COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

Evening Star, Issue 19024, 20 August 1925, Page 5

COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

THE WARNING LETTER LABOR LEADERS NOT EXCITED. Press Association— By Telegraph-Copyright, LONDON, August 18. The official Labor loaders are not excited over the letter from the Communist Tarty. Mr Appleton, secretary of the General Federation of iraclo Unions, declared that the Army and Navy were too full of men of sound common sense for any propaganda, as suggested in the letter, to do much harm. —Reuter. EAR FROM NEGLIGIBLE. LONDON, August 19. (Received August 20, at 1.30 a.m.) ‘ The Times,’ in a leading article discussing the Communist attempt to subvert the fighting services, says that the Labor Party is inclined to regard the British Communists as a negligible and unimportant faction numbering o.UUt), and therefore beneath contempt j but, according to Lenin’s 191 S estimate, only 50,000 Russian Communists disrupted a nation ot 150,000,000. — 1 The Times.’ [A Communist letter asserted that recent events had made it clear that military forces, supplemented by the Fascist!, would bo kept in readiness to shoot down the workers if they offered anv organised resistance to the capitalist wage-reduction offensive. “We are not conducting a Communist conspiracy,” the letter stated; we are merely the working class political party which warns Labor that Capitalism will not allow the workers to rise without a well-prepared attempt to crush them by an armed force and to win them over.”]