Firm Keeps Veterans Employed
Six skilled employees of Rubery Owen Enginering works, at Darlaston, Staffordshire, England, have left the main production line to start work in a new workshop. All over ,70, they were the first to join the company’s “Sons of Rest” working club, , which has been established to keep elderly skilled workers usefully employed and to pass on their craftsmanship to younger men. a . The new workshop is equipped with light machines suited to veterans, one of whom, at 82, has been trying to hold his own on the production line. Others will join the clqb until it reaches a maximum of 30 members. They will be set no production targets,' and will do as,much or as little as they like.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 73, 7 December 1949, Page 8
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123Firm Keeps Veterans Employed Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 73, 7 December 1949, Page 8
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