PAKISTANI SACKED
Refused To Do Errand (Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, June 26. A Pakistani university graduate has been dismissed from his labouring job in a Yorkshire textile mill because he refused to get the foreman’s fish and chips. Abdul Pasha, who has a degree in economics, said he was dismissed on the spot after he told the foreman he was not paid to do his personal errands.
Thirty-five-year-old Pasha had worked as a labourer at the mill for the last two years for £l9 a week. He plans to protest to the Pakistan High Commissioner and the Ministry of Labour over his dismissal which, he said, was “a case of colour discrimination.” ■ A director of the firm said he was satisfied Pasha was dismissed correctly.
“A man of his education should have more sense than to disobey an order. It is accepted in the textile industry that when a labourer is not engaged on work in the department he should run errands,” said the director.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 7
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