REVOLUTIONARY VIEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18406, 13 August 1931, Page 6

REVOLUTIONARY VIEWS.

An answer which can leave no doubt in the minds of the recipients has been given by the unemployed of Hamilton to insidious revolutionary propaganda from Auckland. Literature received from the Communist element there was carefully perused and then burnt. Added to that a decftlon was reached to have nothing to do with the body responsible and to receive no more of its pamphlets. Admiration has frequently been expressed for the attitude adopted by the Hamilton men, but this latest example of their sanity and stability of outlook is beyond praise. Men on the bread line, worried by thoughts of their wives and children, are naturally and quite excusably fertile ground for the reception of anti-soeial propaganda, so that when they so emphatically turn down such overtures they command the respect and admiration of the whole community. The Incipient stage of the Communists' efforts has received a severe blow here. Not that a man is not entitled to his own opinions and therefore quite within his own rights to declare himself a Communist, but rather is it a matter of the interpretation placed by the individual upon that phrase. The course advocated in the propaganda from Auckland was revolution, nothing more or less. Fortunately the rest of the letterpress, by its sheer inanity and puerile argument destroyed its value of proselytlsatlon except among the ignorant few. There is always present, however, the example of New South Wales. There sinister plans have been disclosed to turn the Australian Labour Party into a straightout revolutionary organisation, to achieve by force what it cannot achieve by legitimate means. For that reason, among others, any attempt at propaganda in New Zealand on more Impressive lines must be as effectively dealt with as the Hamilton unemployed dealt with insidious importunity.