SCOTLAND TOO THRIFTY
SOCIALIST VTEW
LONDON', September IS.
'The Glasgow Corporation treasurer, Mr P. .1. Dollan, addressing 'business men yesterday in Glasgow, declared that Scotland was suffering from excessive thrift. Mr Dollan invited ibusinoss men to heckle him on the question of tho last budget introduced by the Corporation's Socialist administration. He assured tho 300 people present that Clasgow was not a poor city, and that the talk about its being a povertystricken community was overdone. Asked why Glasgow's rates were .13s Bd, compared with Dundee's 8s 2d, Aberdeen's 8s (id, and Edinburgh's !>s, he replied that if they gave him the same proportion of unemployed in Glasgow as they had in those cities ho would' reduce the rates even below tho figures mentioned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18855, 5 November 1935, Page 2
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