SHORTAGE OF LABOUR
Sir,—This country is crying out about a shortage of labour, yet when we go to buy blinds for our windows we are told we can’t buy the material by the yard; we havd to get it made up. Is it fair that we should have to pay the cost of making blinds when we can do it ourselves for less? Then there are women’s frocks. Why can’t we buy cheap print and make them ourselves? You can’t buy the material and make a dress as cheap as. we can buy them. Why can’t they sell this cheaper print and let us make our own overalls and dresses? There would not be such a shortage if they let the thrifty housewife make her own.— Yours, etc., WILLING TO HELP. December 17, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25061, 18 December 1946, Page 8
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