those looking West for their ideas Between communists and reformist be tween those willing to tolerate and those unwilling to tolerate Franco Spain for example. But these inevitable ideological conflicts the russians contend need not involve the world in a general massacre. Many diplomatic observers Here in fact think that present trends Are making prospects of a Settle ment of the German problem More promising than before. The Ger mans must not be used As pawns by the allies against each other Stalin has already pointed out and elections in Germany have tended to confirm the russian belief that the bulk of germans Are still essentially opportunist with a conflict Between East and West fore most in their minds. The strengthening of Good relations with the West is considered Here a much healthier and More fruitful policy than Competition Between the wartime allies in currying favor with the germans. In Short an agreement on Germany though still difficult seems less so than time ago. Lewis Union file Appeal Washington dec 18 the United states supreme court monday agreed to consider a 10 Point Appeal filed by John l. Lewis and the United mine workers against their contempt conviction and fines of growing out of the 17-Day Coal strike. The action puts both sides the Union and the government formally before the supreme court As requesting a final decision on the Law Points raised by the govern ment and those presented by Lewis and the Union. The court will hear arguments for each Side Jan. 14. The solid fuels administration re ported monday the 17-Day shut Down of Coal mines Cost the United states an estimated tons of Coal. 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