How do you account for that?
And then, again, I had another man employed as a watchman and roller coverer, at 18s.

a-week.

I found that I couldn't afford to keep him on at 18s., so I offered him 15s.

a-week; but he left it, and went to work on the moor at 1s.

a-day; and, just now, I want a man to take his place, and cannot get one." Another said, "I am only giving low wages to my workpeople, but they get more with me than they can make on the moor, and yet I cannot keep them." I heard some other things of the same kind, for which there might be special reasons; but these gentlemen admitted the general prevalence of severe distress, and the likelihood of its becoming much worse.
At two o'clock I sallied forth again, under convoy of another member of the Relief Committee, into the neighbourhood of Messrs Horrocks, Miller, and Co.'s works.