THE ARCHIVES

A strike of gasfitters employed at Dundee Gasworks was brought under notice at a meeting of the Gas Committee of Dundee Town Council. The men had left work because of the refusal to increase their wages by 12½% under the award of the Committee on Production. Alexander Yuill, the gas manager, reported that the men were engaged as gas fitters and that when they did plumber’s work they were paid the plumber’s standard rate, 1s 6d per hour. Their wage is 1s 2d an hour. An exhibition of Dundee on view to British Association visitors was criticised by a city bailie as being “unrealistic and haphazard.” The exhibition, prepared by the School of Architecture of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, is entitled Destruction of a City – Dundee. It shows photographs and illustrations of Dundee past, present and future and takes a critical look at the planning of the town. Bailie John Scofield said that research for the exhibition had been “haphazard.” One of Scotland’s worst unemployment blackspots has been given a £22m boost, expected to create up to 300 jobs. The RGC platform construction yard at Methil has won a contract from Phillips Petroleum UK Ltd for the gas treatment module for their Judy/joanne development in the North Sea. The news was revealed by parent company Trafalgar House Offshore Fabricators. It also means a more secure future for the yard’s 470 employees and 120 subcontractor workers. A huge security operation is to be launched to protect visitors to the new Queensferry Crossing from a potential terror attack. A ring of steel will surround the £1.35 billion bridge as 50,000 members of the public descend on the Firth of Forth. Visitors to the Queensferry Crossing Experience are being warned to prepare for stringent security checks, while vehicles are to be kept well away from the event, which has been billed by organisers as a “once in a lifetime” experience.