"Day-labor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... position of the Public Works Department must be much the same as the Sultan of Turkey's—no money, no friends. And no wonder! It drained the State of all spare cash for the edification of its day-labor joss, and is about to pawn the State to foreign money lenders for more. Being now on its absolute uppers, the Public Works Department is handing over work to a private syndicate to be carried out ...
— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor |
