TOM MANN.
HIS OPINIONS, ON NJ^v 7 ZEALAND,
(Received 9.30 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, this day.
Hr Tom Mann, the labour leader, *vho has arrived here from New Zealand, was welcomed at the Trades Hall.
Interviewed, he said: "I would not fare to express myself very fully Vrith regard to some phases of life fa New Zealand, but, speaking industrially, I would be exceedingly glad to find the same condition of things at Home. If any man at Home were to ask me about the place.,l should Bay: You receive fifteen shillings more *re*.kly for an hour a day less work. Of that fifteen you: spend half, because of the higher cost of living. That leaves you a margin of 7/6, for $_ hour a day less work."
Mr Mann speaks in high commeneatioh of the New Zealand Arbitration Act.
(Received 9.42 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, this day
After his welcome in the Trades If all, Tom Mann attempted to address a meeting in the interest of a labour candidate, but the supporters of the rival labour candidate prevented him.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 232, 30 September 1902, Page 3
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