OFFICE RESIGNED
MINERS’ PRESIDENT
SEQUEL TO INQUIRY
(Reed. Nov. 27, 2.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 27
Mr. Charles Nelson has resigned from the position of general president of the Miners' Federation. The central council of the federation will decide next week, whether his resignation will be accepted or whether Mr. Nelson will be asked to remain in office.
Mr. Nelson’s action is the sequel to the finding of the Royal Comrrtissioner.
Sir Percival Halse Rogers, who found that £360 was out of an account established in. the nanie of the Australian Democratic Front to the president of the Australian Coal Miners’ Federation, Mr. Nelson, that this sum was handed over by the former assistant Government publicity officer, Mr. Joseph Winkler, under instructions from the then Federal Attorney-General, Mr. W. M. Hughes, with the approbation of the then acting-Prime (Minister, M.r. A. W. Fadden. The object was to secUre peace in the coal industry during the war and was meant for a campaign to achieve that result. Such a campaign was not conducted.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 28 November 1941, Page 7
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