Exploiting the "Minority Movement" in Industrial Disputes Frost A MANCHESTER Contesronpext.
For the first time it may perhaps bbe said that the Communists are not entirely negligible in England. Tt would be easy fo exaggerate the importance of their activities and there is even a disadvantage in recording them without bias or exagileration, for every mention, advertises their movement and there is nothing which they so much covet publicity, nothing that they gent more' than obscurity. The disadvantages, however, are more than counterbalanced by the neces: pign on which they have embarked sity of exposing clearly the cam-
in the hope of gaining control of the Labour movement in. England. This campaign has two sides, th one political and the other industrial, and the thing about it which really matters is that it is not haphazard or spasmodic in its intention but is the result of a definite strategy. It is the plan of the Communist General Staff in this country, s0 far as one exists.
The obstacle that the British 'Communists have to overcome is not merely the obviously bourgeois elasses—the political Tories and Liberals—but the Labour party itself. British Labour is, by inclination and policy, _anti-Communist, 'The Labour' party has repeatedly rejected the request, of the Communist wing for affiliation. Its argument to the Communists hay always been this "You seek affiliation in order to work against the Labour movement from within. Those are your orders from Moscow. You ave like the boll-weevil you would live in and upon the bud until you have destroyed it. We shall not give you the opportunity." Pherefore the Communists have to pursue a more insidious policy.
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