AUSTRALIAN WORKERS DELEGATES FOR RUSSIA.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 January 1929, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN WORKERS DELEGATES FOR RUSSIA.

YELLOW BROTHERHOOD AND WHITE AUSTRALIA

LABOUR UNIONS' RIDDLE

Received Thursdav, 7 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 17,

Soviet efforts to capture the support of Australian workers continue to attract attention. The latest is an invitation for an official delegation from Australian Trade Unions to visit Moscow as guests of the Soviet workers. The visitors' will tour Russia, trains, trams, car? and theatres being gratis to them. The delegation leaves about mid-March to enjoy the best weather in Europe. The members shall also visit Germany and England. s The personnel is reported to number 86 but the official Labour statement says 16, whose travelling expenses will be defrayed by the trade unions through the various State Labour councils.

Mr. J. Ryan, director of the research department of the Labour council, who is retiring from the AH India trade union congress, where he represented Russian, Chinese and Japanese, as well as Australian unions, is the subject of considerable Labour criticism, owing to the reported payment of hi:t expenses by the Pan Pacific secretariat Dissenting unionists want. to know something about Mr. Ryan's secret mission, also how his representation of Russian ami Eastern union? squares with Australia's avowed white Australia policy, which is endangered by entanglement with foreign nationalists affiliated with the secretariat.