ECONOMIC LEGISLATION

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1914, Page 8

ECONOMIC LEGISLATION

■♦ ADDRESS BY MR. W. T. MILLS. In the presence of a large audience at The King's Theatre last. night, Mr. W. T. Mills, under the auspices of the Social Democratic Party, delivered an address on "Economic Legislation." The Chairman, Mr. C. H. Chapman, made the announcement, prior to the address, that three hundred more members had been secured for the party during the past four weeks. Mr. Mills said that to ensure legislation in the interests of the workers a complete reorganisation of nolitical parties was necessary. By a proper legislative programme they could esfcape industrial disturbances and deliver themselves from industrial injustice. The only party fighting for a live programme, ho contended, was the Social Democratic Party. The speaker referred to the return of eighty Socialist to the Italian Parliament, and to the progressive legislation inspired, he said, by the former Socialist Party. He advocated public ownership of banks, steamship lines, and market places. Poverty was in the world, he claimed, because not a wheel was allowed to turn unless the private exploiter got a large share for himself. About the only answer that was received when democratic legislation was aske3 for was that it was sought by foreigners. Insurance, banking, and steamship companies were mostly owned abroad — in Germany, England, and America, and a large share of the squatters' capital was also foreign.