INDUSTRY RUINED

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7907, 26 September 1929, Page 4

INDUSTRY RUINED

LESSONS OF ONCE FAMOUS MT. MORGAN MINE “WORK OF COMMUNISTS’' SYDNEY, August 22. The Minister for Justice, Mr. Lee, yesterday issued a warning to the workers of Now South Wales against following the advice of Communists and agitators whose efforts, he said, only resulted in the ultimate ruin of industry. Mr. Lee, who has returned from a three weeks visit to Queensland, said that ho had visited Mt. Morgan, once a centre of industry and prosperity, but now a place of devastation and desolation, in consequence of the machinations of Communists and agitators. i The Minister said that he had spoken to men who had worked at Mt. Morgan in its prosperous days and they had expressed regret that they had listened to the strike agitators. “Trade unionists in this State,” com mented Mr. Lee, “should be very wary of Communists and agitators, ana should learn a lesson from Mt. Morgan. “It makes one’s heart bleed-to see valuable machinery, which cost thousands of pounds, rusting to ruin at Mt. Morgan, mainly on account of byI gone strikes,” Mr. Lee added that with a change of Government in Queensland the was a hopeful outlook among the people for the the future prosperity of the State.