Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX A. Report by the Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law in Scotland.
- Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09
- Date:
- 1910
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Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX A. Report by the Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law in Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[Glasgow Distress Committee, 1906-07—continued.] The following table shows the work done by 82 applicants to the above, between their two applications— i.e. 1905-06 and 190Q-01—continued. Relief Work on First Application. Work between. Second Application and Result of Same. Labourer. C.R.W. Left to go to a job Fireman. C.R.W. . - . - Labourer: C.R.W. . . - . Labourer. C.R.W. . . - . Slater. Applied, but refused, too old (61). Foundry Labourer. Applied, but got work - Labourer. 6 weeks C.R.W. - - - Labourer. A week or so C.R.W.) went straight to work elsewhere. Moulder's Labourer. 10 weeks C.R.W. - Home Painter. C.R.W. - - . . Fireman. Applied, but got work - Labourer. Applied, but got work - Iron Moulder's Labourer. C.R.W. - - - - Hammerman. 8 weeks C.R.W. - Labourer. Applied, but refused Labourer. C.R.W. all the time it lasted Labourer. C.R.W., Dismissed for drink Labourer. Applied, but refused Mason's Labourer. C.R.W. . . - - Street Vendor. C.R.W. . - - - Brass Finisher. Applied last year, but refused because he had been dis- charged from his work for bad time keeping. Labourer, 3 months, 25s. Foundry labourer, 2 months, 15s. Odd jobs since. At a merchant's for the summer, 308. Labour yard. Odd jobs at canal bank. Twice in hospital. Watchman, six months, 18s. None ------- Ironworks. 3 months. With plumber 9 days. Idle all the rest. Bricklayer's labourer. Plasterer's labourer. (No times given.) Labourer ever since till 10 weeks ago, 31s. Out 10 weeks. Left of own accord. Foundry, 5 months. Idle the rest No steady work, short jobs - In a mill 10 months, 25s., left of his own accord; this was too constant a job for this man. Labourer, 7 weeks, 20s.; left of his own accord. Own work partly. Carrying coals for private parties. In saw mills* 4 months. With engi- neer 3 months. Idle the rest. In foundry a few months. Odd jobs here and there. Odd days with the C.O.S. - Porter in the bazaar. Porter to a firm. 2s. 6d. a day for 3 or 4 months. Labourer, 6 months, 21s., odd jobs since. Labourer, 3 months, 25s. 6d. ; idle all the rest. Selling novelties. Distributing bills. One firm,' then suspended 1 month, then on short time, 30s. a week (worked there 4 years). 19th Nov., 1906. C.R.W. Too old and improvident. 7th Jan., 1907. C.R.W. 15th Jan., 1907. C.R.W. 16th Jan., 1907. C.R.W. 9th of Jan., 1907. Work granted. 16th Jan., 1907. Did not turn up. 31st Dec, 1906. C.R.W. 28th Dec, 1906. C.R.W. 18th Feb., 1907. C.R.W. 8th Dec, 1906. Granted work. 10th Dec, 1906. Did not turn up. 17th Dec, 1906. C.R.W. 17th Dec, 1906. C.R.W. 13th Dec, 1906. C.R.W. 23rd Nov., 1906. C.R.W. 23rd Nov., 1906. C.R.W. 6th Dec, 1906. C.R.W. 22nd Nov., 1906. Not at committee. 18th Feb., 1907. C.R.W. 15th Feb., 1907. C.R.W. 10th Dec, 1906. Absent from Committee. 29th Dec, 1906. Not present. ♦ Earning ICs.; left of his accord. NOTE. References made in this Volume, and in the Eeports of the Commission to the pages in this Volume, are to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2439998x_0198.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
