BAN ON POLISH AND BALT MIGRANTS

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25589, 2 September 1948, Page 5

BAN ON POLISH AND BALT MIGRANTS

DECISION OF AUSTRALIAN MINERS’ FEDERATION (Rec. 7 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 1. The national convention of the Australian Miners’ Federation to-day passed a resolution banning Polish and Balt migrants from coal or shale mines. The first effect of the decision is to prevent 51 Polish former servicemen of General Anders’force from working in the Glen Davis shale mine in New South Wales. The resolution contended that there was already labour available for manning the mines, provided the mines were made healthier, safer, and more congenial, and economic security was granted. The federation said that it did not oppose the entrance into the industry of Poles and Balts on any ground of race, nationality, or colour, but that it was opposed to any plan for mass Government-assisted migration gf national groups known to have an outlook and training foreign to the democratic ideals of the Australian working-class movement.

New Zealand Naval Men at Chatham. —Members of the Royal New Zealand Navy have arrived at Chatham to man the British frigates Loch Shin pnd Loch Achanalt. which will be transferred to the New Zealand Navy on September 19. Lady Burrough, wife of Admiral Sir Harold Burrough, will rename the frigates Taupo and Pukaki respectively, after the New Zealand lakes. —London, August 31.