A CRUEL HOAX ON UNEMPLOYED LABOURERS
... A CRUEL HOAX UNEMPLOYED LABOURERS. In Friday'* newspapers an advertisement appeared as follows— *' Labourers Wanted : sober, steady men; v»ages. 22s a week. Apply one o'clock sharp, this day, at O'Hara's, 24 Fleet street. City. On Saturday, before the hour mentioned, about 1500 labourers turned up at Fleet street, the premise?: used for billiard rooms. Serjeant (7 came on the scene, and ...