FEDERATED TRADE UNIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 8 April 1925, Page 5

FEDERATED TRADE UNIONS.

! CONFERENCE IN ENGLAND. THE RUSSIAN INFLUENCE. LONDON, April 7. Behind closed doors representatives of British and Russian trade unions mot to-day to discuss ways and means of facilitating the affiliation of the Russian unions to the Amsterdam International Federation of Trades Unions. M. Tojnsky, the president of the AllRussian Trades Union Council, drew attention to the ever-increasing (strength of organised capitalism under which, he said, the workers wore overworked, underpaid, and prevented from realising the ideals of a better social system. Russian trade unionists, said M. Tomsky, could ;iot accept the decision of the recent conference at Amsterdam by which the Russian unions could only be admitted to the conference when they had applied for affiliation with the International Federation of Trades Unions, lie urged a free and unfettered international discussion. The British representatives will reply to-morrow. — (Reutor.)

According to Sir Lymler Maeassey Communism isT the siiine throughout the world. It draws everywhere its hatred and lust for destruction of the Constitution, society, and Christianity, from a r-oinmon root in pagan Moscow. The British Communist isas sworn to destroy religion as the Russian or American Communist. He has had to subscribe without reservation to Buharin's thesis, officially promulgated by Comintern. "It is the task of the party,"' says Buharin, "to impress firmly upon the minds of the workers, even upon t'.-e I most backward, that religion Jias been rin the" past and still is to-day, one of the most powerful means at the disposal of the oppressors for the maintenance of : inequality, exploitation, and slavish I obedience on the part of the toilers. Many weak-kneed Communists reason as follows: —'.Religion does not prevent my being a Communist. I believe both in ■ God and in Communism. My faith in 1 diod does not hinder mc from fighting for the cause of the proletarian revolution.' This train of thought is radically false. Religion and Communism are in--1 compatible, both theoretically and practically." i British Communists, true to their oath Ito Comintern, are plotting and conI spiring against and working to destroy by I force the British Constitution. In the '•Manual of Tarty Training. Plans and Organisation of the Communist Party of Great Britain," page 23, this is the Communist's declared duty towards the I State:—

(1) To expose its real nature. (2) To undermine its authority

(:?) Ultimately to destroy it

Tim British Communist need not say by force: Comintern has said it for him, and he has sworn his fealty to Comintern's declaration.

"No silly reliance,' , says Comintern, 'Van lie placed on the ballot as the effective ■wsapon for the capture of political power; no reliance on the allHufficiency of the general strike; the real Communist avails himself of every weapon to strike a blow at capitalism, hut with the firm conviction that the final onslaught on the enemy's stronghold will not be with ballots, but with bullets; not by folding arms in a general refusal to work, but by a mass attack on the part of labour, led by experienced Communists inured to the idea of sacrifice and trained to battle by constant skirmishes with the enemy in the everyday struggle of the workers. ,.

British Communists, too, under direction from Moscow, are prostituting the liberty allowed them by the British Constitution, to sow sedition and rebellion and dissatisfaction with authority among the Army and Navy, local labour parties, unemployed organisations, trade unions, and every other "association of the masses,"' so as to convert them into "in- ; struments of revolutionary struggle" and '"organisations for the enforcement for the dictatorship of the proletariat. ,, Comintern's scheme is to form within these bodies either "nuclei"—namely, groups of Communists working inside them, and responsible only to Comintern, or "fractions" —groups whose members are permitted to be treacherously responsible to those who elect or employ them, hut who are required primarily to be answerable only to Comintern. Tn this treasonous campaign British Communists are engaged in fomenting every social unci industrial grievance they can unearth. Their duty to Moscow is to inflame the wound, provoke its suppuration, and spread the poison. The hour has surely struck for resolute Government action against these enemies of and conspirators against our liberty. our civilisation, our religion. They are, unhappily,, making headway in ' their ■treacherous and treasonous work of poisoning all the fountains of our national life. It is no time for "fearful hearts and faint hands." Public opinion will support, any action the Government may take, and Parliament will pass any necessary lesrislation. "Salve populi — suprema lex"' is to-day as true as in ihe time of Cicero. The Home Secretary needs no persuasion and his vigorous views are rcasstirinar.