It 18 estimated about 200,000] trade unionists will be involved in the "call out." The three big ind trial unions—the miners, the rail-wayman, and the (transport work ers—together have a membership in Scotland of roughly 130,000. The national union of Scottish mineworkers have 50,000 members, the railway unions have about 55,000 Scottish members, while the road and dock transport organizations represent over 80,000 workers.
The Scottish trade union officials profess to have little doubt of the Feadiness of the rank and file to Tespondl to any appeal made to them to strike, especially if that appeal comes to them with the—explicit] authority of their own trade union execut They believe there is general sympathy with the minors fin resisting a red of their wages, 'The feeling is strong, according to these officials, that depression in miners' wages would eventually Lead to a lowering wages in other industries, and that the level of miners' wastes is to-day, having regard to the cost of living, a point which represent? an irre= ducible minimum.
It is pointed out that only a Tittle over a week ago the Scottirh Trade Congress at Inverness pledge ed themselves with absolute tnanimity to support the miners in thais fight. That decision it is held.
popular with the great body of trade unionists is Scotland. In mort of the towns in the industrial bolt, of Scotland all work is stopped. The men engaged in procneing fron and steel are idle, and "ell engineering workers are instructed to refuse to man. facture or install any plant for producing or supplying fac. ious headquarters of the jen for the Maintenanes of Supplies in Scotland o ELS fas it is called for short, report that! there is a steady stream of volunteers and officials are busily _engaged classifying the offers, Most of these are volunteers to act drivers and persons who had pat lorries, ears, and buses at the disposal of the Organization. Te is the intention to hand over the lists, of names to the Government, when. they are asked for.
In Edinburgh University a Students? Emergency Council has been formed, and although enrolment of volunteers has not. formally commenced, 300 students have already signified their intention of assisting the Government in maintaining essential services. Women students are volunteering for clerical work offices connected with transport, The students announce that this "is not a. strike breaking movement, and those who enrol with it will be asked only to help to ran the services deemed by the Government to be essential to the welfare of the community." Students at the other Scottish Univer. sities will follow the example of Edinburgh.
Steam There has just been Iaunched on! the Clyde, from the yard of Messrs Denny, under the shadow of Dumbarton Rock, a little turbine plesgute steamer called George V. which fs destined to attract attention out of all proportion to its size, for it may well mark an important point in the history of marine propulsion How this is so is not difficult to understand even by the non-technical reader, Whatever the future of the rotor ship may be, wind power means of propelling ships was during last century displaced by steam power, The special kind of] steam engine used was what called a recironating engine. By the savgoudio04 Sanquao sy} Jo Buyu ing engines had reached s high degree of perfection. But they were gradually superseded by another type—namely, the steam turbine, This was more efficient, as it produced rotation directly instead of by conversion of reciprocating motion.
To Sir Charles Parsons—the designer of the new turbine engine in King George V.—is due the credit of having designed the earliest steam turbine to be made commer-laily successful. The Parsons! turbine, after its success on the King Edward, another Clyde vessel, found" a wide range of application, But it did not remain unchallenged as 2 motive agent. Its rival was the all, oF internal combustion, engine—that is, an engine whose power is produced by explosion of a mixture of inflammable material and air. The special model of thig latter type to} reach a high degree of perfection was the invention of Mr. Diesel.
The Diesel engine has now attain-considerable commercial importance. Indeed, it may seem to many to have finally established its superiority over the steam turbine. But observers have reckoned with out Sir Charley Parsons, who is apparently not content to allow' steam to be ousted by oil og a motive pow. er. His challenge to the Diesel engine is the turbine installed in the King George V. The boilers are its special feature. These are capable of yielding a pressure of 500 1b. per square inch and standing a temperature of 750 degrees F. When it is considered that 200 1b. is the usual steam pressure used in mar-ino propi the new turbine is obvious, And it} ig interesting to note further, that, s Sir Charles Persons has pointed out, if alloy steels come im a muck ugher pressure can be attained, and with it increased efficiency. Possibly the King George V. may foster the use of coal ay a source of power in ships. Tt is certainly nal interest that our dependence on foreign cil should be Appointment to Ichang The Forcizn Mission Committe of the Church of Scotland have ap pointed Miss Amy Allerton, a native of Dundee, who has been engaged for some' time in London and the South of England, to fill a vaconey in the Rankine Memorial Hospital, Tchang.
A London Scottish If one wished t> give a picture of the London Scot on a Sundzy morning, one would have to 0 cither to Crown Court or St. Columbo's. Other churches, of course, there are in abundance for Seats in London, but it is unto these two! that the tribes go up in greatest, variety. In many ways St, Col umbo's is unique. Tt draws to it men of high and low degree from every quarter of London. A look at the list of elders is of great interest. Tt includes the Duke of Atholl, the}
Earl of Stair, the present Minister of Labour, Mr John Buchan, Sir John Neirte and Mr, Graeme Whitelaw. The congregation, on the other hand, is largely made up-of work-a-day Scots.
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