NAVY CLEAN-UP.

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

NAVY CLEAN-UP.

"REDS" WARNED OFF.

Renounce Communist Doctrines

Or Leave Jobs.

ADMIRALTY EDICT.

{United Service.)

LONDON, October 22.

The Government has decided to dismiss all Communists employed at the Woolwich arsenal and Royal dockyards unless they renounce their allegiance to Communist doctrines.

This announcement was made by Lord Stanhope, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, when he was receiving a deputation from the Amalgamated Engineering Union about the dismissal of Percy Glading from Woolwich.

Glading is a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

He was engaged in the ordnance department. He was given the alternative of renouncing his membership of the Com m u nist party or dismissal, and chose the latter. It is understood that the Gov-

ernment's edict was

prompted by re- ] ports of Communist agitations at Portsmouth, DevoDport and Chatham. STALIN'S CREED. Relentless Extirpation Of Oppositionists. MODERATES MUST 60. ("Times" Cables.) LONDON, October 22. The Riga correspondent of the "Times" reports that Stalin, secretary of the Russian Communist party, speaking before the Moscow Disciplinary Tribunal, proclaimed the necessity for the relentless extirpation of those who, in face of the present economic difficulties, demanded a modification of the Soviet's industrial programme.

He said Rykoff's "moderates" most go and the tribunal immediately decided to purge the party of officials who have become "unsteadv."

Six of the party leaders in Moscow have already been dismissed. The central committee of the Communist party, also, has warned the Moscow Communists to beware of leaders "whose true Leninist, convictions falter."

The Stalin section is also sacrificing its wavering leaders at Tiflis, Leningrad and other centres.