THE "TIPPING " SYSTEM.
Waiters Denounce it as a
Impassioned oratory in English, French, and German was heard on a recent Sunday at a meeting of waiters in London, on the subject of a proposed petition to Parliament for the removal of their grievances. Mr Walter Hudson, M.P., for Newcastle, presided.
The Chairman, in a vigorous speech, declared that waiters as a class were peculiarly helpless. Sixteen hours a day at three-halfpence an hour was too long to •work, and the wages were too small.
The tipping system was a curse, a scandal, and a disgrace to the nation, and should be sternly repressed by law. Tipping was the instrument employed by cruel employers to grind down their employes, and if the Public knew what harm it was doing by the system would quickly come to an end. Another speaker declared before the meeting broke up that tipping degraded the man who gave and the man who received. It was the tribute of shame and the wage of shame.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8428, 19 April 1906, Page 3
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