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Newspaper
Sydney Communist
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 25, 1922
Page
2
The piece asserts faith in the rank and file over union leadership, arguing wage reductions party by bourgeois ideas and pro-capitalist propaganda. It stresses mass action as the path to defend workers, organize strikes, and push toward revolution and Communism.
W P Earlman critiques the Second International and the British Labour Party. He describes delegates from 13 countries, condemns Bolshevik actions, and recalls Kerensky attending as a guest of the Russian Socialist Revolutionaries. He ends by recounting his displeasure and fatigue from the conferences.
A reporter details a three day Labour Party conference in Edinburgh with 900 delegates from over 4 million workers. The piece covers debates on Communist affiliation, the expulsion of Privy Counsellors, and sharp exchanges led by Hodges McDonald and Webb, ending with the controversial discharge of the motion.
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