THE BACKER AND THE BEDDER-OUT
Writing in the ,November number of the ‘ P.L.A. Monthly,’ Mr L. M. Bates remarks on the various queer names applied to special workers within the port. He finds that the “ backer ” need not know a racehorse from a clothes’ horse, his work being to carry certain goods on his back from one part of a barge to another; and the “ bedder-out ” need never see a garden. His duties consist in keeping watch over the stowing of goods in the shed and seeing that they are properly grouped. One has heard sarcastic comment before now as to the payment of members of Parliament, but there are within the port—below Westminster —individuals employed who actually receive extra payment known as “ cold air money.” They work in refrigerated storage chambers. The “ wool band chopper ” cuts adrift the metal bands round wool bales from Australia. The bands are made into safety razor blades and sometimes return to the country of origin in sp changed a form.
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Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 12
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167THE BACKER AND THE BEDDER-OUT Evening Star, Issue 21285, 14 December 1932, Page 12
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