Sir William Noble, Chief of the London Scottish Clans Association, addressing the members of the Association at the Holborn Restaurant on Saturday, said that he was very much concerned about the Irish influx into Scotland. The most undesirable types were displacing Scottish workers, or living on the dole, which was not paid by the Irish Free State, but by the Scottish people.
Thirty years ago there were 350,000 Irish in Scotland, and now there were 700,000, and the number was increasing, while the Scottish population was declining.
Something ought to be done to stem the influx of Irish into Scotland, otherwise the serious question would arise in the future of Scotland becoming somewhat like Ireland. The East and North would be like Ulster, and the West and South-West would correspond with the Irish Free State.
The Irish Times
October 29th, 1928.