Dead Batteries

HIV-AIDS Dept: Written in about 1880, it talks of working hard in this life in return for endless, happy, toil-free days in the next, according to The Chronicle Herald. Tell children scouring waste dumps for bits of plastic and poisonous dead batteries to sell just so they can go to school. And tell a widowed grandmother raising several HIV-AIDS orphans that her swollen feet and aching back will be rewarded in the next life. Work, for the day is coming! the old hymn says. Tell that to labourers working 14-hour-days for meagre wages and no benefits. Talk about a balmy eternity to miners crawling on their bellies in the dark to shave off another slice of rock for the Man. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.