DISMISSAL OF COMMUNIST.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 October 1928, Page 11

DISMISSAL OF COMMUNIST.

FROM GOVERN,AEENT WORK'S. HIS RE-I'NSTATEMENT DEAIANDED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 1.30 p.m. ot-day. LONDON, Oct. 23. ‘The 'Communist Prirty declare that. Percy L.' Grading must be re-instated even at the cost of a strike. His victimisation is not an accident, but a deliberate policy as part of the preparation for a new imperialist war as a prelimnary to which 'Woolwich and the naval dockyards arc getting rid of militant workers opposed to the perpetuation of the 'capitalist system. QUESTION OF NATIONAL -SAFETY. AN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION. LONDON, Oct. 2'2. Referring to the decree that Communists must leave the arsenals or foresake Communism, Earl 'Stanhope, 'Civil Lord of the Admiralty, explained the issue was not a political or a trade union one, (but was a question of national safety. “iWe should be lacking in our public duty were we to 'acquiesce in a condition of affairs which permits avowed Communists to retain employment at such places at Woolwich or the dockyards where gTeat mischief and irreparable damage might de done in a time of national emergency by people pledged 'to support revolutionary activities,” Earl Stanhope 'told a deputation. “The necessity of protecting the State from that risk is the sole motive of the Government’s action, which it is determined to enforce.”