You see if you worked a good average days work, or weeks work, you felt you were entitled a little bit more than that and you expected you would get a bonus. You’d think you had done a bit more than your 32 and six, but I got my pay packet, I got two on this particular day, I got paid on Thursday, I said I’m alright this week I got some bonus, you see, so I opened my static for a start, 32 and six, and I opened the other packet, but you won’t believe this, but I got half penny in it, and I started to laugh you see, but they said what have you got Millicent, well I said I have got half penny here, it would cost more to produce that envelope than what is in it. It got to a breaking point, that girls were ill, of course there were countermen, and it was not just the girls, I couldn’t tell you the wage that the men got, because obviously it wasn’t equal pay in those days. There was a couple of, or three, girls, they did find Mr Malding, and he did work for us, they talked to him at the corn exchange, and then we went over to Coalville, and had a meeting, and we decided it was no go, and we came out on strike.
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