The Symbolic Cunarder Before the resumption of work on the
Cunarder No. 534 last Tuesday there had already been a considerable increase of activity in the Glasgow shipyards ; but we are told that for the crowds whO went to see the first six hundred men march down to their work accompanied by a band of pipers the return to life of the great liner appeared to be an event symbolical of better times to come. The 600 men will soon be joined by others till there are 3,000, and the work of the 3,000 will create demands for material whose making will employ yet other thousands, and so the ball is started rolling. The people of Glasgow arc, perhaps, not far wrong in discovering in the resumption of activity on the Cunarder a symbol of Great Britain's industrial awakening. The policy which made it possible was the most conspicuous evidence that has yet been afforded of a new attitude on the part of the Government ; by its decision it put itself in line with the national desire for a forward movement, taking the initiative in applying from headquarters the direct stimulus to industry for lack of which industry has been stagnating. This kind of activity is infectious. It has already been followed by a bolder move in the sphere of housing. And the con- fidence inspired makes itself felt in the field of private enterprise.
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