Punch (89.1885)

"HARD LINES."

"Richardson's
Show !" Tram-car
performances I

Those of the North
Metropolitan Tram-
cars Co. seem to be
very hard lines. Mr.
Richardson, the
Chairman, did. his
best to show it was
all right—more or
less. But Muster
Richardson's Show
wasn't quite satis-
factory all round as
it might have been,
specially when the
Pall-Mali Gazette
ferret went to work
to get at the truth
about Tram-cars.
Over fourteen hours
a day is a pretty good
dose of it; and, if
this is absolutely
the case, then the
Tram-car man's lot
is not a happy one.
Adapting an old
song of the over-
worked slavey — it
was Caliban who
sang it in a Bur-
lesque, by the Bro-
thers Beocgh, in
The Tempest, before
such liberties taken
with the Bard
shocked the dainty
Critics—the Tram-
car man might well
sing,—

' From morn to night I
workelike winkin'.
Up and down and
turn about,

With scarce 'ard timefor
grub or dnnkin'.
And they seldom lets
me have a Sunday
out."

Let us hope that
this state of things
will rapidly improve,
without injury to the
nine per cent, divi-
dend, and that the
' Rider," to reduce
the hours, and give
the men. more rest,
may be—as riders
should he — carried
by N.M. Tram-car Co.

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' THE TUG OF WAR."

(From a Randolphian point of view. Suggested by Mr. Harding Cox's well-known Picture.)

If the slaves of the Tram-car complain of their
fourteen and a half hours of labour " in the open air "
which their Chairman seemed to consider quite an
attraction, what will be thought of the Jew tailors in
the East End, who, during the busy season, are com-
pelled, according to an article in the P. M. <?., to
work sixteen hours a day, and this in anything but the
open air. They get during this time two pounds a week.
But not afterwards. The " basters " toil from seven

a.m. to midnight. The basters are those who keep
them at it, poor basters! And the " pressers " some-
times earn seven shillings a day, and they work till
midnight too. "We pity the pressers, and should like
to tackle the oppressors.

Suggestion to Social Reformers. — " La pro-
priety c'est le vol." CorollaryProsecution is per-
secution.

Astronomical and Sporting.—Aug. 12. Licen-
sing Day for_Shooting Stars.

New Reading.—Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure
as snow, thou shalt not escape—Caxlan, eh ?

One of Mr. Chamberlain's latest speeches^s very
generally considered as Hull-tra Radical.