RED PLANS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 22 September 1930, Page 7

RED PLANS.

AUSTRALIAN REVOLUTION, SENSATIONAL DOCUMENTS. (FRO* OUR OWJJ COBBESFOWDgOT.) SYDNEY September 11. "Every worker in Port Adelaide must down tools until after the scabs and the police are removed from the waterfront 1 Bank and file Commit? tecs of Action must be net up in all jobs—iu the railways, on the wharves, among the drivers, among the storemen and packers, timber workers, etc., to take the' leadership of the struggle out of thb hands of the reactionary trade union officials." Such was the exhortation v of a pamphlet which was issued in Adelaide last week, clearly showing that" the strike at the Port has boon a strike aßainst trade unionism. In fact, it in not difficult to trace the whole of the 'trouble-to Communists, who have been particularly bold. 'J'hoir activities have greatly embarrassed the Labour Government in South Australia, which has just succeeded in passing special legislation for the safety of the public, so great had the menace become. There are now iruications that the Adelaide strikers are becoming aware of the fact that they have been falsely led. If they had any doubt on the mattor these should be set at test by the sensational disclosures that have followed the raid by the police on the premises occupied by the Communists at Port Adelaide in connexion with the waterfront strike

From these it is evident that a comprehensive scheme of organisation ha* been drawn up, with ramifications throughout the Commonwealth, and apparently with headquarters in Sydney. In one of the papers taken it was stated that tho Communist Party in Australia was a section of the Communist International. Tb« document shows how Australia was divided into various groups. For instance, Group No. 2 consists of Broken Hill and district. Broken Hill, owing to its production of silver lead and zinc is said to be exceptionally important, and every effort should be made to build up Party influence and membership in that district. . District committees, stated the document, did not formulate policy, but were responsible for carrying it out on tha lines laid down by the central executive committee Tbey were directly responsible to tho central committee, and they must insist on the various departments submitting regular reports to headquarters

A Control Commission, the document proceeded, would be set up in each district consisting of three members-who had long standing in the Party, who were perfectly reliable, and who would carry out the orders of the Comintern {Communist Internatioal), without hesitation. The Commission would be responsible for tho discipline of the Party. Under the heading of Departments, it was set out that the industrial department should carry out the line of the Party in unions, and revolutionary opposition among the unemployed, superintend rank and file committees of action, and organise the issuine of strike bulletins. Concentration groups that were to hj» set up in the larger industrial sections were to do everything possible to establish friendly relations with the workers, freely entering into discussions concerning their everyday struggles. "Revolutionary competition between concentration groups will be encouraged,", states the document, ''and thua a great weapon in building. initiative

and enthusiasm among wembereywill be forged. Member* should pMenre personal cleanliness and decency in dress, an 4 those .seleQted. to dp the work of ostttblishing contact witli the workers must be aWe to inspire perv sonal and political respect. New and inexperienced comrades should be attached to the concentration groups to gain experience and confidence," The plans of the Communists to force nn insurrection' in Adelaide might have been duplicated in Sydney had not the scheme misfired for - the | hold-up of wool and wheat shipments. [ ft Is definitely revealed that the plans for the Port Adelaide and Melbourne waterfront troubles were laid in Sydney as part of an, all-Australian counter offensiVe ?'ae:«ifl»t Capitalist wage, cuts and .longer hours." Sydney has always, been the headquarters o? the Communist Party iii Australia, and ft. Is suspected that Moscow provides the money and the propaganda. However, all efforts to extend the waterfront trouble to Sydney were unavailing, though the t'xtremists did succeed last Thursday in holding, an unofficial, or rank and file, meeting of the Sydney tvateraidora, at whioh motions of sympathy with the comrades in Melbourne nnd Port Adelaide were carried, That meeting was- subsequently repudiated by the officials of the union. - The secretary of the Communist Party (Mr H, J. Moxon), one time of New Zealand, made a perfectly frank statement on the whole affair. He said that the Adelaide strike was the beginning of the counter oftVnsiVe against Capitalism that would spread to every city, to every section of the workers, and to the farmers Asked if the Communist Partv w.is lunind the Port Adelaide strikers, he said: "It is absolutely and imequivocubly associated with the watersiders and the other strikers there, and the unemployed. They are adopting our 'actios hv forming rank nnd file committees." He admitted that iho Ade. laide branch of the Communist Party had lsshte-1 in the formation of the strike committee there.