OTHER PAPERS' OPINIONS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16296, 19 January 1925, Page 4

OTHER PAPERS' OPINIONS.

THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW

It is an interesting sign of the times, and reminder of the opening of election year, to find the ‘‘h'ew Zealand Worker” applauding die British Labour Party and the Brtish Trade Labour Congress for having “both rejected’ Communist proposals for joint action.” This is a polite way of stating that the British Labour bodies have excluded Communists from their membership. According to the official organ of our local extreme Labour Party, many people who have “been fooled into believing that no difference obtains between i.ab'uir and Bolshevism” must find this stand by Brit sli Labour confusing, and the 'confusion of these people, it is added, “is not lessened when a delegation ■from tho (British) Trade Union Congress lauds the work of the Soviet Government in Russia.” Whatever may be thought of British Labour policy in this matter, there certainly is a good deal in the attitude of the local Labour Party towards Bolshevism to awaken confusion in the pubkc mind. In affirming that Labour must d'slocato itself from Bolshevism, the “’Worker” no doubt is embarrassed by the memory of comparatively recent actions and utterances by prominent members of the party for wlr'ch it speaks in which a very different inclination was manifested. It therefore, waters down its repudiation by argu ng that Bolshevism is an excel lent thing in Russia, and would have been an excellent thing in England in tho time of the Stuarts, but wouid be “ruinous in a society which has polit cally enfranchised tho workers.” - “.Dom nion.”