MEN OF EVIL INTENT

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 128, 15 March 1950, Page 3

MEN OF EVIL INTENT

COMMUNISTS IN AUSTRALIA MR MENZIES ISSUES WARNING (N.Z.P. A.—Copyright) (Rec. 10.35) CANBERRA, This Day. “If you wrote down a list of 35 or 40 avowed Communists holding key positions in unions, you could say That is the Communist Party,’” said Mr R. G. . Mcnzies in the House of Representatives during the Address-in-Reply debate. “These are the men of ability and training—the men of the evil intent,” he said. He appealed to unionists to clear their minds on the vital question of Communism. This very day he had studied the list of thbse men, added Mr Menzies. “As we look at dispute after dispute which forces up prices and takes value from the pound, we are forced to the conclusion that there is a problem running right through industry, and that is the problem of active Communism in Australia. I am not talking about some poor woolly-minded creature who thinks about Marxism arid Leninism. I am talking about the Communist Party—a limited number of men who have powerful positions in the Australian industrial movement. If unionists believe that Communism is merely a sort of radical industrial policy, they will find themselves defending their own deadliest enemies. If Communism is not an industrial movement .but a dangerous, deadly plot against national survival and security, these wellplaced leaders are no more entitled to the protection of Australian unionists than members of any other criminal movement.”