AUSTRALIAN COMMUNISTS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18413, 20 June 1925, Page 18

AUSTRALIAN COMMUNISTS.

"BROTHERS OF DESTRUCTION."

Mr George Wnite, assistant-secretary of the Sydney United Labourers' Union, in commenting upon, the small number of votes recorded by the six Communist candidates in the three metropolitan electorates in New South Wales, stated that the" public should nob be misled by this consideration into believing that the Communists were, ;m impotent, innocuous faction in the Labour movement.

•'The 910 votes recorded in favour of the Communists merely represent tlio number of uncompromising ffinatics m the community," said Mr Waito. '/They must not bo taken as an indication of the actual strength of the 'red' organisation. If proof is -wanting of what the Communists arc able to do it in supplied hy tho action of a. handful of them in holding up Australian shipping industry at Christmas time. During this period Australia was as much at their mercy as she would bo if blockaded by a foreign foe. "The Communist candidates did not want to win. They merely wanted to seo a Labour Government returned. They then" perhaps would have an opportunity of demonstrating to the people that they "could hope for nothing from the Nationalists or Lalwur; nothing would save them but the wholesale destruction of tho social order. The term 'communism' is a misnomer. Those who claimed to he Communists are really brothers of destruction."