The efficiency of the capitalist systemIs rightly admired by important people.Our huge steel millsOperating at 25 per cent of capacityAre the last word in organization.The new grain elevatorsStored with superfluous wheatCan unload a grain-boat in two hours.Marvellous card-sorting machinesMake it easy to keep track of the unemployed.There isn't one unnecessary employeeIn these textile plantsThat require a 75 per cent tariff protection.And when our closed show factories re-openThey will produce more footwear than we can possibly buy.So don't let's start experimenting with socialismWhich everyone knows means efficiency and waste.
Her travail now overAnd her brood gone far awayThis old woman of fiftyMust go charring at $2 a day.
IIIExpert Advice
Have you ever noticedHow many members of religious ordersWho have taken perpetual vowsOf povertyAnd chastityNow spend their time defending private propertyAnd urging the poor to have large families?
IVComing Home
The Soviet ship from Leningrad to LondonWas called the Co-operation,But to reach democratic CanadaI travelled by the Duchess of Richmond.
VGreat Discovery
In tonight's newspaperThere were two protests:One by an ArchbishopAgainst the spread of communism,And one by an unemployed manWho said his children were sleeping four in a bedTo keep warm.
VIGovernment Help
After the strike beganTroops were rushedTo defend property.But before the trouble startedNobody seems to have botheredTo defend living standards.
VIIIGeneral Election
There is nothing like hard timesFor teaching people to think.By a decisive voteAfter discussing all the issuesThey have turned out the ConservativesAnd put back the Liberals.
