COMMUNIST PARTY
INTEREST WITH LABOUR “Within a short time the Communist Party of New Zealand will apply for affiliation to the New Zealand Labour Party. The Communist Party does this in the interests of the unity of the working class movement,” says a circular issued by the central committee of the party. “In order to further strengthen unity against the forces of reaction,” the circular adds, the Communist Party “will fully support the Labour Party to prevent any party of capitalist reaction achieving power. . .Prior to 1924 members of the Communist Party were among the most active members of the Labour Party. It was about this time that the leaders of the Labour Party began a campaign of explosion of the Communists from the Labour Party: There was introduced a special pledge, the sum of which was to prevent members of the Communist Party becoming members of the Labour Party....We believe that the time has now come to close this breach ip the ranks and to tills end we apply for affiliation.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12133, 22 September 1936, Page 2
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172COMMUNIST PARTY Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12133, 22 September 1936, Page 2
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