RED COMMUNISM.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1922, Page 2

RED COMMUNISM.

THREAT AGAINST COMMONS. STRINGENT POLICE PRECAUTIONS UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS.

{Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. The police action in closing the precincts of Parliament is a sequel to the unemployed announcement that a procession would assemble on the Embankment to-morrow. London unemployed. ns well as provincial contingents, are mobilising. The organisers assert one hundred thousand will respond. Some recent speeches by the leaders whom the Pall Alall Gazette asserts, are Communists directed from Moscow, were extremely violent. One said everything was ready', except ammunition which was accessible when needed. Another told the audience to lie ready to obey his command to attack the House of Commons. The most serious views are evidently taken by- the ' Government of the. threat to force a hearing on the Premier. Details have been issued officially from the Premier’s Office of what is alleged to be a ml plot to create disorder at Whitehall by unemployed and Communist leaders. The statement points out that many marchers, who have a semi-military discipline are armed with knives and revolvers. All are well armed with sticks and intend marching en masse to Downing Street in position. The procession, will disperse and reconcentrate in twos at Whitehall. Haiinington a well-known Communist is leading the operationsagaiust the police, urging the men to flight if opposed. A statement that further alleged copies of documents of fiery speeches have been sent from Moscow to endeavour to induce Sovieters to provide financial• hacking for the movement, which for several months has been known to he in danger of breaking up for want of funds. Downing Street has also promulgated reports of Communist speeches, typical whereof is the phrase uttered by one, Cooks, from Cheshire, “We brought two thousand unemployed to London. We don’t give a damn whether or not they' are taken hack in coffins, so long as they win the fight.” Simultaneously with the above, an official list containing twenty-four names addresses and records of marchers was issued, including police convictions. It is a regular “Who’s AVlio” of Communism and includes the name of a Sheffield parson. ' •

Though at present there is a determination of the men to assemble on the embankment the effect of the police order will be to keep the men at least a mile from the Houses of Parliament. Hundreds of police, mounted and foot, are being drafted to Westminster. Reinforcements will be stationed at strategic points.