WAGE OF SHAME

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9066, 11 April 1906, Page 3

WAGE OF SHAME

WAITERS DENOUNCE TIPPING

SYSTEM AS A CURSE.

Impasadorsad oratory in English, French, and German, was heard on a recent Sunday at a meeting of waiters in London, on the subject of a proposed petition to Parliament for the Temoval of their grievances. Mr Walter Hudson', M.P. for Newcastle, presided.

The Chairman, in a vigorous epe&ch, declared the* -waiters as a class were peculiarly faelpleßa. Sixteen houTS a day at three-halfpence a» feomr was too long to work, and the wages were too small.

The "tipping syatem was a curse, a scandal, and a disgrace to the nation, and should be sternly repressed by law. Tipping was the instrument employed by cruel employers to grind down their employees, and if ihe public knew what harm it was doing by tipping, the system would quickly come to. an end-. Another speaker declared before the m«stdng broke up that tipping degraded the man -who gave and the main wbo received* It was the tribute of shame and tho wage at shame.

Oi^Queen Blizalvefcli -we read — '•Cold made that monarch croak." To save tho qusen from catching one, Sir Walter spoilt his cloak. But had she rul«d us now, you know, Foe- very trifling payment, \ bottle of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure Vvonld SBT& poor fcaJeigft's raiment.