COMMUNIST DEFEAT
QUEENSLAND MINERS’ . UNION POSITIONS
(Res. 2 p.m.) BRISBANE, Aug. 2. The wave of anti-Communist feeling which is sweeping Queensland after the recent abortive strikes resulted in the defeat of the Communist candidate for the position of State secretary to the Queensland Coal Miners’ Union. Charles Tucker, an ordinary member of the union defeated A. Bennett, the vice-president of the union and an official of the Communist Party by 1200 votes to 772. Bennett took a prominent part in the recent strikes.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1946, Page 7
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