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... sixpence on their wage. While doing their work as trade unionists, let them unite in doing a far nobler and more necessary work than they had done in the past. and if they were united on this, then he had no doubt that twenty years would see far greater steps ...

Published: Friday 05 January 1906
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 10143 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Parish Councils and the Administration of the Poor Law. • FOOTBALL. slightly the pull, but were unable to beat ..

... of the alicants for ' amured. The geie. a billed for 3.30. law, &aid that one of the lot things Ile did 1 Oarliament—the Civil War—the final triumph are Parochia l R e li e f . And itargued h The Allender committee have managed to to number of shots ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1908
Newspaper: Milngavie and Bearsden Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 7074 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

UNIONIST ASSOCIATION DISBANDS TEMPORARILY

... was taken prisoner and the next five years were spent in a prison camp. After the war Mr. How worked the staff of a Civil Resettlement Unit. This work gave him an extensive experience of the everyday problems involving jobs, families, health and housing ...

Published: Wednesday 03 October 1951
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SILENCE IS GOLDEN

... France in 1940 ha spent five years in a German prison camp. On his return this country he worked on the staff of a civil resettlement unit. In 1947 became librarian to the Scottish Divisional Council of the Unionist Party in Edinburgh, post relinquished ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1951
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 559 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... THE BISHOPBRIGGS resettlement unit for homeless men, the only one of its kind in Scotland, was visited last week by John Sheldon, general secretary of the Civil Service Union, whose members have been fighting for two years to save the unit from closure. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 February 1987
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Homeless men head bach to class

... comprehensive programme that we have here,’’ said Mr Drew Hanna, spokesman for the Society of Civil and Public Servants. “‘But it seemed as if all 77 men at the unit were there,”’ said Mrs Walters, ‘‘and so far 20 have enrolled for courses.”’ The residents ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1987
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 415 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

UNIT REPRIEVED manner

... officials at the DHSS unit in Bishopbriggs, invited along to bring councillors up to date with progress on the fight to keep the unit open. The Go close —~wvernment want to the Bishopbriggs unit — and others like it elsewhere in the United Kingdom — and allow ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1987
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 811 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... anything towards fines of £125 imposed last October. He told Sheriff John Fitzsimons that he had been staying at the DHSS Resettlement Unit in Bishopbriggs and while there did not get enough money to pay his outstanding fines. Accepting McCrae's assurance that ...

Published: Friday 22 January 1988
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 363 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

L TURY Unit hit by strike

... L TURY Unit hit by strike RESETTLEMENT service officers at the threatewmed Bishopbriggs unit for homeless men began a 24-hour strike late on Sunday. They are angry over what they claim is the Government’s refusal to implement a Treasury Report moving ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1988
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Dempsey challenges PM to retain homeless unit

... Government plans to axe the Resettlement unit in Bishopbriggs, before they set up alternative In 1987, when Mr Major was DSS Minister, he visited the Resettlement unit to meet Councillor Dempsey, representatives of the Civil Service Unions ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1993
Newspaper: Kirkintilloch Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 205 | Page: 5 | Tags: none