OPPOSING THE EXTREMIST.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1921, Page 4

OPPOSING THE EXTREMIST.

AN AUSTRALIAN MOVEMENT A movement to check the spread the Bolshevik campaign in Australia ii meeting with a great deal of success A New Plymouth resident, Mr. A. E Sykes, who was recently in the Commonwealth on one of his business visits told a Daily News reporter yosterdaj that this new organisation, the Pro grossive League, is out to squash the ex tremist elements, who have hitherto been allowed to scatter their viewi without opposition. By literature an( by addressing meetings in the parks th< Progressive League is fighting the tremists on their own ground, and their meetings draw the largest audiences. In a recent leaflet headed “Slavery in Russia,” the league points out that the British Labor leaders recently stated, that the Russian workers would be glad to enjoy the freedom and liberty afforded to British Labor, and that the control of Russia was reproducing the general terrorism of the French revolution; everybody suspected everybody else. In putting commonsense views before the people the Progressive League is doing effective work and their efforts have been a set-back to the party they are out to oppose. In summarising this aspect of Australian life Mr. Syke< expressed the opinion that the disloyal section comprises a very small percent* age, and this was proved by the big counter demonstration after the incident! of the burning of the flag.