Poem ~ Barmaid Recruitment - Sunday, 30 May 1915

Impression sketch of a Bar Maid - by Jamie. taken from an original image by Tessier, Louis Adolphe (fl.1886-1915) which can be seen at: http://www.bridgemanimages.com/fr/asset/63282/tessier-louis-adolphe-fl-1886-1915/the-barmaid

On the coming day of Tuesday, Glasgow,

Would see a drive for recruitment

Aid at the licensed trade and employees.

The meeting to be under Lord Provost,

With officers speaking, in order

Closing public houses for men to attend.

The male employees would have no

Reason not to attend - knowing

Of a movement to permit employment

To allow working of barmaids.

Such a movement had begun years

Before, to request magistrates

Of the city for serving women - as many

Trade members have enlisted.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1915. Barmaids or Barmen? The Daily Telegraph, [online] 29 May. P.7. Col.7. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11633886/Daily-Telegraph-May-29-1915.html [Accessed: 30 May 2015].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 30 May 2015). 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11633886/Daily-Telegraph-May-29-1915.html

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