COMMUNISTS DENOUNCED.
SYDNEY. October 30
Australia’s industrial affairs were in an. extremely grave position, mainly because of the powerful influence of the Communist Party, declared the General Secretary of the National UniCn of Railwaymen (Mr. W. Fletcher) speaking at the Union’s annual meeting. “When the Commonwealth Government legalised that anarchistic Party the disintegration of Australian, democracy immediately began,” said Mr. Fletcher. By means of small, petty, useless strikes that could not, and were never intended to, assist the workers in any way our Australian fifth columnists keep their machinery in order so that when the zero hour signal is given our democracy will disappear and a Communist ‘new order’ will be ushered in. From my own experience and inquiry in four States I can say with certainty that open rebellion is the next step by these enemies of Australia.” The Union will ask Mr. Curtin to have an investigation made into Mr, Fletcher’s allegations.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1944, Page 4
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