TERRORISTIC METHODS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17236, 16 April 1930, Page 17

TERRORISTIC METHODS

FREEZING WORKS DISPUTE COMMUNIST COMMIITTEE PERSONAL VIOLENCE USED. (Por Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A terroristic campaign is reported lo have been inaugurated among the freezing workers of the Dominion by a Communistic organisation known as the “propaganda committee,” which has been responsible for Iho extension to Canterbury of the recent dispute in South Otago freezing works. Members of this organisation, it is stated, have resorted to personal violence against thoso who oppose their views and their activities. Mr. 11. C. Revell, secretary of the New Zealand Freezing Workers’ Federation, was recently the victim of an assault by a much younger man when visiting the Paeora freezing works, and Air. Alex. McLeod, secretary of the Wellington Freezing Workers’ Union, was attacked in his office. It is also reported (hat Mr. Tl. T. Armstrong. M.P., was attacked personally in Wellington recently by a gang of Communists. Mr. Revell said this morning that members of this self-constituted committee, while declaring that they were out to light intimidation and victimisation on the part of employers, resorted to far baser methods than the employers could ever descend to. During the past few months an intense struggle had been taking place in the freezing workers’ organisation between the official body and this unofficial committee. It had been a desperate fight on account of the methods which these men were prepared to adopt in order to gain their ends.