No. 13 SCHEME
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —As regards the maltreatment of No. 13 scheme workers cited by your first correspondent, it was not a few days, but one solitary day of so-called war effort that was required of us, and that was December 15, when all men were told to go at once to the placement office. Having arrived, we were told to work on the wharf, whore there was a shortage of labour. Nearly all, to ray knowledge, accepted, as it was represented as war effort. After having furnished our one day war effort we were sent back to our own job again. We find, on the issue of wages, that the Christmas holiday pay was kept back because we broke our, time of one month continuous service—which we were forced to do. Had any man refused, he was to be declared voluntarily unemployed. What a way to victimise a man! He has not a leg to stand on. Let us trust the heads of our union will shake someone up and straighten out this business that is robbing the worker of what he is entitled to.—l am, etc., 13 Scheme Victim. December 30.
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Evening Star, Issue 24082, 31 December 1941, Page 3
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