EXCHANGE IS NO LABOURING.
They were out-of-works, sucking at empty pipes, °and they met outside a Labour Exchange, "I ,carn't find no work!" grum'bled Bill. "Leastways, none wot you'd call congenial like." "Mo neither!" responded Bob laconically. "Don't know where to look for it, wot's worse!" declared Bill. "Wot's this Labour Exchange bizzlness? Wot's it mean ?"
"Simple 'nufi I" responded Bob. ' "It's the latest boon to the hunem- < ployed working' man. It's'where the i likes o' you an' me goes an'.axchan- 1 ges our labour, so ter speak." 1 "Exchange .our labour?" repeated I Bill. "Wodjer mean ?" ( "Well," explained Bob, "you ain't 1 got no work ter do, I ain't got no i work ter do; so wot' does we do ? 1 W'y, we both goes inside, writes i dahn ' our names and addresses, an 1 i awops jobs 1" : i jl 11 ; t t i c e 8 .1 V 8 S e i i I ,1 y ■'s j!
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North Otago Times, 3 December 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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161EXCHANGE IS NO LABOURING. North Otago Times, 3 December 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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