Toiling sixteen hours a day, and for precious little pay,
Seems a blend of prison labour and starvation,
Yet I do hear some suggestion that the "burning Labour Question"
Is the one that mainly agitates the nation!
No Trades Unions have we, and I do not rightly see
How "Co-operative Wholesales" help our like,
Who must slave in sun or shine, cramped and chilled in the salt brine,
With the choice of sheer starvation if we "strike."
Labour Questions? Well, here's one. When the I. L. P.'s have done
A-wrangling and a-jangling o' th' Election;