DUKE AND PEOPLE
DUKE THINKS PEOPLE WELL OFF. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received May 5, 11.35 p.m. London, May 5. The Duke of Devonshire, in his presidential address at the annual meeting coin-batted the Socialists' assertion that manual workers did not receive a fair shire of the wealth of the country, in- ; .much as they received only fourpence out of 'the shillingsworth of wealth they created. The Duke of Devonshire stated that a general advance in wages and a decline in the price of commodities since 1860 represented a great improvement. Out of the total pearly public expenditure of £322,000.000 sterling the workers received education, pensions, municipal trams, housing schemes, libraries poor-law allowances, in addition to hospitals and sanatoria. If due allowance was made for these forms of social value the workers were a hundred per cent 'better off now than in 1869.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 382, 6 May 1910, Page 5
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142DUKE AND PEOPLE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 382, 6 May 1910, Page 5
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