Willing Workers.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1914, Page 2

Willing Workers.

(By Walt. Mason)

There are many Willing Workers down among' the unemployed, and their lives are spent in 'rouble and in hardship unalloyed. And they cry, "It's rank injustice that we men of willing hands. must be classed with bums and hobos, with the non-produc-tive hands. Here we stand and ask for labour, beg for work and beg in vain, and there's surely something 1 rotten with the Nation's heart or brain. We are little Willing Workers, and no labours would we shirk, but you make us down-and-outers, for you will not give us work. ' I have hired some Willing Workers ablebodied men and strong, and they surely worked like blazes—but they always did tilings wrong. Oh, no odds what job they tackled, they would do it whapperjawed, whether they were Heraing chickens or just spading up a sod. whether they were fixing fences or repairing buggysheds, they were willing with their' muscles hut they never used their heads. And I always had to follow, follow sadly in their track, doing all their labours over, with a green pain in my back." This is why the Willing Workers find this world so sad to join!: tfiis is why the stern employers say to them, "Skidoo ! Aroint!"