WAGES FOR YOUTHS
Sir,—The wages earned by youths have come under discussion. I know of a boy, 15 years of age, who had no secondary education but who started in the flax mills in the south at a wage of £3 a week. What wages will these children expect after the war? Already returned men are trying to get work and a home. Schoolboys in the recent holidays were paid 8s a day in the flax mills. Is this the Government’s war effort?— Yours, etc,, DUST IN THE EYES. September 22, 1942.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23753, 26 September 1942, Page 6
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