CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 May 1910, Page 3

CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

WHAT THE WORK ICRS RECEIVE BETTER OFF THAX EVER. fBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT .] (.PER PP-ESS ASSOCIATION.} LONDON', May 5. The Dnlce of Devonshire, in a presidential address to the Iron and Steel "Institute, combat-tu-d the Socialists' assertion that manual workers did not receive a fair share of the wenltli of the eouiutry, inasmuch as they only received foiirpenee out of a shilling's worth fif wealth they created. Out of the total of yearly public expenditure r.f 322 millions sterling, the workers r'e-eeiral edn?a'tion, pensions, municipal trams, housing schemes, libraries, poor law j»l , --''.v. , n" 'f. in a ,1 * I ' , V!r-i to hospital"-' n nd sanatoria. T-f allowance was w'p f-r tl" 1 ?' f:sr»v of '-"r-i-il v."lue *v rke ,-t i v-ru lO'i ner c?"t. L-f----ir;r off nrn\' than in .1800.