METHODS OF SOVIET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19807, 30 November 1927, Page 11

METHODS OF SOVIET.

NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR INSTRUCTIONS FROM RUSSIA, FORMER MINISTER'S CHARGES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, Nov. 29. Speaking at a luncheon in his honour at the Constitutional Club, Mr. T. D. Mutch, the Minister of Education in Mr. J. T. Lang's first Cabinet, said the Labour movement in New South Wales was no longer the movement to which ho had given a quarter of a century's work and service. " It is now based on a Russian model, without any question and without any doubt," he said. " Not only its general scheme, but also its methods, are thoso adopted by Soviet Russia, which has direct representatives in New South Wales, and they are doing the work for which they are paid. It is not necessary to-day to be a member of the Labour movement. It is found sometimes to be better not to be a member of a firm when more business can be done by not being a member." Mr. Mutch then outlined the methods adopted by the executive of the Aus tralian Labour Party, and said they had been adopted in accordance with instructions issued by the Third (Communist) International, and that the Labour movement to-day in New South Wales was controlled by a modified form of the Soviet system. He could say definitely that the evidence indicated that an attempt had been successfully made to capture the executive of the Australian Labour Party in New South Wales, and to turn it into a miniature Soviet, which would be extended to every State in the Commonwealth.