Papurau Newydd Cymru

Chwiliwch 15 miliwn o erthyglau papurau newydd Cymru

Cuddio Rhestr Erthyglau

4 erthygl ar y dudalen hon

Notes from South Wales.

Newyddion
Dyfynnu
Rhannu

Notes from South Wales. (From our Special Correspondent.) Swansea and the Welsh Language. There is a movement on foot in Swansea with the view of getting the Welsh language taught in the local elementary schools. It is passing strange that Cardiff should be ahead of Swansea in this respect. Swansea is certainly more of a Welsh town than Cardiff. It has a bigger Cymric population, and there is four times more Welsh spoken there than there is in Cardiff. Despite these facts, however, Welsh national interests are far more advanced in Cardiff, and, as readers of the LONDON WELSHMAN are aware, Welsh is taught in the Cardiff elementary schools. The inference is, that Englishmen who have made Wales their home, are often more patriotic than the native Cymro. It is to be hoped that Swansea will soon be in line with Cardiff in regard to the teaching of Welsh. It is a strange fact that the teaching of Welsh should be taken up with greater enthusiasm in districts largely Anglicised than in districts where Welsh is still a living language. Cardigan- shire, the most Welsh county in Wales, shows a particularly bad example. Die Shon Dafydd is particularly rampant in Aberystwyth, as anyone who has a knowledge of the town well knows. And, in Cardigan town, the aforesaid Die also holds considerable sway, although not to such a large extent as Aberystwyth. New Labour Paper. Many attempts have been-made within the last 20 years to establish a labour paper for Cardiff and the surrounding mining districts, but without success. There was the Workmen's Times, which ran well for a few years and then quietly took its departure to the realms of the departed. Then there was the Tocsin, which thundered for a few months and finally suc- cumbed. Later came the South PVales Democrat, but, alas, it democratised for a brief period only. Subsequently, we had a Labour Pioneer, but, this paper, which was clothed in a gaudy crimson coloured wrapper, also failed to bloom. Nil Desperandum. Despite these failures, however, there are still people who believe that there is an opening for a labour paper in Cardiff and district, and very shortly the citizens will see yet a new democratic journal launched upon the fierce seas of journalistic competition. But it is doubtful whether this latest labour paper is going to thrive in a locality already thickly strewn with the graves of departed labour journals. It is a strange fact that the labour classes are not very enthusiastic in supporting their OWn special organs, as labour journalists know from bitter experience. In fact, Mr. Keir Hardie's Labour Leader is the only labour paper "I Great Britain which has attained to anything like a national reputation. An Excellent Suggestion. It is satisfactory to find that the Welsh Members have decided to very cordially support a suggestion which Mr. Keir Hardie intends to ftiake at the Select Committee on Parliamentary Procedure, viz., that all Bills exclusively applying

SOUTH WALES BUSINESS NOTES.…

OLYNYDD BRYN ROBERTS.

Notes from South Wales.