EXTREME LABOUR.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16810, 7 August 1920, Page 8

EXTREME LABOUR.

AND THE INVASION OP POLAND. Tho following, headed “The Soviet Triumphant,” is an example of the views of extreme Labour as published in the Greymouth Argus:— Tho years of Allied warring and propaganda against Russia have come to nought. The Soviet has ignored tho stipulation that its armies must not enter Poland, and the consequence is that the Soviet idea has advanced a further step in its great westward trend. In another column tho Welfare League has a quotation from a statement by Lenin as to the necessity for unity of control and direction in industry in Prussia. Tho league evidently presumes this statement will fill the role of a useful bogy, but in granting it space wo have no fear that it will bo misunderstood by any intelligent worker. Considering tho continuous wails for “More Production,” the howls about “Bolshevism,” the deportations, the war regulations, 'the strikes, the famines, and ail tho other evil consequences that have followed in the wake of capitalism in every country outside Russia, where is the objection to Lenin’s stand for industrial order and unity in bis own country? It seems the day is going; when Russia can be .blackmailed with any hope of success. The . popular leaders there have proved themselves abler statesmen than any of their critics. It is significant that they took the advice of M. Litviuoff (their Ambassador) in preference to having anything to do with the Allies in tho way of a Polish peace* until such

time as they solidify their position in Poland. Litvinoff knows the Allies. > Ho found them out when O’Grady tried " to' ram a cock and bull 'story about atrocities down his throat at Copenhagen. Ho found the Allies used for this purpose a forged copy of the Russian newspaper Isvosta. Litvinoff was able to prove the atrocities in Russia alleged in that instance were the pure invention of Denikin, the anti-Bolshe-vik. Litvinoff knows, too, what ho l talks about when ho says French capi- ; talists have been the cause of the | Russo-Polish war. Even Marshal Foch i has hinted the Poles made a mistake. The victorious Soviet advance now nearing "Warsaw is neither more nor less than the first of the Allied chickens arriving home to roost.