The Speed Maniac.
The greatest curse to coal workers is the speed maniac. A species of oentipedean mammalia which chiefly lives by driving coal winches and sprawling to the. boss with an overloaded tally board. One of these creat\ires approached a foreman of labour and asked him what he thought of the record he had made. "You made," said the foreman ; ''you coukl not make half of it if you were on the shovel. You're oaly sw-eating better men than yourself. Any fool can. turn on steam -—it takes men to fill baskets." This is a rebuke many of our Dominion re-cord-breakers might take home with the reminder that the TT.S.S. Co. made £75,000 profit last year—with their assistance —while many waterside workers' children went hungry to bed.
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 15, 16 June 1911, Page 14
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128The Speed Maniac. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 15, 16 June 1911, Page 14
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