AUCKLAND BOLSHEVISTS

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 July 1919, Page 3

AUCKLAND BOLSHEVISTS

A remit forwarded by the Auckland Coachworkers' Union to the Conference sitting last week of the New Zealand Federation of Labour read: "That in the. event of the Labour Party being returned to power all war loans be repudiated." This proposal, published several days before the Conference sat, created something like consternation in the minds of decent and thoughtful people. Men capable of originating such a proposal as this are capable of anything, and, given the opportunity, they assuredly would not scruple to confiscate private property, and to inaugurate in this country, a reign of terror similar to that existing in Russia at the present moment. Our morning paper puts the matter very pertinently when it says that the vast majority of the workers of New Zealand have no thought of repudiating loans or of encouraging any other dishonest or criminal method borrowed from Russian Bolshevists, and adds that unless electors are careful as to how they vote they may give the Lenins and Trotszkys of New Zealand authority to speak and vote for them in the new Parliament. That is well put. The Coachworkers' Union has committed a gross tactical blunder in making public its atrocious sentiments. But the lesson will not be lost on the voters of New Zealand. Forewarned is forearmed.