Irate Charwomen's Christmas Cards To Cripps
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 15. Angry Whitehall charwomen who were offered an hourly rise of onefarthing instead of the 2/- they demanded are getting some measure of revenge by sending the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, 10,000 cards for Christmas. Each is signed by a different cleaner and bears a message from the cleaners in verse written by one of them, including the following:
A happy Christmas and New Year, I wish for you, Sir Stafford, dear. I hope you’ll never know the shock, Of getting up at four o’clock. I trust you’ll never have to see Your own wife scrubbing on her
knee. I hope you’ll never have to try To keep alive and not to die, On two pounds seven and 10 a week. Such for you I would not seek. From one whose Christmas couldn’t
be leaner, An insulted Government woman cleaner.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22821, 16 December 1948, Page 5
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153Irate Charwomen's Christmas Cards To Cripps Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22821, 16 December 1948, Page 5
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