7 JUNE 1940, Page 16

WORK WITHOUT HOLIDAYS

SIR,—I am quite sure that the policy of continual work without holidays for many of the population, if pursued indefinitely, will have disastrous results, and will end in "more haste, less speed." After all, members of the Services get leave, and others need it too.

A young working man said to me yesterday : " Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, will soon finish me." What good will be done by a nation of nervous and physical wrecks?—