RED PROPAGANDA

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 270, 20 August 1925, Page 9

RED PROPAGANDA

COMMUNIST ACTIVITY IN BRITAIN FOMENTING TROUBLE IN LABOUR RANKS London, August 17. A Communist letter asserts that “recent events have made it clear that the military forces, supplemented by the Fascist:, will be kept in readiness to shoot down the workers if they offer organised resistance to the capitalist wage reduction offensive. We are not conducting a Communist conspiracy. We are merely a working-class political partv, which warns Labour that Capitalism will not allow the workers to lise without being well prepared for the attempt ” The letter will be considered at the next meeting of the respective executives. The “Daily Express,’ in an editorial, says that the Arrny and Navy will not be used on either side in industrial disputes, but only against forces which dare to challenge the indomitable will of the entire nation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ATTITUDE OF LABOUR LEADERS (Rec. August 19, 8.50 p.m.) London, August 18. The official Labour leaders are not excited over the letter from the Communist Partv. Mr. Appleton, secretary of the Ge"eral Federation of Trade Unions, declared that the Army and Navy were too full of men of sound common sense for any propaganda such as suggested in the letter to do much harm.—Reuter. LONDON “TIMES” WARNING (Rec. August 20, 0.25 a.m.) London, August 19. “The Times,” in a leader discussing the Communist attempt to subvert the fighting services, savs: “The Labour Party is inclined to 'regard the Britisn Communists as a negligible, unimportant faction numbering five thousand, and-therefore beneath contempt, but according to Lenin’s 1918 estimate, only fifty thousand Russian Communists disrupted the nation of a hundred and fifty millions.”—“The Times.”