WHITE AUSTRALIA.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 9

WHITE AUSTRALIA.

COMMUNIST VIEWS.

“TINNY TOCSIN” OF INEXPERIENCE

“It is no longer necessary to argue about the Labour Parly’s connection with extremist leaders in Australia,” said Mr R. 13. Orchard, Nationalist candidate for East Sydney. “The shameful and dangerous truth has been so abundantly demonstrated in this campaign, and supported rather than denied by the futile and fatuous disclaimers from Mr Charlton, Mr Lang, and others, that interest lies more in examining the ramifications of the Red policy. “The more this is submitted to the calm and unbiassed gaze of clearthinking men, the greater becomes the horror and surprise that such a band of murderous wreckers should he permitted to have (lie slightest liasion with a party which appeals to the electors of Australia for support.

Strange Bedfellows. “In a recent issue of the ‘Communist.,’ ‘a journal for the theory and practise of Marxism,’ published in Sydney by Mr J. S. Garden, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, appears a deeply significant article on the subject of White Australia. The maintenance of this policy is a sacred trust with the Nationalist Party. Its preservation inviolate stands in the forefront of its policy. Mr Charlton and other Labour Party speakers have told the electors that they also intend to maintain the White Australia ideal. Yet an official of one of the greatest aggregations of trade-union strength in New South Wales is allowed (without comment from the leaders of the Labour Party) to issue a journal in which the following vile, insulting, and sinister remarks arc made on the subject. (Incidentally, the journal is sold from the doorway of the Trades Hall): — “Much as White Australia may be revived, and “right” and “justice” are a tinny tocsin for inexperienced workers, the former represents no inviolable tradition for the A.L.P. masses or trades-unions.

“To Communists it can present no difficulty. A move towards union organisation contact with the workers of the East would be again, as in 1921, a repudiation of White Australia. No concern should ever be given it (White Australia) in debate, on the platform, or in the workers’ press, except such as would effectively exhibit it as sheer humbug. About us to-day all the conditions are favourable for such rude exposure. “Then again:— “Persistently the Communist should utilise in speech and print every incident, “home” and foreign,” that will clarify for the Australian worker his common cause with that of the exploited workers in the East, with whom he has unduly long been kept in false relation. Ultimately, as objective there must be a regular body emerged from all the National Pacific union organisations.’ “Perhaps this is the most astounding of all: — “‘To think that homage must be paid to White Australia in working class activity would be as sound as t o think that tribute must be paid to the conception that the Germans were responsible for the war.’

"Stupid Idea.”

“Thus Mr Garden takes authority for a brutal sneer at White Australia, a call for amalgamation of Australian workers with Asiatics, whose teeming millions, In the eyes of all military and naval experts, constitute one of the gravest dangers to pur country today.

“The article says, in effect: ‘What’s the use of a White Australia, a stupid, out-of-date idea? Join hands with the black and yellow races across the seas, and let them flood into this country. Let us turn our back on White Australia and embrace our deeply beloved friends, the Asiatics.’ “Could anything he more dangerous or terribly insulting to the national ‘religion’ of every good Australian? And yet these are Hie sentiments proudly and flagrantly held by the apostle of Red revolutionary rule, Mr J. S. Garden, secretary of the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council.

“No doubt he told some such talc to his black- and yellow friends at the Moscow Conference. Australia surely cannot entrust the future of our great country and our glorious ideal, a ‘White Australia,’ into the hands of a party which shelters within its fold such malignant and deadly enemies of all that wc hojd dear.”