The Red Menace

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 216, 11 December 1925, Page 5

The Red Menace

Communists in Unions

FOMENTING REVOLUTION.

LABOUR POLITICIAN’S DENUNCIATION. t ßy Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) i (Received 11, 11.55 a.m.) Sydney, Dec. 11. Air. Coughlin, deputy-leader of the State Pania me ntairy Labour Party, who was the prime mover in the campaign ior the exclusion of Communists irom the Labour Parly, has issued a manifesto in which he slates that Communists should bo kept out of unions in order to protect the organisations against their treacherous 'jins should not present any great difficulty in view oi the fact that industrially eligible men are kept out of unions to-day ior less important reasons than tho protection of these bodies against organised treachery. The Communist thesis of tactics affirms it to be the duty of all affiliated bodies to fight trades union bureaucracy from within in order to transform the trades unions into a revolutionary mass organisation. Tho clear duty, therefore, of the Trades and Labour Council, which is affiliated with Moscow, and of every member of the Communist party, is to destroy tho character and functions of the trades unions in Australia and convert the unions into an instrument for precipitating revolution.

The manifesto proceeds: “This, stated shortly, is the explanation of tho presence of Communists in a trade union, and supplies abundant reason for their ejectment.”

“INSTRUMENT OF WAR.” SOVIET VIEW OF THE LEAGUE. (Received 11, 9.5 a.m.) London, Dec. 10. “Tho Times’s” Riga correspondent reports that Rykoff denounced the League of Nations as an instrument of war and oppression. Ho declared that by joining the League the Soviet would surrender all its political advantages in the East and economic prospects in the West. Since the Locarno Pact only two European nations, namely England and Soviet Russia, had retained their political independence. The Soviet intends to retain hers intact.—(Times.)