COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 January 1929, Page 5

COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA

MARCH OF UNEMPLOYED.

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.)

LONDON, January 10. Two armies of unemployed are preparing to march to London. Both are organised by the Communists. There is strong opposition by the Trade Union Council. The first starts from the Scottish coalfields next week, while the South Wales contingent of miners sets out a week - later. The marchers will not be confined to miners. Other unemployed have been invited to join en route. The demonstration is aimed not only against the Government, but the T.U.C., and the Parliamentary Labour Party, with which the Communists are at bitter loggerheads. The T.U.C. condemning what it describes as the exploitation of the unemployed for the of the Communists, for political ends, recalls that when the South Wales miners marched to London a year ago, ther,e was much useless suffering and misery inflicted, and it predicts that experience will be repeated, without assisting them in the slightest. WARNING FROM AMERICA. MELBOURNE, January 2. Owing to the revolutionary aspects of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, and to the fact that its leaders are avowed enemies of Great Britain and the United States, the Secretariat has had great difficulty- in fixing a meeting-place for its next conference, which begins on August 1. The Ame-

rican Federation of Labour is strongly opposed to the Secretariat, and, in a letter to a friend in Melbourne, the president of the federation (Mr. W. Green) discloses the close link between the Communist party and the Pan-Pacific Secretariat. Mr. Green writes: “The most authentic material to be obtained regarding the formation of the Pan-Pacific Secretariat is almost exclusively of Communist origin. The Red International of Trade Unions, with headquarters at Moscow, is responsible for the creation of the Secretariat, and controls its activities. The Secretariat

has not adhered to the Red International, because it has been thought to be better tactics to have it remain outside, so that it might attract to itself other trade unions not themselves affiliated to the Red International. “The establishment of this new organisation is evidence of the continued purpose of the Bolshevik leaders to interfere in, and to attempt to direct, the course of affairs in the colonial dependencies of Great Britain. The first proposal to summon a gathering of the Labour leaders of the Pacific Ocean countries was made by the Australian trade unions. The proposal was reported to the second congress of the Red International, and it adopted a. thesis, which stated that the task of the Communist party, among other things, was to conduct an extensive prpaganda io teach the peoples of the i colonial countries to regard Soviet Russia, as the bulwark of all the op-

pressed and exploited masses. “As a result of the fourth congress of the Communist International and of the second congress of the Red International, the latter organisation convened the Pan Pacific conference of transport workers in Canton in June, 1924. The report of that conference shows that its work was directed by representatives of the Communist International and of the Red International. The conference was important because it was the first attempt to unite the separated movements of the foremost sections of the workingclas sin the countries of the Pacific Ocean.

“A conference was held in Sydney in August. 1926,” continued Mr. Green, “at which it was decided to call the Pan-Pacific Congress in Canton in 1927. This conference actually met in Hankow. Of the speakers the most important have been connected with the International revolutionary movement directed from Moscow.”