THE COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY.
[To Tits EDITOR Oi THE " SPECTATOR.") Sia,s-While the present acute distress among the unemployed must demand the sympathetic consideration not only of the Government but of every individual citizen, perhaps you will allow me to draw attention to the manner in which the situa- tion is being exploited by the Communists. Everywhere they are organizing the unemployed with a view to breaking down by excessive demands and dangerous agitation the whole machinery of Government, local and central. This conspiracy is clearly explained in the Com misnist, the organ of the Com- munist Party of Great Britain. Thus on September 17th it writes :-
" We, as Communists, welcome Poplar's action for two reasons. The first is that work or maintenance at full trade- union rates is a demand which the Communist Party has always pressed; for the revolutionary reason that Capitalism can neither refuse it with dignity nor concede it without suicide. Secondly, and more importantly, because the Poplar Council has carried out the advice of the Third International : To capture the machinery of bourgeois administration and use it for revolutionary ends."
In the following week appeared a violent article with the dangerous headline in large capitals :— " Civil war this winter ! Black Menace of Unemployment ! "
From this article we gather that both in London and the provinces Communists are gaining positions as organizers of the unemployed; and it is a fact that at nearly all the disturb- ances which have taken place up to the present time the leaders have been known Communists. In the current issue of the Communist the unemployed are definitely incited to " make themselves nasty." This seditious propaganda is, I can assure you, becoming exceedingly serious, and deserves more attention than it has hitherto received from the authorities, as well as from all who are anxious to maintain the constitution and
support the law.—I am, Sir, &c.. REGINALD WIISON,
General Secretary.
British Empire Union, 9 and 10 Agar Street, Strand, W.C. 2.
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