Show WORKMEN the workingmen of belgium have grown exceedingly of late and have threatened a general strike for shorter hours on the first of may recently a deputation visited king LEOPOLD to lay their grievances before him in the course of his remarks the king made use of the following wise words workingmen aro wrong in considering themselves a separate caste we are all belgians in different grades and all workmen those are excellent sentiments and would do much toward to ward solving the labor onit that were lived up to in the sense in which they wore uttered this class distinction in laboring circles is the cause the groat dissatisfaction which wo find today to day A nanual toiler 13 no more a laborer than the brain worker all constitute tha workmen every man has his particular sphere in which he excels and to this ha should apply himself if he is not fit for what might appear to him as a more exalted position cotter labor contented in the position for which he is best adapted so soon as lines are drawn and any honest work receives tho of inferiority then trouble commences all work is respectable that is honest and should BO appear in the eyes of the public all cannot be professional men all cannot be business men all cannot be mechanics each department of our grand civilization must have its boilers toilers and all are workingmen |