Britain
By HARRY HOBBS
United Press International
London -IUPP With unem
ployment its highest in 15
years and the door to the
European common market
closed, Britain is beset these
days with more troubles than
its government - or its busi
ness community - care to con
template. And what may be the most
serious of all, no one here
has any ready answer about
how to find the cures.
Prime Minister Harold Mac
millan, immediately following
the French veto last month of
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White City More than 25,.
000 hours of volunteer serv
ices were recognized and re
warded at the annual Turn
About party for Rogue valley
members of the Veterans Ad
ministration Volunteer Serv
ices Friday nighi in the domi
ciliary theater here, according
to Frank J. Glonning, deputy
chairman of the group.
Topping the long list of pin
find certificate and ribbon
swards were those who have
contributed 2,500 hours in
cluding Mrs. Leila Lamb,
Mrs. Helen Lusk, Mrs. Mary
Schulz, Mrs. Mary Parker
and Mrs. Rita Holmes. Domi
ciliary Director C. T. Jack
son made the presentations.
One-thousand hour certifi
cates were presented to Mrs.
Time Changed for
Pauling Assembly
Ashland-The lime has been
changed from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. for the Linus Pauling
assembly to be held on the
Southern Oregon college
campus March 15.
A winner of the Nobel
Prize in chemistry and a pro
fessor of chemistry at Cali
fornia Institute of Technol
ogy, he will speak under the
mispices of the American
Friends Service committee.
A noon luncheon sponsored
by the Soroplimist club will
be held in honor of his wife,
Ava Helen Pauling, who is
rational vice president of the
Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom and
n member of the American
Civil Liberties Union. Mrs.
Pauling will speak at the
luncheon on "Prospects for
World Cooperation and
Peace."
Reservations for the lunch
eon may be made by calling
the 482-3266 or Mrs. Mabel
VI. Winston, SOC registrar at
482-3311.
Dr. and Mrs. Pauling also
will be honored at an infor
mal coffee hour in Britt Stu
dent center at 9 p.m. the eve
ning before. The public is in
vited to attend the event as
well as the luncheon and the
assembly.
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Is Beset With More
Britain's application to enter
the common market, told the
nation in a radio and televi
sion address:
"Is there an alternative?
There is not, in the sense of
a sort of ready-made plan bet
ter than the one we have been
pursuing."
Later he told Parliament
the same thing and the coun
try's most authoritative busi
ness newspaper, the Financial
Times, said: "M a c m i 1 1 a n
didn't tell us where to go
from here because he does not
know."
Motions of no-confidence in
White City, is this picture of volunteers at
the Domiciliary's pitch and putt course.
Honored at VA Party
Faye Allison, Mrs. Mary De
Berry, Mrs. Dorothy Leuty,
Mrs. Lorena Leach and Mrs.
Amie Randall.
Organization Members
The Volunteer Services are
made up of members of 23 or
ganizations in southern Ore
gon and northern California.
Their work in behalf of the
disabled veterans is enhanced
by other organizations
throughout the state.
Dr. E. G. Everett, chief
medical officer and chairman
of the Volunteer Services ad
visory committee, was mas
ter of ceremonies for the in
troductions, presentations and
musical program for the eve
ning. Ms. Joyce Gooch, chief
dietitian, was chairman of the
committee for refreshments
which were served guests and
friends following the pro
gram. An overture by the domicili
ary orchestra, composed of
many former musicians with
top nationally known bands,
"Strike Up The Band," led
the evening's entertainment
as produced by the recreation
section here. Arthur Kenton
was director of music with
with Kenneth Haecker as
stage manager.
Featured In Orchestra
The orchestra features
Haecker, director, pianist and
organist; Kenton, arranger,
clarinet and saxaphone: Louis i
Nichols, accordion; Thomas i
Ray, guitar; William Hunt, i
bassist; Bert Vlastelica, drums j
and organ; Joseph Garner, j
trumpet and vocals, and Al-1
len Elliott, vocals.
In addition, Robert Tobias
and Eddie Grossenbacher i
gave harmonica solos and '
duets, Irving Gray sang, Ar-
Pfiofographic Group j
To Aleef on Monday '
The Southern Oregon Pho- j
tographic association will1
meet Monday, March 4. at 8
p.m. in the Red Cross build
ing, according to Mrs. J. R.
Wilson. ;
Members will submit color
slides and black and white ;
salon prints for exhibit In the '
"Winter Theme" exhibition
which will be judged by mem-
bers of the association.
the government, proposed by
the Labor party, have been
rattling steadily off Macmil
lan's shield and because of the
huge government majority in
the House of Commons they
have been easily defeated. But
party loyalty has not conceal
ed a rising swell of dissatisfac
tion within the Con ervative
party's own ranks.
Some of Macmillan's
more outspoken editorial
critics have been calling on
him to resign. The Labor
opposition has been de
manding an early election
thur H. Thompson presented
piano solos, and Pat Kobos
played his own designed
multi-string rhythm makers.
"We feel the VAVS pro
gram exemplifies to the high
est degree and in the finest
sense, the volunteer spirit of
this entire valley," the do
miciliary director said.
"Through your sincere and
unselfish efforts, you make
the stay of our veterans at
the domiciliary more whole
some and worthwhile1 ... In
honoring you ... for your de
votion to volunteer duty on
behalf of our members, we
recognize the great contribu
tion each of you has given in
the welfare of our disabled
veterans."
Jackson presented ribbons
for 50 hours, certificates for
100, 300, 500 and 1,000 hours
and pins for 2,500 hours.
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being confident the govern
ment would be thrown out.
Whether or when Macmil
lan will call an election is
unclear. He must do so un
der the law by October,
1964 - five years after the
last general election.
The final assessment has
yet to be made whether the
abrupt ending for the pres
ent of Britain's common
market ambitions was good
or bad for the country in
the economic sense. That it
was a political defeat no one
challenges. But on the busi
ness side there is a certain
amount of relief that the
long period of uncertainty
is ended.
While the larger business
and government assess the
Euromart exclusion, the
canker of unemployment
and labor unrest provide a
major challenge at home.
The official unemployment
figure at the last count in
mid-February was 878,356 and
the Ministry of Labor said it
expected the total to go high
er. Not since 1947, when Brit
ain suffered an exceptionally
hard winter, have so many
been out of work. In 1947 the
high mark was 1,847,000.
In a country long accustom
ed to virtually full employ
ment the present jobless to
tals are political dynamite,
but business tends to give non
political reasons for them.
These reasons are:
Structural Unemployment
- "Structural u n e m ploy
ment" due to the decline of
once great British industries
such as shipbuilding, coal
mining and the railways.
- "Technological unemploy
ment" due to increasing auto
mation, (the replacement of
men by machines), greater
business and industrial effi
ciency, and a decline in capi
tal investment by industry.
-"Seasonal unemployment"
which normally hits peak in
midwinter and this year was
intensified by the country's
worst winter of the century.
But labor's ranks are less
interested in the economic
causes than in measures of
cure and one of the potential
cures - the common market -now
has been withdrawn. La
bor unions and Labor party
spokesmen are crying for firm
government action.
One step the government
has taken - without satis
fying most of its critics very
much - has been to appoint
former Conservative party
chairman Lord Hailsham as
minister with special re
sponsibility in the hard-hit
northeast. And the govcrn-
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ment has earmarked about
S84 million worth of ship
building and other work for
the area in one pump-priming
effort.
Some highly dramatized
labor disputes reflect the
existing unrest.
With the country in the
midst of its hardest winter
in living memory a small
group of electrical power
workers instituted an unof
ficial "go slow" strike in a
demand for higher pay. Re
sulting blackouts and pow
er cuts affected millions.
London's' blazing Picca
dilly Circus was dimmed
and even Buckingham Pal
ace, home of Queen Eliza
beth, was blacked out by a
power cut (the Queen, how
ever, was not in residence).
Hospitals and homes across
the country suffered. Coal
became short as the demand
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Another dramatic exam
ple of labor discord has
been the giant Ford Motor
company plant at Dagen
ham outside London, one of
Britain's biggest auto facto
ries. The plant has suffered
some 300 labor "incidents"
in the past four years and
stoppages are estimated to
have cost the company
about S84,000.000 in lost
sales. The company has
blamed agitators and Com
munists. The unions - the
one plant deals with with
22 different trade unions
allege inadequate pay and
bad working conditions.
The unofficial or "wildcat"
strike has been one of the
worst problems. Such strikes
have been averaging about
2,000 a year and have dis
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All told, strikes in Britain
last year involved some 4,500,
000 workers. Many observers
believe strikes will hit harder
this year unless the economy
receives a major shot-in-the-arm.
It is that economic "shot-in-the-arm"
the nation seeks
without, at the moment, seem
ing to know just where to
look.
Win Labor Approval
Any action by the govern
ment to limit profits and div
idends would win hearty la
bor approval but a conserva
tive government could scarce
ly do it except in delicate
measure. For this reason or
ganized labor has refused to
cooperate with government
plans to set up a national in
comes policy. The way the
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unions see it workers' earn
ings would be controlled one
way or another while business
profits went free.
On the other hand the trades
union council (TUC) which is
the main British labor union
body, is working with the gov
ernment in the National Eco
nomic Development council,
popularly called "Neddy."
This is a joint effort by gov
ernment, management and
labor to try to plan the eco
nomic path ahead. "Neddy"
has set as its target a growth
rate for Britain of four per
cent per year until 1965.
A major problem for the
government is to get this rate
of business growth going with
out inflation.
Seeking Clearcut Road
While seeking a clearcut
road to Britain's economic fu
ture Macmillan has called in
general terms for a "climate
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of competition." The labor op
position agrees but demands
specifics. It says the govern
ment needs to produce both
tax and wage incentives and
to give "state aid in building,
equipping and running fac
tories to fill the hard center
gaps in our economy."
The issues are being fought
out in the House of Cnmmnrm
amid continuing editorial com-
piaini inai no one appears to
be providing any real answer
either to what ails Britain
now or what economic dan
gers it faces.
One contributor to the
famed "letters" column of the
London Times, put it this way:
"Have they so soon forgot
ten," he wrote, "the greatest
and most successful offer of
all-nothing but blood and toil,
sweat and tears?"
Britain waits for the verdict.