BRITISH MINERS
HOLIDAYS VOLUNTARILY CUT. — IN ORDER TO INCREASE PRODUCTION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. March 18. A meeting of 10,000 coal-miners employed in the Bolsover colliery, Nottinghamshire, unanimously agreed to forgo a large part of their holidays in order to increase the British production of coal. The men agreed to reduce their Easter holidays by half, to forgo part of the summer holidays of one week, and to work on alternate Saturdays. In return the colliery company guarantees no lowering of the basic wage rates during the war, and that the men will receive the same amount from their summer holiday savings fund as if they had taken a full holiday.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1940, Page 5
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