THE INTERNATIONAL MAUN. I

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 250, 21 October 1924, Page 5

THE INTERNATIONAL MAUN. I

VISIONS IN COAL. LONDON, October 20. Mr. Tom Mann, Socialist candidate for Nottingham East, wearing a brilliant red-enamelled star, emblem of Bolshevism, addressed a meeting at which he said the workers must get control of industry and act internationally. The day would come when, instead of sending two thousand men down a mine, they would send twenty, who, aided by new appliances, would get as much coal as 2000 now obtain. A man oppressing a button would work a coalcutter, and keen touching buttons until the coal was placed automatically on a screen. This \vould bring about conditions whereby man would work only four hours daily, four days weekly, and nine months yearly. Man's working life would be limited to twenty years, and he would thereafter retire, provided with the standard of comfort lie had a j right to expect. The workers, continued the visionary, I would have their own nice houses, com- ! fortnblv furnished, and have unfluctuating incomes, enabling them to get nice things which they now saw only in shop windows but were unable to buy. "You are entitled to these things, friends, and ought to get them," he concluded.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) j ===== j