COMMUNIST ELEMENT.

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

COMMUNIST ELEMENT.

AMONG AUCKLAND UNEMPLOYED. OVERTURES TO HAMILTON MEN. TURNED DOWN FLAT. An emphatic rebuff to the Communist element amongst the unemployed of Auckland has been given by the Hamilton men. The local committee and men have decided to have nothing to do with the radical section there and have destroyed Inflammatory literature forwarded for distribution. A refusal to receive any more pamphlets of such a nature Is to be forwarded to the publishers. This action came about through the receipt by service car of a bunale of News Bulletins issued by the unemployed men’s committee of Auckland. These called upon workers to prepare for a war upon “ capitalists " and a coming revolution. Tactics such as those adopted by the Bolshevists in Russia were advocated and sympathy expressed with their doctrines. After perusing the pamphlets ths local committee decided to distribute them at an in camera meeting of the unemployed to let the men judge for themselves the insane trend Pffains had taken among a section In Auckland. The attitude to be adopted towards them was put to the vote with a result that the men by an overwhelming majority decided that the literature should not be allowed to leave the hall and should be destroyed. It was therefore burnt. Complete dissociation was expressed with the views set forth therein, and a decision reached that the local men would have absolutely nothing to do with the body responsible for their Issue. A resolution was passed declining to receive any more such literature under any conditions.