COMMUNIST SOCIETIES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 80, 29 December 1920, Page 5

COMMUNIST SOCIETIES

* AGITATION AMONG UNEMPLOYED AND EX-'SOpDIEES. London, December 27. A special correspondent of "The Times," declaring that Communißm is weakly raising its head among the unemployed, 6ays that the Communist societies have followed up Moscow's dictum thnt "the faithful mu6t -earn fitness for affiliation by undertaking revolutionary propaganda in the Army." The British Army, he says, has lately been fully recrniiied: from a magnificent stream of sturdy ex-soldiers. The Communist societies, which now have a membership of 6000, are making a. great effort to capture the organisations. The chief of these—the National Union of Ex-Soldiers, popularly known- as the "Kux"—seems at present to be largely in i'iho hands of the Communists. It tenches conventional Marxism, and has drawn up a long programme, demanding the national.ownership of land and capital, and ilhe popular control of industry. Many agitators, and even conscientious objectors, have secured affiliation with th« union as associates, and are leading such movements as' the seizure of houses. The Trades Hall correspondent of "The Times" mnkes no comment, but points •out that the National Union of Ex-Sol-diers has 480 branches, and an estimated membership of 100,000.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6sn.