REDS IN BRITAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 176, 26 June 1926, Page 9

REDS IN BRITAIN

RELATIONS WITH MOSCOW, SIGNIFICANT LETTER, COMMUNIST EXPENDITURE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, June 24. The Government has issued a Blue Book containing the documents and correspondence seized when the headquarters of the British Communist Party were raided last October. The papers show a close friendship between the British Communists and the Third International and also the Red International of Trade Unions of Moscow 7 ; One significant letter from Moscow advises Communists to organise committees and instructors and offers kinema films and lantern slides for elementary courses of instruction in Marxism and Leninism. The Moscow organisation in welcoming the Communist headway among British -workers, says:— “This w r as particularly shown in the recent industrial disputes.” Seven documents dated between December, 1924, and August, 1925, detail suggestions for the establishment of a central training school in Britain, with a detailed syllabus of subjects to be taught. ' Dealing with the 1924 election, it states Moscow’s instructions included a sharp criticism of the MacDonald Government’s conduct in unmasking its Imperialist character. A statement shows that, the Communist expenditure at this election totalled several thousands of pounds, and included £SOO for R. Stewart, Dundee; £3OO for Saklatvala, North Battersea; and £250 each for other constituencies. A list of London factories, emjlloying 35,000 workers, show r s that only 239 of these could be definitely classed as Communists. EMIGRATION OPPOSED. The Young Communist League’s programme of colonial work, dated July, 1925, included opposition to Governmental and other emigration schemes. Tho programme continues: “We must work to allay the fears and eventually gain the confidence of the masses of colonial slaves by exposing Labour leaders carrying on an open, defiant struggle tor the break-up of the Empire, showing that the only hope for the salvation of the white and native masses lies in the dissolution of the Empire.” It advocates resolute propaganda against the Barnardo’s Homes and Salvation Army’s migration schemes, through the medium: of which thousands of destitute young Britishers are yearly exported to Canadian and Australian slave-drivers. CONNECTION WITH NEW ZEALAND. The Communist Party reports in September, 1925, having established worKing connections with India, Palestine, Syria, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, and says: “In Australia we have our own party, more or less established, but contact by post does not mean a secure or the most reliable contact. Through the medium of seamen connections with New Zealand have been established, but they arc unsatisfactory. Two or throe opposing groups claim to be tho Communist Party, and tho resultant confusion makes the work most difficult.”: — A. and N.Z. cable. SENSE OF DANGER. BRITISH PEOPLE SHOULD BE AWAKENED. LONDON, Juno 25. Commenting on the Blue Book, the Daily Telegraph says: “The fact that the documents contain little or nothing new (mog-.hot detract from their imThe famous Zinovieff letter contaiij6(L nothing new, yet it has startling political effects. This correspondence should have a similar effect in awakening in the British people a sense of the danger to which the country is continually subjected by the ceaseless and patient burrowing of Soviet emissaries and agents.” Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in a statement, said: “The Labour Party ought to pass a hearty vote of thanks to the Government for publishing the Blue Book. Conservative speakers and writers cannot now mix us up with Communism, except by dishonesty.' We greatly appreciate the tributes paid the Labour Government and myself by Communist Propagandists in the form of attacks.” —A. and N.Z. cable.