COMMUNISM.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 28 June 1926, Page 6

COMMUNISM.

ACTIVITIES IN BRITAIN. (Per Press Association—Copyright). LONDON, June 24. The Government has issued a Blue Book to publish the documents and correspondence seized when the headquarters of the British Communist Party were raided last October.

The papers show a <)ose relationship between the British Communists and the Third Internationale, also the Red International of Trade Unions of Moscow.

One significant letter from Moscow advises the Communists to organise committees and instructors, and offers cinema films and lantern slides for mentary courses of instruction in Marxism and Leninism.

The Moscow organisation, in welcoming the headway the Communists are making among the British workers, says that this was particularly .shown in the recent industrial disputes. Seven documents between December, 1924, and August. 1925, detail suggestions for the establishment of a central training school in Britain, with a detailed syllabus of subjects to bo taught.

Dealing with the 1924 election, the Blue Book states that Moscow’s instructions included sharp criticism of the MacDonald Government’s conduct and unmasking of its imperialist character.

The statement shows that the Communists’ expenditure on this election totalled several thousand, and included £5OO for Stewart (Dundee), £3OO for Mr Saklatvaln M.P.. for North Battersea- and £2OO each for other constituencies.

A list of London factories employing 35,000 workers, shows that only 239 could be definitely classed as Commui? ists.

The Young Communist League’s programme of colonial work, dated July 1925, included opposition to the governmental and other emigration schemes.

The programme continues: “We must work to allay all fears, and eventually gain the confidence of the masses of colonial slaves, by exposing th© Labour leaders and carrying on an open and defiant struggle for breakup of the Empire, showing that the only hope for salvation for the white and native masses lies in the dissolution of the Empire. The programme advocates resolute propaganda against Dr Barnardo’s and the Salvation Army’s migration schemes, through the medium of which thousands of destitute young Britishers are yearly exported to Canadian and Australian “slave drivers.” The Communist Party reported on September 1915, having established working connections with India, PaN estme, Syria, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, and Jkys: “In Australia we have our own party more or less established, but contact by post does not mean a secure or most reliable contact. Through the medium of the seamen connections with New Zealand have been established, but they are unsatisfactory Two or three opposing groups claim to be the Communist Party, and the resultant confusion makes work most difficult.”