MR LIVINGSTONE’S LECTURES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25328, 30 October 1947, Page 5

MR LIVINGSTONE’S LECTURES

Sir,—l agree with “British to the Core” that the Communist Party suppresses everything to its will. A Communist recently tried to tell me what a fine placer Russia was. “Well.” I said, “Why don’t you go and live there?” These people know they are well off here, with good living conditions, good wages and an abundance of food of all kinds, amusements, etc., everything one could wish for. yet many still complain of this and that and cause strikes as an excuse for higher wages. I can make a guess how Soviet Russia would cure the strike habit,' if it happened there. Probably the firing squad would get busy every now and then. I think Communist propaganda should be stamped out in New Zealand. It is doing a lot of harm. Most strikes are caused through it.— Yours, etc., R. CLEMENTS. October 27, 1947. Sir, —“Truth Before Communism” says: “Mr Livingstone doubtless knows much more about Russia . . . than New Zealand Communists who have never been there nor worked there.” New Zealand Communists read not only the statements of Mr Livingstone, but-also those of others who have been to the U.S.S.R. and worked there. These others contradict Mr Livingstone. In the correspondence column of “The Press” of October 22, 1947, it was shown that Mr Livingstone’s statements regarding matters as fundamental as those of the electoral system and the constitution of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. were incorrect.—Yours, etc., M. TAYLOR. October 29, 1947. [H. T. Willis may, if he wishes, briefly reply; otherwise this correspondence is closed. —Ed.. “The Press.”]