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The M'Gillycuddy Speaks

One is not surprised that Senator MGillycuddy pronounced, : dam cidentally, “Marlicuddy"should have played a considerable part in: the defeat of the Extension of the Franchise Bill in the Irish Senate recently.

His contention that no woman should have a vote until she is 30 and has borne and fed two children is thoroughly in keeping with his character.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1933.

THE T.U.C. AT

AT THE CROSS-ROADS

FALLING MEMBERSHIP CAUSES CONCERN INDUSTRIAL OR POLITICAL?

(By D. E. Arnold.)

Trades Union

The

Congress into our economic fabric the system stands bewildered at the cross-roads. of collective bargaining, which bas When it met on September 4 it since found many imitators. Dur was faced with another big drop in ing the same period the Labour. The Senator is fierce and 50, and membership. Constant bickering Party also grew, but it was not a with the Labour Party has distract serious claimant for office, and so he-man. He Is a Protestant, and, comes ed the minds of Congress leaders the T.U.C. had to look to industrial of one of the oldest families in Ire- from the consideration of measures and not to political action.

After the war the whole outlook land. His proper title is The to meet this situation.

A full and final decision of policy was altered. In 1920 the T.U.C. His M'Gillycliday of the Reeks.

had nearly trebled its membership father used to be very particular can be no longer delayed.

An examination of the aims, and the Labour Party had become

about the "The." If anyone' ad-

+

dressed him as Mr. M'Gillycuddy the status and history of the T.U.C. is a political force. Eleven years order to understand later trade union membership had old man would pull him up at once necessary in

fallen by half and the Labour Party "The, Sir," he would say. "Have the situation that has arisen,

The annual Congress which open-had been almost drummed out of. you ever heard anybody refer to # monarch as "Mr. King'7".

ed at Brighton last month was the Westminster.

Economic depression hat,

of Although the reigning "The" is as 65th. There was a presidential ad- Irish as the hills of Kerry can make dross and a certain amount of course, contributed to the drop in him, he was educated in Scotland publicity. A large number of re- T.U.C. membership. But the main He was at Fife in the days when solutions were adopted, with in-explanation is that when the T.U.C. Scottish schoolboys could play "rug-creasing celerity as the week-end sticks to industrial questions which gerbody-line "rugger. too, and approached. There were receptions it understands it flourishes and and excursions, and a presentation plays its proper part in the life of played with the boot,

in the of the Congress bell and a gold the country. When it follows after

the false gods of politics' it decays.

An Unfounded Boast There is historical justification

The M'Gillycuddy was fiercest pack that has ever repre-badge to the chairman.

And now, for the succeeding 51 sented any school. It contained

weeks, as for the preceding 51, five world-famous- Internationals:{ "Old Darkie" and "Young Darkie" matters will be left in the hands of for the boast made by the T.U.C. in

Siyright, "Jimmy" Ross, "Bummer" the General Council. Scott and S. H. Osborne.

1928 that "the Labour Party is the

The membership figures of the child of the TU.C." But, like many

(another parent, the TU.C. has been reluctant to recognise that her

Congress Member. Progeny has grown up and fe co-

titled to a home of her own. ! Delegates. ship. 1868 (foundation

year)

34 ..560

On leaving school The M.Gilly T.U.C. are illuminating: cuddy entered the Army, won

1920 Peak Year numerous point-to-points, and had a tude. It is not unreasonable to war record which will challenge suppose that this universality of comparison with the best.. IMRAY.-On usage will force itself into the WOTHERSPOON

1913 written speech. Facts You Did Not 16th September 1908 at St.more formal Joseph's Church, Hong Kong Should the signs along the road" by the Reverend Father Polli-that tell us to "Go Slow" read ti William, son of the late Wil-"Go Slowly"? They should not

Crank operated, a new implement liam Wotherspoon, Engineer of It is queer to recall that Shakes- Wishow Lanarkshire to Isabel-peare could use "slow" as an ad-chops nuts or fruits into la Marie Agnes, daughter of verb and could also write "fast pieces. William Imray of Fort Augus-fly." "To save breath and time, or tus Scotland,

Know.

for whatever reason, "fastly"" Haiti's coffee crop this year wan cashiered. "Slowly" should reach a total of 40,000,000 go with it into the home for re-grams.

tired adverbs. "It is me," a con-

The China Mail

struction of almost invariable! Composition handles have Ispoken usage and corroborated invented for holding paper |Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept. 16, 1833. by idioms in other languages, and spoons,

was accepted, as it should have!

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small

1920 (peak year) .955 1932

The reasons for the constant 118,367 bickerings are not difficult to dis- 2,232,446 cover. The personnel of the T.U.C. 6,505,482 and the Labour Party Executive are ..578... 8,613,273 as the poles.

Trade union secretaries would Standing outside Congress to-day not be where they are did they not there are 1,000,000 organised trade possess personality and have their unionists and a further 15,000,000 feet very much on the ground. persons who are gainfully employed. They must be able to produce may When the T.U.C. therefore speaks in tangible results in the shape of kilos representative capacity it has a wages and bettered conditions. They mandate to do so for only one have almost invariably risen from the industrial ranks, and have per- employee out of five. been Its annual income, has increased sonal experience of their trade. forks from £34 14s. 8d. in 1871 to £54,922 And to be frank, they are not very in 1932. This is derived from an interested in political theories and In affiliation fee of 2d. per union the scademics of Socialism. member, a special fee of 25s. per practice they are distinctly con 1000 members for the benefit of the pervative international T.U.C. known as the Small yonder that no love is lost and the hotch- In the convention of the at home and that most cultivated

International Federation of Trade between this type National Council of Teachers of persons never employ - unless A new device that can be placed Unions, of which the British T.U.C. potch of economists, agitators, re- English at Memphis recently they are obliged now and then to on a cup makes a single cup of is a prominent and wealthy member; negades and outcasts, from other and a fee of 105. for each delegate parties, lawyers, and political op- there was an interesting and put on conversational company coffee by the drip method. lively discussion of English as manners"?

attending Congress.

portuniste, and the genuine bat The English lan- she is spoke and English as the guage is for those who use it.

The offices in Transport House, unpractical defenders of the faith Guesta af Pittsburgh hotel are! severe grammar-writers tell us It's no use to set beadles at the shown photographs of rooms for Smith-square, Westminster, cast in who all go to make the Labour that she should be written. One door to keep out intruders and selection when they register.

rent and rates £2,270 per year. Party.

The rub is that the T.U.C. con- Salaries account for £12,413. The soon learns the baselessness of tramps whose looks they don't some of the rules that these like. Many of the rascals will get

investments are all in Corporation trols the purse strings and provides pedants have made. One speak-in. They may have their period with employing

stocks, except for £3,500 in shares much the greater part of the Labour printers often of the Victoria House Printing Co. Party funds." er properly condemned auch "de-of probation and then become clinging to equipment twenty years

Strictly speaking, "T.U.C." refers The Only Solution lusions about good English as inks of propriety, only in some old.. When more efficient machines to the Congress, but afre times out the commandment, still meekly later generation to be marked were finally introduced she found of ten what is meant is the T.U.C. had to acknowledge a drop of Ave obeyed by many not to begin a "obsolete" or "low." The inten-what? Not a ruthless racrlace of General Council. sentence with "and" or "but" tions of the beadles are of the workers but a transfer of the more

Spoken English.

been, at Memphis. What is the Of German Invention. is a tennis use of drilling children to use cold ball that can be reinflated to res canned forms that they will hear tore its buoyancy.

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The Congress combines the atmos- He wondered if the purists "ever best, but the lustiest vagabonds alert to the new processes, a reten-phere of the beanfeast with that of read any English,"/ A healthy will always "crash the gate," tion of old hands at old machines a routine shareholders meeting. language is always growing and changing, discarding and adding, promoting slang into respectabi- lity, doing, in short, as it pleases.

Men And Machines,

(because of the industry's techni-Most of the week is taken up with cal Inertia), and intermittent em- a discussion of the report of the ployment for those unable or un General Council. It is rare for

Now, on September 4 the T.U.C.

F

(Continued on Page 15.)

SONG-HITS MAKE

NO EASY MONEY

Only One In Five Shows A Profit.

It seems curious that so sound Both the Columbia University willing to acquire new skills. A anything to happen which has not and Shakespearean a form as "I Council for Research in the Social fine regard for buman values is been planned by the Council, or for had rather" should even be re- Sciences and Dr. Elizabeth F. not the explanation of this pheno which it la not fully prepared. quired to pass an examination; Baker of Barnard Colledge are to menon, but the growing demand The General Council is the cabinet but grammatical consciences are be congratulated on the publica- for printing and the low displac of the trade unions. There are 32 HIGH COST OF "ADVERTISING" delicate. Many of the old super- tion of "Displacement of Men by ing power of the machines intro members, divided for election pur

• Bollywood. stitions have been outlived, save Machines," the one for having made duced. As mechanization procsed roses into 18 trade groups. It is by a few belated precisians. possible and the other for having ed more than ever were employed significant and symbolic of a cer-Although more than 1,000 Splitting the Infinitive has even conducted the first detailed study (118,121 in 1914 contrasted with tain lopsidedness that while each of popular songs are published an become a favourite exercise; and of technical progress in it 150,659 in 1929), and workers had the group of mining, railways, qually in Amercia, not more than when gentleman of such polish-lation to unemployment. The more rather than less full-time em other transport, and engineering is 200 ever ever show a penny proft, ed surface as Mr. Osbert Sitwell study has particular reference to ployment. Automatic machines entitled to elect three members, the according to Mr. Nat W, Finston, joing the splitters, the waning conditions in the America, but the conjure up a picture of men stand basic industry of agriculture is general musical director of the

Paramount studio here. Prunes-and-prisms school has deductions can be applied to most ing by as cylinders spin, reduced given only single seat

The General Council is composed He to explains," "The cost of new cause to wall. Not that one countries. Although sas, set out to the status of mere tenders. Ac

exclusively fall-time trade union

arising the public with the naed, go out of his way and split to discover how high-speed auto-tually the new fast presses and

secretaries *** sad." -organisers. The tunes to the point at which they for the sake of splitting, but he matte machinery fracted worker automatic fendors: dems

best known

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the oldest inhabitant, Mr/"

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the skilled and the leas

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