"RED" TACTICS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 177, 22 February 1933, Page 3

"RED" TACTICS

LABOUR DELEGATES DIARY ; Disclosures by Attorney* General Sydney, Feb, 8 In a slashing attack on Communist propaganda in Australia, the Federal Attorney-General, Mr. J. G. Latham, to-day revealed some of the inner workings Of the Soviet Union. The story concerned a railway employee, Frederick Goozeff, who was a member of the Australian Labour Delegation to Russia last Goozeff, l said Mr. Latham, was born in Russia, but was a naturalised British subject. "When he returned to Australra," continued Mr. Latham, "the Customs officers searched his luggage, and found some very interesting material. One was the report of the Australian Delegation on the Southern tour, and it was apparently prepared in Russia for the public of Australia." This report, went; on the Attorney- ! General, set out that the delegation found tho people healthy and wellclad, particularly the children. There was plenty .of good food available for factory workers at reasonable prices. Compared with conditions in our own country, conditions there were much more advantageous. Goozeff's Diary "But," said Mr. Latham, "Mr. Goozeff's diary was, unfortunately, lying alongside this report in the luggage. "This diary sets out his difficulties of seeing anything he wanted to see in Russia. He' says that his impression of Moscow was poor, and he mentions the spectacle of queues of men and women in front of provision stores. There was a shortage of everything, and the people were passing through a very hard time. All over Russia there were trainloads of men, women and children going they knew not where. So-called wealthy peasants owned only one horse, one cow and a little hut." "And,'' said Mr. Latham, "Goozeff says Chat he was disappointed with the condition as compared with those of 20 years ago, when he lived in Russia.'' Making Misery Mr. Latham said that an attempt was being made in Australia to create a "prorctariat." The object was a dei liberate manufacture of misery in Australia and to magnify every form of distress all for a political purpose. f 'Tho object is to create a Communistic world under Russian control, I but I do not believe, that British people ar e ever going to submit,'' he went on.

"They fire carrying out a campaign of imposture'; and it is proper that the people should be warned against it. "The position lit Australia is better than in any other country at the present time, and facts and figures bear that out. "But there is slavery in Russia." One paragraph in Mr. Goozeff's notes, said Mr, Latham, read: "On my way from Moscow to Vladivostok, I have witnessed scenes which involuntarily compel you to think that, if things do not improve soon, the revolution will b e compelled tq take another turn. In what direction I cannot say. One thing is, certain. Things cannot remain as they are. Everyone I spoke to on that long journey had some complaint to offer. A fear for to-morrow exists throughout. The people ar e worn out weary, and every nerve is strained, solely due to the shortage of an absolute necessity of life—lack of bread, not mentioning butter." Mr Latham said that further extracts showed that if a man did not report for work, under a system which was really legalised slavery, he was deprived of his food ticket and accommodation ticket. Thus, apart from having nothing to eat and nowhere to live the man was at perfect liberty to (to what he liked. This system was known as "The Liquidation of Industrial Dissatisfaction." He had never known of a more delightful explanation of slavery than that. These propagandists were dehberI ately endeavouring to manufacture i misery ancjj discontent in Australia, said Mr. Latham, and to magnify any existing distress there might' be, for purely political purposes. In Macau - lay's "History of England" there was a statement to the effect that movcof wealth invariably resulted in the r more equal distribution of poverty. That was being demonstrated in Russia There was in Russia at present a'more equal distribution of poverty than in any other country in the world.