The Archive · 1928

A Remarkable Boom

The growth of the sport is pheno~ monal. Cities and towns in which feyhound racing tracks exist include:—London (3), Manchester Edinburgh, Liverpool (2), Birmingham (2), Leeds (2), "Bradford, Southend," Burnley, Oldham, Sheffield, Bristol, Hull,' Glasgow, Black-Belfast, Bolton, and have been made at Newcastle, Rochdale, Ramsgate, West Ham, Douglas, and Hendon. Protests against proposals to build tracks have been made at London, Salford, Stoke-on= Trent, Norwich, Manchester, Gilling~ ham, Swansea, Luton, Good progress is being made towards the establishment of a control board for greyhound racing. After the meeting held at the opening of the Wembley track, a sub-committee was appointed, consisting of the Earl of Kilmorey (chairman), Mr. W. H. McGrath (Wembley), Brig. Gen. A. C. Critehley (G.RA.), Sie Lionel " Fletcher, Sir Frederick O'Connor, Captain Graham (Scot tish tracks). The committee issued number of invitations to prominent sportsmen to form a Greyhound Club, and have received a large number of acceptances. ganization, The workers are looked at from three points of view only: as prospective soldiers, us material for propaganda, or as people capable of paying so much taxes. Under there conditions how can trade unionism in China poss-ably make any progress?

At present China is divided vertically—State against State, leader and followers against leader and followers. There is very little is marked division horizontally—ie., between class and class. The result of this is civil war, and the war will continue either until the Chinese are tired of fighting each other or until their fighting energy fes can be diverted into some other channel, 'The Communists have fltempted to divert them into anti-th considerable suc cess. Is it possible to divert them into a fight by the workers of China against all, whether foreign cora or their own' countrymen, who refuse to pay them a living wage? That is the problem before the leaders of trade unionism in China to-day.

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