BOLSHEVIK BRIBERY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK BRIBERY.

PREMIER'S SCATHING INDICTMENT. By Telegraph.—Pres3 Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 18. Mr. Ernest Bevin, of the Dockers' Union, and a director of the Daily Herald, has written to. Mr. Lloyd George, protesting against the official statement that the Herald would not have taken the public into its confidence regarding the proposed Bolshevik subsidy had it not known that the secret could no longer be kept. Thi9 statement Mr. Bevin regards as a reflection upon four trade union officials who are directors of the Herald. Mr. Lloyd George, replying, recapitulates the damaging disclosures made concerning the negotiations, and concludes: "It appears inconceivable that directors who were really exercising business control over a concern of which they were trustees for trade unions, should not have been acquainted with what was going on. If they were ignorant of such vital matters it is a sinister commentary on the control exercised by trade union representatives over this organ." Mr. Bevin, replying, charges Mr. Lloyd George with side-tracking the issue with his usual ability, not making his charges definite nor explicit. Mr. Bevin reiterates that the directors declined the offer as soon as it came to their knowledge.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.