COMMUNISTS DENOUNCED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18130, 30 June 1922, Page 7

COMMUNISTS DENOUNCED.

BRITISH LABOUR HOSTILITY EXCLUSION FROM PARTY. "THE SLAVES OF MOSCOW." By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 6-5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON, June 28. The conference of the Labour Party, on a card vote, rejected a proposal to admit *',he Communist Party to affiliation, by 3,087,000 to 261,000 votes. Mr. F. Hodges, secretary of the Miners' Federation, said that the people who proclaimed communism in this country were the inte'lectual slaves of Moscow. Not only would the Communists not be admitted to the Labour Party, but their theory of government must be fought by the party. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald said it was imperative for tho party to tell the Communists, " Whatever your activities are yau cannot belong to us." The result of the vote was received with great cheering. Mr. C. T. Cramp, secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, submitted a motion denouncing the Russian Soviet Government's treatment of Social Revolutionaries. He said the Soviet Government had violated the best instincts of humanity and hindered the progress of socialism and democracy throughout the world. The resolution was carrried with a few dissentients, who denounced the attempt to discredit Lenin and the Soviet Government. The conference, by a large majority, adopted a proposal that the Socialist and Labour parties of all nations should agree to oppose any war whatever might be its ostensible object.