BOLSHEVISM.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1920, Page 2

BOLSHEVISM.

tfor.tlio Editor. Sir,—A Mr. Leo Sim. bf Hitrford road, who is evidently a member of the NVw Zealand Labor Party, has written to you a ic'ter practieally supnni'tinfr liolslievism and the Soviet system, as now existlnc in Russia. It,', dwells much on the ea'nle news wo hnvo received about Russia, and tho JBolshovilc movement there, and primps that these messages have heen falsified liv the ivopeMlnp; power of p"-'.v Does It not strike Mr Sim that If the n—i fT ealilo. reoortlnp; Bolshevik defeats were '■'--, ~-p oannoi asstnno the later Tables are '"'-' v see'ne that both are from the same s ' ITnpplly we are not dependent on ra ! '<. ( ' »<V3.,. A wider readliiK will inform us t' ~ ~... i-1'" to Institute a comparison between "iiss'a end our own country, for i"s'anee. i-n.s'a helicon despotically governed for conMirles The T-olshevllc movoment Is an attempt to--establish a system of communism on the ruins of a fCH'lnl system of conl-ob Srrwlv anvjlr"" could bo wove than what obtained under the autocratic .u'i> of the Cznrs .A review, however, of tin Soviet Constitution fhows th»' whi's*. it has tho appearance of domoor"e" r ouodod nnon laho-. it Is really ' Government by commissaries with a eonserlpt armed fore behind thorn The native s.ivarery of man l ' of the Russians has come, out as . slron" 1it did In mnlnta'.nlnc: the old Tinder the Soi-Ip' svstem three are reoorniicefi as voters/ too proMarla*. public" se'-vapts, an't the'arm-' Tt annears; that hy a drastic annllcr,.t- , nn of -niiocr'ntion the ?ed Arniv lias been! fiul.t ,ur *o spoil a strength that It has become,' ih' a la'"*i measure, the jnester pf Puss'.e. Mr Sim says: "The neople who wort i" Rustle he™ at. Inst delivered ihc'r- nt.tnr'unon the Ml . lenflnrvnors" and non-nyeduoprs and tliis Is the reason why -he, spread of - the, yrfi.s w'f alarm In this country." Wo are not pen "-mod about defendine our Vcw Zealand p.p.<. T- r.i'l wn't look after itself, but wo suhm" that. Mr. K'ni has not rend the- facts of Ttt!'sla's recent experiences ariehf. Tinder thtnmpisp o'' their enthusiasm for land iy>»tnn■ali o etinn the Soviets swept out manv thousands of peasant proprietors, only *n discover that if they wanted production they had to retns'atn thc-e who undeTsnod farmlpir and eoiib' nrodnec Ate SS'im nranes that, when *he wotVers took charjrn of the industries 'h A '" sec ll -Ao*t-i-,i +i, n ( r l- a"nlvine <h rt ""ocall" ♦n the lecler. "t "au't Frctm our Tendlnr 1' tcoirs more as If they were rMMnr nrer -o*ie rt" + ->c liiii'nt chaos lii" revertlne- *o work!"" conditions, roan*- of which wcilbl -.-. l.p ■ to In Xew Zealand under a. "onp'tnl'af". ays'cm. hee-n-p of flic'tr en the iwrfca-rr Tho military idea of tho Teal masters, the "ommlssar'cs. is boinr; mvoIM 'n 'br; wor 1 - shons. and men and women are hetne: con.ci.'.i?„,7 p„„ ,„ii Pt . , r pii as fr,» P-(it'n» T.-> iii/. '-cc n stnd""* the ovcr'h'iw of T,"c'(. cbal- TVniV'n and Yndenlleli, also the spreadlnnoerly edncnied Itusstan nonnlation, is not 5ur- ..„,,,„„ m ,,n lende-s of V~.'' y »-i— <■■'• lycd ldc--._r.c-et- -' --" c-. - 4 .Tlsts opt to eonnuer. Those opposed to 'hem In TS-i-s-fi were dlrided -■., -v..- m,.. The r»a' 'est Is cc,min|» when thev epou,- fl r ht InC a*nd e eft'c i-ew-.. .itrerdv 'i. - - c-'.n.-• tsts see the dancer of their own creation—the Tied Army that, has power of votive: and tialie"es fa nnr-er Mr s:m" savs c.f his partv: "\v» nr-'-'r-tl.p r .'--„ r ... r.n»li<ner" in c- •■■-" - the rialit. of recall." As a matter of fact. there in nn o>. eiiinpr-v "• e l ' '■ .'-• nb-fact statement in these wot.'is "and the --" .11 " Tone enrre-nnndent rays: "^ r'.c'»',c,. -„p n l-. cC „e...'!, n .1r- 'I dee, also talk of confiscation." .Tus'. so: when t. .iwvr -neai'S ; t !iieaus--wliat it. snv-. The T :-' Labor Party, however, when It ">enl-s e r - tionalisation sometimes means ...t.p.u.-n..., f,- ' in other instances pnre eonfiseation Tn its present, platferm it says (clause 3, sub clause c,\ : "Where National ownership of is effee'ed. alt labor 'or spell ini'ustry, ric' at least, half the. hoard of control In each "a-e shall be annninted bv the union, or unions affected." That is clearly towards . vndioallsi" and for tho union, or unions, 'o <*:•- o ' tli; appointment, of labor, and at hr..: half the manapoment. spells plainlv "on'i-,'■-.■■, --'• " riftht of the rest of the State—the majority of the people Try and tell the truth about your platform, Mr. Sim—T a.m. etc., ArtTHUI. P. HARPER. .Vellinston. February a