LAND GIRLS IN NORFOLK
Trim figures in breeches, gaiters, smocks, and slouch hats, plodding along in the rear of two-horse ploughs, arc becoming more and more a familiar sight in Norfolk, signifying that growing numbers of land gim are returning to their wartime tasks.
Women are turning to with alacrity, and farmers' wives and l daughters and gentlemen fanners are being sent to dairy and stock farms to feed the stock. The pavement of Norfolk's busiest street is blocked with the portmanteaux of young men awaiting allocation to farms. _ The strikers appears to bo receiving a good deal of support from the clergy in the villages, and the situation has become graver during the week-end. Both sides appear to be “digging in in preparation tor a long struggle, and both are prepared to accept the consequences. Strike pay is now being issued by the union.
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Evening Star, Issue 18252, 17 April 1923, Page 2
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145LAND GIRLS IN NORFOLK Evening Star, Issue 18252, 17 April 1923, Page 2
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