The Bay of Plenty Times SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1949. COMMUNIST SET-BACK IN AUCKLAND

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14959, 23 April 1949, Page 2

The Bay of Plenty Times SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1949. COMMUNIST SET-BACK IN AUCKLAND

Willi Communist gunners shelling British •■'warships on the Yaiigtse Hiver and killing aid maiming our kinsmen, whose only concern has been the safety of British nationals unable to protect themselves' in the maelstrom of war, it is appropriate that C-e.ni-munists seeking to maintain their grip on Trade Union affairs in Auckland should have suffered a sound and ignominious defeat. Irrespective of colour a Communist is always a' Communist. Those at present smashing their way across the great Chinese waterway are using high explosive to gain their ends since, apparently, the more subtle methods.which have gained same successes In other parts of the world have proved ineffective in China. What these methods are. was shown by the Member for the Bay of Plenty this week man address.at Mangakino.

“Communism has nothing to offer New Zealand,” said Mr Sullivan. “The whole purpose of Communism is to paralyse industry, create chaos, and -to destroy our freedom. Communists in our country and elsewhere foment strikes, scatter biased propaganda, and teach the people to clamour for something for nothing in order to break the country’s financial structure. They seek to control the domestic policy and attempt to dictate a foreign policy.” Only when such subversive methods fail do they resort to arms, as they have done in China. Mr Sullivan was not exaggerating when he told the workers at Mangakino such home truths. Recently Mr Arthur Deakin, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union revealed the fact that the Communists in Britain had nation-wide plans to. dislocate industry, lie named August as the month when Communists would strike their biggest blow, and claimed that he had definite proof of this Communist plot. The strike.plans, he said, were similar to those which had been - put into operation in France. The object was the same. The instructions which had come from the same source, wore for the magnifying of small grievances to bring about a series of strikes that would have a paralysing effect on industry. As Mr Doidge pointed cut in Hawera the other night, Moscow s influence now extends over the whole length of the eastern Asiatic seaboard. There arc those who would extend it oyer New Zealand as well. The decision of voters in the Auckland Trades Council election is a good indication, however, of what the average New Zealander now thinks of Communists and their ways.