RED TERROR.
ENEMIES OF TRADE UNIONS. r MK HAYELOCK IVILSOMS DISCLOSURES. .riuu uw» o*l ceuunivut ; LONDON. October 15. Mr HmeWL AYilsou, president of the Nuiiomil Sailors' and Fireiaeu* Vnion. -»tu> lias just returned iroui Canada and the United statu*, has been impressed by the menace of i'oiumuiti>ni in those and other countrii"?. "1 havu met many public iueu,"' b-j :» reported ui raying by the "Murmur Post," ••including member* of Parliament of all parties, who. »hen tho question of the danger of the Cosuniuni>L movement has been mentioned by me, ba-vo laughed the idej» to so»:rn, muintaitiinv: that they had uie con ride :uv in the l>riti>h working U is, of enirse. orrvct to b.v->' «■>•!*ndemv iu your fell- w-muuU;•::-.:-. bv. when yo't Lave a gait* ■■:■< hooligan.- :- - i'--in>-; deli!>orato !";ds> hoods doy iy \*r and every 4 ?ntuhy it tho sircct :orners and in the j.iiblw pnrk*. i-nnabcr* of the poopio will eventually come t.» the conclusion that. tboro may by &or».*tbin.T in what tie- Communists •*'!> them. ••One of t Loir jvt .- "n«nie* has "•«.''* either in d:>pture- or destroy tbv Seamen's [nion. They hav made pcr*on~l attacks i.n me beeui; eof my patriotism during the war. and t.>r thi> th«» Ue»U have, never forgiven inc. Destruction of British Shipping. 'One of their objectives is to destroy British shipping, though they do not s.»>* «o openly. They talk eJbout wage* and try U> impress our seafaring men that they are. the lowest paid of worker*. I hoy entirely overlook tho fact that m foreign countries wages axe i early l>cr cent, below ours, and that foreign. ships -which pay low wages are carrying cargoes from British ports winch. under oqnal condition*, would be carried by British vessels. With the Commnnist* that is a matter of mere detail. When they point to tho 'millions of pctutdV being made by shipownerw. it ia necessary only to look at the stock and share lists, and also call attention to the- fact, that during the last tW© years a larg* number of shipping firms have bob* into liquidation. "The Communists should rewire th* First Order of Merit for telling Kea fey way of propaganda. Their Daily JftWletin, issued in Now York, tdb seamen of tho thousands of ships tied! «p all over the work! owing to to* strike. and gives a list of somo thirty Ttaasat k*M tip in Now York in oonaeqaew* of tt* crows having quit their stripe for *«. advance of wages. Many of tie skips referred to are thousands of miles a*sy. Tho Leviathan arrived ia Now York while I was there, and rae gei*C **t» dry dork to he overhauled. In »*•» «f this all surplus steward* and confers were paid off. The Communist* pranptly referred to ao many hnedred »«•» having left the Leviathan on her am-vr-i iu New York, the suggestion hmm% that they had stmok. No man ha* left his ship in any of the American port* in consequcno of a strike. Paid Picket*. "The amazing thing is that the sane kind of bulletin published in New York Appears in Canning Town; it appears daily in Australia and South Africa, inorder to mislead the men on strike from British ships, and to convey the idea that the strike is in foil swing in Great Britain and the United States. Yea al lthe while ships are sailing to tiote. "Some of our Labour leaders do no* seem to realise the inaidiona manner in which the 'Jleds' are endeavouring t* kill the Trade Unions. Ctaununist pio» kets are placed at Union doors to prevent men giving in their ootttrionttonsv Intimidation ia rampant, tho pirfneta apparently being paid for their wotli , "Where does the money come from?
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18547, 24 November 1925, Page 9
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