COMMUNIST DOCTRINES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25866, 9 June 1945, Page 8

COMMUNIST DOCTRINES

LITERATURE IN HIGH SCHOOLS ANGLICAN SYNOD’S PROTEST (N.Z.P.A. Special Aust. Correspondent) SYDNEY, June 7. High School pupils in New South Wales were absorbing Communist doctrines and taking home Communist literature from their schools, it was asserted by members of the Anglican Synod, now meeting at Newcastle. “ My own son h&d been going to high school only a few months when he began talking Communist bosh,” said a member of the synod, Colonel A. "A. White, in proposing that a protest be made to the State’s education authorities. Colonel White said his son was rapidly assimilating Communist ideas from teachers at the school. “He even began bringing home Communist literature. I am glad to say he has nQw changed his views on Communism.”

The synod’s is only one of many widespread warnings which continue to be sounded against Communist infiltration throughout Australian , industry, politics and education. It has been revealed that Communist propaganda has been distributed in comforts parcels to Australian troops in northern battle, areas. Front-line soldiers have reported that an evergrowing amount of Communist literature has been reaching them in this way. The Sydney Morning Herald, alleges that Communist cells existed in Australia’s permanent defence _ forces before the war and that their work recently has been vastly expanded ‘and intensified.

Many union officials are warning their organisations against Communist efforts to gain minority control within unions. The Builders Labourers’ Union this week declared “ uncompromising hostility to members of the Australian Communist Party, which is working against the interests of trade unionism and .the workers.”

To-day, the Acting Attorney-general, Mr J. A. Beasley, castigated Mr E. Thornton, Communist secretary of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association, for his “ basic non-Australianism ” in recently attacking the “White Australia policy.” Mr Thornton’s proposed immigration on a quota system- without discrimination of race or colour would inevitably create in Australia unassimilable cells of non-Australianism,” said Mr Beasley. “These cells would suit the purposes of the Communist Party, which is attempting to break down the ideals of democratic Australian Labour in favour of a system in which Australia’s entire way of life would be dictated from outside Australia.”