COMMUNISTS’ CAMPAIGN

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1932, Page 7

COMMUNISTS’ CAMPAIGN

PLANS TO te SWEEP BRITAIN’’ “WORKERS APPROACH MOOD” MOVEMENT IN THE UNIONS DANGEROUS COURSE TAKEN By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 7.330 p.m. London, Nov. 22. The Labour correspondent of the Times says the Communists are organising a movement to capture the leadership of the trades unions and are reverting to tactics which previously have failed. The leaders’ latest orders urge the party to build a powerful revolutionary opposition to lead a mass movement. “The Communists declare they are now sweeping Britain, which has been the policy since January but only recently accepted owing to strong opposition,” says the correspondent. “It is admittedly a dangerous course for a small party as it is likely to lead to compromises. Nevertheless official Communism believing, or pretending to believe, that the workers are .approaching a revolutionary mood flatters itself it can ‘develop a broad fighting front, proving that strikes and mass fights are the only practical way of smashing the influence of reformist leaders.” The Communists are troublesome in only a few unions, while there are more limited activities in a few others, the correspondent adds. The Riga correspondent of the Times states that six Communist officials on collective farms have been sentenced to death by a special tribunal in the Caucasus. These will be the first executions under the campaign for purging the Government service. Hitherto executions have been chiefly of nonCommunists.