WHISTLES FOR A LIVING

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 94, 14 January 1939, Page 6 (Supplement)

WHISTLES FOR A LIVING

Dougal .McAllister keeps on whistling. Ever since he was a small boy lie has been a good whistler. Al school he got into trouble for whistling during lessons. He whistled at local kirk concerts. He went to England and began to look for work. One day, almost starving, he came to a large factory employing several hundred men, and asked for work. The works manager turned him down. Dougal was disappointed, but he walked .away whistling. “Hey, you!” shouted the works manager, after him. “You’re on. I like tile way you whistle. If you can whistle ’like that between shifts, and let the men know the time to start and the time to leave off, I’ll give you a job.”

Dougal took the job at a pound a week. Now he gets thirty shillings. He does nothing at all except interaluminium, three tons of iodine, as well, pret the executive’s orders to the men in terms of whistling. A long shrill whistle denotes the end of a shift. Then be walks to another part of the factory and gives another order with another type of whistle. It sounds a soft job. . but Dougal rarely sits down during his ten-hour day. He has so many orders to whistle.