INFANT SOCIALISTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 105, 27 January 1908, Page 3

INFANT SOCIALISTS.

.". During a" recent visit-to Melbourne, f'Jlrs. : Molyneux- Parlies of : Sydnoy■ attended .the. Socialist Sunday. School held by Mr.' Tom Mann, an'd in tho last ji'ssue ofc the-I'Monthly' Record' of-.' th'oV Liberal League of N.S.W\" ; are'dcscrib'edi' The Following, passages, appear ;in v tho'report . "There, were so'nio 70 or - 8U childrefi' present. • Mrs. Parlies said they appeared'to bo ' amongst the most"'intelligent, - best- dressed, and best.behaved Sunday school cHildrbn sho had evermet.'. (It is .to bo'hoped that their behaviour will always remain as irreproachable). They VForq' divided into groups, each group haying a red' shield . inscribed with the namo'of some w.cll-|inbwn socialist. Mr; Tom Mann giro Mrs/Parkes permission to enter: his class; -.arid she sat next' to/ two girls with,' pretty, 'Madonna 'faces, and listened to some of the exposition: of - tl)o economic systems, of the different ages from tho socialistic point of. viow. Before tho lessons, tho children repeated the .'Commandments,' . vrhich> wcrb of : Mr.. Tom Mann's own composition,' it is. pre'suined... rAt'.any rato they were very different'from tho Old Testament Commandments.: Socialistic 'songs v.-ero sung in the manner of hymns. Tho 'Socialist Song Book,' fijojn which the children aro taught, contains 28 songs. We will quoio two verses from No. 27, 'When tho revolution comes'' Tho knavo who lives in idleness By plundering his neighbour . Shall learn to., uso tho pick, and spade,' And live by honest,.labour. V.' . - That robbers' -faction'':styled tho-.law, To frighten 'honest--folks, -sirs, . • We'll set ablaze arid; f uniiga.to ,V.'.' .. The country' with: the smoke,! sirs." •'