Early in November a London pressman mot an inspector of munition factories, who told liim that a fortnight ago he went through one of the Coventry factories, -where he was shown a machine being secretly worked Dy two men on piece rates. These two men, he said, wore earning £9 15s a day between them, and thought they ought to have more. Afterwards, ho said, he went to one of the best restaurants in Coventry, where a boy and a girl, munition workers, entered, neither of them more than 18, and ordered the best lunch possible.,'and two bottles of champagne, which thev consumed in less than half an hour.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 2
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109Untitled Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 2
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