New-York tribune., 1922-12-31
London Morning Post Starts
Series of Articles to- Show
RevOluiionisis Control
Workers Party Machine
Accused Leaders Laugh
Make Counter Plea Thu Cou'
servalives Have Secret Or.
der Like Americas Klan
By Ware B. Wells
Special Cable 10 Tho Tyibuns

most coNFfFh ahiNf Nl NN' h'H""H "'"~
papers, claims that Il is and Il TAX
ing up drive 20 prove H. Tho basis
Of the charge, which is being developed
in a series Of articles, Is the discovery
Of an alleged scheme for Teorganiza-
ton which the Communist party IN this
country recently adopted and which u
now being put into operation.
TIN disclosure Of this scheme, the
authenticity Of which there is no rea-
son 20 doubt. IS most interesting but
whether the Official Labor party is i'm
Heated in the revolutionary aims Of
the Communists Is an entirely different
question.
Say Cornmu nists Dominate
"The Morning Post" claims that the
Communists are now the dominating
force IN the Labor party, and that
they are working with the help or at
least the conniyance, o. ofhcial labor
itcs, and that those members Of the Of
fetal party who arc neither oyertly nor
secretly Communist are unable 20 exsr'
else any restraining influence.
That the British Communist party
itself Is revolutionary Is not open 20
question u Is recognized By Moscow
and Is a member Of the Communist In
ternatioual The scheme Of the reor-
ganization Of the party Is Likewise
ayowcdiy revolutionary in intent Ae-
1ording 20 "Thc Morning Post" this
scheme is due TO Karl Radek's censurs
Of The British Communists on account
Of their failure 20 derive revolutionary
results from The strike Of last year.
The Communists are now planning
10 form themselves into a society with
a secret nucleus behind the open groups,
with centcrs in every town and dis
trict and agents in every social class.
They aim TO penetrate with reyolu-
tionary purpose every political, indus
trial and social organization In 'hs
country. Their main purpose, IN "Ihs
Morning Posts" words, Is 20 Ensure
the inccssant activity Of every branch
OF the revolution, from teaching chill
dren 70 preparation OF an armed insur-
rection."
An this may seem 90 open up
most alarming prospect for England
but extracts from secret report out
lining the scheme Of reorganization
upon which this newspaper relies
throw rather different light on the
situation. The report shows that the
Communists are now reorganizing, due
TO their self-confessed failure 20
achieve anything worth while up "a
date.
Party Admits no Progress
Stating that the Communist party
has been in existence two years. tho re-
port goes on TO say. yet IN those two
years. with an the opportunities and
the tircless activities and the energy
OF individual workers. the party has
made no real progress either numeri-
cally or IN terms OF influence"
Later in the report the Communists
have another interesting confessions
1--WE arc only scattered lndiyidualsi
struggling up and down tho country
without responsible hold on the
working class movement
The Communists, In sizing up their
own present position Of inhuenee,
could not be improved upon. and their
admissions are borne out by the re-
suits Of tho general election when they
were not able 10 return more than
single member 10 'he House Of COM
mons.
So far as the official laborites being
dominated by the Communists, J. ".
". Newbold, the Communist member
from CLYDE. does not receive party
whips and II most Of the li2 official
labori'es are Communists you would
not think 50 10 hear real Communists
talk about Macdonald. Clynos, webb.
snowden. Treyelyan and other labor
leaders all OF whom are indeed thor
oughly bourgeois types.
While the official laborltes laugh out
OF court the charge Of the extreme Con-
seryatiyes that they are planning q
revolution, at the same time they re-
tort that the extreme Conservatives
are staging a secret society directed
against labor.
The basis for this charge IS the ap-
pearancc in this country Of a mysSsri-
Gus society calling itself "The Most
Noble Order of Crusaders" The or
ganizer and fosnder Of this society IS
Colonel Walter Faber, the well-known
Tory "die-hard7 This organization
meets behind guarded doors and main
tains an elaborate ritual, In which the
outfit borrowed from medieval Crusse-
ers plays a prominent part.
From lis headquarters in London
this society his been carrying ous
recruiting drive Up and down tho
country the last Jew months and claims
adherents in every district. The
ayoweS object Of the society is TO bring
back the spirit Of the cusades 70
everyday life. but the radicals charge
that Il tAims TO become an English form
OF Faseisti and American Ku-Klux
Klan.
This view Is supported by state
ment Of Major T. II. Hasre, the Cru
saders, Grand Senesehal. 10 an inter-
viewer. he said. "From the little I
know Of the Italian movement am not