AMAZING MENTALITY.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1925, Page 4

AMAZING MENTALITY.

THE GLASGOW COMMUNISTS.

CORRUPTING THE YOUNG IDEA

(Respite Einem.) NO. HI. Hut perhaps the worst phase of the teachings of the Communists is their endeavour in Glasgow to instil revolution, class hatred, and the negation of Christianity into the children ol the working cla-s. A correspondent at the time of the last British election, v. hen the I.about’ Government was defeated, says the "Proletaniau Sunday School

Movement," published a monthly magazine called ' 1 Protocult. but the leaders were prosecuted for publishing an obscene larok, and the Glasgow printers refused to publish it. flic same correspondent said that there wore tweiitv Proletarian Sunday Schools in Britain at the time and among the ten Proletarian eomniuiulments are these: “Thou shall not be a patriot for a patriot as a international blackleg." “Thou shall not take part in any bourgeois war." “Thou shall teach revolt! the abolition of the present political State, the end of capitalism, and the rising in their place of an industrial republic." ~ “Thou shall wage the (lass war. The hv nut book ol the school is inspired by the same spirit. A typical chorus is as Pillows MY. the rebel children, sing. Perish every court and king; We’ve a world to save and "in. In the revolution. Another is as Inllows: — Class conscious we arc singing. Class conscious all are wc ;

For Labout' now is digging. The irfave of the boorzhwnwzee. SPOILS TO THE VICTORS. There arc many other amazing tilings that crop up now and again and one appeared in tin* press only a day in two ago. this being to the client tin'll 11,0 Now South Whiles Parliamentary Labour caucus decided that salairos of tile .Assembly lie increased from L'(il)',) to £B7"> per annum, front 30th ol une last. Amazing! Fancy a man who was previously tor supposed to he) a worker, finding that a salary of £(!')!> was insufficient to meet his living requirements having the audacity to want Cg7A Spoils to the victors again, to 1,,,, a cry of the politicians. Are those Labour politicians to get a big hoist in wages at the expense ol the worker and till* general taxpayer. What are they j r , get;- The trend ol New South Wales Labour Party's policy seems to he “feather your nest" while your luck is in. for to-morrow you may be east out. PERSONA L EX PER lEX('EH. In talking ol labour agitators, the writer has wondered time and again, how the secretaries and some of the presidents of a few ol the small sectional unions scattered throughout the country a few years ago could take twenty, thirty, forty of Lot) as -the ease may be. without a tremble of the band or a prick of the conscience, tin* motley being voted by their unions for services rendered during the year, which. taken all round did not actually ainounl to very much in the matter of time, as where these small unions exist it is pastime for the men in attending union meetings which were usually held on Sundays. The amazing part ab nit. it is. if these secretaries am! presidents loved their their tcl-low-workers. as they made out they did, what was wrong with handing the extra monev hack to the eout ribut ot s, or better still to ilie accident and sickness fund, because thev lost no wages and very little lime in attending to the affairs of the onion. But no. the money went to sweil their bankin'.; accounts, which a large majority ol the other workers did mil possess, yet they had to shell out to make their leaders fat. Another glaring instance that cattle under the writer's notice, was when three men were sent on a deputation which took about five days, and they had the audacity to draw from the union, wages, hotel i t wo of them stared with relatives) expenses at 10s (id per day. and train fares to a good atnounl. besides Irani and motor car fares. A first-class holiday at their comrades’ expense, and the union paid out like lamb. If the above insiames are not exploitation of workers by brother workers -what is; CORBITT OFFICIALS. Then look at the number ot cases ol secretaries defrauding unions, or gett Lie a'.vav with the workers' motley, which could I'.nvo Ir. ii far belief utilised ,n building up a strike hind instead of making someone another bloated capitalist. Tf ibis corruption happens within the ranks of Labour now. what " ill happen when the ''Reds" rule the world. There will sure lie jJ great scramble for tin* spoil. ALL ABOARD FOR PARADTSE. As the elections are ill Us HOW ii would lie a very good idea to take a referendum here and in Australia lor t hose “Reds" who are dissatisfied with the countries they live in, and as it is

quite the vogue to assist immigrants 11 regard to their passage money. il would he also appropriate to assist anyone who wanted to go to another conntrv, especially that workers' paradise Soviet Russia, of which country a cubit message from London on Septelidici 17tli, painted a must tranquil ami beautiful picture of lile there. It b .ufe to say none of the red agitatorlane would go—ihey're too well paid and they know a good thing when they see it. It would he terrible to have to work hard again. It is no wonder that Messrs Walsh and Johnson are lighting the Deportation Hoard which has been set up in Australia. I era use they know it their tale is deportation nil easy billet and a lal salary will have gone west, with hard work again staring them in the lace. Their wonderful talents would he tar better utilised in solving Soviet Russia's internal problems. instead ot creating trouble in Australia. Anyhow for the dissatisfied there is Russia of which the cable mentioned: The "Morning Post” states:— ‘'lire cll'orts of the Russian (iovernment to pacify the peasantry have met with scant success. The peasants are refusing to sell fooclst u(1 s.- unless I hex receive their requirements of uinnulaetures. The peasants have sent in investigators to the market towns to lind what, goods are offered. Il their report is unfavourable, no grain is marketed. Keen when an army of Soviet grain-buyers invade tho countryside, many nf the peasants still ret use to sell, knowing that they will not he aide to purchase much needed goods. The State undertakings have also been cheating the peasants hy selling inferior goods at extort innate prices and they are now without sullieient provisions to feed the towns ot tho-e districts where flic crops leave failed. Another symptom of the peasants' discontent is their voluntary migration to Syria. .Many thousands ol peasants are going." And the same thing may happen in this country if Mr Holland and his follower- are aide to bring to pass their pretty Ittle schemes for the nationalisation of the mines, the l seIndd land policy and other of their crank ideas, which won't hold water, let alone anything else.