POLITICAL STRIKES

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 50, 27 August 1920, Page 6

POLITICAL STRIKES

The Australian instalment of the direct action scheme represented in Britain by the " Council of Action " has a different objective, but a similar purpose. The "Council oil Action" threatens direct action to prevent the taking of any measure militarily 1 unfavourable to the Soviet Government, even including any measure assisting in Poland's defence. The Australian movement threatens to use " irritation strikes," etc., to prevent deportations. Bui; both have the common purpose of taking power out of the hands of Governments, who must no longer presume to say that Poland musi be protected (rom conquest, or that someone must be deported in the interests of the State. In New South Wales the Labour Council appears to have sanctioned this use of the strike as a political weapon, but the Storey Labour Government of New South Wales is reported to have ex-' pressly dissociated itself from the Council's decision. Responsible Labour politicians like Mr. Storey, or (in the Old Country) Mr. Clynes and Mr. Thomas, men who are either. Ministers or who have been, or probably will be, cannot long ■ walk hand-in-hand with direct action, although it certainly seems that the English Labour leaders are tentatively essaying that impossible task.