THREAT TO LABOUR
COMMUNIST WHITE-ANTING IN AUSTRALIA COUNTER MOVES URGED (Rec. 11.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 23. A motion that recognised that Australian Labour -Party groups should be organised in factories and shops to advocate Labour policy and combat anti-Labour propaganda by the Liberal and Communist parties was carried at the Victorian branch of the Australian Labour Party’s Easter conference. Delegates said that the Communist threat to control Victorian industry had become so serious that the Labour Party must launch a counteroffensive at once in all industrial centres.
The beak-away from the Labour Pary of the biggest union in Victoria w z as a direct result of Communist “white-anting.” “We must send forth Labour missionaries unions and fight the attempt to split up the party into factions,” said Mr E. W. Peters, of the State executive.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 April 1946, Page 7
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