UNIONS MENACED

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 December 1925, Page 7

UNIONS MENACED

EXTRA EDITION.

COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES. CAMPAIGN FOR EXCLUSION THE; LEADER’S MANIFESTO. BV CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION- COPYRIGHT Received Dee. 11, noon. SYDNEY. Dee. 11 Mr Loughlin, Deputy-Leader of the State Parliamentary Labour 1 arty, who is the prime mover in the carnpai'Tn for exclusion of Communists from the Labour Party, has issued a manifesto, in which he states that Communists should be kept out of unions in order to protect those -organisations against their treacherous activities. This should not present any great difficulty, in view of the fact that industrially eligible men ane kept out of unions to-day for less important reasons than the protection of these bodies against organised treachery. Communist thesis of affirms it to be the duty of all affiliated booties to fight the trades unions’ bnreacracy from within in order to transform trades unions into a revolutionary mass oiganisation. The clear duty, therefore, of the Trades and Labour Counci l , which was affiliated with Moscow, and of every member of the Communist Party, is to destroy the character and functions of trades unions into instruments for precipitating a revolution. The manifesto proceeds: “This stated shortly, is an explanation of the presence of Communists in a trade union, and supplies an abundant reason for their rejectinent.”