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Old 09-12-2010, 23:07   #41
Bernard Dawson
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Re: National Minimum Wage?

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Originally Posted by Eric View Post
Worked one summer at Dutton's for about eight quid a week ... that would be in '63. But we got a healthy beer ration twice a day ... pi$$ed as a rat every day There were only three of us working in the malt storage; but we got the beer ration for 12 men ... part of a union agreement when the malt store was automated ... and the charge hand was the only tea-total Irishman I ever met: Tommy O'Rourke. So that was a twelve man beer allowance for just two guys.
All that free ale.And you still moved to Canada.
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