RED ELEMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 4 January 1927, Page 5

RED ELEMENT

IN BRITISH TRADE UNIONS WAR DECLARED ON COMMUNISTS BY MODERATE LABOURITES (By Klnotrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) ('Australia.! £ N.Z. Cable Aa-,ociat.iou) LONDON, 2nd Jan. The "Daily Express” says that at a secret conference of leaders of moderate labour i'n Britain if was decided' to declare. war against Communists in trade unions. Mr Cook’s speeches iii Mobcow have persuaded moderates that Communists must he met in the open. Apparently Mr Cook anticipates trouble when lie meets the Miners’ Federation, as he is trying to initiate a new national union of miners which will strive to make the eight hour day in mines inoperative.

MR COOK’S RETURN FROM MOSCOW

LONDON, 2nd Jan

Mr Cook, miners’ secretary, celebrated his return from Moscow by an outspoken declaration in favour of Leninism. He says: “Communism is not a dream, hut a reality. Labour leaders in Britain are midgets compared with the great giants of Russia.”

A BISHOP’S DENUNCIATION

LONDON, 2nd Jan

Bishop Hensley Henson, in a New Year’s sermon at Durham Cathedral, described peaceful picketing- as “abominable. wickedness,” and declared that

“alien corrupting influences were transforming trade unions into instruments of civic degradation.”