THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

Evening Star, Issue 3694, 24 December 1874, Page 2

THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY.

To the Editor. Sir, : 1 notice by the papers that the mechanics of the building trade are trying to get a balf-hohday on Saturday, but it seems to me that they are never satisfied. hey have been striking for wages, and now they want a half-holiday to spend Zl money-a great many iu hotels T think myself that they outfit to be satisfied with eight hours a day, and goodness knows there are enough holidays here already caused by wet weather. If they get this half-holidav they keep the laboring classes idle as well as themselves. It seems to me it is just one class of people that wants this. This cat lpi3 a httie property, and it will p ay them oetter to have the half-day j but mo/ of tfi laboring Class, lue myself, will lose by it. A gi eat many will uphold me in what I have said. What good did strikes ever do in ngland? When were the working classes fitter 08 than when they knocked off «<• full day for u ? Afterwards they struck for “ndwhat'?W tSh day “° d 74d l' er thev 2? ; i ? 1 hey f OC more that way, dTmWrf “.T* 5 ' 3 ' ol hoasS r ; “ ,ld I*™™ lo ™ got dearer. So I flunk if a man gets a fair day’s work of slf6fi’d OU The nd f ah ' Wag 6 u e ° u ß ht to b ® P er9ons benefited by a lam W ‘"' • h «‘CkeepeJ-

n ... a Bricklayer 55 Laborer. Dunedin, December 21, '