Even Mr. Herbert Smith exclaimed : "I can see no
difference between the Minority Movement and the Communists. You all get your orders from Moscow." The left wing vocally dissented from this, but a storm of cheers drowned the dissent. Mr. Wright, of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, roundly declared that his own large union would have nothing to do with the Minority Movement. Mr. Citrine, whose influence in the General Council has steadily increased, said that there was danger in treating the Communists with easy tolerance. "The Minority Movement from its start in 1924 has deliberately set out to wreck this Congress. DO not forget this, that the paid members of the Minority Movement dare not alter a line of the reso- lutions they are ordered to bring forward here." Mr. Pollitt was driven to defend himself and Moscow, and his argument that interference from Russia was just as tolerable as interference from Geneva and Amsterdam was very badly received. "Candidates for Wright's union," he shouted, "have to sign a declaration that they are not members of the Minority Movement." Un- fortunately for Mr. Pollitt his bombshell did not explode. Loud approving cheers instead of cries of " Shame ! " greeted his statement of the fact. •
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