EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7826, 19 June 1909, Page 4

EMPLOYERS AND WORKERS.

To the Editor. Sir, —Just an inch or two of your valuable space in reply to "Worker's" letter of the 15th as to the way the labourers are treated. He seems to think that twenty-five shillings and found in food is not a sufficient wage. I think if he looks back twelve or fifteen years ago, he will find that seventeen and sixpence and twenty shillings was a general. wage, and men were glad to buy their own candles and soap, and my opinion is that he would not .j be worth that if he was too lazy to i sweep out his own whare. For my part, I would, rather sweep out my own whare; and as for the candles, it would be more satisfactory for the man to buy his own, and then if he was one of those going-but sort, it wo'ild riot cost him much,' especially if he went out three or ■ four nights a week. Now, Mr Worker, if you take my advice, next place you go to and find the bed too narrow, just sew three bags together and turn them round the other way, and you will have a good stretcher. Just go to the straw stack and fill your bed tick with fresh oat fly, and you will have as good a bed as some of the farmers themselves. Now, when you have got your sleeping apartment fixed up, just settle down to work, and in a few years you will find yourself on a.farm of your own, instead of running about the country discontented, from one farmer to the other. I am one who was in the same sized shoes as yourself till recently. I am not one who begrudges a man his candles; indeed, if the men would settle down to their, work and do it well and try to please their Boss, they might get more than their soap and candles. ADVISER.