SWEATING.
TO THE EDiTOK. Sir,—Your correspondent, " Assistant Sweater,” is quite correct in stating “that the.ballot-box and legislation are the only hope of tho workers.” The shopkeepers of Christchurch, as a body, cat down their employees' wages to the utmost, pleading hard times. It seems as if they had reduction printed on the brain, but they do not take their own share of the burden. They do not cut down their private expenses. If you look around you will find them living in their suburban residences, cutting quite a dash, not a sign of reduction there. One is forced to come to the conclusion that the cry is raised to fill their own pockets a little faster- Shopkeepers’ clerks are miserably paid—many not receiving labourers’ wages. When thny speak about it they are told that seventy would be glad to take their place. Ism sorry to say there are plenty of clerks with nothing to do, but because they earn nothing is no reason why the one who works should be paid such a pittance. I believe the time will come when it will bo made a penal offence for a master to pay each miserable wages. The workers have it in their power to have laws made which will compel these men without consciences to deal fairly with their fellowmen.—l am, &c., ANTI-SWEATER.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10216, 9 December 1893, Page 6
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