WORKERS DRINKING LESS.
Mr. W. Hamilton Whyte, Reader in Economics at Bristol University, told the Temperance Summer School at Birmingham that recent inquiries in mining and shipbuilding areas indicated a substantial fall in the consumption of alcohol. The working classes, he said, spent at least 10 per cent, and in some cases 13 per cent of their total weekly income on drink, which represented a very serious social problem. There was no definite evidence, however, that drinking on the presentday scale was perceptibly lowering the standard of industrial efficiency, that it was probable that if all drinking ceased efficiency would rise. "Fear of dismissal is generally regarded as the most important factor in influencing all classes of worker towards the present decrease in the consumption of alcohol," Mr. Whyte said.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 234, 3 October 1935, Page 25
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130WORKERS DRINKING LESS. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 234, 3 October 1935, Page 25
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