DANGER OF APATHY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19142, 7 October 1925, Page 11

DANGER OF APATHY.

•< BRITAIN HELD TO RANSOM." EFFORTS OF COMMUNISTS. LONDON. Sept. 25. The chairman of the Shipping Federation, Mr. F. C. Allen, writes:— " The public are inclined to regard the shipping deadlock as ended, but the impasse continues in Australia and South Africa, and we must bring before the public daily the danger of treating: the strike with indifference. " A cumulative Communist effort seeks to destroy England's whole Constitution, and the leaders insidious methods in the present strike are only part of a concerted programme. There is every prospect of a stoppage of our exports to the Dominions, from which the British public inevitably must suffer. " There are 650,000 tons of shipping idle. That means that thousands of tons of beef, mutton and butter are being delayed. Some of it will deteriorate, much will become valueless, and prices will rise as the markets become depleted. " Put plainly, Britain is being held to ransom by the men who have instigated and coerced the crews to defy their legal contracts and to join in a campaign to harass and disintegrate industry, and to bring Britain under a regime similar to that of Russia. " Will not. Britain wake up and insist on the Government handling this conspiracy with firmness and determination ? A bloody revolution will not be necessary if by apathy a landslide is permitted to occur."

THE MARITIME BOARD.

EXISTENCE THREATENED. HOW MEN MAY SUFFER. LONDON, Sept, 30. The Financial News gives prominence to a warning published in the Dolphin, the organ of the Imperial Merchant Service Guild, that the Communist attack threatens the existence of the National Maritime Board The paper points out that the hoard until tho strike occurred functioned successfully, providing generally improved conditions in the service and maintaining wages at the best level possible. The board is jeopardised by the owners' heavy losses, due to the strike, and its disappearance would mean the loss of all that tho j seamen have gained in the last 30 years. _