[{"node":{"title":"Lingard172","Collections":"Chapter 17","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard172","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Labour Exchange, Province, Unemployment","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard172","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard172_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff164\n\nMcCoy, when he was told the news.\n\n\"You'll do nothin of the kind,\" said Kevin.\n\n\"He can't get away with this.\"\n\n\"Of course he can. It's his yard.\"\n\n\"I'll go down and tell him he's a little namby-pamby run by that\npair ofthose stsupid women he has in his house.\"\n\n\"That's not likely to get Kevin his job back,\" said Brede.\n\n\"I wouldn't want it back now anyway,\" said Kevin. \"Not after what's\nhappened.\"\n\n\"And what are you going to do?\" asked his fatherx. \"We've another\nmouth to feed in this x family now.\"\n\n\"I'll go down to the Labour Exchange in the morning and see what\nthey've got.\"\n\nIt did not take long to find out. They he were sorry but they had\nnothing at all that they could offer him. He was not apprenticed, he\nhad not trade, three years in the scrap busines was not much of a\nhelp for anything else, there were not many scrapyards in the city\nand no one was asking for labour, and unemployment in the province was\nhigh, as he must know. Kevin nodded at each piece of information.\nBefore he had gone he had had no hope. 'Te would have to draw the\ndole and from time to time he might get some casual labouring to do.\n\nHe was out of work. The full realisation of it dawned upon him\nas he walked around the City Hall. Days to fill. He was too restless\nto lean on street corners with the others. He would walk for miles\nand end up wearing out shoe leather and that would cost money. Money...\n","Type":"Text"}}]