The one sinister feature of Bolshevik propaganda in Great Britain is the fact that the Saklatvalas are getting fewer and the Phillips Prices more numerous. Unlike our experience of former Communist meetings there was on this occasion, no heated invective wasted on moderate Labour men. It was exclusively directed against the capitalist. "A single front," is the Communist slogan to-day. Their classes for the study of history and economics give them a verbal and intellectual dominance over the trade union type of -politician, and increasing numbers of them are being selected as "Labour" candidates for Boards of Guardians and Town Councils. The best lady speaker at this demonstration was Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.A., and a fortnight ago she won a seat on the local town council as a "Labour" candidate. Communist propagandist literature is also slowly changing its character from the denunciatory to the persuasive. The British worker is not now asked to rise and protect his Russian brother from the cruelties of the Whites. He is asked to look on this pretty. picture, and that, in all of which the Russian worker is depicted as having the best of good times, and compare it with the lot of the unemployed Briton or the German who was too timid to go the whole hog in revolutions.
A few days ago we heard a street corner Communist orator reading an article from an anti-Labour paper to a crowd of workmen, mostly out of work. It maladroitly described the hard lot of these people in Russia who did not work, and pictured the deference paid in Government offices to common working people in comparison to the incivility shown to those who were formerly rich. Its effect on the audience may be imagined. When questions were called for, "How lo- you get to Russia,' was shouted from all parts of the audience.
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