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...addition to ordinary offenses, Negroes may be sent to prison for 1) going on strike, 2) not having a pass, 3) possessing liquor, 4) "desertion." Desertion means taking a job and then leaving it without the white employer's permission. This is an offense under the "Masters and Servants Act." Most offenders are female domestic servants, most charges are laid by white housewives. (Sometimes as a good excuse for not paying the servant her monthly wages, desertion may be forced on the servant by deliberate overwork. If the servant objects, that is "impertinence," which is also a statutory offense...
...Englishmen-especially muscular Christian colonizers like young Peter Richards, who gloried in the weight of the white man's burden. Even on the dark side of the color line which galled the three Africans aboard, there was no brotherhood. To Mr. O. K. Chibude, a leftist civil servant on the make, native Missionary Josiah Selwyn was a timid object of contempt. Lij Makonnen despised them both...
...Churchill shied nervously when he caught sight of 66-year-old Steven Hardie, the hard-boiled Socialist millionaire who took over as chairman of the government-owned Iron and Steel Corp., custodian for 217 nationalized steel companies. Growled Churchill to the House of Commons: "His arrogant behavior as a servant and tool of the government will certainly be the subject of continuous attention...
Last week Government Servant Hardie more than merited Churchill's attention. He had just fired seven directors from the board of one of Britain's finest steelmakers, Sheffield's Thos. Firth & John Brown, Ltd., one of the biggest makers of engineering steels and a pre-nationalization subsidiary of Scotland's famed shipbuilders, John Brown & Co., Ltd. (Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth). Five of the seven men fired were also directors of the shipbuilding firm. Explained Hardie: they had too many outside interests; the government wants full-time directors for its steel companies. It looked as if Hardie...
...Vatican thought it had a pretty good case: besides their monthly salary of 41,000 lire ($50), the guards get free quarters, uniforms, food, cigarettes and beer. That makes them better off financially than the average Italian civil servant. Also, unlike the Papal Gendarmes, who maintain order inside Vatican City, they have no police duties.* To avoid discontent, however, the Vatican released the 16 complaining recruits from the terms of their enlistment contracts. It is also giving thought to increasing the allowances of the guards who remain...