THE LABOUR CONGRESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19616, 21 October 1925, Page 7

THE LABOUR CONGRESS

SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS. "THE LIVERPOOL SHAM FIGHT." LONDON, October 4. "Was the Liverpool Labour Conference a Red rout or a sham fight?" asks Sir Alfred Mond, who was Minister of 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 and the Communists are advocating strikes, sabotage and revolution. Labour politicians, realising that talk of confiscation and class hatred, and abuse of employers will not be good propaganda when they again seek office, are simulating regard foi safety, solidity and moderation, says Sir Alfred, with; the object of catching rotes. "The Liverpool sham fight, with its plethora of pious platitudes and watered down resolutions," added Sir Alfred, "must not be allo#ed to conceal the disastrous purpose, behind the Socialist Party. At present the Communists are acting the part of'the picador in a-bull fight, waving the Eed Flag and concealing the Socialists waiting behind them, to give the coup d© grace."