STALIN DENOUNCED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1939, Page 8

STALIN DENOUNCED

RUSSIA NOT SOCIALIST COUNTRY RESOLUTION BY SEAMEN’S UNION. SYMPATHY WITH FINLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In a resolution passed by the Federated Seamen’s Union, recording profound sympathy with the people of Finland, it was stated that while in Russia there was a greater measure of State ownership than elsewhere, conditions prove that exploitation of man by man is by no means ended. Fai from Socialism having been established, there is good reason to believe that the class struggle between the ~.iass of workers and the ruling bureaucracy that controls the means of production has been intensified. Part of the resolution reads: VWe have taken note of the whole shalneful story of Stalin’s intervention in world affairs, particularly over 'the last ten years of his hypocritical advocacy of resistance to aggression and support of the League of Nations. While all the time Russia was still claiming to be a Socialist country, she was not only supplying those same aggressors with indispensable war materials, but was secretly negotiating with Germany and making preparations for her own acts of aggression.”

The resolution, which runs, to 1,200 words, concludes with an appeal to the German and Russian workers to rise against and overthrow the Hitler and Stalin dictatorships and replace them with governments controlled by and acting in the interests of all the useful people of their countries.