COMMUNISTS DEFEATED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 142, 29 March 1948, Page 3

COMMUNISTS DEFEATED

Victorian Labour Party

Conference

SERIES OF CLASHES (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright). (Rec. 11.30) MELBOURNE, This Day. In a series of clashes which extended throughout the duration of the Easter conference of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labour Party, Communist supporters were decisively defeated. The conference carried a recommendation alleging that the Commundirected by the Russian Communist Party, were committed to the destruction of the. Australian Labour Party as a prelude to social disorder and the seizure of political power by revolution. * „ It also endorsed the formation ot Labour Party industrial groups for a fight against Communism in unions. In an appeal to Trade Union leaders and members to give the new Arbitration Act a chance to function, the Federal President, Mr A. S. McAlpine, told the conference that unionists would ruin Australian economy if they used strikes instead of arbitration. “Full employment does not occur only when there are no unemployed, but when all available jobs are filled,” said the Minister of Immigration, Mr A A Calwell, in Australia to-day. There are 300,000 jobs we have not got men or women to fill. Because of this, labour is being bought and sold on the black market just like any other commodity."