icely Caught.
A prominent Scottish M.P., when addressing a large audience recently, touched on the subject of labour, and advocated that a more kindly bond of feeling should exist between employer and employee. Just then a. man — a political opponent, to all appearance— roae up in tme middle of the hall, and in a loud, scoffing voice cried: "How do you treat your own workmen. — long hours and shorf^ pay. I should know, for I was one of Them." For a moment the M.P. was nonplussed by the suddenness of this charge, while tho audience eagerly awaited developments. Then, looking hard at his interrupter, he inquired, amid a breathless silence: | "Were you employed in my Glasgow works? ' "Yes, I was," retorted the other, defiantly. "Then allow me to inform you and the audience." came the quiet reply, "that I have never had either in or within 50 miles of .Glasgow." The cheers which greeted .this explanation showed that the M.P. scored in no uncertain fashion.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 77
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165icely Caught. Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 77
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