OYSHEVISM!

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 689, 14 June 1929, Page 8

OYSHEVISM!

in unis t periodical be:,,, circa l£!? d among children in Xew ZcaSmH advocates direct action and strikes—Xcirs item tram the 12 issue of THE S UN. Things we may yet see, or the report of a meeting of Young Com.rades held under Communist rulesWAIKIKAMOOKAU, Thursday A meeting was held last night in Joe Haggotfs stable by the local branch of the Toung Comrades - move, ment to determine their # attitude and course of action in the immediate future against the Capitalists, the Tyrants, Mr. Bullneck (the school master) and George Perkins - s gang Master Alf Beazley, in the chair, was the first speaker. He called on all true Comrades to join in the march for Freedom, and if those kids in the back didn’t shut up he"d come down and dong them,

“Fellow victims of the Capitalistic regime—are you going to take everything bending over?” (Uproar.) Why should the Capitalists exist, anyway? Why should they? Was not one man as good as the next? He would say emphatically that one man was as good as the next, and if the kid who threw that tomato would step up to the speaker, he would pretty soon show him who was the better man. (Renewed uproar.) In the meantime he considered that Mrs. Annie Seed, who kept the lolly shop, was a bloated Capitalist. Down with her. Down with everybody! (Cheers.) Why should kids have to do any work? At this stage an interrupter, one Mrs. Beazley, entered the hall and asked a question of the speaker.

Had he gone to Williams’s for those eggs? Did he think that she was going to wait all night for a lazy, good-for-nothing Hero indignation overcame the interrupter, who advanced to the speaker, assaulted and battered him. and removed him, howling, from the hall. When the confusion had subsided, it was noticed that a large proportion of the audience had disappeared also. Resuming the meeting, Master Herbert Jenkins took the chair and proceeded to speak with some heat What was the meeting going to do about old Bullneck? Bullneck was Bourjaw. He would go further, he would declare Bullneck to be Black! (Sensation.) Bullneck always had a down on a fellow in school, if that fellow was in the third class, and Bullneck thought that the fellow should be in the fourth class. The trouble with Bullneck, in fact, was that he was class conscious! (Cheers.) The speaker then suggested that the meeting should look at Joe Perkins s gang. Had they, or had they not, insulted the Young Comrades when they had flung clods at them ft 0 ? 1 behind the safety of Farmer Gruhbins’s fence? Were they or were they not a lot of louts? Meanwhile, would that mealymouthed yahoo who was kicking the boy in front of him kindly tell the speaker when he would return those two glass marbles and the taw tha the speaker had lent him last week_ (Uproar and further confusion, an_ the meeting ended in complete disorder) .