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Show tit. urt-t in rut "i. As wss to be expected only II was expeclod earlier-Superintendent Itvan coRHStothe defense of the strei t laborers lab-orers srokcuofln Saturday's N'rMS In h communication to the Triium this morning Mr. Jlyan shows that fomo of the men's muscles nro soil, thst their bands ate bllsleri.d, that the tamilng tar Is heavy, the )ll sticky andthe work real hard, none of which Is denied. He alto says II Is a cainol making haste slowly, which Is qulle Incontrovertible. Thoso who have thus been ut to labor and wait In thu last ten days ll e, we are In-formod, In-formod, men who have been recommended recom-mended to him because of the dettliii-lion dettliii-lion of their families or men working out their water niseismouls, and this will not bo disputed becauio wo don't know what percentage of the force was ut on during that lltne; not every large one, wo us rrl, arid will ask the superintendent to candidly n lvlse us of thteu things: Are not tho rnourlty of those thus at work men who are either slnglo or havu no family here? Aro they not mainly men who were under an engagement, ex rcss or Implied, to the oily before the lime spokm of? Is not fisltytothe Liberal party an Indispensable Indis-pensable 1 rerciultltr, and about the only one, to obtaining such employment employ-ment at all? Mr, Ilyan's suggestion that the editor of the N 1 w a and ether "kickers" tako oil tlit Ir coats and work "In the trenchrs" for an hour to see how It gois would bo apt and timely wtru It not for the fact that the Niua nnd the other people spoken ol are doing their lull share toward knpluK up thu fund out of which tho working men and Mr. Ityau also aru puld. It Is hardly fair to ntk ua to supply the aluews of war and our own sinews too Is II, now? |