SANTA CLAUSMANSHIP

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 12

SANTA CLAUSMANSHIP

|B» WHIM WHAM} The Miscellaneous Workers’ Union has proposed a drive to get 0* 250 professional Father Christmasses In Sydney into the union . • • The men were being paid about £lB 10s a week in city stores *<* the union thought they should be paid £25 a week. Decent wagi* would get the right sort of man into the Santa Claus industry^ - Mews item. Some Jokers think, without good Cause, It’s easy to be Santa Claus; There’s Nothing in it, just some big False Whiskers, and the usual Rig; Some kind of scarlet Boiler Suit, With tasselled Cap and Riding Boot, And there he stands! Correct, complete, From powdered Poll to booted feet! Erroneous, dangerous Belief! • '*»' The Season’s Joy may change to Grief, If Santa Claus, the Man inside Those Garments, is not qualified. The inexperienced Amateur, Untalented, uptrained—he’s sure To make a Bungle of his Job. He’ll lose his Head, tell little Bob (Who dreams of Model Aeroplanes) That dollies’ Pram (already Jane's) Will be his Own on Christmas Day— Oh, the Confusion! the Dismay! Play safe, you Jokers, this December. Employ a genuine Union Member, A Tradesman, with a practised Grip On modern Santa Clausmanship. If he’s unregistered, keep clear— Have a REAL Santa Claus this Year! . . . Kids, when they take you to the Storet, Make sure there IS a Santa Claus; Don’t be deceived: be on your Guard; Ask him to show his Union Card.