Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-11-05
Many SCOTS RUSH
TO j. S. IN QUEST.
OF BETTER HOMES.
CANADA is GETTING ITS SHARE
OF I'M MI G r ANT - EXODUS
TRACED TO UNREST PREVAIL.
ING IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES

Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. AT the
moment there are more people desif-
Gus OF leaving this country and going
TO America Than ever before. All the
available steamship bei-ths from Glas-
gov are booked until The middle of
summer. Ii is estimated that already
there have been more Applications tar
passages to New York than there were
In the early months VI any year before
the war.
To Canada there are also SO many
prospective emigrants that the ship
ping companies engaged in the elias
gow-St. Lawrence service cannot guar
antee passages earlier than July.
IL is evident. therefore, that there ID
a general inclination TO leave the Unit
ed Kingdom, and TO take up life in
the United States or Canada. For
short tine after hostili'ies closed it
seemed TINT settlement at home NoaId
appeal strongly 10 eX- service men.
The government promised them land
and houses On reasonable lerlas. buI
the process Of industrial and social re-
construction has been SLOW and The
land and houses seem still very laf
off. Besides, there is good deal 81
unemployment. caused mainly by the
confusion into which industry haS
drifted as !; result of the stopping o.
war work, aud the Tack of new indus
tries 10 absorb all the war workers.
Then again, although wages are high.
the cost OF living is even higher IN
proportion. and there seems no iinme-
diate prospect of any reduction IN the
prices OF food or clothes. There Is
continue! call for greater production
of manufactures for export ST. that the
rate Of exchange may be put rl-ht, bur
the great mass of tr workers persist
in looking upon higher wages uS OF
more importance than increased pro
ducti0n, and the output, even OF new
ships, remains much too low.
Apathy Among ShipbuiIders.
The tonnage launched on the clyde
during the first quarter of this year
was somewhat better than that Of the
first three months Of 1919, but was
much less than the average for tina
corresponding quarters Of pre-War
years. This is explained. to some ex-
tent. by lack Of steel, which again is
explained by lack Of ships to carry |
ore from Spain But that there is a
certain amount of apathy i'll industry
Is undoubted This is the reaction aft
or the intense activity of the war
The general effect Of all this has
been to breed form Of Impotence
with things as they are ana desire |
to emigrate 10 other countries. Con |
seuuently there is ii rush for passen |
ger accommodation on the New YORK
md ST, Lawrence steamers lr there
were plenty Of steamers this would be
all right. But there are less than half
the number of pi'e-wnr passenger YES
sells. On the Glasgow New York serv.
ice before the war the Anchor line had
four first class vesselS--the Columbia,
the Caledonia, the California and the
Camerona. OF these only the first
named remains. The others were lost
during the war When "lle four C's"
we're running they maintained regu
lar weekly service. one boat Of the
four left New York and one left elias
gov each Saturday. 1t wa, a service
nearer TO that of trains run to n time
table than any other from Glasgow
Now the company finds il totally i'm |
possible TO resume any such service.
Americans Get the Berths
One or two vessels have been char.
tered for single runs, but they are not
fitted for carrying large numbers OF
passengers, and they can do little tn
relieve tie situation. 50 the chances
are that many of those people desir+
Gus of going 10 America viii be unable
to do 50.