THE PLEA FOR NATIONALISATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1921, Page 4

THE PLEA FOR NATIONALISATION.

~«s»v«v A “BLOODLESS REVOLUTION.” j WHAT LIES BEHIND IT ALL. j (Contributed by the.N.Z. Welfare League). j I There is a disposition on the part of j our New Zealand politicians to drift in . the direction of suppoiting nationalise- ■ tiou schemes. Do they know where they arc going? THE BRITISH EX 'HIDE. Of recent times there has been a strongly pronounced socialist agitation in Great Britain for the nationalisation of mines, railways and other key industries. “1 think Smillie supports nationalisation for the same reason tluU the “Workers’ Committee the six-hour day. . , as a step in the Class War. . . . if we choose Communism Smillie will go there with us.” 'Mr. John McLean, Bolshevist Consul, in The Civile ‘Worker.’)” i Hutliaiin in his “Programme of the| World Revolution” published by the Socialist Labour Press Glasgow, 1 5)20. In Chapter 9, oil the Nationalisation of Industry he says:— "A transition to the Communist order. which is unobtainable without t’e Nationalisation of banks, is just as unobtainable without tire proletarian Nationalisation of all large industrial enterprises. . • Tins especially applies to the so-called heavy branches of industry (coal milling, inetalluigie industry, etc.) It is this heavy industry that must he nationalised first After that the whole of big production should he nationalised, together with the transfer of ‘big industry into | the hands of the Workers’ Government. The less important indttslties would also become dependent upon die Government. Their expropriation, that is to sav, their seizure by the working class mi'd the workers, marks the end ot Capitalism and the beginning of Socialj M n.’ Communists aie going ahead to Si—ialism and Communism, and the most- important step towards Communism they consider to be nationalisation of bank's and the nationalisation ol huge stale production.” THE HOLLAND PARTY IN NEW ZEALAND. At its recent conference the political partv known as “The N.Z. Labour Pinty.” declared lor "the Nationalisation of hanking and all the principal industries,” That policy was decided upon by the Revolutionary Congress in \ ; tialia and brought from there by Mr 11. E. Holland, M.P., to be endorsed |,\ the Red Party in New Zealand, must be observed that this plea fit Nationalisation is the same programme is endorsed by the C uinmunists c\ei\where. ' A "BLOODLESS REVOLT ’I lON. The Chairman of above N.Z. I’a.rt.y declared that they were against all violence and w holly devoted to peaceful methods. As political M’oeial pleadim. that may lie of interest bill not utm rwise. The assumed Intellectual Socialists assure us that they can imitate a new and golden age ol peace by a "bioi illess revolution.” That is then:. WITH THE MASK CF Bucluirin says: "It is only through Civil War anil the Lon Dictatorship of the workers that Nationalisation can he obtained.” II there is one man m all Europe who can speak from experi-eiii-e on Revolution, surely n is Nicolai l.eiiin, the Soviet dictator. He says (the Soviets at work, published by the Socialist Information anil ... Research Bureau) : "Every great Revolution, and especially a Socialist Revolution, even if there were no external war, is inconceivable without an internal war with thousands anil millions ol eases ot wavering and ol desertion I mm one side to the oilier, and with a state ol the greatest uncertainty, instability anil chiios.” That is what Lenin, the matt who knows, says to niir I ntidlocltial Socialists, uncertainty, instability, chaos ; and h» ftu&J oil: — "Aad of course, all elements of the order, very numerous and connected hugely with the petty bourgeoisie (for tlie petty bourgeoisie is the first victim of every war and every crisis) cannot fail u> ‘silow up’ during such a profound transformation. And 1 1 ie*-so elements of decay cannot ‘show up’ otherwise than through the increase ol dimes, ruffianism, bribery, speculation, anil other indeowii'ios. It takes time and an iron band to get lid ol this. Crime., ruffianism, bribery, speculation, indecencies! There is a picture ol Revolution drawn by the man responsible for it. Later on lie describes the position of the Potty Bourgeois middleelass mail) ‘‘maddened by the horrors of war, by sudden ruin, by the unheardof torments of starvation disorganisation. who is hysterically seeking a wayout, socking s.Tlvation, hesitating, between confidence and support to the proletariat on the one hand, and fits ol despair on the oilier hand.” THE SUMMARY. So behind til! these pleas tor Nationalisation there is the objective of Communism to be teached only byßevolution and those who pretend that Revolution is a battle of llowers, are lying to themselves if deceiving nobody else. Lenin's words -‘horrors oi war, sudden ruin, % unhonrd-nl torments ol stain at ion and disorganisation” deal with actual facts. How long will the wotT.et ot X, u Zealand allow themselves to be misled hyalite false teaching of the political sophists who paint dream pictures to please their fancy, whilst ctinndiglv planning the use ol social dynamite ' which if touched off will effect, a. it has elsewhere, ruin, havoc, and despair. Let ottr people lake warning and sternly- etilorce a salety ptflicy ol ■•bands nil' New Zealand.”