A COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN.

Evening Star, Issue 18021, 15 July 1922, Page 2

A COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN.

TO TEE EDITOR. a word in reply to the letter appearing in to-night’s i Star over the signature of the official organiser of the Otago Labor Representation Committee. It is certainly interesting to know officially where Messrs Holland, Munro, Gilchrist, M’Carthy, Silverstone, Moss, MacManus, and other Labor Party politicians stand on such a subject as “scientific Socialism,” otherwise called “ Communism,’ and we feel sure that all true lovers of tho workers’ cause will “read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest” Dio fact that official Labor,,as wc know it in New Zealand to-day, stands not for the “causa of humanity,” as the Communists—the only true international Socialists —do, but for a “ Lib.-Lab.” milk-aud-watcr policy that will get tho workers nowhere in their struggle for economical freedom. “Tire world’s wealth for the world’s workers,” or, as the Bible says: “If a man does not work neither shall ho cat,” is the only slogan worth while in these days of “ commercial greed and degeneracy.”—l am, etc., S. Virgo. July 14. [May we suggest that the first true Communist was “ feairey Gamp,” who, in her love for humanity, declared that she would willingly “lay out” all her fellow-crea-tures? —Ed. E.S.]