WAR EFFORT
Sir,-I read a report recently that the miners had been asked (not ordered, as they should ha y e beenl to work the back shift on the three Saturdays preceding Christmas, to help augment the coal supply. They agreed, provided they were paid time and a half. What a magnificent war effort, especially when our boys are fighting 24 P hours a day for 7s 6d. But are we judging the miners correctly? Maybe they are like the timber workers. They are all working, and when I say working I mean it, six days a week. They get time and a half for Satur day and they earn every penny of it, especially the bushmen, who are working up to their knees and further in mud and slush in order to keep up the urgent supply of timber for butterboxes, defence works, and so on. Do the public know that the majority of the bushmen lost one day only last month and in most cases this was on account of not being able to Set to their work through floods. Contrast this with the miners and our precious wharfies who duck and dive for shelter if a Scotch mist comes over.— YOU A VOICE FROM THE BUSH. November 18, 1942.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23800, 20 November 1942, Page 6
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