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asking them to think it over, to give me the number of volunteers tomorrow morning, and wish them good night. –
Thursday, 19 Nov.59._ 17 1/2 days of excavation
Morning, although yesterday c. 12 men were ready to accept working without the women, in the morning no volunteer came forward at all. – Under the pretext of defending work for the women, they prefer the status quo, i.e. less work and a little more pay, working in pairs. – Think about what to do. – With a view to imposing the system more rational next year, must we act from now on, or leave things as they are and set the new conditions at the start of the following campaign. Or else stop everything at the end of the week and carry over the remaining credit into 1960, or else at the end of the week dismiss the oldest couples, or else send away only the oldest women and form
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