AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE
Unions Oppose Proposals
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 12.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 12. Fifteen majer anient, at a conference to-day, declared that it was the dety ofthe Autralian Connell of Trade Unions and other onion bodies to oppose a speed-op in industry and military and industrial conscription. Those at the conference included the Australian Railways Union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Miners' the Waterside Workers’ Federation, and the Seamen’s Union. They said it would be a betrayal of Labour interests for unions to cooperate with the Menzies Government but they were ready to co-operate with all honest people on the basis of peace, the preservation of Australian independence, an improvement of living standards, ana the maintenance of democratic liberty. A statement approved at the meeting said: “The trade union movement stands for peace; but the Menzies Government is organising Australia for war, and transforming it into an American base.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26319, 13 January 1951, Page 7
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