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by

David KIRKWOOD

the Clydeside M.P. whose persistence was chiefly responsible for the completion of the Queen Mary.

HE Queen Mary has not yet broken the trans- Atlanfle speed record. But because there is a com- radeship among all who go down to the sea in ships, the whole world will salute the stately liner when she does capture the Blue Riband.

From The Clyde will go a special greeting, for she is Clyde bullt. In-

to ber fabric have been welded the hopen and disappointments, the cour- age and the exultation of thousands, of men and women.

For years before her keel wan Ind she was talked of, praised and condemned.

Some of the wise ones shook their pessimistic heads, "It's no' canny," they said, "to think of a ship that sizes,"

The amateur thetr s and anounced that she would never pay her way. Many said that such a ship was a plan- toor and would never be built,

T

experts pursed

* * *

HEY did not know the Clyde and they did not know. John Brown's. When it is a case of ships, the Clyde la like the French courtier who said to a lady who had u favour to ask of him; "If it is du- flcult, It is done; if it is impossible, It shall be done."

The men of Clydebank were known to

better me

than to.

other

Forty years ago I men, worked as a young engineer in John Brown's. We laught Japan When how to build battleships.

working

the Ramilies there were two hundred students encamped in A few weeks later i the yard. worked at the buliding of the first battleship of the Japanese Navy.

We

were

Dri

I went to John Brown's as a weary unemployed engineer look- Ing for a job. It was my lagi hope. for in the yards of the upper

SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1936.

BON VOYAGE

to the QUEEN MARY

reaches. I was a marked man on account of a strike, I was taken on at John Brown's.

Twenty-five years later I was elected Member of Parlament for the Division in which that Iamous Yard is situated.

"into her fabric have been welded the courage and exultation of thousands of men and women"

with depression and despair. The savings of years dwindled. Furni- ture was sold. Hunger hung around the doors of houses.

The people of Clydebank couldn't understand 11. "The Yaird's shut," John Brown's shut! Tha fa

Unbe Britain a done nation?

Revable! **534."

After years of waiting. the Keel

lak of the Was Week by week hier antle frame Brew. Etched against the sky, her stanchions and riba became Indtmark on the Clyde.

A

Buoyant at the nation of eclipsing their own records, the artisans Alled the air with the music of hammer on steel. The world would see the greatest wonder of the age. Her frame was covered. New trades were

agerly awaiting the call to go.

head.

*

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Without Warning at without any previous su pielon. The gates were closed, Clydebank was in despair. Thommoda who had made pans for two years' -work --Werrontier T "634," their greatest triungh, was their greatest disappointment.

For two years she ripod, a punt skeleton, marking the whole aren

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Clydebank had always been for- lunate. From time to the she had got a wee bit knock, but Johu steady- Brown's had aye been a employed yard.

Suddenly, the whole Clyde aren, which for generations had throbbed with the rhythm and beat of hammer on steel, became as quiet and cerle as a cemetery, Not a living soul walked or worked in the dereler yards. Not # Sound was heard but the the twittering of sparrows and chattering of starlings,

And outside, in the streets, were thousanda Di men, the nent. engineers red shipbuilders in the world, who had, never known a week': Ple-set since they were apprehlers. Month after month, they wandered about, their bl savings eaten up and the dread "Spéetrų" of "Debt, the Scotsmann's chilefest horror, staring them in the face. Men who had enjoyed the glorious privilege of being inde- pendent Uned up in sorry queues

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I

QOKING backwards. marvel at my own anda- city as I remembered

how I badgered, Cajoled and threatened all and sundry, cap- tals of Industry, Napoleons of inance, Members of the Cabinet, and the whole stretch of influence and power. I became like an Indian one-word fakir, always cal-

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Yards that had been as silent as the tomb became a Stravinsky orchestra of discordant energy,

M

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EN held up their shins. Shopkeepers filled their tills. Debts were repaid.

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A hundred towns made their finest products for the Clyde- bullt ships. The grim skele- ton became 1 thing of living beauty. She took to the water at her launch as a duck glides downt the bank of a burn and fonts. King George, Queen Mary and Edward Prince of Wales, waved her off.

Months of foyous labour added to her majesty and splendour until ότι that memorable day she threaded her way down thợ nnr- | Hongkon row man-made channel of the Clyde to the sea which is now her home.

On that day I was on the Cap- tain's Bridge, feeling monarch of all that I surveyed.

* *.

*

ND now, good ship bear-

ing the naine of so good Queen, sail on over the ocean. You carry all our hopes and prayers for happy voyages. You carry also our good will to our cousins in the mighty American continent.

Since you were launched, we have bulit the, "630" and "537.” We have left in reserve the hum- bor" 635." I have seen the stork in the sky, Boon you will have a sister.

Today's Thought

IF you have great talents, in- dustry will improve them; if you have but moderate abill- lies, industry will supply thei deficiencies.

-BIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

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