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IS JARROW DOOMED?

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ET me tell you the story

of Jarrow-of a people bitterly disappointed, re- Hentful, but not so resent- ful as they should be..

Out of a population of about 35,000, only about 1,300 are actu- ally employed in the town, and the Corporation is the biggest em- ployer of labour.

Jarrow was promised n steel- works, and the beaton that was Hope Named brighly for a period. I counselled a restraint of opti- miam, for there are many who light candles and call on their fellowa to ball the sun.

They called INO "Doubting Thonius,” Would that, my doubts. had proved groundless.

Eminent gentlemen informed the world and Jarrow that employ- mont 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 not in question.

They did more

than promise and prophesy.

Their efforts to make good the promises and materialize the pro- phecies have falled. I do not binme them for other thon a too exuber-

ant optimism and distressing

lack of cantour subsequently.

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ERIOUS abstacles interposed were dismissed as "hitches." The flame of Hope was fed with the news of "hitches" unravelled; but there way too much good news ind too little activity on the atte to àssure something concrete in the foundations. In the hearts of many, the flame was dying down ven before the Iron and Steel Federation extinguished 11, and Mr. Walter Runciman, trampled out the eathers.

What is Far more to be feared than Retlye resentment in the atti- Lude of Apathetic zésignation adopted by so many. Nothing could be more alarming than the spec- Inele of men, first-class craftsmen a few years ago, moro or tens re- gard to indefinite existence on he bare maintenance level of un- employment boneft or public as- alstance-unless it 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 appeals for charity. The answer is simple: I don't want charity. Charity cannot give our people back their souls. It is never auffi - cient in volume to achieve any general-Improvement--in-the-lot of

the people,

Jarrow aprouted with the in- dustrial revolution, largely result- ant and consequently dependent upon the great shipbuilding and Ironworks of Palmer's. "Jarrow is

asks Alderman J.W.Thompson

(the Mayor).

Palmer's and Palmers in Jurrow was once a truth, Palmer's de- clined slowly and died suddenly. At the zenith of the great works they employed 10,000 men, Most of them lived 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- tion remains.

“PRUE, some people who live in

Jarrow have found work outside it, myself included; but approximately 6,000 people who should be working are unemployed. Of the unemployed, about 4,500 nte drawing unemployment

benefi

and 1,500 relief from the Public Assistance Committee,

The rates are 105. in the pound. In 1920 rates reached the peak at 23. In the pound. Since that date

attained the lowest level

was 178. Od.

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

obvious

need for the heavy indus- tries, which can employ in rge

in asses Jabour.

of

We are denied the steelworks

which would have gone far to meet the need. Indication arc that the Gov- <” ”ጀነ Ý፮፯É [a Will Rive 15 no assistance in rounding indus- tries which will enter into com-

petition with those already established

In

other parts ΟΙ The country.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1936.

NO, It Can

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Be SAVED

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

What, then, can be dane? "What steps can be, taken that will be effective?

Mr. Baldwin has bald more than once that he has appealed to In- dustrialists to consider the general Interests of the country and estab- Iish their works in the distressed or special areas, but his appeal has fallen upon deal Cura.

women

Mon and

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

The shipyards site is sterilbed for shipbuilding for nearly 40 years. 4. coal of plant, such as is suggested by Mr. Runcima. could not employ more than a fraction of the labour running to seed.

WITHOUT new industries, with-

the revival. of the old.

Jarrow is doomed.

Its young, men must 60- nwny: its old people, for whom there is no room elsewhere, drag on in a Lown which must die in detail be- cause there is no reason for con- tinuance.

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have appealed to Mr. Baldwin to take direct netlon by refus- ing to nilow factories to be established anywhere but in ง location which will be advan- tageous to the nailon 15 1 whole.

*This. 11 0 W - ever, to the Tory mentality, 15 heresy, and

while ́indul- Rences may be granted for heresy when profits are at stake, heresy in the interests of the masses mean in- stant excommunication.

There is, however, a sound in- vestment, one in which I am pre- pured 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 oll and petrol from coal.

But let us do Arst things frst. This country is buliding, rightly or wrongly, a huge defence force. Such n force without oil would be as helpless as an engine without, steam.

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

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

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FACH of those twenty plants

would provide immediate con- structional work for 0,000 men, and, when in operation, 2,000 men would and permanent employment In running it. -Does it interest Jarrow that we can put 9,000 men to work almost immediately?

The plant at Billingham is using 600,000 tons of coal per annum, Bo.. with twenty such plants in opera- tlon, we shall have a new market for 12,000,000 tons of coal annually. It is said that Jarrow is vulner- able from, the air. Well, so is Inverness, and so, for that matter. is London. And yet there is n

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The shipyard that once employed 10,000 men, and now te dead.

scheme afoot to spend alght mil- lion pounds in extending the Lon-. don docks. Why not Jarrow docks or Middlesbrough docks-1 we need docks?

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I urge him to refrain from frittering away millions on the widening of existing roads. Let him use them for local trama, leave them pretty much an thoy are, and start in as soon as may- be to build the first Belisha Broadway-an entirely new road from Newcastle to London.

I would allow entrance to any such road only at points, say, fully three miles apart. Every crossing would be bridged, and traffis en- tering the main road would have a special line for a distance of 60 or 100 yards. It would be perfectly safe for traffic, including heavy traffo, at a speed of 40 to 00 miles an hour.

With a safe road such as I pro- pose, freight could be carried from Newcastle to London in half the time it takes to-day.

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