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LABOUR MEMBER DEFEATS
BOLSHEVISM
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To the Editor of "The Mercury." I
Sir, Labourite McDonald, MLC, is
on the political warpath with camouflage concerning
the Labour party's part in
the war, but in the Launceston " A I
animal he astutely omitted the facts, i
He also asked would no not too be JJol- i
sheviks in Russia-' He also asked the
' trick" questions -Are one for Kaiserism of
Spartacists, autocracy 01 democracy,.
and Thomas 01 BoWiev 13in This has
long Labourite and evolutionary social- ¡
ist Secretary offer-, the following facts in I
reply to Labour member McDonald, who
advocates the One Big Union policy of
taking other people's capital by what be
calls revolutionary political action (with-
out saying it, as indicated in the pre-
amble of the One Big Union. Mr.
McDonald's cunning questions regarding
Bolshevism and Tsansm in Russia, and
Spartacists and Kaiserism in Germany
are as easy to expose us his excusing of !
Labour's war and peace dishonour, in {
Russia it was not the Bolsheviks that i
destroyed Tsansm, but they who will be
most to blame if Tsansm is restored. I
Again, in Germany the people here recently
at the election gave Mr. McDonald
his answer by their rejection of both
the advocates of Ka sense and Spartu
cism. In Australia, we have a noisy
minority of led Hag revolutionaries, on
the one hand, and a few Conservative
stagnant Jones on the other, and Mr.
McDonald thinks the electors are going
to be limited to a choice of these two
dangerous extremes He concluded by
asking are we in Australia for democracy
or autocracy ' Now, no one knows better
than this red flag upholder that for the
Commonwealth Parliament we have the
franchise of democracy.. The irony of it is
that Mr. McDonald's O.B U. friends are the
only autocrats who openly advocate j
the doing away with the democracy that
we have Mr McDonald and his Labour '
misleading ought to feel democrats boot
at the next State elections if their slogan
is carried out that is, everybody getting a
tie full result of their energy-because in their
energy has been occupied in oppos-
ing democrats Imagine anybody claim-
ing to be democratic and saying they
would be Bolsheviks if they were in Russia,
while they at the same time tell us
that the Bolsheviks will not permit the
democratic vote to those who have
struggled to get above working for wages!
This Labour number pit-lends to plead
for democracy, and also tells that were
he in Germany he would be walk the
Spartacubiaiis. while he knows that the
tables line just told us that this mad
mob tried to prevent the German people
from conducting, national elections' Can
the cheek of Mr. McDonald be excelled
His ardent support of the OBIT, revolutionists
and Ins camouflaged questions
tall for organisation and propaganda that
will knock out any money, whether it,
be Kaiserism and Tsansm, on the one
hand, 01 0 H TJ. Bolshevism on the
other.
Yours, etc
E. J. PRICE.
Launceston, "Larch is. a
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