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GLASGOW.
A CITY OF CONTRADICTIONS AND CONUDRUMS,
الا
their
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Tens of thousands of men, good craftsmen, have been receiving unemployment_bonafit"; through the Labour Exchanges. I have scen
hundreds of them line up to receive money. [BY SIR JOUN YUSTER FRASER...
there were reckless families Ulasgow is always providing something during the fat yours, but a great many who squandered all the money they had prodigious. The chief event of excitement others saved and put something aside in a during my visit was that the world's restocking and are now drawing on that-- cord for continuous dancing, seven and a though a good many stockings are empty, half hours, was attained by a young couple and respectable people suffer quietly rather
from despised Edinburgh, by the way. There is an old jibe about the man who "Hole."
than wok parish rvliet in addition to the declared. "I was educated, in Glasgow, but I got my polish in Paisley."
The Glasgow man has a guid conceit, and ku
enerally enlarges it at the expense of sluggish, unadventurons Edinburgh, which is a little listressing, for I so an Edinburgh product myself.
Amongst the many reputations which Glasgow has, the least enviable is that its inhabitants are, addicted to an inordinata. consumption of whisky, an exhilaration which may be pardoned in n region, where, during the winter months, it is invariably raining except when it is snowing.
That, however, is a tale completely out of dute. It is not all due to a gush of high morality succeeding the persuasive ness of the Pussyfonte There are threy reasons for the slump in dram-
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(1)
I was peculiarly interested in finding out what effect months' and now years" receipt of the dote lit upon the skilled workers? The conclusion I formed was that it was demoralising, but had not demoralised. The
percentage amongst craftsmen ba "dole" would rather muddio along on the
dodge real work when it came their way was
mataratively small.
Glasgow citizens, who as sured me that there were thousands of men who, whe it was #4 case of £2 week dole" and no work, or 2 is. week with work and no dole," they preferred the "dole."
But those who were best able to speak on this patter-Labour Exchange officials, who paid the dole and were on the look out to hid work for the men-were
to certain such cases were few. Indeed, I f
pur
All the best for poses, (2) there is such a shortage of properly matured beverage that ligt dis fillors are obligel toration the retailers; (3) the coat is so high and the quality so diluted that whisky has become far too expensive a drink for.esany Clydesiders.
THE SWEET TOOTH.
But when a man does not drink he has another craving. It is for aweetios.'
Glasgow may be the town of second in portance in the British Empire, but, accord. ing to population, it has the sweet tooth of any city which blossoms beneath, the flaunting folds of the ever-glorious Union Jack.
As the drink bill declines the candy stores do good business. Since I was last in Glas gow thare has been a positive spideraic of sweet shape -
I understand that these men of Celtic blood, Abe sons of the Highlaris, the brawest sodjers in the wor-rld, the clansmen who forayed in the olden days and built the grandest ships of modern times now, insteail of
of having a fiery draught as their morning, stand round and munch sticks of chocolate! It is
a great change,
bered that men resented receiving the
dole.
bayerly resumed work, not only when they Cases were given to me of men who
less than they received by the "dele." gained no financia! benefit, but even for
GENUINE-AND OTHERS,
Besides the administration of the unemploy; ed benefit, which comes from the national purse, thousands of pounds are spent in parish relief which comes out of the rates
It is absurd to say there are not hundreds of perfectly genuine and pathetic cases of distress, but arrived at the opinion that there are hundreds and even thousands of hanky-panky in that men who were so down on their uppers that they had to seek parish relief would give some physical evi dence of ill-condition.
You might
When I pail n casual visit to the Tent Fall, where relief was being paid out, I found about a thousand men, very quiet mannered, well conditioned, mostofthem in the twenties, apparently well fed and healthy, exactly the kind of men one sees crowded on the bank side of a football match on a Saturday afternoon
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I like Glasgow because of its enterprise. Now, whilst in regard to the Labour Ex- under lamentable climatic conditions, be-
changes, I heard good reports about the cause of its pablic spirit and generosity craftsmen anriots to return to work. I ripping up that boary old fable that tha Soot is
Dear" because whilst it has a legitimate respect for the hawbees it has a real love for the things that matter, art and literature and here I have to say know of no other town of similar size in the that has such a fine collection
world of excellent book shops-though I regretted that in the booksellers' windows there was not as fine a display of one author's books us I considered desirable.
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But Glasgow is an enigma, or rather, bundle of enigmas. Glasgow has lead other cities in municipal reform. It has a bread-
gathered that few craftsmen, seek parish relief, and that most of the who tlo Бо belong to the casual classes; many are bookmakers' toute and police watchers-with not much deing till the racing acason opens-and not a few are parasites, the men who will not work if ne'er-do-wells, the spongers, the they can get money otherwise.
the
It is always this disreputable band, who are demonstrators, and public rowdies and the gang who bring discredit on the men who are hard hit and have';s genuine grievance
TIL DODGERS. Glasgow parish officials are experts in and in making swift. inquiry into those who get jobs and still draw relief and who are up to all the tricks to anap money.
visional intellectuality. Yet it has slums and potting the docious enses, especially
housing conditions which make one sick to look at though there are schemes actively afoot, if not to sweep away the sinks of squalor, at least to provide housing of a bet ter class.
Of Glasgow's fifteen members of Parlia ment ten are Labour and Socialist. Many Glasgow folk are not particularly proud of that "Facts but they show a glow of satis faction that, at any rate, the Glas. gow Socialists in Parliament are up the English Socialists and
waking them a thing or two.
The night before went down to the
Clydeside I was in the House of Commons. In one quarter of the House at a bunch of Conservatives, most of whom had been re-
Home Countica.
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The unemployed son living at home gets Gl. a week, but an unemployed loiger gata 158: so it is not an unheard of thing for. a lad to go across the passage sad lodge with a relative in order to be entitled to the
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I was told of a young fellow, drawing parish relief, deliberately getting married, for as a married man he would get assistance on a higher scale. Though the officials know well the louts and the shirkers, they
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On the other
Not so long ago 20.000 necessitous children were being led in Glasgow by the school determined and some rather cadaverous dire distress. But the higher education Glasgow Socialists. And, appreciating the authorities issued instructions
tions of population in other parts of Britain
over sec-meals were only to be given to children who were declared after medical inspection to I asked,Why should this part of Scotland be in need of food. There was a howl of havo Beat Ro many extreme viewed Labour wrath at this cel conduct, toward the mea into Parliament?..
little ones.
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Yet it was well known that parents politics. It obviously well fed themselves, sent their has entirely to do with discontent arising children by the thousands to have the free out of a long period of uacwployment meats. The school authorities appealed Clyde workers did well during the war and
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But it is clear thousands of children were Fore getting free meals when their parents were Glasgow had been used to long stretches able to provide them, for, now that there has of unemployment and had accepted firm to be evidence that the child is actually in more or leas as natural events in want, the number of necessitous children has industry. But (with. the gates o been reduced in Glasgow from 20,000 to about great engineering shops locked and 300. Which just shows how public money great shipyards silent for two pecan be viciously expended. Tuen began
to
theres must bo
Other politica
played are men who refuse work because it with fs of a kind to which they are not used ? palliatives, but the astabe Socialist leader On the evidence, I would say that is true. g with "plausible propaganda to But it was explained to me by those who
were able to propound
of rve the handing
- labour unemployed
bonest to, but really a
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be better off than he was.
Tho
the
That this was no evidence of abilitie
whirl of the no-rent agitation during in a coal mine and turn him to out-of-
last few days of the election-vote for door public
work in
harsh weather.
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But new language will have to be in- the Socialists and the landlords who had and up to the knees in mud with vented before anybody can suin up Glas- illegally raised the rents would be obliged to out his at once falling ill. You cannot go in one general phrase. It is a city of disgorge-had good deal to do with the take rivetter out of Socialist gainin
contradiction and conundrums. a shipyard But the Socialists would and expect him to work at narrow somed
Is it the grey folk indoors and make
akies have done
Fin any case, because of the coal down a Lanarkshire pit.
evenings
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of gaunt! feebleness because they had not less wage than they were offered for broken their fast for days, of poor little some work to which they were not trained. children so
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the other side, I: beard stories DA
explain it by one can only
breeding ground of Bolshevism and syndicn- that when they went
Yet it
in tion
The country is a mystery how hundreds of fell off their seats, of wo-families have
And with undoubted culture and love of to exist during the long
industrial
the arts why is it that some of the dwelling- kindliness.
places of the poor are a disgrace to Any csom- And there is plenty of money in
mun these!
At a good that with unemployment relief and parish Glasgow which is ready to flow toward
aud
other questio
questions at a begafit, the working class population had industrial enterprise if the holders are suro
Glaswegian He fired back the reply: been so debauched and demoralised that they are going to see the colour of their Irish, because 76 per cent. of the retail drink Because 2 per cent. of our population is work would not be accepted even when it money again with a margin of interest for business is in the hands of the Irish, and was offered.
the Investment. The result of my inquirica was to tores!
because the Polish Jows have been buying up There are satisfying evidences that
tho that ther had been the grossest kind of
worst is passed, and though it would be sluin property and are chiefly responsible for exaggeration. There has been une mpled difficult to point to say big move one hears the subletting, overcrowding, and often dis- unemployment on the (iydi ide, and yet the of workshops reopening, and there is statis-gugling would like to huge deposite in the largo Havings Bank tical proof that the number of persons draw
would like to licar the Polish Jews THE REDBUILDING (OPPOSITE ICE Hovsa Sz.) circumstance which nobody old ex in.
have been wonderful! Taxt is a curiousing relief is on the decrease..
and the Irish on these matters, (Donbinued at foos of nezò coláma).
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