STRIKE OVER BEARD LASTS FOR 21 DAYS
LONDON, March 27
The strike over a man's beard which deprived a village of beer, has ended after 21 days. Forty woriiers at a Bedfordshire brewery stopped work on March 3 because one of the employees was transferred to a job at a lower wage because he was growing a beard and his appearance, in the opinion of the management, was so untidy that they did not want him on outside work. The man was growing the beard for a wager of two gallons of beer and 10sTt was announced yesterday that a satisfactory agreement between the workers’ trade union end the management had been reached.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 3
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113STRIKE OVER BEARD LASTS FOR 21 DAYS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 3
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