HAT is to be the future of Hongkong, last outpost -of outright British imperialism in Asia ? For years all Chinese poli- tical factions have insisted that Hongkong was a part of China proper and must be returned to China. Chiang Kai-shek once enlisted the aid of Fran- klin D. Roosevelt to argue with Winston Churchill that Hongkong should be returned to China at the end of the Second World War. Churchill would have none of the idea and, as ‘it turned out, Chaing Kai-sHek left the China mainland, while the British are still on the tip nearest Hongkong — Kowloon. The People’s Republic of China likewise has declared that Hongkong part of China, and there was a time when many British property owners liquidated their holdings and left the colony. Later, many came back to try to buy again into an area where big money is changing hands daily. The Chinese government has shown no indication of taking any. immediate steps to take back either the 356 square miles in which -Kow- loon is located, called the New Territories, or the islands upon which Hongkong sits. The New Territories were taken originally by the British under a 99-year lease in 1898, and it was a deal Chinese have often argued they were forced into by superior British power. But the People’s Republic, the strongest government China has had in modern times, instead of aiming at Hongkong and the _ fading power of British imperialism, seems far more interested in dislodging Chiang Kai-shek from Formosa, where the power of the U.S. supplies, and finances maintains him. Ae ae Because the British status of Hongkong seems secure, temporarily, at least, con- siderable money is being in- vested by those who wish to grab some of the fancy profits to be made there. today. New office buildings, apart- ment houses and housing de-. velopments are going up, and they all have one thing in common> The capital invest- ment will be realized well be- fore 1997. : That year, 1997, the old lease expires, and no one be- lieves there is any chance the ‘government of China will re- new it. And if China reclaims the New Territories, Hongkong proper will have far less value. Today, however, the place abounds with all kinds of fast operators, wheeling and deal- ing for fast dollars to be made in legal and illegal ways, and over it all the British colonial officers regulate a government in a situation far different from the old days when British gunboats provided the force behind any highanded edict they wished to issue. Today, they operate on the is rightfully. What is future of Hongkong last British outpost in Asia?| This is a typical street scene in Hongkong where the popu- lation is overwhelmingly Chinese but Chinese are excluded from government. sufferance of China and they know it. Partly because it has in- herited the old vice-ridden, lusty night-life of Shanghai, and partly because its markets offer more bargains than any other visited by Western ships in the Orient, Hongkong has become a great centre for tourists, and it is estimated that tourists spend about $12- 000,000 a year in the colony. That figure probably in- cludes the expenditures of many U.S. servicemen station- ed in the Orient, for the armed forces run regular “leave” ships to Hongkong—that port being considered the: - most Meat workers’ unions desirable for leave and liberty. A recent issue of the Satur- day Evening Post seeks to ex- plain this by saying it is the biggest Chinatown anywhere outside of China, yet it is run in the clean and efficient man- ner of western governments. But that is a statement wide open to challenge. More candid old China hands believe the wide-open vice, which the British choose to ignore, is more of a lure to the tourists. They recall that no city in Kuomintang China in the days of Chiang Kai-shek had prostitutes operating so openly on the streets as they do now in parts of Kowloon.. in US. set merger WASHINGTON A 450,000-member union, merging the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen and United Packinghouse Work- ers of America, will be formed on October 26 at a Chicago convention. It will be the first major merger of AFL-CIO affiliates and will form the seventh largest union in the US. The Amalgamated was a for- mer AFL union; the UPWA was an affiliate of the CIO. Ear] W. Jimmerson and Pat- rick E. Gorman, president and secretary-treasurer of the 320,- 000-member Amalgamated, de- clared: “We believe the two philo- sophies can and will be merg- ed-into one, out of which will come sensible militancy with more faith, understanding, business decency and down- to-earth fair play for all.” Jimmerson and Gorman set forth the principles of the merged meat union in an edi- torial in the October issue of the Amalgamated journal, the Butcher Workman. Jimmerson and Gorman promised the merged union “will stand against intolerance, ignorance and bigotry at all times. It will attempt intelli- gently to always fight for the ideas of liberal democracy. It will never believe that one person is inferior to another person or that the workers of the world cannot live with eich other regardless of ereed, color or nationality. “Tn this new union, we place our trust in God and with faith and zeal for our cause, we greet the 16 million organ- ized trade unionists and pledge to cooperate wholeheartedly with them.” Report. on Kentucky ‘l saw bring By Special Correspondent HENDERSON, Ky. I went to a meeting of the White Citizens Council in the county courthouse here the other Saturday night, and heard Wright W. Waller Jr., harangue the town to boycott the integrated Weavertown grade school. . Five Negro children, aged six to nine,. had attended classes since school open- ed September 4. On the Monday morn- ing I stood on the grounds of the lovely Weavertown consolidated school and saw a grim- faced mob of 150 demand the right to push into: the building and tell'the white children to’ leave. | Less than 200 of the 870 enrolled white child- ren came to school Mon- day. The invaders from neighboring Clay and. Sturgis had done their dirty work. They got away with it in their towns; now they plot to spread the “boycott” through- ou the state and everywhere that white and Negro children go to school peacefully to- gether. It was shocking to hear Wal- ler. ,a prosperous farm equip- ment merchant of Morganfield, stand in the pillared ~court- house and preach subversion of the U.S. Supreme Court decision. Some 200, and this figure in- cludes children, stood in the courtroom or out on the green as Waller pulled out all the stops of the demagogue to urge the people to ‘‘do like Clay and Sturgis.” The authorities allowed Wal- ler to rig up a loudspeaker from the courtroom and his diatribe could be heard for blocks. It was shocking to realize that. the Henderson county authorities gave him permis- sion to make his inflamma- tory speech from within the environs of alleged law and order. It was shocking to hear the Henderson police tell report- ers that they estimated 1,800 attended when’ this observer counted exactly 204.men, wo- men and children; many of them babes in their mother’s arms. Waller’s speech was chill- ingly Similar ‘to any Adolph Hitler ever made. He assail- ed Democrat and Republican alike, Eisenhower and Steven- son; said’ that the Supreme Court justices were “unfit to be county judges”; insulted Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Governor A. B. Chandler and called General J. J. B. Wil- liams ‘ ‘the jitterbug’ who OCTOBER 5, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — racis headed the national gual Clay and Sturgis. He concluded by ure boycott of the Weav school the following ‘ed i morning. He | great part, and it 18 0g that he did so with bee plicity of certain mem | the Henderson county government and police So on Monday mae ‘] er than 200 persons were i to throw this peace munity of some 20, chaos of fear and im pomemperc 2 Only the day pefore! to many churchbound: and white parents a pressed satisfaction © way things had gon@) They spoke respect the white and colore™ who formed a comm summer to work ou integration. yeah It is astounding oe “4 the unbridled mischief "i Kluxist Citizens Coum ne fh do. They trade of ie valent misconceptions (P which many reveal peaceful integration int jungle witch- doctors * jure up a spectre to © hearers. I heard Waller usé i elous testimony of thé it rigged hearing about } ; tion in Washingtom, aie’ vf heard this crowd 9 op racists boo down the Fil tatives of the Minis liance of Hender son W ob ed for “sanity” a2 ance of law. They did not allow i finish his speech 4 Waller. So on the Monday ny only 300 white child? ass 870 turned up for cl 4“! I saw the Negro chi ne the school that morn ant and unconscious of moo! oe they had enjoyed nie tions with their W mates since schoo “4 I saw the pul sions on the faces f) children when the m0) onto the school 8° saw the worried £4 ents if frightened white Preis & hy hastened to take +