SLACKING FROM SLEEP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 4368, 12 October 1916, Page 5

SLACKING FROM SLEEP.

MUNITION WORKERS WHO XEY V. R W L \R Y j N W E!. 1.DOING. While “slacking from work is more promini ntly before* the publiceye. by reason of tin* operations oi the various munition tribunals,“slacking from leisure” is seldom or never heard of. Yet some marvellous instances of super-tine keeping are being recorded, mainlv through the* medium of overtime sheets. If there are workmen Oily enough to play cards in working hours tin-re L another type of man who-'.'* rivalry with his fellows is a record week. It is now stated that a record has been established for a week’s sustained labor bv a wo: km in a well-known shipyard on tint- i vn--. w)io has just pin in 1-10 v. / Km". m one week. hours to eat grid s]e-j>. The host part of the feat !- tlmt the labor was largely voluntary on hi* part. Another munition worker, engaged on a task calling for continuous work in a high’ temperature, put in 229 hours in. a fortnight. Instances of men working 25 to 30 hour* continuously on the three-shift system are CjHite common. It is sole to Say that at no other period in Britain's industrial history have such records been made; not even.i ll the had old days of .-we at mg in r wire and factory. Not the lea*t remarkable asuect ot those re-m-d* i, that are being out up by men not engage-:: on light, but- on verv heavy work. The swee-1 smelter's.. whoso muon has never had , -grievance” snic-e war broke om. and the moulder*, atc* all making mg hours every day.