AUSTRALIAN UNIONS
THE MELBOURNE CONFERENCE. A STORMY SESSION. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MELS OURNE, February 27. There was a long debate at the OJrades Union Conference to-day on whether the anions should continue affiliation with the Pan-Pacific secretariat, the spokesman for which' was Mr J. S. Garden, who said that the policy .of this body was to raise the wage standards of foreign nations to that of Australia. Several delegates urged that * this amounted to an attempt to break down the White Australia policy. Moderate speakers argued that the Secretariat was dominated by Communists in Russia, with whom trade unionists in Australia had nothing in common. Mr Garden’s proposal for continuance of affiliation was rejected after a stormy session by five votes. 1
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20964, 1 March 1930, Page 13
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