The daily News. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1920. REVOLUTIONARY ADVOCACY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1920, Page 4

The daily News. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1920. REVOLUTIONARY ADVOCACY.

If thire was any doubt as to the intentions and aims of extreme Labor in this Dominion it must have been dispelled by the declarations of the two leaders at Wellington on Wednesday evening. Mr. J. Arbuckle, we are told, averredi that the workers had to organise as the workers of Russia and Italy were organised, and that industrialists must take charge of industries, whilst Mr. L. Glover, another prominent figlire in the Federation of Labor, said that ( he looked forward to the time when there would be an alliance of labor that would directly represent the workers of New Zealand in an industrial Parliament, making laws to govern the industrial life of the country We hope these observations will be "read, marked and inwardly digested" by the lawabiding people of this Dominion, who will have no excuse hereafter for misreading or misunderstanding extreme Laibor's aims and ambitions, which, we have no hesitation in saying, are avowedly revolutionary. That these leaders should come out in the open and publicly proclaim and advocate such revolutionary doctrines but serves to show how secure and-confident they must feel and how regardless they are of any fear of consequences. That they can do so is not very creditable to the country or the authorities. If there is no law to deal with advocates of revolution arul the destruction of our constitution, for the maintenance of which our forefathers, sons and brothers have suffered and bled, then the sooiler the power is obtained the better. What do these declarations amount to? Nothing short of confiscation and bloodshed. For assuredly if the extreme industrialists do attempt to put their. theories into practice and take charge of industries and property in this Dominion there will be bloodshed at once. Britishers are neither Russians nor Italians, and would resist to the death such an attempt at wholesale expropriation. It has been patent for quite a time what lay behind the tactics of the Federation of Labor, but their leaders have up to now reserved the de-

fining and elaboration o£ their plana j for their own followers. Now they must think the time is ripe for coming out into the open. We hope the matter will not rest where it is. Men who are actively preaching and working for the upsetting of our laws and constitution are real enemies of the State, and should be deported to places like Russia whose social conditions they profess to admire so ardently. We certainly do not want them here, stirning up trouble and strife and at a time when more than at any other time in the history of .the country we require peace and the closest application to work. We hope their disloyal and pernicious will not go unchallenged onmafrswered; hear shortly that the Government proposes taking prompt action to deal yith' these dangerous firebrands. It is/time for the law-abiding community, whjch is in overwhelming majority, to sit up and take notice of what Is going on in their midst. /