SPLIT IN MINERS’ FEDERATION OVER SHARKEY HEARING
NZPA—Copyright SYDNEY, Mar. 24. The Sharkey case has split the Miners’ Federation. The powerful Northern Executive has carried a motion dissociating itself from the protest resolutions recorded by the Combined Mining Union Council and the Central Executive. On Tuesday the Combined Council, which is controlled by Communists, demanded that the Federal Government withdraw two summonses issued against Mr L. L. Sharkey, secretary of the Australian Communist Party, and later the Central Executive, which is also dominated by Communists, “ warned ” the Federal Government that Mr Sharkey’s statement “ was substantially in line with the Miners’ Federation declared policy for world peace.”
On March 4 Mr Sharkey was reported to haye said: “ If, in pursuit of aggressors, Soviet troops came to Australia, the Australian working class would welcome them in the way they were welcomed by the peoples of Europe when they were liberated.” Two summonses alleging seditious utterances were served on Mr Sharkey, and the case is listed for hearing next Monday.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27039, 25 March 1949, Page 5
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