BOLSHEVISM.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 March 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM.

HUNGARIAN REVOLT. o NEW REGIME ESTABLISHED. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. BRITISH MONITORS IN BUDA- j PESTH. LONDON* March 26. j Eerno reports state that a B'olshevik | army is reported at Brody, marching j on Hungary, The Czech Press declares j that ’Allied intervention is necessary, i Dispatches from Budapesth Indicate j that the revolutionists are rapidly or- j ganisihg a new regime, including sepa- j ration of Church and State, the con- j stitution ,of revolutionary tribunals. j and the socialisation of homesteads and enterprises. Martial law has been proclaimed, and the death penalty pro- j scribed for looting, with fines of fifty j thousand crowns for selling alcohol | and a thousand crowns for drinking i it. Hundreds of Hungarian prisoners j are returning daily, bringing Bolshevik literature. Two British monitors have reached Burapesth.l They wegc fired at on the journey. f ■ 4-%ss

The chief personalities in the revolution are Alexander Garbai, a skilled labourer; Vcrga, controlling finance, who is a well-known communist, .and is in close association with Lenin and Trotsky, and Joseph Pogany war commissioner, who was formerly an orderly’ - in the army. He is considered the strongest man in the country, and had the upper hand over Karoyli’s government German newspapers are exploiting the Hungarian revolution. Berne is placarded with appeals for volunteers against Bolshevism. The newspapers shake the bogey of Bolshevism before the Entente’s eyes, and declare that Hungary should toe a statutory warning. Great public protests are being made against Polish claims, and the partition of Germany.

OUTBREAK IN’ GALICIA. | Received 9,55 a.m. LONDON, March 27. Moscow reports allege there • has been a Bolshevik outbreak in Galicia, j REPUBLIC OF BESSARABIA. i j ENGINEERED BY BOLSHEVIKS | Received 9,55 a.m. LONDON, March 27. According to Berlin reports the Bolsheviks arc engineering a republic at Bessarabia, with the object of attacking Roumania. . ITALIANS OCCUPY PRESSBURG Received 9.55 a.m, LONDON, March 27. Italian troops have occupied Pressburg, the former capital of Henpa y, on Danube, 35 miles cast of Vienna. BERLIN FEARS BOLSHEVIK ATTACK. COPENHAGEN March 21, Berlin fears a Bolshevik attack through Lithunia and Livogia* supported on the coast by a fleet. The Bolshevik general staff is preparing to raise and equip an army of 150,000.

DEPORTING BOLSHEVIKS. BRITAIN’S FIRM HAND. LONDON, March 27. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law said the Government was Immediately deporting all Russian Bolsheviks in Britain. Mr. Harmsworth stated that the Bolshevik leaders had been w r arned by wireless that they would be lield personally responsible for the treatment of the British’ Mission to ;tho Caucasus. i j —' -1 KAROLYI’S HOPES. j PARIS, March 27. Kramarc, Czech Premier in aninterview, said he considers it KarolVHs secret hope that Hungarian development will intimidate the Allies. The first thing to be done is to give the Jugo-Slavs the help they need to face the danger and suppress it. TJie junction of the Bolsheviks and the Magyars can only be prevented by the co-operation of Jugo-Slavs and Roumanian troops. tSPARTICIST MOVEMENT. LONDON, March 25. The Sparticists are successfully spreading a movement among the German sailors against manning the foodships, declaring that if no Entente food arrives the Government will be forced to negotiate with the Russian Bolsheviks in order to obtain food from Russia. Two steamers remain in Hamburg with insufficie.it crows.

MASTER AND MAN.

THE WAGES PROBLEM, DISCUSSION IN COURT. i . .. | PROTEST FROM EMPLOYEES, | CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. The Arbitration Court was again occupied to-day in hearing applications from unions for increased wages, under the special legislation of last session. The first case taken was that of the carpenters, who asked that the bonus now paid, namely, 3d per be increased to Id per hour, making the total wage Is 10$, including the flat rate of Is 6d. Mr F. A. Moody', for the union, was proceeding to address the Court, but Mr Justice Stringer said he could not expect to get better terms than had bor :r granted by the Court in other ecu ires. His Honour thought that the employers liaVl better show cause why the- increase should not be graiited. The Court had no intention of putting jhe different centres on a different footing. Mr Nightingale: There is a great difference of opinion as to whether the position in regard to the cost of living is better or worse in Christchurch than it is in Wellington. His Honour: You need not trouble about that. The Court will attend to that.

THE SHADOW, NOT THE SUBSTANCE. Mr Nightingale: The workers a,re not improving their position by increasing wages as they are doing, and thereby increasing the cost of living at the sam’c time. They arc chasing the shadow instead of the substance. They are not gaining anything by their present methods; His Hon cur: They arc not losing anything. Mr Nightingale: They arc building on a wrong foundation. They should try to reduce! the cost of living. His Honour: 'But if they cannot reduce the cost of living, how long are they to wait before seeking an increase of wages? The cost of livinggoes up first, and the workers try to catch up with increased wages. Mr Nightingale: I can show that the

present method is of no use to the workers. The position of thc\workers now is that they arc no bettor than when they got Ss per day. Mr Scott: Their standard of living is better. Mr Nightingale proceeded to contend that the increased wages wore Responsible for the increased price of timber and the increased cost of house building. The workers wore not helping themselves by forcing up the price of commodities.’ “SYSTEM OF ROBBERY. ’ ’ Mr W. H. Winsor, for the 'employers, said ho took up a different position from that taken by Mr Nightingale. It was of r.o use arguing about the cost of living. He asked what about the large number of employers who were affected by' these increases in wages? Was it not due to them that the Court should consider these men? They wore working men in the truest sense of the term. Those-men had made the suburbs of this city, and it was doubtful if any lof them had made a competence. No sympathetic hearing had been given these' men. Their wages bill was increased, and they were being forced into bankruptcy and ruin, and they had no redress under “this absolute system of robbery that the Act allows.” The Couyt has previously Mnted v that. they could protect themselves by providing clauses in their contracts that the price shout! rise with any increase in wages. In the future they intend to do so, but some of them wore out of pocket already. AN UNSOLVABLE PROBLEM. His Honour asked Mr Wiusor how criminate between the small employe;’ be suggested, the Court should disand the large employer. Mr Wiusor said it was the business of the Court to find out. how to do it. His Honour said that Mr Wiusor was presenting the Court with an unsolvable problem, and then said that the Court must solve it. Ho should make some suggestion as to how is could be done. Mr Win soy suggested that when an increase of sixpence was ,granted it should be provided that, the owner should pay 2d, the builder 2d, and the workmen 2d. His Honour said it would require a special Act of Parliament to enable the Court to l do that. Mr Winsor: They will listen to you when they will not listen to us. His Honour: You are very much mista.cn. Politicians will not listen to the voice crying in the wilderness. Mr Winsor: If something is not done to help the small men they will end in the Bankruptcy Court. The Court reserved its decision.