THE LABOUR CONGRESS.

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

THE LABOUR CONGRESS.

SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS "THE LIVERPOOL SHAM FIGHT." LONDON. Oct. 4. c< Was the Liverpool Labour Conference a Red rout or a sham fight?" asks Sir Alfred Mond, who was Minister for Health in 1921 and 1922, in an article in the Weekly Dispatch. Sir Alfred states that both the Socialists, including Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, and other former Ministers, and the Communists, are aiming at the destruction of private enterprise and initiative, and also at the existing order of society. The Socialists are using constitutional methods arid the Communists are advocating strikes, sabotage and revolution. Labour politicians, realising that talk of confiscation arid class hatred, and abuse of employers will not be good propaganda when thev again seek office, are simulating regard for safety, solidity and modera-, tion, says Sir Alfred, with the object of catching votes. " The Liverpool sham fight, with its plethora of pious platitudes and watereddown resolutions," added Sir Alfred, "must not be allowed to conceal tli3 disastrous purpose, behind the Socialist policy. At present the Communists are acting the part of the picador in a bull fight, waving the Red Flag and concealing the Socialists waiting behind them, to give the coup de grace."