BARBERS IN REVOLT.
PECLINE TO SHAVE SPECIALS, A CURIOUS EXPERIENCE. Curious aro tho extremes to which some men will go in support of their prejudices during the present industrial crisis. It is related that one of the local foot "specials" dropped into a barber's saloon at tho Thermion end of tho city on Wednesday morning to got a shave. He was evidently known to have worn the specials' badge, for when it came his turn to slip into tho chair, tho barber said: "Wo don't shavo specials here!" Under tho eircuHistances it was useless to argue the point, and, with a smile, he left, to seek another barber. He found another saloon about a hundred yards away, and in due time took his seat in one of the chairs. Tho busy barber tucked a nice cleali towel in all round his neck, gave the chair a tilt back, and commenced to apply the lather vigorously. As this soothing operation was in progress the special related the experience he had encountered round . the corner. The next thing that occurred took his breath away. The barber took a towel, wiped away the lather, whipped away the neck-towels, and informed the special that he, too, refused to shave a special.
Wondering whether lie was really in Wellington or in a lunatic asylum,' the. still unshaven representative of law and order proceeded farther up the street, and struck still another barber's shop! Posolved that be would not be. shaved by a strike sympathiser, lie informed the barber before taking a seat of his experiences at the saloons of two of bis adjacent contemporaries. "My boy." said tho barber, -"take a scat, and I'll shave you twice for nothing!" If Ibis were a grand GuiguoS drama Hie third barber would have cu! the special's throat, and lowered the body into (he cellar, but the special said that he was given the shave of his l*e. and would not need to trouble aiui'lier harbor for three days. It is also related that a tobacconist in the centre of the oily refused lo sell u "special" a packet of cigarettes, hut lower down the street another of the trade insisted on his acceptance of a handful of cigars, In ibis wise the .tracer old world wags to-day 1
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 8
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381BARBERS IN REVOLT. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 8
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