RUSSIAN FREEDOM
TO THE EDITOR Sir,—Our Government is following as hard as it dare in the footsteps of Russia and preparing Russian freedom for us. In his "Theses of the Central Committee of the Communist Party,” Trotsky says: “The transition is systematic. Organised social is unthinkable without the application of compulsory measures. . . The compulsory means at the disposal of the State is its military poweij. Consequently the militarism of labour — in this or that measure, in this or that form—is an unqualified necessity for
every transitional economic system, which rests on the principle of universal labour duty." Of course, it was a " transitional" stage—the stereotyped excuse for every failure and contradiction, as though there ever was a stage that was not "transitional." Anyhow, workmen were placed under stricter control than in war industries and deprived of all freedom of movement'.—l am, etc., Anti-Communist.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23033, 9 November 1936, Page 10
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