LABOUR IN NEW ZEALAND AND GERMANY.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— New Zealand the working classes appear to be in a perfect paradise compared with Germany. Here we are ruled by an army of Civil servants ; there, by an army | of armed men. More than one-fifth of the I adult male Douulation of the country is in
military training ; and, to make up for this loss of labour, men and. women have to toil fourteen hours a day and seven days a week. Women yoked in the plough with heifers, bipeds with quadrupeds J Military despotism is a curse to any country, and ifc is sincerely to be hoped that the Pope will succeed in his efforts to secure a general disarming of the nations in Europe, While our Civil servants have chastised us with whips, the military tyrants have been chastising the Germans with scorpions. May the Lord forbid that New Zealanders should ever have to labour fourteen hoars a day and seven days a week. Better by far the old rate : eight hours a day, and eight bob a day.— am, &c., Q.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9219, 23 November 1888, Page 3
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