“POPULAR FRONT”
Communist Party’s Effort a Failure (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 13. Efforts made by the Communist Party to join forces with the Labour Barty with a view to establishing something in the nature of a “Popular Front’ movement in the pominion have ended in failure. The national president of the Labour Party, the Rev. Clyde Carr, who arrived from Wellington this morning, stated m an interview that a meeting of the national executive of the Labour Party was held yesterday, when an application from the Communist Party for affiliation was refused. Mr. Carr said that the Labour Party was not prepared to have anything to do with the Communists. It judged them by their past record and had no hesitation in turning down the application. Since the Labour Party had secured the reins of Government in the Dominion the Communist Party is understood to have lost a good deal of ground. Some time ago the Communists secured control of the unemployed workers’ movement in Christchurch. but they were unable to fil] the various positions on the executive and it is understood chat they later abandoned their task.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 283, 13 November 1936, Page 5
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