MENACE OF COMMUNISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19148, 14 October 1925, Page 12

MENACE OF COMMUNISM.

LABOUR LEADER'S VIEWS, STRONGLY-WORDED SPEECH. LONDON, Oct. 3. i The secretary of the International Miners' Federation, Mr. Frank Hodges, who was Civil Lord of the Admiralty when the Labour Government was in jtower, speaking at Brighton described Bolshevism as the mother of Fascism. " Citizens will not now be side-tracked from their allegiance to Labour because of the fear of being identified with the bloody methods of Moscow," Mr. Hodges declared, " but if the Communists succeeded in establishing a workers' army, j or subverting the fighting services, then j the advent of a Labour Government could j easily coincide with civil war. " "Russia has withdiawn its prohibition j on -vodka, and is permitting its easy sale under a Soviet monopoly, thus restoring the system which, the Bolsheviks themselves declared. made the worker;-, drunkards for the profit of the. Tsar's: capitalistic Government." The Evening News reveals the existence of a Soviet at, West Hani, London, called the " Active Resistance League," from winch the majority of the local Poor Law Guardians receive their orders. the Daily News says there has been a surprising development in the Fascist! movement in Liverpool, where the local Fascists are enrolling as special constables and drilling at police headquarters. Spc-aking at the Labour Conference at Liverpool, .Mr. Jack Hayes, M.!,'., who was formerly a policeman, denounced the new " 0.M.H." movement. (Lord Hardinge's organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies}. "It means the Organisation of Mugs and Scabs," he said. Mr. Herbert Mormon declared that '"the letters have a truer meaning, namely* " Our Master's Society. It is a class ■ .qrfjp'isatioii controlled by aristocrats," in. said.