RED RULE FOR U.S.A.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1926, Page 7

RED RULE FOR U.S.A.

WHAT COMMUNISTS HOPE. \ jAEGE SUMS FOR EDUCATION. AIABM AMONG PATRIOTS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.,) ißecplved 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 19. j{r. John Stachel, secretary of the Communist party of America, stated that j t j, e Communists spent almost a million dollars last year in propaganda aimed at the eventual establishment of a Soviet Government for the United States. The money was raised at public meetings and by private subscriptions, and is being used to educate workers in Soviet doctrines, to bring Labour organisations into the ranks of the Communists, and to secure United States recognition of Soviet Russia. The immediate programme of the Communist party includes nation-wide meetings on January 26, nt which honour will be aid to Lenin. jlr. Starhel's statement elicited a declaration made by Mr. Elon Huntingdon Hooker, a prominent publicist and civil engineer, that while the Communists spent 700.000 dollars in 1025 with the object of destroying the American form 0 f Government, the patriotic organisation with which he (Hooker) is connected had difficulty in raising 70,000 dollars for patriotic purposes. Mr. Stachel said Mr. Hooker's figure of 700,000 dollars was an tinder-state-ment.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)