WORKERS AND WORKERS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14833, 26 November 1913, Page 11

WORKERS AND WORKERS.

TO THE EDITOR Oh" "THE PRESS." Sir, —Having spent forty years in this country as a working man, in tho lowest grade—hardest 'and worst pay— would you kindly allow mc to give my experience in the above capacity? Wo often hear the words, "exploitation of labour," usik! by agitators to-day. I should like to have some of those gentlemen with us in the early days, when in ballast pits men working in their flannels took them oft' to liamj in the sun to dry, and replaced them with their shirts, and this exploitation was caused by the men themselves running each other to sco which would have their waggon filled first. For the guidance of working men to-day, it would be well worth while to look up a lecture given by the Rev. E. Bailey, minister of St. John's Church, Latimer square, in the early 'seventies. The lecture was given in the Oddfellows' Hall, Lichfield street, entitled, "The working man his own friend not the stump orator." Mr Bailey Kad vast experience of strikes and trade unions in Manchester, and consequently could speak with authority. He asserted that the man who worked honestly, not as cyn service, but as to the invisible Being, would command a good living and proper wage, independent of unionism, or the stump orator. Such has been my experience.—Yours, etc., WORKERS' SYMPATHISER.