SWEATED INDUSTRIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 66, 14 September 1907, Page 6

SWEATED INDUSTRIES.

* — '■ THE - LABOUR DEPARTMENT EXHIBIT. Approximately nine thousand people have visited the Labour Department's exhibit of tho products of the sweated Industries of Great Britain -displayed -in tho corridors of the Wellington Town .Hall during the last tluee weeks. The Wellington season will be positively closed at, 10 o'clock to-night, and it '•'s not unllkelv ' that the exhibit will be lent to the South Australian' Government. The opinions appended by tho signatories of- the visitors' book during the Wellington ' season nro interesting, and occasionally illuminating. One visitor, writes that "Coming events ca6t their shadows^ before," to which an an.rwer is given that "The union label is wanted." Another visitor comments with American succinctness and dUregsrd for truth that it is "N.T.8.,"' and ? resident of Dunedin, whose Italian name has not prt vented, him from acquiring cplloquia.isnu. says that "the show is snorter." "Look at "home; Chinese are sweating jus;, as bad," is another comment, while .1 1.i.1y visitor left tho display with chast^ed feelings. "Couldn't gYowl about my work after looking at old Britain," the wrote; "this is too pure'" Another Wellingtonian says that "This is the effect of non-payment of Parliamentary members." A -Wanganui resident writes "God help New Zealand if this sliojld come about. One loyal pers.m states that he "is glad to live in New Za land"; but a visitor from Nor.vicL pps simistically replies on the next pnge that "New Zealand will soon oo as Lul, judged by present conditions." A vis:tor who gives his address as Birmingham, is of a. similar opinion ; and he ia analytical. He writes "Seventeen and six per week Cradley Heat'i i Qniie true; but four-roomed house 3* 6u per week. Wellington rent tor- same 16s per week. Not much diffet-encs afu'iall. If any advantage with Cradley Heath. — One who has been there."