A POOR RICH MAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1921, Page 5

A POOR RICH MAN.

NO TRUCK WITH COMMUNISTS. London, October 29. Mr. Austin Hopkinson, M.P., was surrounded by uifemployed in the streets of Ashton-under-Lyne, but he refused to discuss the problem unless his auditors were bona fide trade unionists. He said that he had no time for Communists and spongers on the community. All had to make sacrifices to bring back trade. He had lowered his standard of living to the limit. He had even given up his pipe and tobacco, which was hard, to do. He knew how hard it was for the genuine unemployed to see other? swanking in motor-cars. Early in the year Mr. Hopkinson. who is the son of Sir Alfred Hopkin son, a Manchester professor, presented £30,000, a. mansion, and thirty houses to the Audenshow Council, in order relive in a barn. He gave his motor-car to his chauffeur. He is a successful engineering employer. He ” hoped that others would follow his example, believing that willingness to show selfsacrifice would re-establish goodwill and confidence between masters and mon. He established a profit-sharing scheme, under which his own profits diminished as the output increased, and could conceivably disappear altogether.