TRENDS IN SCOTLAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22108, 14 May 1935, Page 10

TRENDS IN SCOTLAND

PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT SEPARATION MOVEMENT [by telegraph— OWN correspondent] DUNEDIN, Monday Comment on the unemployment problem in Scotland was made to-day by Mr- G. E'. Merson, a manufacturer, of Edinburgh, who is visiting Dunedin. "Through latck of work, and of any incentive to look for work, there is a generation growing up in idleness," he said. ;- "Unemployed, they are through no fault of their own becoming unemployable. They have not been brought up to regard wcrk as a natural part of their lives, and it is in dealing with thesp people that the problem of tho future will lie." Mr Merson deprecated modern trends in Scottish national life. Those young people who have any money, he said, seemed intent on spending ,it as quickly as possible. The means of enabling them to do so were at hand in plenty. Referring to the suggestion made for a separate Scottish Parliament, Mr. Merson said there was a movement, largely vocal,, for separation, but there was too clear an example in southern Ireland for them to contemplate withdrawing from the British Parliament. There were cases where they considered there might well be a separate minor council set up in Scotland to deal with purely local matters, but the great mass of people- had no desire for a Scottish Parliament.