SHOCKED WORLD
SCATHING COMMENT CRITICISM OF UNION COMMUNISM SUPPORTED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 16, 3.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 16 The Attorney-General, Mr W. M. Hughes, scathingly commented on the resolution passed by the Sydney branch of the Ironworkers’ Union calling on the Federal Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, to declare that the Australian Force would not be employed to fight Soviet Russia. Mr Hughes said he never thought he would live to see the day when Australian workers would pose as champions of a country whose unprovoked assault on a small and peace-lov-ing nation had aroused anger and shocked the moral feeling of the whole world. If the men who passed the resolution were not agents of Russia they spoke as though they were. The resolution seemed to him to be the outward and visible sign of the extent to which Communism had honeycombed the industrial movement. Mr Menzies commented: “The Australian Force will not be used against any country with which we are not at war.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21040, 16 February 1940, Page 6
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