Exploiting the Unemployed

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 172, 16 April 1932, Page 13

Exploiting the Unemployed

Sir,—ln your “Notes of the Day, ’ evmmenting on the Auckland riots, you say the origin “should be investigated, ami if it be found that they have been fomented by agitators and that the misfortune* of the unemployed are being exploited . . . those responsible should be sternly dealt with.” These disorders are deliberately encouraged by persons associated with the “New Zealand Section of the Third International.” There is ample evidence of this fact, and it is time that the Government. who can ascertain the facts within an hour, should take the gloves off ami put these men out of the country. The proof is abundant as we have been pointing out for twelve months past. This exploiting of the unemployed is in direct accordance with instructions sent to Communist organisations from their headquarters in Berlin or Moscow, who state that “every unemployed worker constitutes a centre of ferment, and we must organise this force and divert it into proper revolutionary channels.” In this country, unfortunately, a section of the New Zealand Labour Tarty are also exploiting the situation for political purposes, and some of the leaders of organised labour are using provocative language and hampering relief by declaring the relief camps “black” —a leaflet distributed in our streets a day or two ago ■used such terms as “lashing the young manhood of this country into slave camps in the back of beyond by the whip of hunger,” they talk of “conscription by hunger,” etc. ' This attack on the relief camps where young men can. be fed and housed and receive a small weekly payment is obviously an attempt to keep them in tho cities for mass action. We warn the unemployed that they are being exploited for political purposes.— ’ N.Z. WELFARE LEAGUE. Wellington, April 15, 1932.