MODERATE LABOUR.
WAR AGAINST COMMUNISTS. IN BRITISH TRADES UNIONS. RESULT OF COOK’S SPEECHES. LONDON, Jan. 3. Mr A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation, celebrated his return from Moscow by an outspoken declaration in favour of Leninism. He says: “Communism is not a dream but a reality. The Labour leaders in Britain are midgets compared with the great giants .of Russia.” 1 The Daily Express says that at secret conferences the leaders of moderate Labour in Britain decided to declare war against the Communists in trades unions, Mr Cook’s speeches in Moscow having persuaded the moderates that the Communists must be met in the open. Apparently Mr Cook anticipates trouble when he meets the Miners’ Federation, as ho is trying to initiate a new national union of miners, which will strive to make the eight hours’ day in the mines inoperative.—A. and N.Z. cable.
ALIEN INFLUENCES. DENOUNCED BY BISHOP. LONDON, Jan. 3. The Bishop of Durham, the Right Rev. H. Hensley Henson, in his New Year’s sermon in Durham Cathedral, described peaceful picketing as “abominable wickedness,” and declared that “aliencorrupting influences were transforming the trades unions into instruments of,civic degradation.”—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 January 1927, Page 7
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