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John McGovern, a Laborite M. P. who was suspended from the House of Commons in July because he refused to leave the Chamber until forcibly ejected (TIME, July 13), attempted to lead a parade of jobless dole-drawers through the streets of Glasgow last week. Police inspectors were waiting for him, told him that he could not march. The crowd of sullen workmen in grimy caps grew & grew. There were angry murmurs. Suddenly riot flared. Mobsters smashed store windows and began looting. Brickbats, cobblestones, beer bottles whanged through the air. Mounted police clattered down the High Street swinging their truncheons...
...public is being unduly alarmed about the degree of hardship in prospect for this winter. Unemployment difficulties are vastly exaggerated. If 6,000,000 persons become jobless, that does not mean 30,000,000 (five to a family) will depend on charity, but rather only about 4,000,000. At least one man in three has savings to fall back on. The country must stop expecting the worst. Conditions are not good but nobody will starve. There is too much "tightening of the belt" in anticipation of need and hardship, which reduces buying, makes matters worse. If the word "Unemployment...
...week than it did on the Southern Governors'. He opposed any idea of involuntary crop reduction or elimination, on the theory that the planters would be worse off than they now are, that hundreds of thousands of workers in gins, cottonseed oil mills, railroads, steamship lines would be rendered jobless by "Drop-a-Crop." The President attacked the problem from the export angle. How, he asked, could cotton surplus be sold outside...
...prepared to finance their own relief this winter. To 2,500 local committees Generalissimo Gifford sent out as "model plans" the relief programs adopted by Rochester, Chicago, Wilmington, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. The President announced that 39,000 men were now employed on Federal building (7/10 of 1% of all jobless), that by Jan. 1 he hoped 100,000 would be thus engaged (1 6/10 % of all jobless). ¶ In California has circulated a report that President Hoover is a heavy stockholder in South American oil companies, therefore favors a low petroleum tariff. Last week Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey wrote...
...Author was shell-shocked in the War, in which he served as an infantry officer, British Expeditionary Force. He was a poet before that. Married in 1913 to "H.D." (Hilda Doolittle), U. S. born imagist poet, he no longer lives with her. Demobilization found him penniless, jobless, touchy. A reviewing job on the London Times Literary Supplement was soon too much for his nerves; translation has given him his bread & butter. An Englishman born & bred. Aldington has left what he thinks is a sinking ship, lives in the south of France. Other books: War & Love, Images of Desire, Death...