UNION BALLOT PAPERS
FORGERY IN ELECTION ALLEGED (Rec. 9 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 29. Claims that more than 4COO ballot papers in the Federated Ironworkers’ Association’s 1949 ballot were forgeries or falsifications were made by Mr Eric Miller. K.C., at an Arbitration Court inquiry into the ballot. The inquiry was made on the application of a Right-wing Labour man, Mr Laurence Short. Mr Short unsuccessfully opposed a Communist (Mr Ernest Thornton) for the national secretaryship in last vear’s ballot and is again the candidate in a ballot next month to replace Mr Thornton, who recently accepted a position with the World Federation of Trade Unions in Peiping. Mr Miller said that handwriting experts would be able to tell the Court that in the elections for the national office and for the Sydney metropolitan branch of the union more than 4000 votes were false, having been made up in parcels and marked by the same hand. The hearing is proceeding.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26204, 30 August 1950, Page 7
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