Working conditions for Pickfords carmen

[Fiver]

Fourteen to eight hour workdays, no holidays, etc.

[Herlock Sholmes]

No reasonable time allowance for serial killing then Fiver? Typical of British bosses when there’s no union.

[Fiver]

No reasonable time allowance for serial killing then Fiver? Typical of British bosses when there’s no union.

Or energy. Frankly, I'm amazed he still had enough stamina left to father 11 children.

[PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR 1]

Or energy. Frankly, I'm amazed he still had enough stamina left to father 11 children.

Seriously, though.

With Lechmere apparently working 14 to 18 hours per day, assuming he started work at 4:00 AM, that means he would have finished work at some time between 6 and 10 PM.

If we take the average of the two, that would have him coming home at about 8:30 in the evening.

The fact that the murderer killed five women in 10 weeks suggests he must have done a lot of stalking, biding his time for the right opportunity.

I don't think he was working 14 to 18 hours per day.

I think he was sleeping during the daytime, while Lechmere was working.

[GUT]

No reasonable time allowance for serial killing than there was a Union for the Carmen, and for SKsFiver? Typical of British bosses when there’s no union.

But there was a Union for the drivers, so there must have been one for SKs too, maybe Lech was Chairman of that one.

[MrBarnett]

Fiver has posted this before. It’s a press report describing men attending a late night meeting intended to demonstrate that such men were too tired at the end of their shifts to do anything more than fall into bed.

There are other reports about Pickford’s men that show that their shifts weren’t universally a solid 14/18 hours.

And Fiver keeps insisting that all Pickfords men carried a variety of goods on their carts. Something like that. He’ll let us know if that’s not right.

So presumably no specialisation whatsoever. I can’t recall if he has ever provided a source for that.

[Fiver]

Fourteen to eight hour workdays, no holidays, etc.

Clipping is from The Standard · Monday, June 29, 1891

[Fiver]

Fiver has posted this before.

Wrong. I have mentioned the article, but this is the first time I posted it.

It’s a press report describing men attending a late night meeting intended to demonstrate that such men were too tired at the end of their shifts to do anything more than fall into bed.

Wrong again. In fact, it's almost the complete opposite of what I said.

There are other reports about Pickford’s men that show that their shifts weren’t universally a solid 14/18 hours.

Feel free to provide sources.

And Fiver keeps insisting that all Pickfords men carried a variety of goods on their carts. Something like that. He’ll let us know if that’s not right.

Wrong again. I have pointed out that Pickfords was a general goods service, not a slaughterhouse.

So presumably no specialisation whatsoever. I can’t recall if he has ever provided a source for that.

Proof Reversal and Straw Man - you're giving us two logical fallacies for the price of one.

It should hardly be surprising that I did not offer a source for something I never said.

Getting back to the burden of proof, a couple central tenets of the Church of Lechmere, Unholy Be His Name, are:

* Charles Lechmere drove a meat cart.

* Meat was transported in a way that regularly left meat cart drivers covered in fresh blood.

We're still waiting for evidence of either.

[Ally]

Fourteen to eight hour workdays, no holidays, etc.

Interesting. Thanks for posting this.