COMMUNISTS AND THE WAR

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 262, 4 November 1944, Page 4

COMMUNISTS AND THE WAR

A cable from Sydney bringing unfounded allegations of disloyalty against the Australian Communist Party makes rather strange reading. Communists in Australia, elsewhere throughout the _ Uniteci Nations, yield to none in their determination to crush Nazism and an forms of Fascism; they yield to none in their self-sacrificing work in industry and the armed forces. Those who make wild charges against Communists are, knowingly or not, aiding Hitler and his AntiComintern block. In this case, charges are made by Mr. w. Fletcher, described as "general secretary of the National Union or Railwaymen." This organisation is known as the "cuckoo unl0 T I ] q among Australian railwaymen. /ts attempts to secure awards alongside regular unions were rejected oy Australian Courts in regard to South Australia in 1942, Victoria in March, 1943, and in New Soutn Wales in September, 1943. Mi. Fletcher's - organisation has only a nuisance value in Australian unionism. _ r ANTI-FASCIST UNITY.