COMMUNIST PLANS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 26

COMMUNIST PLANS.

REVEALED AFTER RAID. GREAT STRIKE AVERTED. "BEGINNING OF THE OFFENSIVE." (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, September ,12. Plans for a hold-up on the waterfronts of the capital cities of Australia were revealed when police found documents in a raid on Communist party headquarters in Adelaide last Saturday. Only repudiation of the Communists' moves by union officials in Sydney and Melbourne prevented the- trouble. ;. 1 '"' It is an open secret that the Communist party engineered the recent strike among waterside workers-in Adelaide, in which police were forced to use their batons and revolvers to disperse the mobs which threatened volunteer workers on the wharves there. • ■

Following several clashes between police and unemployed wharf labourers at Adelaide, the police raided the Communist party oliices and confiscated papers, disclosing the existence of the' plot to embroil the waterside workers of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in the trouble. Among the papers discovered were.some giving the details of the sectors and divisions of the various States for the purposes of industrial agitation, -while the names of the "control commissions" for the various.sectors were also learned. It was also revealed that these districts committees were pledged to carry out the orders of the central executive in Sydney "without hesitation." -t '■• . . '..'; ,

The plans provided also for the formation of "intelligence corps," designed to make contact with the workers in their districts and stir- up industrial revolution among unemployed.

When questioned about the. police raid and the subsequent disclosures, the Australian secretary of the Communist party, whose headquarters are in Syd-

nev, "said: "Ihe Adelaide fight is the beginning of |be .couiiter : offensive against capitalism, and that offensive will spread to every city, to the country and to the farmers. The Adelaide strikers arc acting under our,orders, and are. following our instructions in forming rank-amUfile committees." .

Officials of the Waterside, Workers' Federation and the Seamen's Unions dissociated themselves with the movement entirely, they declared, and repudiated a meeting called for "rank and file" in Svdnev. .*' '.':, ~ ■

By the disclosures made after the raid, the efforts to embroil Sydney or Melbourne, unions in the Adelaide trouble Avero frustrated." /~