To the Editor of the "Norra-Cana Datty News."
Sin,—In the "Herald" for October 6, a correspondent draws attention to a lecture in the "Central Labour College," Manchester, - reported in the "Manchester City News," in which the lecturer alleged tt the horrors of the early years of the industrial era in Lancashire were being reproduced in China in cotton mills financed by British capital.
It might interest your readers to know that the "College" is a room or two in a block of old office property, in which lectures ate oveasionally given, by, and for, the benefit of the extreme section of the local Labour Party. The lecture referred to "Dr." J. Taylor, who is a native of Manchester with an American medical degree. He has spent several years in South China as a medica] missionary among the lepers. He returned to Great Britain during the war, and is now one of the most able Communist pro pagandists in Lancashire. It is supposed that he has a great future before him as his methods are persuasive and bland in contrast to the more rhetorical flights of his fellow Communists in the Party. He holds up the Chinese as models to the more apathetic British workers and paints attractive pictures of the spread of. trades unionism in China and the successes of our Eastern comrades in conflicts with their employers.
The policy of ascribing all the ills, from which the Far Eastern mill operatives suffer to -the nefarious operations of British capital is very popular among Communist speakers here now. It is designed to create discontent among the Home workers who are warned that it is a deliberate plot -to reduce their standard of living,. and at the same time create anti-British feeling among the native workers.
A little wiiille "ago a cinema entertainment visited the North of England entitled the "Toiling Millions of Orina." It, created considerable interest and was seen by thousands of cotton operatives. I have asked many of them what part' of the film impressed them most, and without
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