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Seasons's Greetings
•  In thanking you for your generous support in the past, you are reminded that we are equipped with efficient personnel goods at attractive prices, and can be of the same good service to you in the future as we have been in the past.
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NIGHT LIFE BEGINS
AT THE
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"A PROPHET HATH NO HONOUR"

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It has happened before, and will happen again.  A Jamaican goes abroad, specializes in his favourite line returns home with A1 credentials, finds that employers, though willing to use him, are unwilling to pay specialist's wages.  He must accept what is offered or starve – or return abroad where specialists have a high premium.

It happened to James Albert Jones, 45.  After 22 years with Kingston Industrial Works, three freelancing and two with Masterton's, as patternmaker and foundry worker, Jones left for Glasgow's Royal Technical College in 46.  Between studies he visited 28 of the U.K.'s largest foundries, including Carron Iron Works, Falkirk, Harlan & Wolff, Merrlees Watson Co.  In the last-named he worked, earned high commendation ("Competent"), an offer of permanent employment.

After receiving the diploma which qualifies him for Associate Membership in the Institute of British Foundryman as well as the American Founderymen's Association, he set out for home.  Stopping in the U.S. he made a round of Dodge Steel Works, flew over to Cuba for a tour of the McFarlane Foundry and Honolulu Iron Works.

Coming home in February Jones made the rounds of his old employers and some new ones.  The best offer he got was £5 a week.  Said he ruefully last month:  "Imagine, I passed up so many good offers abroad to come and give my country the benefit of my training.  Now I know ... a prophet is without honour at home."

* St. Mark 6: 4.

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40  SPOTLIGHT, DECEMBER, 1948.