THE WAGE TOO MINIMUM.
An Irish M.P. is telling a story of s man who complained to threo friends, an Englishman, a Scotchman, and en Irishman, that his servant was coiistantlv breaking china. "What do you think I ought to do with her?" he asked plaintively. - .. Tho practie.l Englishman said, "Dismiss her!" But as stio was otherwise- 011 escelkut servant, his master was unwilling to do that. ■ '.'Then, take it -out of her wages, Btirrgested tho thrifty Scot. "That wouldn't do liinch good, was the reply, "for her wages ato Ims than the anWuiit of damage slio does." "Tlicn raise her wages!" said «io Irishman promptly. — Pearson's Weekly."
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1940, 24 December 1913, Page 9
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108THE WAGE TOO MINIMUM. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1940, 24 December 1913, Page 9
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