WAGES AND DRINK.
The New York Nation, commenting upon the labor question and drinking habits of many working men, says : * Improvement in the laborer’s condition is impossible without cutting down his drink bills. No social arrangement which man can make can benefit people who get drunk. No matter what wages you pay a drinking man, neither his condition nor that of his family can be improved thereby. There is no use in providing extra holidays for men who use them to get drunk. There is no use in cutting down, the day’s labor from ten to eight hours, if the two hours gained are spent in a rum hole. There would be no use in making arbitration compulsory, if one of the parties was likely to be kept from obeying the decision by liquor. There would be no use in handing over all the property in ths world to working men, if they drink as they do now. They would soon dissipate it, and add nothing to the store.’
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 6
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169WAGES AND DRINK. New Zealand Mail, Issue 810, 9 September 1887, Page 6
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