THE RED BEETLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3036, 15 May 1926, Page 4

THE RED BEETLE.

COMMUNIST PRACTICE OF PERMEATION.

The ultimate aim of the Communists everywhere is to destroy society as at present constituted and establish on the ruins a system of dictatorship on the same lines as now obtains in Soviet Russia. So long as these Red revolutionists neither talk violence nor act in a violent way people stupidly imagine there is no danger in the movement The common idea is that Communist activity just allows a few fools to talk ‘hot air' which does not real ly affect Society at large. This confidence of the average Britisher (including the colonial) is founded mostly on ignorance of what the communist movement is, its ramifications and its modes of actvity.

In the first place, it has to. be explained that the whole movement of parties, groups, sections and auxiliaries are directed ironii the one head centre in Moscow, and the direction given to all in the movement is to adapt their tactics to the particular circumstances which have to be dealt with. The leaders instead of being, as many suppose, a set of wild and ignorant agitators, are persons of educational attainment, for the most part frigid, calculating and entirely unscrupulous in pursuing the ends they are seeking to attain. Whilst the chief and minor leaders do at times indulge in talk of violence, the main work of the movement is carried on steadily by methods of quiet permeation, professions of innocent designs and the clothing of their real put poses in language of double meaning and of specious general appeal. PRACTICE OF PERMEATION. Just as the death-watch beetle, or the borer in New Zealand (unseen and unheard) penetrates the wooden structures of houses and other buildings, so are the Reds boring within the whole system of the Labour movement —industrial and political —and in other movements as well. They can be found at work in Church Guilds and societies; trade organisations; educational, co-operative, red cross and many other organisations. The quietness with which they opeiate does not make them less dangerous but rather more so, because, they are thereby enabled to mislead the unwary and commit many to objects they have never had any intention of supporting. MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN. Communism has developed greatly in Britain during the last five years. Not by the process of open conversion to the tenets of the Communist Party, but by the organisation of various camouflaged movements to effect the Communists’ design. Within the Labour movement there has been established on the industrial side “the minority movement”; and on the political side a “left wing movement” in the Labour Party. In addition “groups” and “cells” have been formed in many Unions, factories and works. A special Labour Press has also come into existence. to foster these several communist agencies.

Speaking at the sixth congress of the Communist International held in Moscow last April, William Gallacher, one of the delegates from the Communist Party of Great Britain said: —

“A recent and most important event is the production of “The Sunday Worker.” It will he guided by the left-wing trade union leaders and the Minority Movement. Wie must go on until the left-wing trade union leaders definitely come into the Minority Movement. The Sunday Worker will be very useful in this direction, and will encourage the formation of the left-wing workers movement. This, in its turn, will compel the left-wing of the Labour Party to adopt a political platform. We must bring about the union of these two left-wing bodies. lie are establishing a left-wing movement of the trade union officials, a development of the left; wing of the Labour Party. The Communist Party is in touch with all these movements, which are in the act of collecting together a powerful army against British Imperialism.” The plan thus laid down in Moscow a year -ago is now working out, and very successfully. The minority movement is at work in many of the important Unions. Left-wing Committees are active in Labour Party branches all over the country. What is important is that these minority, left-wing, groups and Press movements are under control of leaders of the Communist Party, have their own Conferences and follow out their own plans without scruple or regard for the bodies to which they are attached. Meantime, the public arc told that the Labour Party has nothing to do with communism. The truth is that the whole Labour movement is being riddled by the boring operations of communism and unless the people waken up to the dangci, society at large must suffer severely as the outcome of the insiduous working of this social pest. (Contributed by the New Zealand Welfare League.)