MARKET GARDENERS AND THE LABOUR QUESTION

SUGGESTIONS MADE TO SOLVE LABOUR SHORTAGE

by Councillor Witts

1. Children should be allowed to leave school at 12 years of age instead of 13 or 14.
2. Timetables of schools should be altered so that the children should be free for half a day all through the week during the time of war.

FARM LABOURER AND THE WAR

To the Editor of the “Evesham Journal”

Sir

MR WILLIS BUND’S SUBSTITUTION SCHEME

To the Editor of “The Journal & Advertiser”

Sir

With reference to the meeting held at the Police Station on the 27th inst with regard to assistance on the land, I should like to ask is it just and wise for a fit man who has always been on the land as a market gardener to be taken away to fight, and put a conscientious objector, who is a fit man also to take his place, and one knows nothing whatever about gardening.

MARKET GARDENERS AND EXEMPTIONS

“TOMMIES” AND ABSENTEES

Some war-stained Evesham “Tommies” write us a letter as follows:

A WORD ABOUT EXEMPTIONS

We have received a letter signed “Some Married Men from Evesham,” written from a certain barracks in this country, in which the writer says:

“EXEMPTED TILL OCTOBER 1”

WORCESTERSHIRE APPEAL TRIBUNAL AND LOCAL CASES

STRONG PROTESTS - CENTRAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE “ON STRIKE”

As was anticipated the decisions of the Worcestershire Appeal Tribunal at their sitting at Evesham last week, have given rise to a great amount of feeling in the district. This is especially strong among members of the central Advisory and Sub-Advisory Committees and of the local Tribunals, and it is also given expression to by the general public, more particularly among the attested married men.

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

To the Editor of the “Journal & Advertiser”

Sir