The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times THURSDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1925. THE RED MENACE.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1925, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times THURSDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1925. THE RED MENACE.

Tim lied menaee at Home is more serious than people at a distance are inclined to regard it. Sir William Joynson-1 licks, the Home. Secretary, .-.peaking at a Unionist demonstration at Chatsworlh House, Derbyshire, dealt with the methods of the Communists in England recently with particular reference to the minority movement. |lo made a strong appeal to trade unionists to resist “this hideous grub, which is eating into the heart ot the oak.” A desperate attempt, lie declared, was being made to-day, in conjunction with the people of a country which was not our country, and in conjunction with ' the ideals of a community which was not our community, to force upon Rrilain, by what was known as ihe National Minority .Movement, a scheme of policy and a Constitution utterly foreign to the liritish nation. Describing the condition ol Soviet Russia to-day, he observed. “I am responsible as Home Seerotary to see that, we do not allow ourselves to he conducted by devious methods into the same stale as Russia. 1 ' lie. added that the Nati Minority .Movement. after receiving at the last election tho worst heating that any political parly had had in Great Entail), was now working inside the trade unions to do hv persuasion, by efforts I font within, what it had been unable to do with the people outside. The Red International. the great Moscow organisation. realised that Great Rritain was the tent re of individualism throughout the world, and they knew that unless they could capture the trade unionists of Great Britain, Bolshevism and Communism were hound to die in a few years; so they had started a Red International Bureau ill London, to he worked in dose connection with the trade unionists here. They were working among trade unionists and among the miners and trying to consolidate the working classes ol Great Britain into a single army of labour for a decisive struggle with capitalism. There was to he no friendship between employers and employed; no friendship between Capital and Labour, hut a definite .downright attack upon capitalism by means of class warfare. Sir William referred to the position held by Messrs Turn Maim and Pollitt in the movement and said that, though lie would md go so tar as to say they had received money from Moscow, he could say quite, definitely that he was convinced the movement "as being financed from Moscow. He added : “When T say this, it will interest you to know that my predecessor at the Home Chico. Mr Arthur Henderson, the Labour Home Secretary, said in the House of Commons that he was equally convinced of the fact. Money is coming over here to capture the honest trade unions ol this country, to seduce the trade union movement from that great policy of industrial progress which ha.s built up our Empire. I want to speak quite seriously to trade union leaders and trade ’union members here. There is an effort being made within your body to transform you into an engine in the class struggle, to do away with and to defeat your groat trade union leaders. Already the attack has begun. Mr MacDonald. Mr Thomas and Air dynes are anathema to these Red trade unionists who are seeking to destroy the host interests of trade unionism in this country. It is my duty to warn the trade unionists of this country what is being (lotto in their name throughout their great organisation. It was a vorv serious matter for the trade unionist who wanted to vote, say Labour, for him to find tliaT liis policy and liis leaders were lieing scouted by a body financed by foreign gold and definitely leading to a foreign policy. The whole future of trade'unionism in this country was at stake. AVeek by week reports were sent, from this minority movement in England to their paymasters in Alosi ow to illustrate that they were getting value for their money.” This explanation of the position at Home explains the reason for so much violent unrest and the serious plight of affairs industrially. The situation calls for the closest attention and the firmest handling.