WORKERS IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1941, Page 6

WORKERS IN BRITAIN

(To the Editor.) Sir, —It seems almost unbelievable that we have in New Zealand anybody who would write to you as "Clothing Machinist' wrote in last Friday's "Post.'" Do the workers of this country know that unless all of us place the whole of our energy into whatever task we are engaged in, and more particularly those who are manufacturing for war purposes, that we may go the same way as France? Do they know that when Hitler came into power he sent all union secretaries into concentration camps, disbanded all unions, seized their funds, and brought the workers down to a standard of living and hours of work that would not be tolerated by anybody, except those who are compelled by circumstances. Let "Clothing Machinist" just think what the workers in Britain are doing and the strain under which they are working.—l am, etc., RETURNED SOLDIER.

(To the Editor.) Sh%— Having been in New Zealand now for just over three years I feel qualified in giving my opinion on certain things. In her letter in the "Evening Post" on Friday "Clothing Machinist" talks about "getting a little of their own back." What an attitude to adopt during this time of supreme sacrifice! Sacrifice of which we should all yearn to take part. Having lived in England all my life, I realise how it is the people are able to do what they are doing, work as they do for hours on end, and yet, is we know, without grumbling. They have not yet learned to -work for a minimum number of hours a day, and their faith

means everything. To deny ourselves, even in such things as holidays, is surely very little compared with going without one's normal sleep night after night because of ghastly air raids and then working during the daytime. - Do let us all work willingly and prayerfully, not forgetting why we are doing it. —I am, etc., ENGLISHWOMAN.