The County Council, like many employers before them, are learning
that gratitude is not a plant of easy growth. They The County Council, like many employers before them, are learning that gratitude is not a plant of easy growth. They have been, as we sincerely believe, model employers, but their servants are not satisfied. On Sunday last, a meeting was held at Battersea Park gates, under the auspices of " the London County Council Employes' Union," to call attention to their grievances in regard to wages and hours. Mr. Jallop, the secretary, denied the Council's boasted generosity, and declared that the majority of the men considered they were better off under the Metropolitan Board of Works. Why did not Mr. Burns see to it? The ordinary contractors did their work cheaper and better. It was time Mr. Burns understood that be could not sit on two stools any longer. A resolution was then put protesting against the sweating carried on by the Council in all its departments, and demanding an eight- hours day, and a minimum wage of 30s. a week, but was declared not carried. We have no doubt that these alleged grievances are quite baseless, but it is to be hoped that the Council will remember by their own case, that unreasonable grumblers may be found even among those natural angels, the unskilled workmen, and that employers are not always as black as they are painted.
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