WHARF STRIKE IN 1952
£4(h000 COLLECTED BY MELBOURNE UNION
(Rec. 11 pjn.) MELBOURNE, June 3. The president of the Melbourne branch of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, James Henry Cummins, today told the City Court that £40,000 of the union’s funds was to have been sent to the striking New Zealand watersiders in 1952. He said that he was aware that this was illegal because a Federal Government edict had banned the sending of money to New Zealand. The money was to have been sent to “dummy” firms using “dummy” accounts. Cummins denied that some of the money provided by Australian members for the New Zealand strikers had been used for “Communist purposes” and had not reached New Zealand. He was giving evidence in a case in which the former secretary of the branch, Herbert Ernest Clarke, aged 49, is charged with having stolen a total of £ 1626 of union funds- between June, 1952, and March this year. Cummins said the Melbourne branch collected £3700 for the New Zealand strikers by striking a levy of £1 a head.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27367, 4 June 1954, Page 11
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