31/35 Workmen are a reckless set, and a dirty set; food has no business in any place of theirs, where poison is going. What the workmen might do. Demand from the masters these improvements I have suggested, and, if the demand came through the secretaries of their Unions, the masters would comply. They might drink less and wash their bodies with a small part of the money so saved: the price of a gill of gin and a hot bath are exactly the same; only the bath is health to a dry-grinder, or tile-cutter; the gin is worse poison to him than to healthy men. The small wet-grinders, who have to buy their grindstones, might buy sound ones, instead of making bargains at the quarry, which prove double bad bargains when the stone breaks, since then a new stone is required, and sometimes a new man, too. |