MEN FROM JAMAICA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1943, Page 4

MEN FROM JAMAICA

WORKING IN WAR FACTORIES IN BRITAIN. “My name is George Smith, and I came from Kingston, Jamaica, about nineteen months ago. I used to work in the maintenance department of an automobile repair shop there and I went straight into a similar job in a war factory in the north-west of England. There were several other men from Jamaica in my factory and they helped me with a tool which I thought of at the beginning of this year. I was also greatly assisted by an English friend of mine, Mr Dickens. It took us a fortnight to make it in our spare time. It is a serrating tool and the Factory Awards Committee like it. In fact it has been installed and they tell me it has doubled production in that branch. I got letters from the Colonial Office and the Ministry of Labour for that, and I was glad; but I was chiefly glad because it helped the war, and I was glad, too, because I like my work and find it interesting to make other suggestions .sometimes for speeding up production, like the workers we read of in Russia.” —E. G. Smith, speaking as “A Jamaican in England.” in the 8.8. C. overseas service.