WHIT-MONDAY MADNESS
WAR WORKERS TAKE A HOLIDAY (Rec. May' 25, 11.65 p.m.) London, May 25. Despite the appeals of the North-east Coast Armaments Committee, many of the Tyneside men took Whit-ilonuay o ff, and 35,000 out of 40,000 went holidaymalting. The Sheffield steelworks and the mnliters at Birmingham and Leeds voluntarily closcd, in view of the amount of recent overtime work. Fifty thousand men engaged in tho war munitions works in the Manchester district continued to work. Woolwich Arsenal and dockyard day and night is continuing, the excellent example it has . given the country throughout the war.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2471, 26 May 1915, Page 7
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97WHIT-MONDAY MADNESS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2471, 26 May 1915, Page 7
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