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ho have work pay six
shillings a week to their brother engineers who can find nothing to do;
514000 textile workers oppose a resolution condemning the employment
of children under fifteen. Womenand plenty to spareare found to toil
under the sweat-shop masters for tenpence a day of fourteen hours.
Alfred Freeman crawls to muddy death because he loses his job. Ellen
Hughes Hunt prefers Regent's Canal to Islington Workhouse. Frank
Cavilla cuts the throats of his wife and children because he cannot find
work enough to give them food and shelter.
The unfit and the unneeded I
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forgottendying in the social shambles. The progeny of prostitution--of
the prostitution of men and women and childrenof flesh and bloodand
sparkle and spirit; in briefthe prostitution of labour. If this is the best
that civilisation can do for the humanthen give us howling and naked
savagery. Far better to be a people of the wilderness and desertof the
cave and the squatting- placethan to be a people of the machine and the
Abyss.
THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS
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CHAPTER XXV--THE HUNGER
WAIL
My father has more stamina than Ifor he is country-born.
The speakera bright young East Enderwas lamenting his poor
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