WANTED-BOY; WAGES £1 WEEK.
200 WORKLESS MEN RUSH JOB IN MELBOURNE; BEG FOR EMPLOYMENT.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received February 10, 10.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE. February 10. In answer to an advertisement offering employment to a boy at a wage of £1 weekly, over 200 men, youths and boys arrived. The crowd began to collect at an early hour in the morning, and when the doors opened there was a wild rush to gain entry. The manager of the firm said that he had seen nothing like it before in his thirty-six years’ business experience. Mothers pleaded for their boys, he said, and men begged be given the job at a boy’s wages. All the applicants were desperately eager for work.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18385, 10 February 1928, Page 1
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