Reds' Antipathy to Balt Labour “Sabotages Housing”
SYDNEY, July 22. The Communist campaign against the use of Balt migrant labour in the basic building industries is sabotaging the housing programme, according to Mr. D. Stewart Fraser, executive director of the Building Industry Congress of New South Wales. He said that over six months ago the Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, had agreed that the Federal Government would build hostels for Balt workers at Port Kembla but that objections by the Federated Ironworkers’ Union and its secretary, Mr. E. Thornton, had held up the work. The campaign in the ' Communist newspaper Tribune accused the Balts of being pro-Fascist and anti-Com-munist. Most Balts had been diverted to the Queensland and Northern Rivers sugar industry and some to timber cutting.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22697, 23 July 1948, Page 5
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