THE AUSTRALIAN MENACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 259, 2 November 1931, Page 6

THE AUSTRALIAN MENACE.

Perhaps there is one good thing about the shipping strike in Australia, maddening though the trouble must be to all good Australians. It shouldonake it clear at last even to the blindest that the Communist movement is a real menace to Australian society. This has long been plain to many observers; one has not to go further for evidence than the ascendancy of Mr. Garden at the Sydney Trades Hall. • But in this shipping strike Communism, so to speak, comes out into the open and dances a war dance naked. There is no pretence even that this is an ordinary industrial dispute. The original cause of it is a man known to be a Communist, who, according to . the secretary of the Stewards' Union, has been to sea only eleven xlays in nine years. This agent of Moscow has been denounced as such by the Labour , Prime Minister. The men who have decreed and sought to extend the strike are avowed Communists, wearing the badge of revolution, talking its jargon, and practising its tyranny." The whole thing is a deliberate attempt to stir up class Avar in the interests of Communism, and if the Australian public does not now recognise this peril in its midst it-does not deserve much sympathy. ■