DESPERATE FIGHT.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17997, 16 April 1930, Page 6

DESPERATE FIGHT.

TERRORIST CAMPAIGN. COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES. PERSONAL VIOLENCE RESORTED TO (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. A terroristic campaign Is reported to have been Inaugurated among the freezing workers of the Dominion by a Communistic organisation known as the “ Propaganda Committee ” which has been responsible for the extension to Canterbury of the recent dispute in the South Otago freezing works.

The members of this organisation, It is stated have resorted to personal violence against those who oppose their views and their activities.

Mr H. C. Revell, secretary of the New Zealand Freezing Workers’ Federation, was recently the victim of an assault by a much younger man when visiting the Paeroa freezing works and Mr Alex McLeod, secretary of the Wellington Freezing Workers’ Union, was attacked in his office. It is also reported that Mr H. J. Armstrong, M.P., was attacked personally in Wellington recently by a yang of Communists. Mr Revell said this morning that the members of this self-constituted committee, while declaring that they were out to fight intimidation and victimisation on the part of employers, resorted to far baser methods than the employers could ever descend to. During the past few months an intense struggle had been taking place in the Freezing Workers’ Organisations between the official body and this unofficial committee. It had been a desperate fight on account of the methods which these men were prepared to adopt In order to gain their ends.