The last speaker was'the notorious \Clydeside agitator, Gallagher. He was deported from the Glasgow area during the-war for stirring up trouble in the shipyards, and since the war has been one of the most prominent leadera of the unemployed, getting his a head broken by a! policeman's truncheon last year in! unemployed riots in Glasgow. Most} of his speech, which was not without elements of bitter humour, cousisted of a running commentary on the stupidity, timidity, treachery, and respectability of the official Labour Party and its individual members. He made great play with the limited "Tnternationals" of Vienna and Amsterdam, and the "evolutionary'', tactics of Ramsay Macdonald, who, he said was hoping to dispossess the capitalist without the capitalist realizing what was happening to' him. The Communist policy was to hit the capitalist with a si hammer, but Ramsay said, No, don't do that, you might make him angry, and then Giod knows what might happen. Watch me, I will hit him with a feather and he won't know we are hitting him at all."
A feature of the meeting was the entire absence of any attempt at interruption or heckling, and the generous way in which the audience responded to an appeal for funds, The cost of holding the meeting was close on £100, the whole of which was raised with a considerable surplus for further propaganda.
Judging by this meeting and the be- reports of others in different parte of the country there can be little doubt that the Communist Party of Great Britain is growing in power and importance. It is the street corner orator who "goes the whole hog" that gets listened to to-day, and since Labour has got so successful and respectable the fire has gone out of its unpaid propagandists' speeches. The Communists have stolen their thunder.
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