Please wait. Contacting image service... loading

Article text

COMMUNISTS TOLD
navy TO CAPTURE
flMABOUR PARTY
vl^ELJBOURNS,'Wednesday."
A Instructions, from the. Commune
1st Iritematlonale to the AuBtra
, Lan Qo.njmunlat.Party in 1925,
advising on, how to capture the
Australian' Labour Party, was
made to-the Royal Commission on
Cojwhiunlsm in Victoria to-day,
The- instructions said, in part,
that the Communist Party should
naJoj^r_cp^ejat-,it«el£-wlth;un
m'qwnn^-v'tnc'treacherous nature
had role of the leaders of the
Labour Party," merely by propaganda.
unit should fight within
the Labour party and capture "it
by fighting against the social
, trhitora'^whQ^.Jitfd monopolised it
The. instructions were contained
?«,,«» article, published in 'The
Soroptimist," on February <' 237
. /"Slalcolm Henry Ellis, historical
research worker, tendered a copy
of "The Communist" when he
continued his cadence. The instructions
were signed by the
General.; Secretary (W. Kllarow-j
on behalf of the executive com-.
mutes' of the Communist international
-
' Communists were told that
joining the Labour Party opened
vide perspectives for the del
Openers of the Communist Party
told? the unmasking of opportun-
ist leaders" of the Labour Party
before the masses of their follow-'
¦ cr's. This would demonstrate to
the rank and file that such leaders
would never fight for the
various demands of the proletarian
M.. S':'- '-'?? ¦-"'" --1'
? ? Continuing, the paper said that,
should. Labour leaders refuse to
admit, them there was no reason
.'. J:>JVi^bftndpn}ng the united front.
"It: must never be said the Com:
r.i'timitSj. divided the workers.
There must. be left to the leaders
of the. Labour Party,"
? .'.?'¦jflir&tfv. W.'. Paterson, Queensland
7 Communist M.L.A.; took
over as leader of the counsel representing
the Victorian. Com
chemist Party. ?;.- .?>;¦?
'Mr, Paterson questioned the
extent to which happenings in
another State were relevant to
the Communist Party in Victoria.
"The Commissioner (Sir Charles;
Lowe) said he had received evi-
dence that the Communist Party
in Victoria was a branch of the
Communist Party in Australia,
which was a part of the Third
Internationale. .
$