LIFE IN RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1926, Page 3

LIFE IN RUSSIA.

TWO VIEWS. 1 [Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] , WELLINGTON, April 12. j While Jeffreys, the organiser for the 1 Communistic Party, was expatiating upon the aclvnSitage enjoyed by the ( workers in Russia. under Soviet rule, j at the Princess Theatre last night his , eloquence was considerably dampened by a Russian getting up in the body of K nthe ilia 11 and painting a toally different /• sian told his experiences of the Bol- ‘ slievik Government. “ I was working for Hansford and Mills,” he said, << when the Russian revolution broke out, and thinking Russia- would l>e a fine country to live in. I hurried home. I was soon disillusioned, however. I found there was less freedom under Bolshevik rule than under the Tsarist regime. The Bolsheviks are robbing and starving tlie people ot Russia. I had £IOO when I got to Russia and the Soviet Customs Officers robbed me of every penny of this amount. I was very glad to leave tlie country.” Jeffreys, in the course of his address, explained that he had attended the nnnunl conference of the New Zealand Labour Party at Wanganui for 'Y the purpose of asking the Labour ' Party to allow the Communist Party to become affiliated. “1 was turned down with a thud,” he said. “The Labour Party would have nothing to do with revolutionary methods or direct action. Tt was clear the mem,hers of the New Zealand Labour Party are endeavouring to live down their past. This is tho first time it has ever definitely denounced revolutionary piethods or direct action.”