. London labour and the London poor; a cyclopædia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work . fax, as the saj-ing is. Ifwe are of no fmther use, dont sacrifice, butcompensate us, and let us make the best of it,though we are none of us so young as we were;some are very old, and none are under 40,because no new members have been made forsome years. If a mans house be a hindranceto public business, he must be paid a properprice for it before it can be removed, and soought we. The Palace Court people were compensated, and ought not
. London labour and the London poor; a cyclopædia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work . fax, as the saj-ing is. Ifwe are of no fmther use, dont sacrifice, butcompensate us, and let us make the best of it,though we are none of us so young as we were;some are very old, and none are under 40,because no new members have been made forsome years. If a mans house be a hindranceto public business, he must be paid a properprice for it before it can be removed, and soought we. The Palace Court people were compensated, and ought not we, who workhard for an honest living, and have boughtthe right to work in our portering, accordingto the laws of the city, that secure the gold-smiths in their right of assaying, and all therich companies in jiossession of their landsand possessions ? and so it ought to be withour labciu-. The i^orter-packers have been unknown inthe business of the city for some years; theiravocation in the i^ackinge and shippinge ofstrangers gooddes, having baiely survivedthe expiring of the East India Companyscharter in 1834. The street porters, or men who occupy, or. STREET rORTER WITH KNOT. rr(0»i a FhotoQraph.] LONDON LABOUR AND THE LONDON POOR. mi rather did occupy (for they are not nowalways to be found there,) the priuciijal bu-siness parts of the citj, are of course ticket-porters, and by the law have exclusive lightof all porterage by hire from aliens orforeigners in the streets, (a fi-eeman mayemploy his o-n-n servant), even to the carryingof a parcel of the burden of which any onemay wish to reKeve himself. They usuall},but not always, wear white aprons, and displaythen- tickets as badges. They do not coufluethemselves to the streets, but resort to thewharfs in the fruit or any busy season, and tothe meat and fish-markets, whenever theythink there is the chance of a job, and thepreference, as is not unfrequently the case,likely to fall to them, for they are knownto be trusty and
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