AMAZING REVELATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 75, 24 February 1930, Page 7

AMAZING REVELATIONS.

RUSSIA’S GRIP. ON NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR. Moderate trade unions in New South Wales are amazed at the astounding fact that Russia has secured such a grip of the trade unions in New South Wales that the lied International of Trade Unions at Moscow is in a position to censure the Sydney Trades Council on its industrial policy (states a Sydney correspondent). The oensure, which was tabled at the last meeting of the council, calls upon the Labour Council to carry on its fight against White Australia, to fight against all forms of industrial arbitration, and against all forms of industrial peace. Mr J. S. Garden, secretary of the Labour Council, is a member of the executive of the Red International, and should he visit Russia in June it will be necessary for him to give a full report of conditions in Australia. Mr F. Roels, president of the council, and Mr P. G. Harnett, who have just returned, were both called upon to give reports to the executive, and both were amazed at the knowledge of Australian conditions possessed by the Soviet Communistic authorities. Recent manifestations that the instructions from Moscow are being carried out were the tactics used by the Labour Council in the timber and coal disputes, and the formation of the Red army on the coalfields and in Sydney. Moscow has a double hold on the policy of the unions through the Red International affiliation of the Labour Council, and the dominance of the Communist International over the headquarters of the Communist Party has been particularly pronounced since the Sydney Central Executive was censured by the parent body in Moscow for falling to carry out the revolutionary programme. Immediately the Central Executive was reconstructed, and though the internal workings of the Communist Party are kept secret the names of the leaders of the movement have leaked out. Most P ron ?' inent is a New Zealander, and he is believed to be a tailor by trade. His main activity at present « the management of a bookstall near the Trades Hall where all revolutionary literature’is for sale. Nearly all the executive are obscure members of trades unions, but this does not prevent them from carrying out their task very effectively. , . A noteworthy feature of the Communistic organisation in Sydney is the foreigners’ department. There are various sections for the foreigners, such as the Greek section, the Italian section, and so on. *lhe Greek section boasts a membership of about 30. When the foreigners meet they hold discussions in their own language.