SEEKING A FOOTING.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13100, 31 January 1936, Page 6

SEEKING A FOOTING.

S ECOND EDITION

MUCH NEEDED SNUB. LABOUR REJECTS COMMUNISTS. (Received ! p.m.) United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. * LONDON. January 30. Again the Labour Party has refused the Communists affiliation and the secretary writing to the Communist leader. Mr Dairy Pollitt remarks, “No circumstances have arisen to justify any departure from the 1922 Edinburgh decision refusing such affiliation by 3,860,000 votes to 261,000 votes “Ip was then the opinion that Labour's democratic policy was irreconcilable with the Communist policy of dictatorship. It was true that Fascism had conquered various European states, but the executive was of the opinion that the victories, of the Fascist dictatorship were in part facilitated by the preceding campaigns for a Communist, dictatorship, which effectively split the working class movements and thus rendered possible their overthrow. The executive cannot fail, to note the proclaimed fact that their affiliation was not sought to promote Labour's programme, but on the contrary to utilize the party facilities to displace Its essential democratic, and socialistic character for a programme based on communist principles.’’