THE COMMUNISTS

Southland Times, Issue 19460, 27 January 1925, Page 5

THE COMMUNISTS

BATTERSEA CONFERENCE. LENIN COMMEMORATION. BRITISH FASCISTI ACTIVE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, January 25. (Received January 26, 11.5 p.m.) The Majority Conference has arranged a demonstration in favour of fusion of the Moscow and Amsterdam Internationals, in connection with which a resolution was carried welcoming the world-wide tendency towards unity under one banner and one trade union. The International Conference was attended by representatives of Czccho-Slova-kia, Germany, France, India, United States and Ireland. Mr Tom Minn testified to the progress the movement was making. The speaker condemned the fade union leaders’ moderation and advocated the more militant use of trade unions. The meeting resolved in favour of breaking with the policy of class peace and the League of Nations and the creation of international leadership in the working class battle against the capitalist. Another resolution affirmed the solidarity of the trade union movements in the British Empire, repudiated the Imperialist policy of the so-called Labour Government towards India, Egypt and other subject nations. A TRIBUTE TO LENIN. BRITISH FASCISTI ACTIVE. LONDON, January 25. A Town Hall official at Battersea told the Daily Herald that three men arrived at 6.30 o’clock in the morning and sought permission to look around, representing themselves as the Minority Movement officials. They suddenly spilled the contents of a bottle on the floor and then left hurriedly. On many walls and pavements near the hall was chalked the slogan, “Join the Fascisti. To hell with the Communists.” A large portrait of Lenin, draped with red and black, was prominently placed in front of the platform at the conference of the National Minority Movement in Battersea Town Hall this afternoon. It was attended by 600 delegates, representing 43 trade unions in a number of provincial centres. The meeting was held despite a strong garlic-like smell, due to the chemical carbylamine with which the hall had been sprinkled earlier by British Fascisti and the stench from which was so strong during the morning that the officials of the movement were unable to enter the hall. After the singing of the Internationale, Mr Tom Mann, who presided in the absence of Mr A. J. Cook (Secretary of the Miners’ Federation) asked the delegates to pay a mead, of praise and reverence to Lenin, upon which the delegates stood in silence while the Funeral March was played.