THE ENGLISH "JOHNNIE."
GREAT STRIKE WORK. Mr Walter Filler, London representative of the Fuller Proprietary, in a letter to a friend in Christchurch, says: <"We have now passed tho strike crisis, of which, no doubt, you were well informed about. • It has been a wonderful but melancholy experience, and what I have admired most in the time of trouble has been the wonderful restraint shown by thoso who have suffered most. ; In normal times tho Britisher seems to j b: a most reserved, somewhat dour kind : of a person, but directly trouble is '' struck, he immediately becomes . "the most cheerful possible )to imagine. The way tho yo.ung'manhood- not connected with, unionism responded to the Government's call for help "was mag- •; nificcnt. ' What might bo called the upper classes, were foremost in enlisting as ipecials, bus-drivers, railway •' porters, and it was. a curious spectacle to visit Waterloo Station and to seo a crowd of Oxford and * Cambridgo men shifting luggage, wheeling, trucks, and doing the ordinary, work of the railway porter. They were, doing this heavy work-with a joke and a- smile, Tho English 'Johnnie,' as he is somewhat disparagingly referred, to at times, has been marvellous, and after what I have seen; I raise my hat to him . every time." •
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18726, 24 June 1926, Page 6
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