Word: clydebank
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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This did not mean that the 3,000 British shipwrights thrown out of work at John Brown & Co.'s Clydebank yards fortnight ago when Cunard stopped construction went back to work last week. Having voted their determination, the Cunard Board had next to look for money. Said Sir Percy: "Patriotic offers of a public Joan will not be overlooked. . . . There are other possibilities...
...John Brown & Co., Ltd. Behind them they left the largest ship's hull that man has ever riveted together - Britannia's unfinished bid to rule the Atlantic mercantile wave again. As a handful of watchmen took up their duties under the deserted hulk, deepest gloom settled over Clydebank. Less than 30% of all Clyde shipworkers remained at work...
Clyde workers, Cunard officials and shareholders were not the only ones who mourned No. 534's plight. In the House of Commons, Clydebank Laborites raged because the Government did not help keep their constituents at work. President Walter Runciman of the Board of Trade was as sorry as anyone, admitted that he had been informed that building would have to be stopped but that in discussions Cunard officials the question of direct Government assistance had never raised. "I fear if it had been," sadly he. "there would have been no hop this case.'' He did consider, however...
...London. Indictable criminal offenses rose from 17,664 in 1929 to 20,553 in 1930. London's murders increased from ten to 21 in the same period. * There was a marked increase in crimes of violence. Only last week three unidentified men held up the Clydesdale Bank, at Clydebank, near Glasgow, shot two tellers dead and escaped. Scotch police blamed "Americans...