A WORD TO WORKING MEN.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4208, 8 February 1871, Page 3

A WORD TO WORKING MEN.

To th* Editor of the Dailt Southern Cross. Sib,— ln asking for employment, are working men making an unreasonable demand ? If not, our Superintendent has proved himself equal to a bold stroke in borrowing money, and can, if lie will, find work for them — work not quite so much against the grain as cracking stones. Hunger always makeß men spiteful ; the well-fed cannot possibly enter into their feelings, yet I have heard of even a well-fed animal being suddenly turned into a bear by having to wait ten minutes for his dinner. Ido trust timely help will avert the bread riots that have disgraced Old England. Difficult as it is to reconcile the claims of capital and labour, surely capital should see « sprig of the mobility once taunted ono of London's lord mayors] with having been a shoeblack, he answered with a flash of honest pride— perhaps a little scorn— "And, Sir, wasn't I the best shoeblack that could be found?" No wonder he was lord mayor. Men of true metal will never feel their dignity hurt even by cracking stones, if they can bat earn salt to their porridge ; but there are many even honest industrious men who, - like mike-belieTe ladies, can only work in a cerfcaja groove, and in giving them gaol labour their false pride is painfully WQWttUcl, and they are in danger of losing