Correspondence.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3435, 14 February 1890, Page 2

Correspondence.

Bight Hours a.Day. EO THE EDITOK, Sir -—lii your paper of February11th, I see' mi avtiola headed as above, ami felt astonished that you I should advocate the cause of the •working man. I had been looking for several months for something of this sort to appear in your local contemporary, us this is the paper professing to- look after the interests 1 of the working classes, and to guard their rights, I, for one, thank you for your sympathy towards the working man, and hope that your efforts will bo successful in maintaining the eight hours system, and prevent employers from overworking boys of tender years. You have set'the ball rolling, and it is for the working man to rush it on until those men who trifle with and trample our grand privilegfl and sacred right under their feet, will, be stopped from doing so. And, aB for the rights of boys under 18 years, a well-known draper was Finnifloned for working somo of his hands after 2 p-m on Saturdays; is it not the duty of tho proper authorities to do likewise to those employers who work boys ten. hours it day, and on Saturday's until six or ten minutes past six in the evening, or is the law made only for some and not for all. Sir, your paragraph oil the eight hours systom is good; it touches on every point, and I believe that if the working man will trust you, that you are the man to help them in their struggle. A fow more words and then I will olose with the hope that soma others will take the question up. In England ten hours is the ordinary day's labor, except on Saturday, when the majority drop work at 1' o'clock, and tho rest at 12 noon. This gives the working man a half day in the week to. do as he pleases, but hen you have the strippers of the flax mills going until six, and after six o'clock, on Saturday like other days, and at half past six and a quarter to eovtn you see the men corno away from their work, 1; Is this * what the working man wants in New ZeaUnd'? In England the working classes aro trying to get eight hours to constitute a days labor; here we have it, and have only to guard against some men who are trying to overthrow this grand old systems; Lei us stop thorn from trampling; to right under their feet.—lam io. . , A Working man.

John A, Jones, clerk receiving' 18s per week wqgps, h,a<s been committed for trial in Melbourne, charged with the emliraxlement of £I2OO from the Empire BmidiiigSnowly.; Jirazilijier.n?,w;foi;ra, has. adopted the Stars and Strips of the Uuited States, but, instead of tlio gorg»ous ipd, white, and blue, we bave asicjsly Spwnafldgold, .;';..;