SWEATING CONTRACTS.
A 1 correspondent signing himsolf • Bushman ’ writes as follows to the Wellington Evening Post : —With reference to the Masterton tragedy,. I would like to point out a moyal to ho learned fissjwthe occurrence. Somerville’s remark when he gave himself up to the police, that ‘ he had work for Herbert for two years wits? money,’ explains the whole sad event in one sentence. If a few more such events were to happen it would be of inestimable value to the whole community, for.l can speak from practical experience when I say that the pratice of men of straw taking contracts at prices that cannot pay from the outset, has beeu the cause of untold misery to scores and hundreds of hard-woi’king men all cver the colony for. years past, and whatever the cause that leads to the extinction of the practise, it should b 9 welcomed by all who* have the welfare of. our working men at heart. Of course, I only assume that Somerville’s * remark is true, but the application is most true, l am sorry to say.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1748, 6 July 1895, Page 2
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180SWEATING CONTRACTS. Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1748, 6 July 1895, Page 2
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