ISBN: 1235949737

[EAN: 9781235949739], Neubuch, ELIM HENRY DAVIGDOR,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a… More...

[EAN: 9781235949739], Neubuch, ELIM HENRY DAVIGDOR,WORLD, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: . . . been started by some sympathizers; those who are not successful in obtaining a billet, and many of those who are, share in this, which supplies some muchdesired drinks. The men who have found work now pretend to do it, being, however, justly and loudly indignant at the starvation wages offered, which have on recent occasions been only 4s. 6d per day in the provinces of Canterbury and Wellington, where no one can live comfortably and enjoy three meat meals a day on less than i2s. per week for board and lodging. Hence a man would have to work nearly three days a week to keep himself at all, and even then have nothing for liquor, which is obviously an insult to the manhood of the unemployed. They do not hesitate to say this in audible tones, and some of them even write complaints to the papers, who are very willing to fill their large columns. For a few days--sometimes even a week or a fortnight--the unemployed will attend at the work for nearly eight hours per day, coming as late and leaving as early as he dare, occasionally lifting a spade or slowly filling a barrow. The overseers do not care to demand a fair days work from men whom their superiors have sent them in a weak and starving condition, and who look as if they would be ready to resent by force any pressure put on them. Gradually, however, the extreme severity of the labour tells upon the poor creatures, who return to the same town, or go on to another, by twos and threes, and there relate pitiable tales of their sufferings on the Government works, where, again, their manhood was insulted by the beggarly wage of four shillings and sixpence per day. Then the old game begins da capo with varying success. Another very different set of men . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 1235949737

[EAN: 9781235949739], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… More...

[EAN: 9781235949739], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: .been started by some sympathizers; those who are not successful in obtaining a billet, and many of those who are, share in this, which supplies some muchdesired drinks. The men who have found work now pretend to do it, being, however, justly and loudly indignant at the starvation wages offered, which have on recent occasions been only 4s. 6d per day in the provinces of Canterbury and Wellington, where no one can live comfortably and enjoy three meat meals a day on less than i2s. per week for board and lodging. Hence a man would have to work nearly three days a week to keep himself at all, and even then have nothing for liquor, which is obviously an insult to the manhood of the unemployed. They do not hesitate to say this in audible tones, and some of them even write complaints to the papers, who are very willing to fill their large columns. For a few days--sometimes even a week or a fortnight--the unemployed will attend at the work for nearly eight hours per day, coming as late and leaving as early as he dare, occasionally lifting a spade or slowly filling a barrow. The overseers do not care to demand a fair day s work from men whom their superiors have sent them in a weak and starving condition, and who look as if they would be ready to resent by force any pressure put on them. Gradually, however, the extreme severity of the labour tells upon the poor creatures, who return to the same town, or go on to another, by twos and threes, and there relate pitiable tales of their sufferings on the Government works, where, again, their manhood was insulted by the beggarly wage of four shillings and sixpence per day. Then the old game begins da capo with varying success. Another very different set of men .<

ISBN: 1235949737

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ISBN: 9781235949739

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