THE UNEMPLOYED.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MAXAWATTJ HERAM). Sin, — Now while the wail of the unemployed is heard through tho length and breadth of the land, the poor people of this district feel it as much as others. Conld not some of your readers suggest some means by which they could get employment, even if they only made half wages for the winter months ; with the spring and brighter weather we may have brighter times! Could they not get some of the mills oa the co-operative principle by giving so many hundred-weight out of every ton to the millers as a rent. lam given to understand that there is a market for flax at £10 or £10 10s a ton in Wellington. Now, sir, I believe that if it is possible to get the men and boys to work together at their respective places in and about the mill. They would at least make enough to keep the wolf from the door, and by work- [ ing as one mau make a fair wage,— l am, iftc, Foxton.
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Manawatu Herald, 2 June 1894, Page 3
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178THE UNEMPLOYED. Manawatu Herald, 2 June 1894, Page 3
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