THE MOSCOW REDS.

Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16946, 8 November 1926, Page 5

THE MOSCOW REDS.

ATTACK ON MR COOK. NOT ENOUGH FOR ITS £900,000. Information reaching London from Moscow shows that the Soviet leaders are beginning to express sharp criticisms of -Mr Cook. This, of course, is not surprising, because people like Ihe miners’ secretary, after openly welcoming the receipt of Red money for Ihe use of the Miners’ Federation, must expect abuse from the Russian extremists. Having paid ihe piper to the extent of £900,000, tire alien agitators claim the right to call the tune. A similar attitude was reflected in the notorious Tomsky’s recent and savage attack on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, which refused the Russian offer of £IOO,000 during the general strike. Tomsky, denouncing the refusal, said that the T.U.G. leaders wanted “to be as agreeable as possible to the bourgeoisie.’’ The present criticism of Mr Cook centres in his altitude to the.recent Bournemouth meeting of the Trades Union Congress. A letter has been sent to him by the Moscow leaders. Although its full contents arc not disclosed, the trend of the letter has been revealed by Lozovsky, the chief of the Red Trade Union International to which the National Minority Movement is aililiated. Mr Cook, os' a member of the latter, would bo subject to Lozovsky’s “discipline.” The cause of the trouble is the general strike, which was “not discussed at the recent congress” because, according lo Lozovsky, “Cook announced in the name of the Miners’ Federation that, the miners did not consider such a discussion at all useful.” The articles on the subject published in Pravda, the Moscow paper, contain a great deal of frankness on the question of Soviet rights to interfere in the domestic affairs of ihe British trade union movement, “because of their huge financial assistance and saerillccs."