SWEATING CONTRACTS.
A correspondent signing himself ' Bushman ' writes ce follows to the Wellington Evening Post:—With reference to the Masterton tragedy, I would like to point out a moral to bo learned from the occurrence. Somerville's remark when he gave himself up to the police, that * he had worked for Herbert for two years'without money,' explains the whole sad event in one sentence. If a few more such events were to happen it would be of inestimable value to the whole com. munity, for I can speak from practical experience when I say that the practice of men of straw taking contracts at prices that cannot pay from the outset, has been the cause of untold misery to scores and hundreds of hard-working men all over the colony for years past, and whaterer the cause that leads to the extinction of the practise, it should be welcomed by all who have the welfare of our working men at heart. Of course, I only assume that Somerville's remark is true, but the applcation is most true, I am sorry to say.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 127, 3 July 1895, Page 4
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