WATERFRONT RELIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1943, Page 6

WATERFRONT RELIEF

VIEWS OF HOME GUARD

Suggestions that the members of the Home Guard should be asked to undertake. other work now . that the training hours have been reduced have met with a mixed reception, particularly the proposal that they should be used ori weekends on the waterfront to give the "wharf labourers a rest." The view expressed by one Home Guardsman is representative of that expressed by a number on this aspect. "We hear a lot about the standingby time the wharfies get paid for, and we saw in 1 the paper the other, day the frank admission by one that he was paid to do nothing," said the Home Guardsman. "Doesn't; Colonel Foster think that we have any ■ work to do at all? I: arid most of my colleagues in our company work in the,city for the whole' week, and we have to work pretty hard these days with the shortage of staffs. Some of us have to work all day on Saturdays as well. Are we expected to-line up on a Sunday morning with our overalls and do a full day's work on the waterfront, and then go back to our ordinary jobs on the Monday? ' "Now that the parades have been cut down' Sunday is the one day in the week when we feel we can relax without impairing the country's war effort.' .rEven then most of us have our.gardens to attend to, and at this time,of the year they require a good deal of attention. By . putting our energy, into the garden we are getting some relaxation and we're doing something, in our own small way, towards helping the vegetable position. If that isn't useful work, I would like to know what is." , *