*THE WORKER* Brisbane, October 19, 1895. Mail Bag.

 *THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, OCTOBER 19, 1895.

Mail Bag.

WANTED – (to prepare the way for Socialism in our time)

One Adult One Vote.

Land Tax.

Income Tax.

State Bank.

Shops and Factories Act.

Eight hours day where practicable.

Referendum and Initiative.

Taxation of every person according to ability to pay.

The State to find work for unemployed.

The State to fix a minimum wage.

Free Railways.Free administration of Justice.

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The WORKER does not hold itself responsible for the opinions of its correspondents.

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P. M’L. -  Thank you.

W. FOTHGILL. - Thanks.

OLD BATTER. - writes in praise of the work being done by the A.L.F. organiser in the Charleville district.

STIFF’UN. -  We have every hopes that Mr. D. Bowman will be able to visit the whole of the bush districts at some time or other.

MOT. - 1. Yes, they can make application at the November Revision Court. 2. Your letter has been referred to the political executive.

J. P. of Northampton, complains that copies of the WORKERS are not sent to subscribers but are retained by a person who has no business to detain them.

J. G. - Those are matters which had better be thrashed out at the union meetings or at the shed. Publications in the WORKER will only cause friction. Thanks for good wishes and support towards the Enlargement Fund.

No. 1519. -  See WORKER Enlargement Fund: Subscriptions by the Welltown shed hands, £2; Welltown shearers, £5 6s. 8d. This money was posted on the 7th October but not received until the WORKER containing yours of 1st October was published.

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ED. WORKER, - The  domestic servants seem to have as hard times  at Mackay as the men. At the few hotels I’ve put up in I noticed the servants were at work from 6 a.m. to 20 or 11 p.m., and on inquiry the girls all tell the same tale. After tea they have to do mangling, ironing, and repairing of clothing, or leave. Cannot the working men alter that for their sisters and help along the cause? - Yours &c., OBSERVER.

ED. WORKER, - The P.U. ‘94 agreement, clause 12, reads: “No shearer or shearer’s employ’e shall bring or cause to be brought any intoxicating liquor on to the station.” If  the shearer breaks this rule he promptly gets the sack, but the local rum-seller, who happens to be a female, sends over a case of grog at the finish with object of bringing the shearers to drink the money they earn at her shanty. The squatter winks at this kind of thing, simply because he is an interested party Women again! - Yours, &c., TARPOT.

ED. WORKER, - I used to be surprised at the present Government passing such a measure of State Socialism as the Sugar Works Guarantee Bill, but now I can see the meaning as all the land in the vicinity of the Central mills belong to landgrabbers, other singly or in syndicates. Before those mills came into operation the grabbers could not sell it at 10s. an acre, but as soon as a central mill is guaranteed they sell it to would-be farmers at from £5 to £10 per acre, while others again charge a royalty of 1s. per ton on all cane grown. Just fancy a rent of from 10s. to £3 per acre per annum; and then we say we are settling the people on the land. We are, but at what a price! - Yours, &c., OBSERVER, Mackay.