BLAME LAID ON COMMUMSTS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24743, 7 December 1945, Page 5

BLAME LAID ON COMMUMSTS

CAUSES OF PRESENT TROUBLES COMMENT BY LEADER OF OPPOSITION (Special Australian Corresp., N.Z.P.A.) Th» v a SYDNEY, December 6. t? o ,? ed{ ? al °PPosition Leader (Mr K. G Menzies) said that the real issue ?n l he P r f. sent grave industrial crisil ? on A «^ ra W T *S W that « arbitration according to the law of the land oMhetnS 1011 aCC ° rding t0 "- "At one end of the scale we have a Wo?Lrs U "un io n like -^ the Australian worKers Union with an unbroken r « or ? °* constitutional action, and at oher end the Communist agitator' who is. Un-Australian and un-British in his ways, and who desires disorder s ; nce it is out of disorder that revof u : tion grows," he said. "If real demoAustralia the issue must be deter- ™] f n « d m favour of the law. it cannot be compromised." *tr A ,,,* yarnin ?- that the for ces of de£rl h ?S- w^,ch , caused cha °s abroad A er £ m Australia was given by A "hbishop Gilroy, head of Ihlßoman ?tk^ I,c Church ln New St >"th Wales. There is every evidence of these ces . among us." he said, "and steps must be taken to ensure that these evi forces are not permitted to pre! vail in our land." ' vrc The president of the Graziers' AssoCJation of New South Wales (Mr F L Killen) said that no threat of inconvenience or of hardship must be allowed to shake . the people's deter-' finfsh g the Com:f - uaist s to a

ee?£ S** Pi Communist-engin-ShSftw* 1 Stnl l e h3S now S cne so »r r,rnU«: be r fi th ?«snt of compromise. If the nation is to be saved ZhZu a . con tinuance of the tactics SK„£ rO J! ght about «* Present wholesale disorganisation, the vicious E!M?\ w s ponßlb,e f °r it must be surrender■" P ° int ° f unconditiC)na,

.u Present upheaval is obviouslv the result of underground engineering by the Communist Party," said the president of the Building Industry Congress (Mr F. Wilson). ™The Com-

munists can progress only by disrupting the life of community, and one of the first things marked for destruction is the trade union movement." The "Sydney Morning Herald," in a leading article, said: "The miners' leaders are banking on a general coal strike to bring the. community to its Knees, but the menace of that catastrophe has been held over the public for so long and incessant stoppages have aroused so much disgust that the threat has lost its potency. The cause of industrial recovery and the health of the Labour movement alike demand that the present opportunity to break the hold on Communism should be fully seized.*