BOLSHEVISM IN ENGLAND

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 81, 31 December 1918, Page 7

BOLSHEVISM IN ENGLAND

MR. HAVELOCK WILSON HITS OUT

What are the main factors of the prosent labour situation? asks Mr. Haveiock Wijeon, M.P., General Secretary of the British .Merchant Seamen's League, in 11 letter lo the "Morning Post." Ninety per cent, of the so-called working closes are .normal Britons, true lo type. They are certainly not revolutionaries, or at heart enemies of their country and their fighting kith and kin. They have carelessly allowed some narrow prigs, who belong to no particular class, to poso as their leaders. The spiritual father of these "leaders" was the German Jew, Karl Marx, tho practical result of whose leaching stands out to-day in Russia. The "leaders" are too small to discard the alien fallacies, which (hey have mouthed for so many years. Apart from the works of the 1.L.P., enemy and anarchist influences arc as aelivc as I hey dare, and far more active than I hey 'should be allowed to bi. 1 would like lo ask what anybody is doing lo counteract the activities of (he Bolshies? Employers and Labour leaders dine and grumble and tremble together. Government Departments, instead ot dealing faithfully with criminal conspiracies, remain helplessly passive, until a dangerous crisis has been engineered by the enemies of our country. It is a perfectly simple problem to exp?l the poison of Karl Marx from the system of Labour, but it won't happen of its own accord. Somebody has got to do something. Writing and talking are only a fraction of the business, the most important part of which is work—intelligent organisation. And the sooner patriotic Labour is in a position to carry out the necessary work on an adequate scale, the sooner wo shall uproot the Bolshies, cranks, middleclass adventurers, and others, who misrepresent and mislead tho British working man. All we need is tho courago not lo be afraid of ourselves and the common sense to act accordingly.