COMMUNISM IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 2

COMMUNISM IN AUSTRALIA

ME THEODORE’S VIEW OP IT. In an article on ‘Australian Labor Government After Ten Years,’ in f„Ourront History’ (New York), ivlx E. WTheodore (ex-Labor Premier of Queensland) writes;— , , , The Labor Party of Queensland has two enemies, widely opposite in belief but similar in action —ouo, the Tory, who is an anarchist because ho refuses to reform anything, even the bad mid the shapeless: and the other the Communist, mostly imported, who does not understand Australian thought and method, and whoso only treatment tor a watch overfast or overslow is to subject it to the tender mercies of a steam hammer, It is unlikely that Communism will ever secure in Australia an audience that counts. _ Communism Is exotic and the Australian Labor Tarty la indigenous. Hating most things that are familiar and loving only that which It does not know, Communism preaches ascuiust tl White Australia, wlvlcli is the Australian religion. That, and bis habit of preaching strikes and cureim action while using all that industrial arbitration has given., the Australian worker, secures fur the Communist only the crude minority to whom even rudimentary political thought is impossible. Australians will have only the Australian way—the reasoned and gradual progress to the objective as the only progress that can be permanent; tho education of our political opponents to tho wisdom of preventing tno exploitation Of one citizen by, another, and ol giving all citizens a fair deal; the security ■of every man’s honestly-acquired possessions; the care that toil, shall not L but half requited; the holding ot tho balance truly between effort and result; and the constant movement toward tim betterment of.the citizen by removing the fear of poverty from all men, until - at Inst we shall banish poverty by elimil 'Antingwaste from a world that pinvuca.i more thajj, enough far. sdl.