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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 October 1924, Page 5

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AND FILL GOAL BUNKERS. BOLSHEVIK’S IDEA. MEANS NOT EXPLAINED. GABLE PRESS ASSOCI ATIOH —COPYRIGHT (Received Oct. 21, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Oct.' 20. Tom Mann, Communist candidate for Nottingham East, wearing a brilliant red enamelled star, the emblem of 80-1-shevirm ? said the workers must pet control of industry and act internationally. The- day would come when instead of sending 2000 men down a mine, they would send twenty, who, aided by new appliances, would get as much coal, as 2000 now obtain. Man, by pressing a button; will work a coal cutter and keep touching buttons until the coal is placed automatically on the screen. This would bring about conditions whereby man would work only four hours dailv, four days weekly, and nine months yearly. The working life would be "limited to- twenty years. He would thereafter retire provided with the standard of comfort he had a right to expect. Men would have their own nice hodses. comfortably furnished, and with unfluctuating incomes, enabling them to get the nice things which they now see onlv in shop windows, but were unable *to buy. “T ou are \” he 3aJ d, ‘‘entitled to these things., friends, and you ought to get thein. n • -