SOCIALISM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 158, 25 June 1908, Page 2

SOCIALISM.

TOM MANN ON Dl{. FINDLAY. By 'Telegraph,—Press Association. Tiuiaru, Last Night. Tom -Mann, at the conclusion of a Socialistic address here last night, replied to Dr. Findlny's recent speech at Wellington. Mr. Mann said Dr. Findla/s figures showing the wages and profit earned in the Dominion at £34,000,000, worked out at £.'l7 per head of the population, while tile average production ■of the C 42,000,000 in the I'nited Kingdom worked out at £45 per head. He declined to believe that New Zeal'iml workers were so inferior to faie Ilomj workers as these figures indicated. He did not think Dr. Fmdlay had stated the position fully or fairly. He had given them no basis On which lo test his figures, and it was impossible to make top or tail of them. The Registrar-Gener-al's figures showed the value of the annual production of the Dominion at 41 millions, and with a population of 4)00,000, this worked out at exactly the same average as Home, £45 per head. 110 preterred to accept these in preference to those by Dr. Findlay, whose desire was to cut the ground from under tho feet of the Socialists. Mr. Mann denounced the present Cabinet as anti-So-cialistic, and Sir Joseph Ward as a private enterprise Premier. With regard to land nationalisation, he said this could easily be brought about by a graduated tax of 3d iu tho shilling "first, and further increases of the Bam# amount every fivo years. ,