THE NEW RED FLAG.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17536, 13 May 1925, Page 1

THE NEW RED FLAG.

BY

SIN BAD.

We must- not think that Ramsay Alan, though ho lias silent been of late, has been unnerved by fortune black or calmly yielded to his fate. ISay, rather, ho has hopes most .high of ruling .Britain once again. “Wo Beds must rally,” is his cry, Ins message to the Labour men. “ I’ll dwell in Downing Street once more if you will follow where I load, but wo a marching song should roar, and this is now our greatest need. The Red Flag is a noble song, and very useful in a way, but time and tune and words are wrong, for use when marching to the fray, and though - we’vo got the chorus pat, wo seem to warble it in vain ; the British proletariat demands a vig- 7 orous refrain.” Thus speaks the 2 puzzled Ramsay Mac, he is perplexed without a doubt, so that a song ho may not lack, here is a. verse to help him out: “Cheer, boys, for Trotsky and Lenin, for Bolsheviks in Russia Re<l t on Moscow all our hopes we lean, for revolution is ahead, so rally then ye Labourites, let moderation come a thud, and raise your voices to 'be beighis, for strikes, class consciousness and blood ”