FREE SHAVES IN PARIS
COMEDY IN BARBERS’ STRIKE Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, May 21. The barbers’ strike, which is still in pi ogress, has had the result, uncommon in strikes, of reducing rather than increasing the cost of living. The barbers’ assistants, in order to press their demands for an eiglit-liour day and annual holidays on full pay, resorted to the cal'es and hotels, and posted up notices to the effect that shaves and haircuts were free. There was an extraordinary rush, whereupon many employers signed a promise to improve their employees’ conditions. Others say that free shaves cannot be continued sufficiently long to do any real harm to the business.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12455, 25 May 1926, Page 4
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113FREE SHAVES IN PARIS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12455, 25 May 1926, Page 4
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