MR “TOM” MANN’S HISTORY.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2064, 8 January 1925, Page 3

MR “TOM” MANN’S HISTORY.

o While Mr “Tom” Mann, M.P., who comftstcd the East Nottingham scat at • the recent British election, was pouring down the throats of his working * men the raw and undiluted vodka, of Moscow, the Morning Post pointed out 'that it would be only fair to that 1 constituency to explain the original i' cause of Tom’s quarrel with the 1 “bourgeoisie” and the “capitalist I laws,” which lie now so hotly denounces. Tom was once a “bourgeois” * himself; lie was, in fact, the licensee i of rite Enterprise Public House, 96 Long Acre, and was brought before 1 the Bow Street Magistrate on August i 22, 1901, for diluting his beer. For this crime against the worker Tom was fined £lO and costs; it was nofi a tyrani ideal sentence when we consider that . the Magistrate, in passing it, was protecting the interest) of the proletariat; 1 but from that moment Tom’s soul i seems to have become more bitter than his beer, and he has never forgiven 1 our social system for its defence of the i rights of the workers. From keeping the Enterprise public lie turned to the 1 destruction of enterprise private, and i iti is fair to say of Tom that ho has never since diluted the phials of his 1 wrath.