The Archive · 1938

Movement From Wales

The proportionate amount of migration from the different areas differed greatly, as the table indicates. Nearly 16 per cent. of the 537,000 men also who began their industrial life in Wales were in other parts of the country last year, and 40,380 of them were in the London and South-Eastern areas. About 80 per cent of the movement from Wales was from the two countries of "Glamorgan and Mon-mouth. The figures for the Northern division also show heavy migration, 13 per.cent. Of the books originally taken out in that area having been exchanged elsewhere last year, and 41,940 of 1630 "At Home and Abroad" (o) 16.50 News (n) 1700 Melbourne and Perth progs. (4) 17.15 News (LYN) 1730 News in German 18.45 "Topical Gazette" (n) 19.00 Concert (a), News (P), Varied 1945 Piano improvisations 1925 Music Hall (n) 2000 News (B), Concert (rj 20.25 Organ recital (p) 2030 News. (LYN) i 2100 Yascha Krein's Gipsy Orchestra (n). News in German ("), Varied 2130 News (D), in French (P) 2200 News (5), BBC Northern Ireland Orches. (D) 22.30 Two sketches (P) 2245 "Victoria and Disraeli," a play (D) 2345 Two pianos (n) 2400 News (p), (R) 0020 New Symphony Orchestra (n) 0030 "Two Twos" (D) cause those counties contain a large G Tomlinson, number of important constituencies D. Mains

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extile not the Reichstag will be convoked well-informed circles here expect Without whose representatives no Labour majority in the House of Commons is possible, after all, that is our main object" The trade union movement in the two counties would take a more important part in Labour party politics as the result of the formation of that council, and the National Executive hoped there would be a cessation of the jealousy that sometimes seemed apparent at the conferences of the national party when there were differences between representatives of trade unions and of local Labour parties.

Mr. G. R. Shepherd said they were not establishing that day a separate Factory Workers' Association), Mr. J. Gibbins, M.P., and Mr, P. J, Crehan (National Union of General and Municipal Workers), Mr. T. Lane (Operative Plasterers), Mr. E. Robinson (National Union of Public Employees), Mr. B, Reynolds (Railway Clerks' Association), Mr. A. Hodgetts (National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers), and Councillor A. Taylor (Transport and General Workers' Union).

Constituency and Central Labour parties, Lancashire: Councillor G. B. Eddie (Blackpool), Mr, R. McKeon (chairman. © Manchester Borough Labour party), Mr. J. Griffin (St. Helens), Mr. J. L. Prescott (Leigh), a different frame. Lazarus

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