OUR DAILY BREAD. TO THE EDITOR.
Sib — Excuse me trespassing on your valuable paper ; but as lam gomg to write on a question that should have every rightthinking man and woman's support, I am sure, Mr. Editor, yon will excuse me so doing. lam going to Lave a word to say for the poor bread- carriers who' have to work from twelve to fourteen hours a day, and hardly get a holiday from one end of the year to the other. Now, ia justice andj fair play to those hard-working men, cannot see why they do not get a half* •holiday as well as the drivers on butchers' and grocers' carts on the weekly halfholiday. Those bread- carriers have to bo out in all kinds of weather, and their pay is not more than thirty shillings on an average, so I do not see why they do not get a little recreation every week as well as the other carriers and shop-assistants. Now, as our legislators are assembled in discussing the business of the country, will some of them plead for these poor men's cause ? — and especially the shop- assistants' champion (the Hon. W. P. Reeves) P Will he agitate and see that these poor breadcarriers will get a little recreation as well as the rest of the working class ; and lam sure those men will pot forget the Legislator who will see their just cause righted. Hoping that some abler pen than mine will plead for these poor working-men, and trusting, Mr. Editor, you will insert this letter, I am, &c, . Justice. Wellington, 28th August, 1895.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 54, 31 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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267OUR DAILY BREAD. TO THE EDITOR. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 54, 31 August 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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