COMMUNIST CHAIRMAN REMOVED FROM POST
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 6.
The national executive of the New Zealand Communist Party announces that its chairman, Mr. A. Drennan, has been removed from that post because of his failure to act in accordance with the “basic organisational principle of the party, namely democratic centralism.”
He is succeeded by Mr. A. Galbraith. Mr. Drennan, however, remains a member of the national committee of the party. Mr. Drennan is also vice-president of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22916, 7 April 1949, Page 6
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