WE SHALL NOT BEAR IT THEN.
W r e shall not bear it when the workers get out of their heads that they are but an. appendage to profit-grinding; that the more profits that are made the more work at higher wages tlie re will be for them, and that therefore all the incredible filth, 'disorder and degradation of modern civilisation are signs of their prosperity. When they are no longer slaves they will as a matter of course that every man and every family should be generously lodged ■ that every child should be able to play in a garden close to where its parents live- that the houses should by their obvious decency and order be ornaments to nature, not disfigurements of it. All this, of course, would mean the people—that is, all society—duly organised, having in their own hands the means of ■ production, to be owned by no individual, but used by all as occasion called for its use; and can only be done on those terms. —W r illiam Morris.
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 36, 10 November 1911, Page 14
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173WE SHALL NOT BEAR IT THEN. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 36, 10 November 1911, Page 14
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