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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13349, 27 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

Six men of Gainsborough, England, elected by their fellow workmen for tho purpose, visited Germany to inquire into labour conditions there, and their report makes, it is said, an interesting book. The man express their surprise at the excellence of the conditions, enjoyed by workingmen in Germany, and their comfort, content, sobriety, and respectability. They say : "Wo have' been j list three -weeks iri Germany, and have seen the German workmen at work and at. play. In the busy districts of Rhineland and Westphalia we came into contact with thousands of our German comrades engaged .n tho hea-'y inliutry, and looked in vain for the signs of povtriy which certain- persons in Gainsborough and e'sewherc told us would cr/.ifiont us on all sides. Despite ■•he prevail!?);; lUoinets of meat, which is seriously nfiV-iling all classes in the German i-'a! norland, nothing indicative in the ->motcst decree <.f v : id*>spread, distress has i-onv? w'Mrin the limit of our vision; on ill* (■niitrvr. Ihero is every sign of ineron.*;ng pr-.->-,p -r.'ty. ('ecupation if to be- had o-'m-wlu'iv for the asking of it in all ketones and at nil .works in all towns we have passed throiiffh ; tho building trade even-whore is in a fair condition ; and even in the ranks of the unskilled who must always be subject to fluctuations, there is no general cause of complaint. Ti:steart of there bring a. superabundance of workers', and consequently a crowd of unemployed, employers are clamouring on all i-ides for skilled labour." fs~ Rheumo has cured thousands of sufferers from rheumatism, gout .sciatica, lumbago. It will cure vou. Try it. All Stores and chemists, 2s 6d and Is 6d. A positive cure. ...