SOCIALISM FAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 251, 23 October 1928, Page 7

SOCIALISM FAILS.

WORKERS AT FAULT.

Australia's Experiences Of Nationalisation.

MUCH MOSCOW MONEY.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 11 a.m.)

LONDON, October 22.

Dr. Haden Guest, in an article in the "Daily Telegraph," expresses the opinion that Socialism has failed in Australia.

Nationalised sugar mills have been denationalised in Queensland because, aa a prominent leader of the Labour party told him, the men would not work properly for a Government concern.

After denationalisation the men's efficiency increased 30 per cent. Labour Governments in Australia liad given up Socialism, but tlic most active revolutionary minority with a strong influence in trade unions had not done so yet, but even here a great change had occurred during the year. _ This was exemplified in Air. Tom Walsh's action. • ' There was little doubt that a lot of

Moscow money was finding its way into jt Australia. It was Australian Labour tliat made migration to Australia so jyi difficult.

Leslie Haden Guest, author, journalist and doctor, served in the Great War under the French Red Cross and on returning to England in 19i8 he entered politics, In the same year lie contested the seat for Central Southwark, London, in the Labour interest. Ho was Parlia-

mentary private secretary to the Minister -'•of Health in 1924. He was Labour member for North Southwark 1923-27, but re--signed from the Labour party in March, B 1927, on a disagreement over the China |j policy. He supported the Government in ;'v the sending of troops, but was defeated /at the by-election in March, 1927. Ho was a member of the Empire Parliamen;<ary Delegation to New Zealand and rat Canada in 1925.