Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Dơnload Hold On World The Lasting Impact of John Lennon and Yoko Ono S Plastic Ono Band Fifty Years On 1st Edition John Kruth Full Chapter
Dơnload Hold On World The Lasting Impact of John Lennon and Yoko Ono S Plastic Ono Band Fifty Years On 1st Edition John Kruth Full Chapter
https://ebookmeta.com/product/the-noun-phrase-across-languages-
an-emergent-unit-in-interaction-1st-edition-tsuyoshi-ono/
https://ebookmeta.com/product/schopenhauer-on-the-character-of-
the-world-the-metaphysics-of-will-john-e-atwell/
https://ebookmeta.com/product/conflict-graffiti-from-revolution-
to-gentrification-1st-edition-john-lennon/
https://ebookmeta.com/product/crown-and-charter-the-early-years-
of-the-british-south-africa-company-john-s-galbraith/
https://ebookmeta.com/product/imprints-the-pokagon-band-of-
potawatomi-indians-and-the-city-of-chicago-1st-edition-john-n-
low/
https://ebookmeta.com/product/on-liberty-1st-edition-john-stuart-
mill/
https://ebookmeta.com/product/avengers-battle-on-the-moon-1st-
edition-john-sazaklis/
https://ebookmeta.com/product/tristram-shandy-s-world-john-
traugott/
Another random document with
no related content on Scribd:
should have been apparent to the delegates that this was a blocking
motion and might prevent the committee from doing anything, but it
was evidently not so regarded, or else the delegates could not make
up their minds on the subject, for it was agreed to without comment.
The committee did not allow the motion for reopening the question
in six months to hinder them from going on with the new branch, for
immediately the meeting was over they gave instructions to the sub-
committee to secure temporary premises in the vicinity.
THE END OF THE PROPOSAL.
The subject again arose at the 34th quarterly meeting, held on 1st
September, when Paisley Provident was again forward with a
motion: “That if a branch be required after Barrhead had left the
Federation, it be established at Paisley or Johnstone, and that the
present branch in Glasgow be not retaken.” To this it was moved by
Mr Gardiner, Cathcart, and seconded by Mr M‘Murran, Glasgow
Eastern, as an amendment, “That this question lie over for six
months.” After a long discussion the Paisley motion was withdrawn,
on condition that the amendment limit the period of lying over to
three months, and that, meantime, a special committee, constituted
from the delegates present and from the committee, be appointed to
investigate the matter and report to the next quarterly meeting. This
was agreed to, and Messrs M‘Murran, O’May, Aitchison, Brown, and
Slater were appointed the special committee. In less than three
months’ time the committee sent out their report to the societies.
The report contained details of three plans which the sub-committee
had considered. The first of these, that of a branch bakery in Paisley,
they considered could not be worked except at a slight loss. With
regard to the second one, that of a branch at Johnstone, they
considered that the loss would be slightly greater; while, with the
branch at Johnstone, the trade would be more difficult to work. The
third proposal which had been considered was that of increasing the
number of ovens in the present premises, and in the report they
stated they were not prepared to recommend any one of the schemes
in the meantime, but recommended, instead, that the branch in
Paisley Road be taken for another year. The reason they gave for this
recommendation was that they considered that an inquiry should be
made into the advisability of introducing machinery into the
bakehouse, as the whole of their premises would be vacant in
eighteen months and could be utilised; if the result of the inquiry was
satisfactory, steps should then be taken to have it introduced. This
report was accepted by the delegates at the quarterly meeting, and so
a subject which had been a fruitful source of controversy at the
general meetings of the Federation for nearly two years disappeared.
It was again raised at a quarterly meeting some years later, when the
question of removing altogether from St James Street was being
discussed, but was summarily disposed of by the delegates.
BARRHEAD, JOHNSTONE, AND PAISLEY
PROVIDENT WITHDRAW.
Meantime the Barrhead bakery was ready for work and baking was
commenced in the last week of the year, but the society, although it
had withdrawn a large proportion of the loan capital invested with
the Baking Society in order to pay for the erection of its own bakery,
retained membership of the Federation until requested by the
committee to withdraw as the interest on the share capital was an
unnecessary burden on the Federation’s funds. The society was
allowed to withdraw without any of its capital being retained, being
the first of the withdrawing societies to which this privilege was
extended. In 1894, after fancy biscuit baking had been firmly
established by the Baking Society, Barrhead Society rejoined again,
taking up 1,500 shares.
Another withdrawal which occurred in a comparatively short time,
and which was doubtless influenced to some extent by the refusal to
establish a branch in the West, was that of Johnstone Society. At a
meeting of the committee which took place on 15th February 1879,
the minutes record a conversation which took place regarding a
decision of that society, come to the previous evening, to start baking
for themselves. The effect of the information that they were likely to
lose Johnstone Society’s custom so soon after having lost that of
Barrhead had a damping effect on the spirits of the committee, and it
was decided that in the meantime the erection of the new ovens
which they had proposed to build be not proceeded with. With the
withdrawal of Paisley Provident Society at the end of 1880,
consequent on having a bakery of their own ready for occupation, the
controversy with respect to the branch, and also its effects on the
welfare of the Federation, may be said to have ended.
The Federation had lost three of its best customers, but it had
succeeded in keeping its business centralised. It must always remain
a matter of argument whether it would have been better to branch
out at an earlier date and do for the societies in Renfrewshire that
which in later years it has done for Clydebank and the North of
Ireland. The question of branches is still one on which there is
considerable controversy, and, at any rate, it is certain that the
committee, and latterly the delegates, played for safety, and chose to
conserve the strength of the Federation at a time when all its
strength was needed rather than weaken it by widening the scope of
the society’s energies. The majority of the committee, it is quite
evident, were opposed to branching out, for had this not been so,
they would have gone ahead when two general meetings of the
Society gave them the mandate.
It is difficult to see that any great harm was done by the course
which was adopted. The growth of the three societies has been so
great that each of them is large enough to maintain a bakery of its
own, and although the Federation had one or two temporary
setbacks, none of them was serious enough to affect its stability or its
efficiency. It is possible, therefore, to argue that either decision
would have had equally good results. There we may leave what was
undoubtedly a stirring controversy while it lasted, the importance of
which at the time forms sufficient justification for the space which
has been devoted to it.
CHAPTER VI.
ST JAMES STREET: DEVELOPMENTS.