TOM MANN AGAIN.
AUSTRALIA CONDEMNED
Beceived May 15, 5 p.m. CAPETOWN, May 14
Mr Tom Mann, the English Socialist, at a welcome and reception, declared that the standard of li?e in Australia was shamefully low. In Queensland sugar workers toiled 12 hours a day for 223 6d and tucker weekly. In South Australia a miner worked seven shifts of eight hours with no holidays. Australia was no El Dorado, and be had met scores who regretted ever having gone there. Only from 4J to 6 per cent of the population were employed. The politicians also, in New Zealand had no real grasp of economic knowledge or, organisation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10045, 16 May 1910, Page 5
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107TOM MANN AGAIN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10045, 16 May 1910, Page 5
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