THE COMMUNISTS AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 6

THE COMMUNISTS AGAIN

Every industrial disturbance 'is an opportunity for the revolutionists 'whose aim is to destroy the existing state .of society. A " Times " contributor states that if the Communists did not instigate the dockers' strike, they were very early in the movement and zealously helped to spread it, with the object not only of making the strike as widespread as possible, but of involving other unions by advocating sympathetic action and interpreting blacklegging in the most comprehensive way. This is quite in accord with the Communistic plan.' No quarrel comes amiss so long as it is a quarrel. Who is right or who is wrong is nothing to the disturbers of the peace, whose whole end and aim is disturbance. It does not matter to such men that the dockers have struck in breach of a specific agreement and against the authority of their leaders, and that consequently the trade union movement may be brought into disrepute. If the Communists consider such.things cat all, they derive satisfaction from the consideration. The arch-priests of Communism in Eussia have despaired of the British trade unions as too conservative and too respectable, and the Communists in Britain are anxious no doubt to re^ move what they must regard as a slur.

Amelioration of social conditions is not desired by the instigators of revolution. Indeed, it is to be avoided at all costs; and the. worst foes of the "Communists are the reformers, who strive sincerely to build upon the present foundations of society. The Communists would destroy the foundation, and in order that they may do this they seek to make the whole structure bo rotten that none will defend it. They endeavoured to turn an industrial quarrel in South Africa into a revolution, and they succeeded; but the revolution failed. When it had failed the workers perceived that they had been the simple tools of plotters whose aims, were quite different from their own. A recent report shows that other plotters are now at work in England, playing upon the distress of the unemployed. They propose no measures for alleviation of distress. Rather they seek to extend troubled At a conference of the National Unemployed "Workers' Committee Movement it was decided to advocate a general strike as a means of bringing the present' social system to an end. A fraternal delegate from the Communist Party took a prominent part in the proceedings, and his talk was of a class war that had to be seen through to the finish. Of course, the conference had something to say about Russia, and denumded the recognition of the Soviet. Further, it demanded that long-term credits should' be given to Russia., The delegates do not appear to have seen the lack of logic in demanding that the Soviet should be saved l?y credits from those capitalistic States which they ■ had already condemned. But there is no logic and bo reasoning in such men, and .if * there is humanity, it is lost in the frenzied pursuit of the revolution. Betterment is not their aim, and if improvement of the social .order comes without revolution it is bad, from their point of ', view. We have never believed that the main body of workers in New Zealand would favour such methods, but it is for the workers themselves to sec that they are not used, without their .ki'.awloUae, ta-mivimuo the designs q! the social wickers..