ALL SERVICES PROCESSION.

Evening Star, Issue 24916, 14 July 1943, Page 5

ALL SERVICES PROCESSION.

TO THE EDITOK. Sir,—His Worship the Mayor asked all employers to close or let their employees oft' for an hour (o see (he procession, but what about his own concern? I understand that the Town Hall stall were allowed time oil, but what about the outside staff? No such concession is grunted to them.. This frequently happens, and the workers are barred from these privileges. The outside staff gave and lent, money for the War perhaps in greater amounts than the inside staff, and we resent very much these repeated insults. It is public money that pays the council's employees, and one section of tlie staff should not have any privilege over any other—l am, etc.; Observer. July 13.

[The Mayor made a general request to employers, including heads of municipal departments without distinction, but it was left necessarily to them to decide the extent to which tlie request could be complied with, dependent on the circumstances and fmporlanee of work and its distance from the scene of the procession, which would determine whether men who might be released would be able to see it or not. It is obvious that Ihe conditions affecting many of the council's outside staff would be much more complicated than those affecting central Town Hall office workers.—Ed E-S-l