MR “TOM” MANN’S HISTORY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 December 1924, Page 8

MR “TOM” MANN’S HISTORY.

While Mr. “Tom” Mann, M.P., who contested the East Nottingham seat at the recent British election, was pouring down the throats of its working men the/raw and undiluted vodka of Moscow/ the Morning Post pointed out that it would lie only fair to that constituency to explain the original cause of Toni’s quarrel with the “bourgeoisie” and the “capitalist laws” which he now so hotly denounces. Tom was once a “bourgeois” himself; ho was, in fact, the licensee of the Enterprise public-house, 96 Long Acre, and was brought before the Bow Street. Magistrate on August 22, 1901, for diluting his beer. For tin's ori:v<-> against the. worker Tom was fined ,£lO and costs; it wn.s not a tyrannical-sen-tence when we consider that the iffagistrate in passing it was protecting the interests of the proletariat; but from that moment Toni’s soul seems to have become more bitter than hi.s beer, and he lias never forgiven our .social system for its defence of the rights of the workers. From keeping the Enterprise public he tprned to the destruction of enterprise private, and it is,fair to say of Tom.that he has never sinee*dilutod the phials of his wrath.