COMMUNISTS IN CONTROL
Australia’s Most Powerful Labour Unions BOASTFUL CLAIM IN REPORT Rec. 11 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 28. Whether the Prime Minister intended to take action against Communist agitators who were instigating and promoting strikes was asked by Mr H. L. Anthony (Country Party) in the House of Representatives to-day. He wanted to know whether the Government was aware that two Australian delegates had been sent to the Communist Congress in London. Mr Chifley replied that he was not even aware that such a congress was being held. The Australian press quotes a neatly documented report issued to delegates to the conference which “ boasts quite openly that Communist agitation was behind the recent strikes and unrest in Australia.” The report claims that “ the Australian Labour Party feels the threat to its supremacy, because the Communist Party leads the most important trade unions,” and names the ironworkers, miners, seamen, engineers, watersiders, building workers,, clerks, teachers and hospital employees as belonging to unions led or influenced by Communists.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26399, 1 March 1947, Page 7
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