A BLUE BOOK.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1926, Page 3

A BLUE BOOK.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Juno 24. The Government lias issuer! a Blue Book containing documents and correspondence that were seized when tire headquarters of the British Communist Party were raided last October. The papers show close relationship between the British Communists and the Third International, and; also the Red International of Trade Unions of Moscow. One significant letter from Moscow advises the Communists to organise committees and instructors, and offers cinema films and lantern slides for elementary courses of instruction in Marxism and Leninism. The Moscow organisation, in welcoming Communist headway among British workers, says that this was particularly shown in recent industrial disputes. Seven documents dated lietween December 4024, and August 1925, detail suggestions for the establishment of a central training school in Britain, with a detailed syllabus of subjects to lie taught. Dealing with the 1924 elections, it states that Moscow’s instructions including sharp critcism of the MacDonald Government’s conduct, unmasking its Imperialistic character. The statement shows that the Communist expenditure on this election totalled several thousands, including £SOO for Mr Stewart at Dtmdo?, £2OO for Mr Snklatvala in North Battersea, and £250 each for sonic other constituencies.

A list of London factories employing 35,000 workers shows that only 239 could bo definitely classed as Communists.

LONDON, June 25. Commenting on the Blue Book, the Daily Telegraph says: “The fact that the documents contain little or nothing new does not detract from their importance. The famous Zinnvieff letter contained nothing new. yet it had started political effects. This correspondence should have a similar effect in awkening in the British people a sense of tli.e danger to which the country is continually subjected by the ceaseless patient burrowing of Soviet emissaries and agents.”

Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in a .statement, said: “The Labour Party ought to pass a hearty vote of thanks to the Government for publishing tbe 111,we Book. The Conservative speakers and writers cannot now mix us up with Communism, except by dishonesty. IVe greatly appreciate, (the tribute paid tbe Labour Government and myself by tho Communist propagandists in the form of their attacks.” LONDON, June 24.

According to the Blue Book, the Young Communist League’s programme of Colonial work, dated July 1925, included opposition to Governmental and other emigration schemes. The programme continues:—“We must work to allay the fears, and to i eventually gain tho confidence of the masses of the Colonial slaves, by exposing the Labour leaders carrying on an open and defiant struggle for the break up of the Empire, showing that the only hope for the salvation of the white and native masses lies in the dissolution of the Empire.” It advocates a resolute propaganda against the Barnado and Salvation Army migration schemes, through the medium of which thousands of destitute young Britishers are yearly exported to Canadian and Australian slave drivers.

The Communist Party reports in September, 1925, hpring established working connections with India, Palestine, Syria, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, and.it says: “In Australia, we have our own Party more or less established, but contact by post does not mean secure or most reliable contact. Through the medium of seamen, connections with New Zealand have been established, but they are unsatisfactory. Two or three opposing groups claim to he the Communist Party, and tho resultant confusion makes the work most ineffective.”