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Reporter NORMAN SMART has been living among the first group of 7,000 men- and women who are flying to Toronto under the Ontario Government's air emigration scheme. The first 38 cmigrants have been there three weeks now. final report brings into claser facus.
4 people
VIRDIQUANDALZUMENIE)
BEGINNING
This
WITH MISS tables.
When the management is DOROTHY GILBERT, 38-year-old confident that he is efficient-an waitress. tely of the Ited Lion; efelency standards are very much Luton. She was gelthy aleng very higher than in Eugland-he will he given a post in the restaurant, and well, grappling with her new Job as
she can expect lo
to double her earning waitress in Toronto'n sinarlest hot, when her first air-mall letter right away, because the tips are good
and the only meal she will buy is arrived at her 358,-n-week dis
breakfast of tea, toast, pure white bread and but'er, and marmalade. to work and Ixick cests eightpence esting a shilling. The tramear fare to
take 25 tiay, and the journey minut.
could have cried. The letter reminded me of the things I know so well in and around Luton. In amazed i didn't book my passage back right away."
But now she is recovering, chiefly, I suppose, because she has got her- # very well fixed up.
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She works x days a week and "harder than in England."
"'s almest worth emigrating for nylons at 7s, 6d, a pair coupon free."
She let the recrption haste! two days after she arrived and found her own digs. Then, bearing that the
Shu when you so do in Canada
Onds difficulty In making want
a job is to ring up the must friends, however, and cunnot get used Canadian habit of calling Important man in the business you to the have selected, the rang up the mana people by Christian names within a ger of the Hoga York, the biggest few minutes of being introduced. hotel is the Brill: Empire.
She was astonished when she was put through to him and he asked Ger wander whal to come round. " woust happen in England if I tried to ring up the manager of the Savoy for a job." she says.
After what she calls “a strict medi- rul," she got a job on padation al Te a wok plus tips and three meals
The few friends she as nlis ady made have taken her around Sunny- The side, a miniature Blackpool ch
of Lake Ontario, n minutes edge from the centre of the twn. Here she ate papourn at sixpence, hot dogs at sixpence and had a swim in the beautiful floodlit pool for 15. 3.
a day. For the first few weeks she
at the hotel staff picured with her new country. only serving
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KS ENTRANCE
"What's up with you,
inspired with the glorious incentive to work or did you find one of them stronger.beer, pubs?”
THIS MAN BEVIN
HIS STOCKPORT SPEECH MAY CHANGE BRITISH POLITICS
ir
SO
ago.
HEN, a couple of years Mr Ernest Bevin, under the
ake- retirement rules of the Trans- port and General Workers'
by
W. J. BROWN, M.P.
So altogether (except when he gets those convalscent twinges fol-Union, relinquished the general in them, magnify and enlarge
Dorothy lowing homesickness)
recretaryship of that body. the particular positions which there were those who held that they occupy. There are others his position in politics would who, for lack of such qualities, rapidly decline thereafter. For diminish them. all Bevin's roots, throughout The first retain their per- his life, had been in the indus- sonal selves. The second lose trial side of the Labour Move them in the job or title. ment.
Bevin is of the first order.
begin life
TISSKIFIKOSTIJD (ASISALOTTOM:114)
A MARRIED COUPLE come next, has been looking at is in Woodland Mr and Mrs Lynton Blow, of South- bourne, near Bournemouth.
Although Mr Blow denks that he has ever hnd homesick twinges since
he arrived, he looks fondly at Toronto's children and thinks of his own wo (Michael and Margaret) who are bel
being cited for by friends until they can be at Southbourne. brought out. sensational. Within a few days of arrival he applied for an insurance job wit
with 11 ccers. He was one of The six chueen, and after a fortnight's training, came out at the top of the six in an examination. He has bet working daily 12 or 14 hours, and be quite expects to work at least as as Vat for some months until he is established,
cn Lakeskle, 20 miles from Toronto, where there is good swimming and It has fishing and à little shooting.
rooms and every conceivable five electrical device, including air cond tioning. Price £2,350.
Blow carns £10 week at the but he has already been moment.
district managership promised a an overriding commission,
His wife Ke's £7 10. weekly at the local store as a stenographer, out of this £17 10s, weekly they find they can seve
eve money. Mr Blow's
lunch at the firm's cafeteria costs 1s. 34., her husband's at a restaurant around 28. Gd. Typi- cal minu-chilled tomato juice, steak, salad and potatoes, blueberry
When war made. plain that the whole manpower of Britain musi bc organiser 15 the Inst degree he operated the direction of Inbour more ruthlessly, and more ceptably, than Atty Conservative Minister could have done."
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As Foreign Minister, speaking for England, he has held stiffer langt- nge to Molotov than Eden would have used. He does what he thinks
faels call for. His mental processes are a litle He does not reason so inchoate.
the
the
much as react. He murders King's English as badly as Winston murders French. In his speech at Southport, one of the reporters tells me, there was one sentence nearly two hundred words, half a dozen diversions, and no ending whatever.
Saving Word
with
In polities, which he entered In whatever capacity he has at a late stage in life, he count- worked one has thought of him ed primarily because of his as Bevin first and a particular Bit Churchili, the conscious QUT with him speech is not, as it towering position in the trade officeholder second.
exercise, on a very high level, of a When that
As the dockers' representative of great art, but rather the operation union movement. went, the argument ran, then long ago, as the architect of the of instinct struggling for utterance, General Workers' the instinct is usually very sound. his political decline would set in. Transport and
Southport. Whatever else the Trades Union, as the effective founder and it was sound at Souths
builder of the Daily Herald, as the
There were gathered a thrusand Union Congress did not do at dominant gure l the TUC, 8 representatives of the trade unions. now They were aware that something
radically
wrong. From was
*they of Ministers utterances. Bicaned Bitle light or hope. In-
and
Blow's progress here has been within two months at about £20 plus the Stockport Congress, it did Minister of Labour,
one thing. It demonstrated that Foreign Secretary, he has all along that expectation was nonsense, Insisted on "the importance of being
With no official position in Ernest" Bevin, the trade union world, and
hard
He and his wife have rooms, in- cluding bed and breakfast, at £4 a week on the outskirts of the town,
He has bought himself a 1938 Buick car for £75 which he reckons would Cost £300 la England
The road tax
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exorable circumstance compelled cuts of uncertain degree and attending the conference as a 15 second most marked charac- determined duration. Nothing had. guest, Bevin's continued reten-urist z lahat he is a learner trim they for our comfort, and nothing
rather than from the books. for our desire, save that the tion of power was plain to see. life
darker yet, and that the tide And the speech he made there Consequently
was against this background IL This leaves him much freer than that Devin said a saving word.
Generalisations. was that the way of salvation was Beth he and his wife find clothing a new line-up in British politics, the Slaves of the
They must ask what the theory not to be reconelled to permanently cheaper than in England. A pair cutting right across the party ou require, Bevin is free to ask lower standards of life, not to be of good rubber crepe soled shoes 25s, political divisions. shirts £, men's underwear 2s. 6d.
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pie with cream, 25, 9d. (Note: will reverberate for a long time problems is the practical, empirical rose higher. not fours this restaurant myself yet to come. It may, indeed, create but Blow insists that it exists)
approach.
There are some men who, by what ought to be done.
Throughout his life this practical a garment. Socks he reckons expvirtue of the qualities inherent approach is evident, of 12 10s had already been paid, so he-paid only five shillings tax transive at 59. § pair up
fer fee. He has already explored all Air Blow sums up: "Here, I've got the outlying country anil hopes to gel himself a hour scon. The house he
chance really to build something."
Well, he's off to a good start.
once again
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NOW A MAN who emigrated alone, William Browne, 20-year-old turner, formerly of Parkside - avenue, Barnehura, Kent,
Browne is not as confident as Elow. Maybe the reason is that his wife and two children are still in England. Browne is very much a family man, and he misses them.
to
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
D
ORMEZ, tions de l'Atlas! The sea serpent'
Sleep, lions of the deserts
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content to live as pensioners of the Americans, with strings attached to the penalons. It was to achieve vast increase in production, partly getting rid of all the practices
nd, further,
by which inhibited it, and, utilising the vast resources of the Commonwealth and Empire.
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Without them we are a small, island off heavily-over-populated
for
the north-west coast of Europe, doomed either to export a great part of our population or to sink to a and forests of the world. Your NE day I came out of the moun-Baikan level of life. With them we tains to n desertert Ligurian can be as rich as America and as Browne ja Whe best type of tormentor has left you in peace, heach. I was blistered by sun and powerful as Russia.
He favoured n Customs Union of British working man and he makes to exchange the gun for the white with dust. Plunging into the.
he Empire. new discoveries about his Canadian pen.
sea, I swam happily westwards, and
ters marle, as co.nterpart every day. He told me Frednuse: Have
been big the translucent waters you
Not Paupers that almost all Toronto's tramcar gume hunting?
swam, that happy little sound which drivers have their own
about the cors, and
Myself: No. Smult gume hunt- they make when a small yacht be-
WILL not orgue many own cottages in the country ing. Mosquitoes,
gins to feel life in the tiller after
mpanies of the business. They or their own sailing boats on Lake One day, I suppose, En enter dead calm, and the ripples talk under
I was would be comparatively easy Ontario. Browne, unlike Flow. prising publisher
will implore me her brows. Suddenly I knew I was
the tale of my not alone. Turning my head, I saw the Colonies; more difficult with the thinks that most things are more to let him publish
sinal sea serpent, head and neck Dominions. But
which really matter the Inst month. It will he admits, "your can get them,"
be given
It Ja the dynamica. He thinks dry cleaning
of those tomfool tles a suit one
like along beside mo. Thinking it might here.
Bevin's speech was the first in- or "Drums Over attack me. I turned and made for
Minister It followed
that any me, and then dication expensive at 75. dd.; a pair of inen's "Whither Korea?"
of English cloth Chile," or "Forty Days In Unkown shore.
(unknown flannel trousers
being
the suddenly made off in the direction thinking in terms of anything but cost £7; taxis (which he only uses Poopina"
frame rocks. I never saw t again. passive requiescence in hostile cir- cumstances, the first evidence of a The explanation
determination to grapple with cir cumstance
ce and overcame it. Th Eritish are not paupers, We vost and largely estate of Incredible Bevin's wealth. After
Ile started work with the Ontario Expensive than in England, but asinimost incridible adventures duin out of the water. It was clipping mechanics
Hydro-Electric Corporation nt Niagara, but they moved him back the Ontario branch. He gets £12 10s, weekly, pays 35s, weekly fur room, no lard, and gets lunch 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. at the firm's restaurant for 1s. Dd.
Mildred Pierce
Please
DON'T TELL ANYONE WHAT SHE DIDI
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TO-DAY
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DIRECTED BY
MICHAEL CURTIZ
JOAN CRAWFORD CARSON-SCOTT
JACK
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BRUCE BENNETT. JERRY WALD
PRODUCTO MY
In on emergency anyhow) have a operative word). minimum fare of 25. A replica of Pithy conversation Brownu is still stammered by the in ghand is £6 105, in Tron- THE Customs officials winced whe
30s,
Canada's people waste in restaurants.
food and the
England
10,
Like almost all other emigrants, Give hir the menia in 1 restaurant and he reads the dozens Browne Bnds Toronto's humil heat of items with wondering care as fperatures have been well over 00 for threa, weeks-most exhaust- it was a work of fiction.
ing
Is
I declared "Three Uns" "For zoo?" they asked. "No," cald 1, "hey're drad: "Wh:re they?" "Lions?"
this small сале
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HERE is only one explanation of
the incident,
und that is that are trustees of a there is a small sea serpent in that part of the world. Italians to whom
Tiny dwarf lions, I mentioned this merely said: "It is speech there is
you
my way
In future." And let no
It
ta not
new issue in
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Poli
and those
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a tobacco, pouch." "Open the not dangerous." Ta which I replied: tics. to add to the old. It is the I opened it. "They look "No, but I am, Let it keep out of issue between those who are willing
to rise to opportunity, Right now he is among the He is rather wondering how he like ferrets," said the oficial, chalk-
renct
tho when
lid Where Koing to
the case. huppiest, men In Toronto, because
|ing
spirits, would acquiesce in after tramping the streets
That issue, in the circumstances three thermometer dives 30 degrees. below them?" " exchange for a Britist. expert" deny the exisienos of sea who, in the weakness of
elgarette at a hours a nlicht for a week he secured zero and lower.
fair in Bou-Zul Serpents.
pro- the coming months, may were of Prodnose: got the British flat ready for his More than that, though..he is "Where did you a three-roomed
duce striking changes in the poll- exchange för an over-tired. wife and family at 24 a week. wondering whether he can hold out cigarette?" "In
tical situation, and deliver, us from (This is four times what he was until his wife gets out against Mr. Ab cigarette at Meknes Native
the creeping paralysis of these paying in England for a four-roomed Blow's efforts to sell him some life porters then carried my luggage to
days. the train. louise).
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