BATTLE OF TACTICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26015, 1 December 1945, Page 7

BATTLE OF TACTICS

CHECK TO COMMUNISTS SYDNEY, Nov. 30. Efforts of Communist-controlled unions to force a general strike in New South Wales in support of' the ironworkers in their dispute with the Broken Hill Proprietary have met with further severe setbacks. The annual conference of the Australian Labour Party in Melbourne, by a resolution, strongly condemned the attempts being made to force a general strike. Ironworkers and other tradesmen at several of the larger Sydney engineering plants decided, by overwhelming majorities, to work next Tuesday in spite of an order from the Ironworkers’ Union for a 24-hour stoppage. Supporters of the Labour Party won a battle of tactics at the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council by preventing a vote on the Communistsupported resolution to centralise funds to help the steelworks strikers. The committee representing the land transport group of unions decided to recommend that the unions should refuse to be involved in any dispute whatever unless they were notified through the Trades and Labour Council and were given reasonable «me to examine the merits of the dispute. No action was taken by the Federal Executive of the Seamen’s Union to call a strike. The' president of the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council, Mr G. Anderson, said he favoured inteivention in the steelworks strike by Mr Chifley.