... THE LABOUR PIONEER No. 6. Echoes from the @tuxil Chamber. By a Councillor. THE ARMY VETERANS IN CARDIFF. In the Workhouse and out of it--but in decrepitude and want. A fund was raised by a.military display in the Sophia Gardens, in 1896, for the relief ...

... pound of flesh they are denied access to the means of production, and are left to choose between starving in or out of the workhouse. Such is the freedom of the worker. ...

... ABOLISH THE PAUPER GARB. No wonder people are horrified at the mention of the workhouse, and rightly so. Among other things, just look at the ugly uniform which they are compelled to wear. Is there anything so disgusting ? How miserable the men look ; ...

... sang Mona with great effect. The Chairman, with much feeling and in a dramatic manner, recited Christmas Day in the Workhouse, and was accorded hearty applause. Mr. Mitchell in his vivacious manner created much enthusiasm with his splended rendering ...

... Born in Bristol in 1872, he was left homeless when only seven years of age. The pext six years were spent in the Wellington Workhouse, which he left to enter farm fife. In 1891 he settled down in Cardiff, where in the following year he became an employe of ...

... direct help of the sick and afflicted poor. When poor is mentioned it is always the destitute poor that is meant. There are Workhouse Hospitals, but . the workman in our workshops, the clerks i in our offices, the assistants in our shops are comparatively ...

... generous people. Remember, however, that half the workers who reach the age of sixty-five have to end their days in the workhouse. • The Carlylian Club is perhaps the one Institution in Cardiff where all parties, religious and political---meet on equal ...

... Westminster, and disdainfully curl his lip at the twaddle; he would pass swiftly through the slums, and come sadly out of the workhouses. Then he would hastily pack his portmanteau, and, as he took a last look at our shores, would probably say.— Britain is ...

... next general election. We hope the councils will respond. Our aged and infirm must be cared for. A better home than the workhouse must be provided for those who, after years of struggle—battling with adverse surroundingshave now reached the sunset of ...

... acres all to himself, In England and Wales during 1897, 72,900, or about one in eight of the population, died either in a workhouse, an infirmary, an hospital, or an asylum. In London the proportion is one in four. One in eleven of the working-class are ...