NEW GUARD'S AIMS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 100, 18 December 1931, Page 5

NEW GUARD'S AIMS

(Press Assn.—

NOT POLiflCAL BODY DEFI^ITELY AGAINST LANG BUT NQT OPPdSED, . , TO LABOUR POLICE BECOME INTERESTED

-By Telegraph — Copyrlght).

Rec. Dec. 17, 7.0 " p.m. SYDNEY," Thursday. At a meeting in the Town Hall Colonel Campbell, leader of the New Guard, said the New Guard was not a . politicai body. They were not against the Labour Party, hut they were very definitely against Mr. Lang. But for the' existehce of the New Guard the Communists would have been enahled to perfect their plans for the complete Sovietisation of ttie State withoiit fair of interruption. The only way to deal witH the menace was by .plain moral and physical aggressipii. Certain politicians had pledged themselves to deport aii the leading Communists, hut these prpmises were not carriecl but immediately Parliament assembled the New Guard, within the period of its five inontlis' plan, would do the job without the aid of Parliament." Colonel Campbell denied * that the New Guard was oiit to break trade unio'nism, as S0 per cent.of its mem: bers were trade unionists. New intqrest is imparted to the New Guard's activities by the attention given theni by the police under sp'ecial, instructions, th,e authority for which has not been disclosed. While Colonel Campbell was speaking in the Town Hall last night, members of the New Guard in various suburhs, were engaged affixing posters exhorting voters to beware of the Communists. The police patrols arrested 50 of them and took the names of others. Complaint is made that, while the police harass the New Guard in this manner, other persons are permitted to affix Communistic placards of an objectionable, character without hindrance. In one or two cases the New Guard found men tearing down' the United Australia Party's posterg. They chased and caught them and gave them a sound thrashing.