wherein lead poisoning is encountered. Her father
and brother were both out of employment. She
concealed her illness, walked six miles a day to and
from work, earned her seven or eight shillings per
week, and died, at seventeen.

Depression in trade also plays an important part
in hurling the w r orkers into the Abyss. With a
week s wages between a family and pauperism, a
month s enforced idleness means hardship and
misery almost undescribable, and from the ravages
of which the victims do not always recover when
work is to be had again. Just now the daily papers
contain the report of a meeting of the Carlisle
Branch of the Docker s Union, wherein it is stated
that many of the men, for months past, have not
averaged a weekly income of more than $1.00 to
$1.25. The stagnated state of the shipping indus
try in the port of London is held accountable for
this condition of affairs.

To the young working-man or working-woman, or
married couple, there is no assurance of happy or
healthy middle life, nor of solvent old age. Work
as they will, they cannot make their future secure.
It is all a matter of chance. Everything depends
upon the thing happening, the thing with which
they have nothing to do. Precaution cannot fend
it off, nor can wiles evade it. If they remain on
the industrial battlefield they must face it and take

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