BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1924, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

CANDIDATE’S HARD LUCK. {Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, October 20.

While Mr Aeklaud, the Liberal can<l idato for Tiverton, was reading a. lesson in Cliureh he was summoned to Jiis home at Kellerton Park where a lire had destroyed eight rooms, including his study. All his election papers and correspondence was lost. 'I he damage is £IO,OOO.

ON EASY STREET

TOM MANN'S SCI IKM I'

(Received this day at 9.15 a.m.)

LONDON, October 20

Mr Tom Mann, Labour candidate for Nottingham east, wearing a brilliant red enamelled star, the emblem ot Bolshevism, said the workers must get control of industry and act internationally. The day would come when, instead of sending two thousand men down a mine, they would send twenty who, aided by new appliances, would get as much coal as the two thousand now obtain. A man, by pressing a button, will work a coal cutter and keep touching the buttons until the coal was placed automatically in a screen.

This would bring about conditions whereby man would work only four hours daily fur four hours weekly for nine, months yearly, his working life being limited to twenty years. lie would therefore, retire, provided with a standard of comfort that ho lias a right to expect. The workers would have their own nice houses, comfortably furnished, unlliiotuating im nines, enabling them to get the nice things which they now sec in the shoo windows, hut •which they were unable to luiv. “You are entitled to these things, friends and you ought to get them,” concluded Mr Mann.