LABOUR PERTURBED

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11950, 22 May 1933, Page 3

LABOUR PERTURBED

CIRCULAR ISSUED BY FRIENDS

OF SOVIET UNION.

RANK AND FILE MUST BE WON » O VER, In a letter to the “N-Z. Merkel, Mr; J. Thorn, secretary to the New Zealand Labour Party, writes: —

“Tlio Labour Party is -an organisation interested in the welfare of tho workers in all countries. Its immediate purpose is to defend the interests of the workers in ...New Zealand and to work out a Socialist system of society here. It is anxious to co-operate with all bodies sincerely desiring these ends, but in view of the enclosed circular. issued recently by the Friends of the Soviet Union to its branches, it will he soon bow difficult it is for the Labour Party to work with that organisation.”

Appended is tho circular issued by tlio Friends of the Soviet Union;

Keep the aims and objects of the F.S.U. clearly in mind at all times. When you are in doubt consult the National .Executive before you act. At tlio same time as every effort is made to guard-against the policy dr the local becoming reactionary in its nature, cverv effort must be made to enrol members °f the working class, working farmers, netit bourgeois element, who are under the influence of the reactionary -nolicv of the Labour Party lenders. The role of these lea dei’s is the active aid to the Capitalist class against the Soviet Union by their misrepresentation of the reasons for the success of the Socialist Construction npd the part p! a veil by the Communist, l’artv must be exposed. Ah' example of tlm misrepresentation i<. tho statement that tbe world e''ih* s does not affect the Soviet Union because of the managed currency there. Obvicndv the true reason is that the - working class in. tho- S.TL, divorein.r iteelf from such Social T’os-(-.h-t leadership Feme. 1 power in the '1915. and on fhe basis of no private ■nrofl+.s an- 1 workers’ Tide is able to increase the standard of living ye»i*H. wlr'te in New Zealand, op Hie basis rf private e>-nloif.aiion and Ue-1-omt Part'- saliotfiri-e o' working class struggle, our standard of living oocreases rapidly. The rank- and fileof the Labour Party must be won oyer to active participation in the defence cf the First Workers’ State ,ht the same time as the leaders are being exposed. Local committees ol tbe Labour Party should be invited to send sneakers to F.S.U. United Front meetings, which. should be held io celebrate days and events. (Sent to local cf F.S.U.. February. 1933.)