COMMUNISM IN AUSTRALIA: INQUIRY URGED

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 April 1948, Page 5

COMMUNISM IN AUSTRALIA: INQUIRY URGED

(Rec. 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A full inquiry by the Federal and State Governments into the activities of the Australian Communist Party was urged by the annual conference of industrial groups of the Australian Labour Party. Speakers declared that the Communists sought the overthrow, by aims it' necessary, of democratic government in Australia. The president of the conference, Mr T. Junor, said that if Labour was to remain in office the Communists must be crushed. The conference comprised representatives of 110 organised groups and 300 branches of industrial groups formed by the Labour Party in 1945 to combat Communist activities in the trade union movement. Group members were instructed to bo unceasing on the job in their efforts to combat Communism, to attend union meetings and job meetings, and defeat all moves for Communist control of unions and jobs, and to do all in their power within the constitution of their respective unions to unseat any Communist who might be in office or seeking office. “I am not condemning the strike weapon, which is the traditional rich lof workers,” said Mr Junor, “but there is a difference between strikes organised by our. constitutional authorities and strikes planned, controlled and executed by Marx House. These arrogant Qommunistic people must be put in their places.”