"RED" DOCTRINES

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12074, 27 February 1925, Page 8

"RED" DOCTRINES

BRITISH UNIONS’ BANGER OFFICIAL EXCLUSION OF COMMUNISTS HAS FAILED. "WHITE-ANT” TACTICS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, February 25. While Mr J. H. Thomas is daily counselling the railwaymen to adhere to conciliation and negotiation in their wage demands in preference to a disastrous strike policy, Mr J. Cook is preaching Red doctrines te- the miners, whose executive to-day decided to convene a conference in London in March of miners, railwaymen, the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, transport workers, end locomotive engineers, for the purpose of discussing their various wage claims. This decision, following the suggestions for the review pf the “Triple Alliance,” is regarded as most significant. Commentors point out that a struggle is at present going on to resist the inroad of the Reds in the Trade Union Congress. Like the Australian Reds the British Reds are seeding to “white-ant” the unions preliminary .to gaining control of the congress, but hitherto they bavo been most unsuccessful. The outstanding fact is that the decision of the Trades Union Congress refusing Communists affiliation or union membership is proving a hopeless failure.

UNIONS INJPOLITICS WILL BARRIER BE ERECTED ? PRESSURE QN GOVERNMENT Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. February 26. Despite warnings from a section of the Unionist Press and Party a meeting of the Central Council of Conservatives and Unionist Associations passed a resolution urging the Government to take immediate steps to amend the Trade Union Act, 1913: also supporting Mr. MacQuistan’s Political Levy Working men members opposed the latter motion, and urged that the subject should not be reopened, but, after a discussion, the motion was carried by a huge majority. One speaker was cheered when he declared: “We wish the Government to give us a lead. on the question. If it does not, we will give them all the mad necessary.”