RED PLANS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1930, Page 8

RED PLANS

AUSTRALIAN , REVOLUTION

SENSATIONAL DOCUMENTS

SYDNEY, September 11

“Every worker in Port Adelaide must down tools until after the scabs and the police are removed from the waterfront! Rank and file Committees of Action must be set up in all jobs—in the raijways, on the wharves, among the drivers, among the storemen and packers, timber workers, etc., to take the leadership of the struggle out of the hands of the reactionary trade union officials.”

Such was the exhortation of a pamphlet which was issued in Adelaide lafil week, clearly showing that the strike at the Port had been a strike, against trade unionism. In fact, it is not difficult to trace the. whole of the trouble to Communists, who have been particularly bold. Their activities have greatly embarrassed the Labour Government in South Australia, which has just succeeded in passing specia' legislation for the safety of the public so great had the menace become. There are now indications that the- Adelaide strikers are becoming aware of the fact that they have been falsely led. If they had any doubts on the matter these should be set at rest by the sensational disclosures that have followed tin raid by the police on the premises occupied by the communists at Pori Adelaide in connection with the waterfront strike.

From these it is evident that a com prehensive scheme of organisation ha: been drawn up, with ramification: throughout the Commonwealth, am apparently with headquarters in Sytl ney. In one of the papers taken ii was stated that the Communist Part? in Australia was a section of the Com munist International. The documen shows how Australia was divided int< various groups. For instance. Grouj No. 2 consists of Broken Hill, and district. Broken Hill, owing to its pro duction of silver lead and zinc is saic to he exceptionally important, am every effort should be made to built up Party influence and membership ii that district. District committeestated the document, did not formu late policy, but were responsible foi carrying it out on the lines laid dowr by the central executive committe They were directly responsible to the central committee, and they must in sist on the various departments sub mitting regular reports to headquar ters.

A Control Commission, the documen' proceeded, would be set up in each dis triet consisting of three members win had long standing in the Party, win were perfectly reliable, and who woulc carry out the orders of the Comintern (Communist International ) withoui hesitation. The Commission would bresponsible for the discipline of tin Party. Under the heading of Depart ments it was set out that the indus trial department should carry out tin line of the Party in unions, and revo lutionary opposition among the uneirn ployed, superintend rank and file com mittees of action, and organise the is suing of strike bulletins. Concentration groups that were to be set u] in the larger industrial sections were to do everything possible to establisl friendly relations with the workers freely entering into discussion con cerning their everyday struggles. “Revolutionary competition between concentration groups will be encour aged,” states the document, “and thua great weapon in building initiativ< and enthusiasm among members wil be forged. Members should observi personal cleanliness and decency ii dress, and those selected to do th< work of establishing contact with th< workers must be able to inspire personal and political respect. New anc inexperienced comrades should be a 1 tached to the concentration groups tf gain experience and confidence.” The plans of the Communists t< force an insurrection in Adelaide might have been duplicated in Sydney bad not the scheme misfired for tin hold-up of wool and wheat shipments. It is definitely revealed that the plans for the Port Adelaide and Melbourn. waterfront trouble were laid in Syd ney as part of an all-Australian conn ter offensive “against Capitalist wage cuts and longer hours.” Sydney has •hvavs been the headquarters of th< Communist Party in. Australia, and if is suspected that Moscow provides the money and the propaganda. However all efforts to extend the waterfront trouble to Sydney were unavailing though the extremists did succeed last Thursday in holding an unofficial, oi rank and file, meeting of the Sydney waterstrikers, at which motions of sympathy with the comrades in Melbourne qnd Port Adelaide were carried. Thai meeting was subsequently repudiated by the officials of the union. The secretary of the Communist Party (Mr H. J. Moxon), one time of New Zealand, made a perfectly frank statement on the whole affair. He said that the Adelaide strike was the beginning of the counter offensive against Capitalism that would spread to every city, to every section of the workers, and to the farmers. Asked if the Communist Party was behind the Port Adelaide strikers, lie said “Tt is absolutely and unequivocal)]?associated with the watersiders and tlie other strikers there, and the unemployed. They are adopting our tactics by forming rank and file committees.” He admitted that the Adelaide branch of the Communist Party had assisted in the formation of the strike committee there.