have to
keep the others.'
'The Labour members is sent to the 'Ouse of Commons,' said Harlow, 'and
paid their wages to do certain work for the benefit of the working
classes, just the same as we're sent 'ere and paid our wages by the
Bloke to paint this 'ouse.'
'Yes,' said Crass; 'but if we didn't do the work we're paid to do, we
should bloody soon get the sack.'
Imperial Bankquet Hall
'The Refuge'
on Thursday at 12.30 prompt
Professor Barrington
WILL DELIVER A
ORATION
ENTITLED
THE GREAT SECRET, OR
HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT WORK
The Rev. Joe Philpot PLO
(Late absconding secretary of the light refreshment fund)
Will take the chair and anything else
he can lay his hands on.
At The End Of The Lecture
A MEETING WILL BE
ARRANGED
And carried out according to the
Marquis of Queensbury's Rules.
A Collection will be took up
in aid of the cost of printing
'I can't see how we've got to keep the other members,' said Slyme;
'they're mostly rich men, and they live on their own money.'
'Of course,' said Crass. 'And I should like to know where we should be
without 'em! Talk about us keepin' them! It seems to me more like it
that they keeps us! The likes of us lives on rich people. Where
should we be if it wasn't for all the money they spend and the work
they 'as done? If the owner of this 'ouse 'adn't 'ad the money to
spend to 'ave it done up, most of us would 'ave bin out of work this
last six weeks, and starvin', the same as lots of others 'as been.'
'Oh yes, that's right enough,' agreed Bundy. 'Labour is no good
without Capital. Before any work can be done there's one thing
necessary, and that's money. It would be easy to find work for all the
unemployed if the local authorities could only raise the money.'
'Yes; that's quite true,' said Owen. 'And that proves that money is
the cause of poverty, because poverty consists in being short of the
necessaries of life: the necessaries
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