BOLSHEVISM NOT FREEDOM.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 13 April 1926, Page 9

BOLSHEVISM NOT FREEDOM.

RUSSIAN CONFOUNDS COMMUNIST.

By Telccrapli—Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 12. While Mr Jeffreys, organiser for the Communistic Party, was expatiating upon the advantages enjoyed by workers in Russia under Soviet rule, at the Princess Theatre, last night, his eloquence was considerably damped by a Russian getting up in. the body of the hall, and painting a totally' dilfereia picture. In halting English, the Russian told his experience 01. the iSoislievik Government. “I was working for the Hansford mills,” he said,, “when-the. Russian volution' broke out, and thinking that Russia would be a fine country to live in, I hurried home. I was soon disillusioned, however. 1 lound there war less freedom under the Bolshevik ru e than under the Czariat regime. The Bolsheviks are robbing and starving the people of Russia. I had .-CIOO when I got to Russia and the Soviet Customs officials robbed me of every penny of this amount. I was very glad to leave the country.” . . Mr Jeffreys, in tlio course of his address explained that he had 1 attention the annual conference of the New Zealand Labour Party at Wanganui for the purpose of asking the Labour Party to allow the Communist Party to become affiliated. ~ tf i was turned down with, a thud, ho said. ‘‘The Labour Party would have nothing to do with revolutionary methods of direct action. It was clear that the members of the New Zealand T abour Party are endeavouring to five down their past. This i* the first time it has ever definitely denounced revolutionary methods cr direct action.