TOM MANN AGAIN
TRADUCES THE COLONICS. A SLAP AT NEW ZEALAND. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received May 15, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, May 14. Tom Mann at a welcome reception declared that the standard of life in Australia was shamefully low. Queensland sugar-workers toiled twelve hours a day for 22s Cd and "tucker" weekly. The South Australian miner worked seven shifts of eight hours, with no holiday.?'. Australia was no El Dorado. He had met scores who regretted ever having gone there. From four and a-half to six per cent, of the employed 'were politicians, New Zealand had no real grasp of economic knowledge or organisation.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 390, 16 May 1910, Page 5
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