COMMUNIST MOVEMENT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 3, 3 December 1931, Page 8

COMMUNIST MOVEMENT.

MENACE IN THE COAIMONAVEALTH.

During a discussion in the Senate at Canberra recently, the Leader of tho Opposition, Sir George Pearce, read extracts from tlie first issue of a newspaper. The Red Leader, which, lie said, identified it with the Red International movement. The Communist organisation iu Australia, he said, was concentrating on the transport industries, particularly railways and the waterside industry, and had already achieved a considerable measure ot success. He read a letter of congratulation to the paper from the president of the Australian Railways Union (Mr Chapman), and an article supporting the action of the Rank and File Movement in the recent waterside dispute, signed by J. Schelley, of tho “Marine Transport Workers' Group.” Sir George Pearce quoted from the issue of September 18 what he described as a slander against the Commonwealth. This, he said, was an article alleging that slavery in New Guinea was being winked at by the Commonwealth Government. No doubt it was written with the object of causing trouble between the Commonwealth and the Mandates Commission. He quoted another article, which urged that the time had arrived for the rank and file to take control of all strikes, and to deal direct with the “bosses;” and there were a series of instructions communicated from Moscow as to how these militant movements were to be organised, and how control was to be taken, out of the hands of the unions.