16 MARCH 1974, Page 5

Red menace

P,roni Miss Barbara Reid 1 must disagree with your leader in Lois week's issue in which you claim th e non-existence of a Communist spectre. As you rightly say, ComIntinists are easily defeated in every rliamentary election in which they 4tand and that is why they have to Mak. e their way down other roads, the Tha.in one of course being the trade OlOns, their presence in which they "lake no secret of. Neither do they make a secret of their aims, the most recent one being "smash phase three, s!hrlash the Tories and see to the elec°° of a Labour Government commit

to Socialist policies." They're half WaY there.

t Surely, sir, all you have to do is turn ° Page 289 of the same issue of your 1/aPer and read of the troubles Michael yens and the Aims of Industry are 1._°Ing through to realise that the 'metre does very much exist and the IlOption of ostrich tactics is going to

'and us in deep water. Barbara Reid ?..church Road, Osterley, Isleworth, middlesex