MR MANN ON SOCIALISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9124, 25 June 1908, Page 7

MR MANN ON SOCIALISM.

BY TELEGitAt'H —T'HERS ASSOCIATION. . TIMARU. June 24. Mr Tom Mann, at the conclusion of his Socialis'ic address hers hist night, > replied to Dr Findlay's recent spetch at Wellington. Mr Mann said that Dr Findlay's figures* showing the wages and profits earned in the Dominion at £34,000,000 worked out nt £37 per head of populate, while the average production of the fcrty-two million in the United Kingdom v/orkc.l out nt £45 per head. He declined to believe that New Zealand workers were so inferior to the Hume workers as these figures indicated. Ha did not think Dr Findlay had stated the position fully or fairly. He had given them no basis on which to test his figures, and it was impossible to make top or tail of th,6m.\ The Registrar - General's figures showed the value of the annual production of the Dominion at £4!,000,000, and with a population of nine hundred thousand this worked out at exactly the same average as at Home —\ ii.£4s per head. He preferred to accept these figures i:i preference to those by Dr Findlay, whose desire was to cut the ground from under the feet of the Socialists. Mr Mann denounced the present Cabinet as anti-Socialistic, and Sir Joseph Ward as a private enterprise Premier. Witli regard to land nationalisation, he said this could easily be brought about by a graduated tax of threepence in the shilling fir?t, and further increases of thej same amount every five year?.