COMMUNIST DEFEAT
SYDNEY TRADES COUNCIL
(Recd. 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 31. After a heated and sometimes disorderly meeting, the Trades and Labour Council last night administered a severe rebuff to the Communist section by deciding to admit four delegates from the Balmain branch of the Federated Ironworkers’ Union. The Communist delegates opposed readmission, which was carried by 106 votes to 67. For more than nine months the. Arbitration Court has been involved in litigation as to whether the union acted properly in ordering the absorption of the Balmain branch in the Sydney branch of the union. The Balmain workers broke violently with the other ironworkers’ union branches over the strike policy and set up a breakaway union to combat Communist control.
The judgment of the Court was taken into consideration when the Balmain delegates: were admitted to the council.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1946, Page 7
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