LABOUR’S AIM

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 149, 18 March 1924, Page 7

LABOUR’S AIM

< RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA,' -Referring te tho necessity of business and professional men taking a greater interest in the political affairs of Australia, Sir Elliot Johnson, M.P., said in a recent speech that there were some who were too absorbed in their private businesses to worry about the country’s affairs. One day these men, ho added, would wako up with a rude shock, unless they speedily realised that politics were inseparately bound up with the everyday business and domestic concerns of their life. They would wake up to find that their businesses were gone —vanished into the limbo of things that had been, but uow wore not. That this was no idle prophecy, said Sir Elliot, imagining of a political alarmist, recent history has already furnished ample proof in Russia. And the mischievous of Russian revolutionary- propagandists had already in Australia and even in Great Britain, borne fruit in the minds of tho unthinking younger generation, as well as the malcontents of a more matured age. He would remind the captains of commorce and industry that the Labour objective, if given effect to, would leave them plenty of leisure to tiouble their heads over politics, for they would be relieved of all necessity, or even opportunity, to worry over business. But it would be too late to avail them anything when the Socialis-tio-cum-Communistic-Labour political objective was accomplished. The present was no time to go to sleep, be said in conclusion The man who was foolhardy enough to slumber on the edge of an active volcano, could not resonably complain if, when he woke nn, he found himself more- or less a bruised and battered remnant of what he had been.