Show many scots are coming to U so rush on to canada also because of the unrest prevailing at home STEAMSHIP LINES SWAMPED confusion into which industry has haa drifted as Result of stopping of war work adds to gen eral era discontent glasgow scotland at the moment there are more people desirous of leaving tills this country and going to america than ever before all the available steamship berths from glasgow are booked until th the e middle of summer bummer it Is estimated that thal already there have been more applications for passages to new york than there were in the early months of any year before the war to canada there are also so many prospective emigrants that the shipping compa companies nies engaged in the glas gow st lawrence service cannot guar antee passages earlier than july it Is evident therefore that there Is a general inclination to leave the united kingdom and to take up life in the united states or canada for a short time after hostilities closed it seemed that settlement at home would appeal strongly to ex es service men the government promised them land and houses douses on reasonable terms but the pross process of industrial and social reconstruction has been slow and the land and houses seem still very far off besides there Is IB a good deal of unemployment caused mainly by the confusion into which industry has drifted as a result of the stopping of war work and the lack of new industries to absorb all the war mor workers kers then again although wages are high the cost of living Is even higher in proportion and there seems no immediate prospect of any reduction in the prices of food or clothes there la Is a continual call for a greater production rif of manufactures tor for export so that the rate of exchange may be put right but the groat great mass of the workers persist in looking upon higher wages as of leoro importance than increased production and the output even of new ships remains much too low apathy among shipbuilders Ship builders the tonnage launched on the clyde during the first quarter of this year was somewhat better than that of the first three months of 1919 but was much less than the average for the or responding quarters of prewar pre war rears ears this Is explained to some extent by lark lack of steel which again Is explained by lack of ships to carry ore from spain but that there Is it a certain amount of apathy in industry la Is undoubted this Is the reaction after the intense activity of the war the general effect of all this has been to breed a form of impatience with things as they are and a desire to emigrate to other countries consequently there Is a rush tor for passenger accommodation on the new york and st lawrence steamers if there were plenty of steamers tills this would be all right but there are less than halt half the number sit prewar pre war passenger vessels ore the glasgow new york service before the war the anchor line had bad four first class vessels the columbia the caledonia the california and the Camer Canier onla onta of these only the first named remains the others were lost during the war when the four C s were running they maintained it a regular weekly service one boat of the four left new york find and one left glasgow evv each saturday it was a service nearer to that of trains run to a time table than any other front from glasgow now the company finds find it totally impossible to resume any such service americans get bet the berths one or two vessels have been chartered r for single runs but they are not fitted for carrying large numbers of passengers and they can do little to relieve the situation so the chances are that many of those people desirous of going to america will be unable to do so for this Amert americans cans themselves will be somewhat to blame large numbers of them have already booked passage eastward and also return passages later in the year the round trip Is booked in new york and the offices of the lines here are simply informed that so much westward accommodation for such and such trips Is filled the americans will lie be coming over in large crowds early in july and returning in september or october this means that bert liage which ilich would have been utilized tor for immigrants in the latter months has been taken up by americans nho ho have money to spend and wish to see europe it Is a pity that this should have been the case in a year in which there would certainly have been a boom in immigration we have been building cargo boats until we seem to have enough but we are only now getting on with the building of liners of these there are many on the stocks in different parts of the united kingdom but few of them will bo be in service this year by next nest spring there should be a large number and then there should be no luck lack of traveling I 1 facilities |