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IS JARROW DOOMED?

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ET me tell you the story of Jurrow-ot a people ,bitterly disappointed, re- -sentful, but not so resent- ful as they should be.

Out of a populiion of about 35,000, only about 1,300 are natu- ally employed in the town, and the Corporation h the binged em- ployer of labout.

Jafrow was promised - a leel- works, and the beacon that was Hope flamed brightly for a period. I. Comelled a restraint of opti- fuism, for there are uncy who light. candles and call on "Meig tehows tu Dall the HUL,

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called 1

Doubting Thontas," Would that my, double had proved groundless.

Eminent gentlemen informed the world and Jarrow thai employ- iont would soon be available for 4,000 men in a heavy industry of, which our people are masters.

The prophets knew Jarrow's need. They lightened many hearts. with the prospect of a modern steel plant capable of absorbing big volumes of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labour. Their sincerity is They did more not in question.

than promise and prophesy,

Their efforts to make good the promises and materkaline the pro- phocles have failed, I do not blame them for other than a 100 exuber- ut optimism and a distressing Isek of candour subsequently.

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ERIOUS obstacles Interposed were dismissed as "liches," The flame of Hope was fed with The news of "hiteles" unravelled: but there was too much good news and too Httle activity on the alte asure somelling concrete in The foundations. In the hearts of aly, the flame was dying down ven before the Iron and Steel federation extinguished it, and Mr. Walter Runcimau trampled out the

mbers.

What is far more to be feared uan auriive rescutient la the atti- Vade cif apathetic resignation adopted by 40 many. Nothing could be more akrining thân the spec- racle of men, Hrst-class craftsmen few years ago, more or less re- gned to Indefinite existence on the bare maintenance level of un- employment brucilt or public as- stancemless 12 is that of the young men who, have never worked. who do not know how to work and who have no enthusiasm for the prospect of work.

Many people have wondered why I as Mayor, have not launched apprais for charity, The answer simple: I don't want charity, Charity cannot give our people back their souls. It is never suffi- zicut in volume. to achieve...any........ general improvement in the lot of the people.

Farrow sprouted with the in- dustrial revolution, fargely, result- ant and consequently dependent upon the great shipbuilding and itonworks of Palmer's. "Jarrow is

asks Alderman'

J.W.Thompson

(the Mayor).

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Paliner's unmi Palmers is Jurrow," was once a truth, Palmer's de- elined slowly and died suddenly. At the zenith of the great work! they employed 10,000 men. Most of them ilved in Jarrow, Since the Great War, 13 smaller industries have closed down. We do not know why: but the fact would not be affected by the best of reasons. The popula→ floh remains,

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TRUE, some people who live in Jorrow have found work outside 1, myself included; but approximately 6,000 people who should be working are unemployed. of the unemployed, about 4,500 are benefli drawing unemployment and 1,500 relief from the Public Asid.fitner Coniniittee,

The rates are 10s in the pound. In 1929 rates reached the peak of 234. in the pound. Since that date the lowest lovel attained 171, G.

WILS

Jarrow has the sites, the natural advantages, the facilities, and. 1 belleve, the personnel, to operate Industries successfully. The urgent

and

obylous need is for the heavy

India- icles, which can employ large of

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We are denied 1 l* * steelworks Which would jave gone far to meet the neer,

give

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Endles tiems are that the Gov..

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310 nasialance in founding Indus- tries which will enter to com- petition With those already established 121 uther parts of the country.

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Be SAVED

HE Mayor of Jarrow has thankless task. With the welfare of his suffer- ing fellow townsmen sincerely at heart, he must be sadly discouraged by the indif- ference of those in high places and high Bnance.

What

What, then, can be done? steps can be taken that will be effective?

Mr. Baldwin has said more than oner that he has appeated to in- dustrialists to consider the generat interests of the country and estab- lish their works in the distressed of special areas, but his appeal has

fallen upon deaf- cars.

women

Men

of and Jarrow are marching to London to-day to impress upon Parliament the urgon! necessity for re- suscitating what was once one of Britain's most im- portant industrial centres. Here the Mayor of Jarrow and the Labour MP. for East Middlesbrough plead for the establishment of new industries.

The shipyards site is sterilised for shipbuliding for nearly 40 years. A coal of plant, such as is suggested by Mr Runelmau, could not employ more than a fraction of the labour running to sced.

WITHOUT new industries, with-

put the revival of the old, Jarrow is doomed.

Its young men must go away;- its old people; for whom there is no room elsewhere, drag on in a town which must die in detail be- cause there is no reason for con- tinuance.

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In view of this Indifference. } have appealed Mr. Baldwin 10 take direct action by refus Ing to allow factories established anywhere but in a location which will be advan- tageous to the mat lon tis whole.

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This, how- ever, to the Tory mentality.

is heresy, and while indu- renees may be granted for heresy

when profits are at stake, heresy in the interests of the masses means in- stant excommunication.

There is, however, a sound in- vestment, one in which I am pro- pared to invest my own money, and which, into the bargain, will give employment to Jarrow.

My proposal is to put down at Jarrow a hydrogenation plant, for the extraction of oil and petrol from.coal.

But let us do first things first. This country is building, rightly or wrongly, huge defence force. Such a force without oll would be as helpless as an engine without steam.

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days' debate on the new, defence programme in the Ilouse of Com- mons last March, I drew the attention of the Government 10 the fact that the tremendous ex- penditure demanded by that pro- gramme would be little better than money thrown away unless WA took prompt steps to make our- selves self-sufficient in oft.

The figures which I quoted to the House last March have never been. called in question. 'I then pointed out that twenty hydrogenation plants allar to the one now in operation at Billingham would pro- duce practically all the petrol we now require.

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ACH of those twenty plants would provide immediate con- structional work for 1,000 men, and, when in operation. 2,000 men would find permanent employment in running it. Does it interest Jarrow that we can put 8,000 men to work almost immediately?

The plant at Billingham is using G00,000 tons of coal per annum. So, with twenty such plants in opera- tion, we shall have a new market for 12,000,000 tons of coal annually.

It is said that Jorrow is vulner- able from the air. Well, so is Inverness, and so, for that matter, is London. And yet there is a

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1936,

The shipyard that once employed 10.000 men, and now is sent,

scheme afoot to spend eight mil- Ilon pounds in extending the Lon- don docks. Why not Jarrow docks or Middlesbrough docka-lí we need docks?

In my view this, hydrogenation development is little less than pro- vidential. Its advantages, not only to the distressed areas, such as Jarrow, but to the country at large. are many and obvious. It locates the business right where it is most

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ROUNDABOUT

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·ERE we are at the beginning Everyone of another week, has to face something. The point is, how do we feel about it? - - Let us call the roll.

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Many is the secret conclave I have been in as a Becret Service agent. There was one that followed the sup- posed arrival in London of the beauti ful Baroness Dinka. The Chief summoned me to his presence. 1 found Al there. Bi and U2. I was known simply as L.

We hlased greetings

each other, while the Chief (who wore a mask because his face stopped clocks, and it was important that we should know the time) cut the end of a cigar.

"Li" he mid suddenly.

"Have you out your finger, Chief? " I naked.

"No," he replied, "I meant you!" I drew myself up without a flicker of an eyelid (but wrenching a button off my waistcoat) and waited for orders,

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