A MUNITIONS SINGER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 194, 6 May 1918, Page 6

A MUNITIONS SINGER

A claim by a young iron turner foi compensation for summary dismissal came up at the Halifax; Munitions Court. His employer, the "Yorkshire Observer" says, sent a letter accusing him of general slackness. When it was read the claimant remarked: "It might have been as regards singing.-" "It depends what the Uir.o was, observed Alderman A. Taylor, district organising delegate of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, who conducted the claimant's case. ' The clerk: "What sort of songs? _ _ Tho claimant: "Somewnere a voice is calling" or something of that sort. I can work better when f am singing." The chairman: Do the other men stop their work to listen to you or do they merely join in the ononis?-lhey join in the chorus. ~.,,. ■ « Does that interfere witn their work?Nnt that I know of. >,lr U. Wadsworth assessor)- Do vou think it helps forward the work if the men join in the singing rAlderman Taylor: I know workshops twenty times as big as this one where the management encourage singing. Tho claimant said ho liad not sung at work since i.is employer warned him not to do 80. Compensation was allowed.