BOLSHEVIST ERRORS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 12

BOLSHEVIST ERRORS

EXPOSED BY SOCIALISTS.

Under the auspices of the National Socialist Party, a public meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster^ recently, at which Mr. H. M. Hyndman presided. A large ' hostile element quickly asserted itself, and. a continuous stream of interruption was kept up throughout the meeting. / In opening the proceedings- the Chairman said that the meeting was the first of a series the National Socialist Party intended to hold throughout the country, in order to expose in a formal and-de-finite manner the pernicious policy of Bolshevism. The Russian revolution, he said, was not made by Bolsheviks, or by the men at present holding power in Russia, but by the old guards of the Socialist Party and Revolutionary Party,, many of whom were his personal friends. Repeated interruptions occurred, and Mr.'J. Jones, M.P., who was sitting on the platform, rose and exclaimed, 'This is the new democracy! Listen to it." Whereupon the Chairman remarked1 that the new democracy was very, much like the old anarchy, ' > .

Mr. Hyndman went on to say that Bolshevism in Russia was failing in every department of the State, and anarchy prevailed- everywhere. Having failed in Russia, the Bolsheviks were endeavouring to erect their standards in Great Britain by resenting Parliamentary, action and resorting to direct action. (Cries of "Quite right, too.") If half the energy the workers of England had' devoted- to strikes had been devoted to the political movement, Mr. Hyndman declared, tho working classes would have been masters of England to-day*

Mr. Will Thofne, M.P., moved a resolution in favourjof the establishment of a co-operative commonwealth by ordinary political and democratic action as opposed to Bolshevist attempts at dictatorship—industrial and military. .

Mr. Dan Irving, M.P.-, seconded' the resolution, which was carried' unanimously.