CHARWOMEN PILLORY SIR S. CRIPPS OVER WAGES RISE
LONDON”, Dec. 15. Angry Whitehall charwomen, who were offered 4d an hour rise instead of the 2s an hour that they demanded are getting some measure of revenge by sending to Sir Stafford Cripps 1000 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. .1 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 ten 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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Grey River Argus, 17 December 1948, Page 4
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