Couneits are being split all over the country by problems of this kind. 'The National Labour Party has instructed its local organizations to expel all Communists. Many of them have flatly refused to do so. Others have attempted it with disastrous results. Here in Manchester there: ix a particularly live 'Trades' Council, for many years un-Jder the presidency of the notorious Mr. Purcell. It is now presided same reason. Others have bee made so indignant by the National Labour Party's policy that the have allied themselves with the Communists, and it is not unlikely focal Labour Party will break up as a result of this order. Similar complications are arising everywhere and are be ing eagerly exploited by Commu propagandists who say that the old Labour gang would sooner destroy the British Labour Party thi break with their friend Rotherme The Better Class Artisan In great industrial centres to-day there are three Communist demontrations for every one held by the LIP. and they are better supported and. the collections are larger. ago the audience at would have been the neerest collection of dirty, unwashed, and strange looking' ties that the slums and ghettoes of a great city contain, Nowadays such audiences chiefly consist of the etter type of artisan class. They fare not members of the Communist Party. Their members act stewards and sell literature, and fare obviously abnormal, To coun: teract the steady drain on their members the Labour Party and the LIP. are now concentrating on ferent Labour campaign in the agricultural constituencies. They may win them, but they are fighting a losing battle, Nine months office and failure hangs Tike a millstone around their necks, The smmunists promise mo have not set been found out,
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