A FAIR DAY’S WORK
Sir.—To-day there is widespread unrest among the manual workers of the world, which has been shown by the recent strikes. Were these strikes solely due to dissatisfaction at their existing wage rates, or was a feeling of resentment against the higher status of the white-collared, clean-handed workers, too often ' emphasised by higher wages, partly responsible for them? There are signs that the latter was perhaps the major cause; and if that is true, we shall have to revise our national valuation of the manual worker and hard manual work if we are to recover in time from the effects of war. But it seems doubtful whether laziness is not the main point of all this trouble.—Yours, etc., T. FIELD. Ethelton, June 10, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25207, 11 June 1947, Page 5
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127A FAIR DAY’S WORK Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25207, 11 June 1947, Page 5
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