HUNGER MARCHES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 April 1934, Page 4

HUNGER MARCHES

Contributed by tho New Zealand Welfare League) It is well known that the so-called “hunger marches” of tlie unemployed are engineered bv the Communist parties' in the various countries in which they have occurred. We have frequently pointed out that these niarelies are not meant to assist the cause of those out of work, hut to use their want, and distress to further the aims of the Communist International.

We now have further proof .of this from those who organised the recent march in England. Hr Harry Pollitt in a recent pamphlet says quite candidly that “the mass strength of the working class will set. up the workers’ Soviet power in Britain, take over the banks, the land, the mines and industries,” In a speech he said “The' marches are part of the preliminaries of the great militant mass movement which will go from strength to strength until the working class have conquered power.” Hr Wal Llanningtoii, the organiser of the English hunger nmrehers and the

National unemployed Workers Movement (Communist), said: “We are aiming to develop a mass strike movement throughout the country which will have as its object the establishment of a workers’ Socialist republic.” This objective has been frequently published in New Zealand yet there are ■ numbers of the unemployed who still listen to the Communist agitators.