Tragic Picture Presented To the Editor of the "Nowr-Cuma Dany News"
SmI was very much touched on reading an article entitled "Desolation of the Highlands," which gave a very depressing picture of life for the working man in Scotland today, and I shall be grateful if you, will grant sufflelent space in your valued Paper to reproduce the salient points of this article for the edification of the goodly number of Scotsmen in {this city who would doubtless be extremely interested in them if they have not already been brought to their attention.
The following facts have been pre= sented by the London Scots Self-Government Committee (Labour), and on its behalf Mr. Thomas Burns has produced a devastating picture entitled: "Plan for Scotland" which, it is stated, "deserves very wide circulation." Readers wishing to obtain the actual figures behind the following statements are asked kindly to refer to the October isto of the Magazine Digest," page 12, wherein the article in question appears.
Here is a very brief description of Mr, Burns's picture of a Scotsman's life today:
When he frat, comes into the isoly, Yo dle. in giving' birth ils mother ip $6 per cant more an daian'n, mater.
Oran Indant" he. te 35_ pet, cent. more "ifeely tov die than an English Ghd of the ge. passengers are of the labour class, which makes it all the more objec: tionable.
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