June stitches women's caliafornias in Dept 421, and is one of the most popular workers in the department. She came to East Tilbury seven years ago, and her first jobs were skiving and preparing.
"Ever since Bernard (the oldest member of the family) went to the factory to work, we others followed," she said "We all liked being here, and each of us told the others just as soon as they left school, and so it went on - or, I should say, passed on, from one to the other."
June takes a keen interest in the department and her fellow-workers generally, and, until last month she represented them on the Management Advisory Committee, on which she was a member of the bus committee. With her elder sister Doreen, who, before getting married 18 months ago, worked in Dept 442, she won several prizes at Bata sports days, both girls being excellent runners and jumpers.
"She is one of my best girls," said Foreman Eric Purkiss, "and I cannot wish for a more conscientious or capable worker. I don't think she has been late or absent once."

Youngest Shaw at East Tilbury (until next month) is Brian (left), upper attacher in Dept 472. "I like the work very much, and all my mates are a nice lot of chaps," he said,.
Brian, 17, has been here two years and Forman J Bata (seen with Brian on the left) considers him one of the best youngsters in the department. In his spare time he collects stamps and plays snooker for the Comrades Youth Club, at Grays, but is also interested in athletics and football.
Ron Shaw, who is 19, and has been here four years, is on the sick list, but is progressing favourably. When fit, he does moulding, and front-cutting of heels in Dept 402.
Doreen served for nine years in the leather factory, stitching in Dept 442 for most of the time. Bernard, first of the Bata Shaw's, also was in that department.
Alan Shaw, who worked in Dept 432, died six years ago.

For the second of the series of articles on Bata families, Bata Record throws the spotlight on brothers and sisters who have worked in the leather factory, from the time they left school, in an unbroken succession, since the days when Army boots were being made - the Shaw family.
Four members of that family now work in the factory, two left, one died, and another is carrying on the tradition, as it were, by preparing to join the team next month.
The two older members of the Shaw family with British Bata are June (left), aged 21, and Geoffrey, who will reach his majority in three months' time.

Geoffrey (right) is downstairs, in Dept 442, where he is a heel-attacher, having been placed on that operation after his return from national service with the Royal Air Force last November. Before that, he was a sole-roller.
"It is interesting work, and my companions here are good blokes," was his crisp comment when asked if he liked being in the factory.
Geoffrey has been a Bataman for six years (including his national service), and Foreman Harold Stephenson has a high opinion of him as a keen and adaptable operator.
"Why do we all come to British Bata?", he repeated, in response to a question. "Well, I suppose it is just the natural thing to do."