THE SYNDICALIST AGITATOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 86, 1 August 1914, Page 4

THE SYNDICALIST AGITATOR.

A correspondent of the Christchurch Press, writing from Capetown on June 22nd says:—Mr Tom Mann is still busily engaged in South Africa prosecuting Jus Syndicalist crusade. His tour, widen nas been arranged by the Railwayznen's Society's executive, will finish at tlie end of July. Speaking at Cape Town on Sunday afternoon, June 21st, Mr Mann said that at present workers inid the terms and conditions under which they were allowed to work dictated to them ; but the_ time was arriving when the men wiio did tiie work would stipulate the terms upon which they would do it. Co-operation was what they had to look forward to. It meant the working, the supervising and controlling of the industries at which they worked; and they would work just so much as would leave no margin of proiit for men to rob them of. The hours which it would be necessary ,to work, when they were no longer making fortunes for their employers, would probably be about six hours per day ; and probably it would be brought down to four hours. Nor did he think they would require to work six days out of the seven. It was thought that four days would be sufficient when all were made to work, and when the profits of trade were no longer a factor. Then, in all probability, they would find it unnecessary to work more titan six months in the year. Nor would they have to wait until they were sixty years of age to receive a pension. That would be forthcoming after 25 years of work.