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Show SOCIALIST EDITOR FROM SOUTH AFRICA WILL LECTORE HERE The South Africa 'governmental and business machinery, like tt mining machinery. ma-chinery. Is ail of the latest types and not hampered by traditions of centurtes. and that therefore more -advanced stage of civilisation can be found on the "dark continent" than In many other places Is the opinion of A. Crawford, who is tour-in the world on a studv of social snd political conditions, and will speak at Federation of Iabor hall tomorrow nlerht at 9 o'clock, Mr. Crawford should know aomethlnc about condition In South Africa, for he Is editor of Journal called the Voice of Labor, at Johannesburg, has run for the South African parliament, served three year on the Johannesbursr city council as the onlv Socialist member ever on that body. He wa elected on the Union Labor ticket by a large majority. Btnee leaving Johanneabur;. be has visited vis-ited Tasmania.4 New Zealand. Australia. Vancouver, B. C-. Heat tie. and other coast towns of the United States, and 1 now on his way to Kansas City. From there he will ao to Leondon. Scotland, to Denmark, and other countries on the continent, and thenc back to South Africa by way of , the Sues canal. "The Rand.' he say. ha about one hundred mllea. in Ita fifty ml lee or mining ridge, and Uieyre dominated by about alx persons. Twenty-Bve year ago thla output waa praetlcally nil: twenty year ago tt waa I par cent of the world'e output; out-put; at the time of tha Boer war 24 per cent, and now It la 4t per cant. "The Industries ar commencing In trust style, and there le no attempt there to 'bust' the trust. There Is the mining trust : an electrical trust, which may be bought by the government after twenty Kara at actual cash valuation, haa just en formed: there are the coal trust, meat truat. dynamite truat. and even some big land trust, area of 1. 400 000 acres In the poaeeealoa of one company being not uncommon, - , "Railways and many other public ear-vice ear-vice companlaa are owned by the government govern-ment or municipalities. In fact. Johannesburg Johan-nesburg may b eatd to be the leading city In tha world in municipal ownership. "Wa hav our- probl.ms, too. and our race problem la euch ae to make that of tha United Statee seem trivial. In South Africa, there are aboat 1.000.004 whites and 7.066.000 black a or 'colored' men, ae w call wha you bans call mulatto. "South Africa haa developed with Immense Im-mense rapidity since the Bosr war. and the funny thing about It la that capital there Jiaa supported and fostered many conditions that capital here la futhttna." Mr. Walker will talk tomorrow night on industrial development of South Africa, wallura of "palliatives- In New Zealand, end how tbe Auatrauaa labor government smashes strike. , |