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MEN AND WOMEN RELLY TO.
GETHER.
TO THE EDITOR
I am, &c.,
WIFE AND MOTHER.
North Adelaide, April 3, 1886.
Sir-I am only a woman, but as such am
greatly interested in the present want of
employment. My son-in-law has been out of
employment ten weeks, and he has a wife and
en t.loytxtct ten weeks, aud he has a wife and
child in delicate health. My httsband is a
c'Tifiimed invalid, aud during nine weeks I
have earned from S?. to 9s. per week, but this
v.'ctk I only secured 4s , aud I had t*> share
that with with my daughter's family. We are
iv debt to the baker, butcher, and grocer, and
at c behind with cur rent. Now, sir, what are
we to do, acd will 4s. (ii. per day alow a
man v. ho makes full time and then get
lils. per week pay his way ? Let every tradesman
juiii the wurkiii-*- men in their demand, and if
the l-ret-cnt Ministry will not at occe give them
work at Os. t*d. per day let every man and
w< tnau get up a petition to the Governor ask
ing Lim to at tnee dissolve the present Par
liament and appeal to the country. Then the
present Ministry will ccc what tbe people think
of them. 1 bave been in Adelaide 37 years^
and ir.y parents helped to make the colony
wlist it i.-, and uon* their children aad grand
children are to starve. Why? Because the
li.trn, if they can be cili>d men after
the appethy they have sh'.-wn starving
ir.er. women and children, have been putting
JI'I.OCO a year into their pockets as long as
they could. Let the women minister as well
cs tfcp ir.cn, aud get a minister—the friend of
wciLirg men—to present a deputation of
wou.cn to the- Ministry, and if the tJovernment
will not give the men'work at a fair wage let
the females go to the Governor praying him to
dissolve the Parliament at once. Let better
m< n coil* into office. Now men and women
rally together at once in our just cause and do
it calmly but firmly. Let the Government
see tte want work, not charity. Use no |vio-
lence, so that the police will have nothing to
do but look on.—
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