MOSCOW’S RED HAND

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1929, Page 12

MOSCOW’S RED HAND

WILES OF COMMUNISTS. The General Council of the British Trades 'Union Congress has been conducting a special investigation into Communist activities among. British trade unions. Its conclusions, which form a damning indictment of Communism, are contained in the annual report prepared for the congress. The council, speaking of the Communist organisation, says: —“Directly and through subsidiary organisations they have set themselves to destroy the trade union movement. They have adopted deliberate tactics by wh <’h to split the unions in the hope that, the leadership being destroyed, they could step in and seize it to use it for their own ends. With this in view the Communist Party and minority movements, as well as other organisations, have acted under instructions from Moscow. “The tactics of prepared agenda and resolutions, the packing of meetings to elect carefully chosen officers, the organisation of faction work inside branches, meetings, conferences and sb on, and the preparation of literature whose real origin is kept secret —all these devices are framed to bring about a complete disruption- of the present structure of trade unionism, the overthrow of its leadership and constitution, and its replacement ’by Communists.” Investigation has been made into the activities of the Communist International, the Red International of Labour Unions, the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the National Minority .Movement. One of the most insidious methods pursued by the Communist International has been to establish organisations ostensibly for innocent purposes but in reality to serve as agents for Communist propaganda. Among the bodies specially mentioned in this connection are the National Unemployed Workers’ Committee Movement, tne International Class War Prisoners’ Aid, the League Against Imperialism and the Labour Research Department. Of the Communist press, the report says: —“It is obvious that the Communist Party of Great Britain and the National Minority movement must be totally incapable of supporting even one weekly paper through subscriptions from their members. Yet there are the Worker, the official organ of the National Minority Movement, the Workers’ Life, the official organ of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and the Sunday Worker. Besides these and one or two other ‘semi-official’ journals, there are numerous factory papers. It is impossible to do more than mention a few of these, such as the Red Needle, the Mineworker, the Clothing Worker. ” “It is, of course, "well known,” adds the report, “that the Communist, press in Great Britain is ,subsidised, from Moscow.? • •• ’ :