REVOLUTIONISTS IN ENGLAND.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160796, 2 November 1920, Page 4

REVOLUTIONISTS IN ENGLAND.

The cables to-day supply confirmatory news of the extreme revolutionary attitude of Mr Smillie and other labour leaders and? their followers. It 'transpires that during the coal strike negotiations the extremists were ready to risk a revolution, which apparently was only averted' by some pointed questions fcut by one of the delegates, who wanted to know the names of the Cabinet and of the revolutionary armies, as also other very important details. Read In the light of the latest information, that telegram from the Liverpool railwayman's executive must have been somewhat ifi the nature of a bomb shell at the miners’ headquarters. The telegram was: “We have no allegiance with Bolshevism. We have not forgotten the boys killed in Prance and Belgium. These damn.-, able strikes don’t help, but hinder, the crippled and blind unemployed. We demand an immediate resignation, of the extremists-” Evidently the miners and, other workers are now realising the true position. The prominent agitators are not Influenced so much by a genuine wish to improve the lot of the workers as by a mad desire to overthrow all constituted authority, to which end they have been receiving money, and propaganda from Bolshevik sources In Russia. This news of the development of direct action will widen the gap between the Labour Right and Left, and tend 'to uniting-the forces against revolution, leaving the Bolshevik element .in hopeless minority.