Seaman pows by the french in africa

[j.sabourn]

That was huge money in those days. Think a private in the army was on less than 2 pounds aweek to bring up a family. In 1952 working for a butcher full time was only on 37/6d a week, granted a boys wage but the butcher himself was probably on about 4 pounds a week. Wondered at times why there was so much aggro between those who were called up and those who managed to dodge the draft. JWS.

[Captain Kong]

63 Years ago, when we rescued 2,500 of the French Foreign Legion from the beach under fire from the Viet Minh for three days and nights and then returned them to Algiers and Marseilles, The Crowd wrote a petition the General de Gaulle asking if we deserved a medal for rescuing his men.
He said , "NONE."

We should have left them all there with the other 500 dead left on the beach.

Brian

[Keith at Tregenna]

During the Spring of 1943, soldiers serving in the 8th Army responded to pressure to denounce strikes back home. The 8th Army News ran an article headlined “The Right to Strike is one of the Freedoms we fight for”.

[Captain Kong]

£5 a day, = 30 a Week, [6 day week in those days,] a FORTUNE then.
so how much did a Private Soldier get on the Beach in Normandy,???????
Brian

[j.sabourn]

I never saw 30. Pounds a week for a long time after that, as 3 mate with a 2 mates ticket in 1957 was on 38 pounds a calendar month. As 2 mate with a mates ticket in 1960 was on 60 pounds a month,and in 1964 was on 101 pounds 7/6d a month as mate with a masters tickets .Never reached 30 pounds a week. Had to go foreign flag to do that. JWS...

[Keith at Tregenna]

The first major wartime dispute took place in 1941. It involved engineering apprentices, first on Clydeside and then in Coventry, Lancashire and London.

On Tyneside at the beginning of 1943 workers at the Neptune ship repair yard came out for six weeks over the refusal of five men at their firm to join the Amalgamated Engineering Union. They received massive support from workers in other firms and trades, and forced their employers to concede a ‘closed shop’ agreement, setting a national precedent.

Shoot them, who would do that?

[cappy]

During the Spring of 1943, soldiers serving in the 8th Army responded to pressure to denounce strikes back home. The 8th Army News ran an article headlined “The Right to Strike is one of the Freedoms we fight for”.

##i would gamble the men who ran the 8th army news would not be in the front line doing the bloody hard job ...cappy... my uncle was inthe 8th army couldnt stand unions but sadly couldnt work without a bloody card...cappy

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.. The argument that a strike would let our soldiers down was countered by men who had brothers and sons in the forces who, so they claimed, had urged them to fight and maintain their customs or privileges. They argued that they must retain something for those absent ones to come back to, while the suggestion that we should wait for further negotiations was swamped by the reply that we had already waited a long while...”

In fact the Government was compelled to intervene, restored differentials, and the miners won the highest minimum wage in Britain. Their average earnings ranked 81st in 1938, but rose to 14th after the strikes.

##more lefty waffle

[Keith at Tregenna]

History.

[cappy]

History.

##like the miners and the labour loony left...dont let me keep you from the foodbank ...cappy

[Keith at Tregenna]

You take everything personally, sad.

As the war progressed, the number of strikes skyrocketed to reach a record 2,194 stoppages with 3,700,000 days lost in 1944. Of course not all such strikes ended in victory - but neither do all strikes in peacetime.

A lot of people to shoot ?