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 1905-01 - continued. Relief Work on First Application. Work between. Second Application and Eesult of Same. J^aker. Applied, but got work - Labourer. Applied, but got work at the quay. Labourer. C.E.W. i - Fish Hawker. C.E.W. - . - - Sawyer. C.E.W. 6 weeks Stone Cutter. C.R.W. 12 weeks Labourer. C.E.W. from new year to finish. Labourer. C.E.W. 2 weeks - Labourer. From new year to finish at C.E.W. Labourer. Applied and went before Com- mittee no more. Carter. Applied, but got work - Labourer. C.E.W. . . - - Labourer. C.E.W. 3 weeks Labourer. C.E.W. Bivetter's Holder on. C.E.W. 4 months - General Labourer. C.E.W. J/ason's Labourer. Applied, but got work - Labourer. C.E.W. 10 days, then got work, Engine Filter. C.E.W. 8 months Labourer. C.E.W. - - - - Baker. Odd day here and there. 7s. 6d. a day. Picking up odd jobs at the quay, sometimes making a good enough pay and sometimes nothing. Labourer, 4 months, 18s. Bad trade. Idle 1 month. Fish hawking. 111. Not fit for hard work. Two days work since July. With a builder 4 months. Idle 4 months. Knocking about the fruit bazaar as porter, 15s. for 10 weeks. Fruit season over. Knocking about doing odd jobs here and there, never in anything steady. Labourer, 1 month. Labourer, any odd job for one firm (4 or 5 years off and on), 4d. an hour. Good refer- ences. Odd jobs about the quay. Carter 5 months. Misconduct. Idle 10 weeks. Labourer in manure works. Plaster works 3^ months at 19s. 6d. Slackness. Idle 6 weeks. Glasgow Tramways Permanent Way Department: 23s. for 6 months. Work finished. Idle 3 months. At the quay, 18s. Idle 2 months In a boiler shop 9 months at 22s. 6d. Slackness. Labourer, 4 months, 20s. Dulness of trade. Idle 3 weeks. Corporation, 5 weeks at 22s. Finished for the season. Odd jobs here and there. Idle 2 weeks. Labourer in iron works, 40s. up to 8 weeks before second application. Engine fitter, 4 months at 22s. Slackness. Idle 2 months. Vanman and porter 6 months, 14s. a week. Good references. Idle 5 weeks. 7th Jan., 1907. C.E.W. 5th Jan., 1907. Not present. 7th Jan., 1907. C.E.W. 5th Dec, 1906. Delayed for fur. ther consideration. 31st Dec, 1906. C.E.W. 31st Dec, 1906. C.E.W. 2nd Jan., 1907. C.E.W. 13th Feb., 1907. Not present. 28th Dec, 1906. C.E.W. 20th Dec, 1906. C.E.W. . 14th Dec, 1906. C.E.W. Hospital. 27th Feb., 1907. C.E.W. 13th Feb., 1907. Not present. 13th Dec, 1906. C.E.W. 19th Nov., 1906. C.E.W. 23rd Nov., 1906. C.E.W. 23rd Nov., 1906. C.E.W. 3rd Dec, 1906. C.E.W. 3rd Dec, 1906. C.E.W. 23rd Nov., 1906. C.E.W. 5th Dec, 1906. Eefused. NOTE.—Beferences made in this Volume, and in the Reports of the Commission to the pages in this Volume, are to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2439998x_0200.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
