UNEMPLOYED ORGANISATIONS.

Auckland Star, Issue 17, 21 January 1932, Page 21

UNEMPLOYED ORGANISATIONS.

Despite anything that "Northern Spy" m far the Communist docs not conJ the Unemployed Workers' Moveit The U.W.M. does believe in lass action" but is not against constitumethods until such time as con■fiSiSri method, fail. What does ■Vorthern Spy" expect of the 9000 unfflployed men (and this number will be nniiderably increased when the usual ,ea=oiial industries close down) at prent ift Auckland, where conditions are | a ,t becoming intolerable? When a ian with a wife and three or more children receives nine days work per sonth at the rate of 12/6 per day, which mounts to the magnificent sum off IV6 Plus 12/6 worth of groceries which le receives on his "off" week under the \'o 5 unemployment scheme, you cannot sped, him to be content. The behaviour / the Government is making more (ommwnists in this country than all the propaganda and literature that ever tame "out- of Moscow. I would like to point out to "Northern Spy that it Us not literature that brought about ite Russian revolution, but the natural outcome of self-preservaticn against the oppression of the ruling classes operating it tue time.'The Labour Defence League h not an offshoot (officially or otherrise) of the U.W.M., but is an international affair, and was in existence a long time before the U.W.M. came into being. "Northern Spy" is. wrong also in bis assertion that the other organisations, known, ks •jiteociiitipns, will not linkup with the U.W.M., for the unemployed branches in Auckland are now one body under one district executive. E. 0. STANFORD BOARDMAN, Hon. Sec., U.W.M., Auckland Branch.