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Evening Star, Issue 3337, 30 October 1873, Page 2

Tilings must have come to a pretty pass when a graduate of Oriel College, Oxford, is compelled to become a writer in the British Museum at tenpeuce an hour. The nine hours and ninepcnce an hour which the London builders have just been compelled to concede to their men must be a comparative luxury to tha Museum writer, who is only allowed to work six hours, and earn his five shillings a-dayj and, in the event of a few minutes’ absence, a' stoppage is made from his pay. The graduate of (hiel told the committee of an instance in which the sum ot od was stopped from his own pittance for a short absence from duty. It will continue to be so, we are told, so long as there are ten applicants fur every vacancy in the civil service. There is such constant straining after so-called genteel employment that its necessary concomitant—genteel poverty—is altogether lost sight of or forgotten,