THE MAY DAY RESOLUTION

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10272, 6 May 1919, Page 4

THE MAY DAY RESOLUTION

'Hie resolution passed i>y the meeting in Wellington on Sunday night hoped “that the social revolution in Russia, Austria, Hungary, Germany, and other countries will be triumphantly established on a permanent and peaceful base of economic equality and justice.’’ In this social revolution there is no economic equality and no justice. That is proved in the ease of the Bolsheviks of Russia and the Spartacists of Berlin and Munich and the Soviets of Budapest and the Polish towns. Tho resolution, therefore, is against economic equality and justice. Tho hope for their establishment is merely an echo of Lenin’s mad and perfectly inconsequential declaration for tho establishment or justice ’ through the anarchy of a proletariat dictatorship. The resolution seeks to throw dust in the oyos of the public-by calling for "the recognition! of the right of the Russian people to determine their own government,” because, (1) the Bolslieviks have refused to recognise this right, by the very practical method of suppressing tho Assembly elected by the Russian ■ people; (2) while tho Bolsheviks ignore that right tne rest of Russia, under Kolchak and others, assail n, and tho Allies recognise the claim byref using to acknowledge the Bolshevik Government. To ask. as tho resolution does, for the withdrawal of the Allied troops from .Russia is to ask that the right of self-government ut Russia may be ignored. No one 'will find fault with the final,words of the resolution affirming the meeting’s “faith in the world-wide working class movement,” but most people will wonder .why the resolution did not go on to acclaim the efforts of President Wilson to stabilise the conditions cl Labour, through the League of.Nacions, giving “peace, justice, and righteousness to tlie workers.” That promises a far better solidarity than anything that can be obtained through the internationalising madnesses and ferocities .of Bolshevism. .Moreover, in that 'way,, these blessings will, come, to all men, whereas by the Bolshevik way they are offered—with the addition of the worst possible government—to only one class.