COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19764, 11 October 1927, Page 9

COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN.

LABOUR PARTY ATTACKED. AN OUTSPOKEN IRISHMAN. WOULD DISSOLVE THE EMPIRE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Oct. B. The annual conference of the British Communist Party was opened to-day at Manchester. It was announced that the membership of the party is now 7377, a reduction of 3500, compared with last, year. Mr. H. Pollitt made a bitter attack upon the Labour Party. Ho said the policy of the Blackpool conference was clearly intended to prepare for a coalition or a mutual understanding between the leaders of the Liberal and Labour parties at or after the next general election. That was a gross betrayal of every Socialist principle. Other delegates attacked the Independent Labour Party. Some described the tactics of the Blackpool conference as " a disgusting and humiliating exhibition." Mr. Jim Larkin, the well-known Irish Communist, fraternally greeted the conference on behalf of the Irish revolutionary working-class. He said: "I am here to bring this Empire to a dissolution. It is most essential for the sake of the Empire's suffering millions and for the sake of the workers in Britain, China and India, to abolish bayonet rule. When the Imperialists attack the Soviet we will be in action a few moments after the declaration of war."