On This Day, 8 May 1917

Birmingham Daily Post

Tuesday 8 May 1917

SON’S DESIRE TO LEAVE HIS FATHER.

An unusual application was heard by the Birmingham Munitions Tribunal yesterday, when a lad aged 17 applied for a certificate to leave his father’s employment on the ground that the work was too hard and the pay insufficient. The father resisted the application, and said he was a farmer and haulier. The son had been engaged carting coal to a military hospital. The Chairman (Professor Tillyard) said that was not a factory or workshop, and therefore did not come under any of the orders. The son would be given a note to show that he did not come within Section 7, and was, therefore, at liberty to seek employment elsewhere.