WASTING WORKERS' TIME
SIR,—We have just had a radio talk by Mr. McCorquodale telling us how vital is women's work in this war. Five weeks ago the factory where I work was visited by two strapping young men in a Ministry of Information car. They spoke to the workers at 12.20 and had lunch with the staff at 1.15, during which meal one of them never spoke a word. At 6.2o they spoke to the 1.0orkers, again spending the intervening time going round the works and drinking tea ih the Canteen.
Today one of them, the less silent, visited us again and followed the same programme omitting the tour of the works. I did not hear the talks, but was told that they were more or less a resume of what we read in the papers and above the heads of the younger workers. I did, however, hear the opinions of everyone about the policy of sending such people round.
If we must have people to talk to us, could they not be hand-picked men of some experience in the world who are able by their presence and what they say to improve our morale and not to set us saying, " Why isn't he in the Army? " Above all, are there not older men who could do the job and do it well?—I am, yours truly, MARY HOWE.
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