"RED ARMY" IN BRITAIN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19145, 31 October 1927, Page 11

"RED ARMY" IN BRITAIN.

(mox oxra. ovrar ooaaESPowmurTj i LONDON, September 21. Communists in this country are proposing to train their own army (writes the Labour correspondent of the "Morning Post"). They are aiming at the establishment of a Workers' Guard, under the title of the "Labour League of Ex-Service Men." The declared aims are to carry on "the fight against war and Fascism, and provide for training to ensure orderly and disciplined participation in processions and demonstrations." This new organisation is to be composed of men who nave served in the armed forces, and auxiliary forces, and support the objects of the League. The first of these is to "work for the establishment of a Labour Government that will fight to abolish wage slavery as the only means to achieve world peace and disarmament." The origin of the whole thing comes out in the second of the objects—"To fight against > Imperialism and capitalist militarism in all its forms, and especially against the naval and military intervention in China, and against the threat of war on the Russian Workers' Republic." This phraseology is familiar, and obviously had its origin in Moscow. Membership of this Red Guard is to cost the soldiers 6d a month, and "no other uniform, save that authorised by the national committee, is permitted." The nnavowed object of the whole thing is to get a "Red Army" composed of men with some experience in the handling of anas, and it can but mean the organisation of violence.