AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11760, 21 February 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LABOUR VIEWS ON BOLSHEVISM. United Press Association—By Elec trio Telegraph.—Copyright. Sydney, February 20. The Sydney Labour Party’s annual report, (referring slates that the workers of Australia are disgusted with the slanderous attack and vilification ofjtbe Bolshevik movement. The sympathy of all fair minded people must go out to the Russians in their struggle to thnjw off |he inhuman yoke of capitalism. Retarding the censorship, tu» report says that Australia is still-under the heel of the Censor. Innumerable instances are on record of the base political purposes that this office subverted. The report concludes that the presence of Pearce, Cook, and Hughes in London is fraught with grave danger as far as Colonial autonomy is concerned, as the presence of three Ministers permit the holding of Executive meetings and passage of regulations. Five steamers are idle at Newcastle owing to the strike of coal trimmers. The men demanded increased rates to trim the Atna. When these were refused the Union struck.

A proclamation fixes Sunday as a day of prayer in connection with the influenza.

Furtner heavy rains have fallen over the whole States. In Melbourne there ars six deaths from influenza. The Labour Party passed a resolution condemning the Oovernments inadequate methods of dealing with those unemployed through influenza and the incomplete system adopted in preventing infection.