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Into what distant waters stretch "the tentacles of the Soviet octopus is shown by a succession of Communist-or-
IN
AUSTRALIA
By ARNOLD YORK
-for voting, unlike parliamen tary voting in Australia, is not
compulsory,"
Morning
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now
Economic Co-operation dollars
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Anti-Red Herrings.
According to a possibly left- ganised strikes in Australia, the were higher wages and shorterxist-Leninist Academy at Mas, How To Rub Out Votes
cow, and it was decided to 1948 Since many
gentine Labour wing correspondent, most of the "Atlantic most recent of which, a colliery hours; it secured neither.
to send another officials to Russia union ballot papers are filled in small fry
handed Though the mixers gained to collect material, for an stoppage which disorganised
Ans-penell, and
over in a pocked." Editor in Chief
the continent, ended last month. nothing by striking, against the tralian propaganda' campaig dog-eared and crumpled condi- Reporters & General Office 32312 It left the duped miners, who advice of their mian leaders, the
Commmists are in key post-dob, it is easy to rub out and
the re-arrange numbering which (tour lines)
themselves voted to resume Communists, who, with Moscow'S!
initrated their tions in the Australian Water indicates the voter's preference work, no better off than when concurrence,
side and Seamen's That strike me Afturers
and for the candidates. they Federation: it began. Its alleged objectives ranks and provoked the
complacency may regard with com
This cannot be done in clerical
Sonja Henie's wedding, we re- Das
been done.
have a strong voice in the affairs the damage that
are ported, "lacked only the glass Seven weeks was the Jength of of the
Australian Amalgamated unions, where the papers the strike. In addition to the idle Engineering Union, and are seck-spick and span, with the entries slippers of a fairly-table setting
in ink. False postal votes can be Our proof readers admit that f miners, it threw 150,000 people ing to dominate the Radways inged Inspection of the mem-can fairly be assured that some in dependent industries out of Union in other States they bership rolls has been refused to one slipped up on that one. work through lack of In control it in Victoria. If the inquisitive or the suspicious
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King Abdullah is enjoying his stay in Andalusia..
And the delusions... "Evidence with which the late
Hong Kong Coenraunity...."
An affidavit was not really needed.
the subject is almost getting! article which was the peak of the to beads export trade remains radio and the Cominform news-\ dulged in; but Sharpley has sworn Mrs.—was held in esteem by the
view necessary prerequisite to any constructive action by Ame rica to solve the British dol- lar crisis.
Στο
Mr.
Exposes Tactics
the a
Exposed
1
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than
loss of wages, it cost £33,000,000 accomplished this, they could tie In Australian currency
up the main communications of and when these have threatened
legal action, the fraudulent re- Too many doktors diktating, 750,000 sterling), and £A100,- the continent.
If I aderauer to spare, I might cords have been destroyed. By "WINDRUSH" 20
000,000 (75,000,000 sterling)
It was by such methods that be able to get to the bottom of owing to the non-production of
control of the Building Workers' this German political business.. (Exclusive to the "China Mril"}
goods.
was Industrial Union
secured Mr. Bevin and Sir Stafford Industry lost 127,000,000 man-
· The Tune
and the building houses—a cry- America
coal, Cripps went to
on hours, 1,650,000 tons of
Forts must be Alled up by Australia today entrants before they can competa what Mr. Bevin called their his- 170,000 of steel, 135,000 of pig-
According to Sharpley, the ing reed in
is active-immigration toric mission, As they left, Eng-iron, and 2700 houses which could
Austrialian Communist
Party which
in one beauty contest land the political world in London not be built: all this in the depth takes its cues from Moscow and policy-was slowed down.
Hence the THE POUND
large number of i when winter. began to talk increasingly of a of
Sharpley asserts that ballotsdamsels seca tacking into T-bone more beating Bucharest, in Fumaniz which
Australia steaks. It may come and lighting are needed than at
was conquered by the Russians were rigged for the Sir Stafford Cripps, the general election.
in October cr. November.
other seasons.
In Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Boler Makers" Society, and some
of the Australian who moved thither from Belgrade Amalgamated Engineering Union, The American talks began in a
the Clerks Union EF HU Let us be Franco. and Treasury spokesmen in better atmosphere than seemed States, the brewing of beer, the the Cominform tee European
came to antion Bureau of
secretary of the Victorian State London have said so often in likely a month ago. The press on national beverage,
partics),
of the Communist The weeks that both sides of the Atlantic has end, and £A1,000,000 (£750,000 Communist
Australian Communists Committee the past few there will be no devaluation stopped slinging mud. The "Sun- sterling) in excise duty was lost.
that ballot-faking had been in- of the pound sterling that day Pictorial, which voiced its The total effect of the strike on source of guidance is the Moscow Party, denied on April 19, 1949,
an Australia's complaints against America in an
paper. "Australian Reds", assessed. Mr. J. B. Chifley, the Prime clares Sharpley, are Moscow's to the contrary. monotonous. Agitation for its agitation declared itself paelted
of Wreckers' Methods Fifty Columa continent-wide men"-"the Minister, in a devaluation comes mainly when even the allegedly anti-
that broadcast, declared
foreign power," as he described from the United States, British papers in America
miners had ποτ learned the them in a broadcast on April 24, where American fiscal off-printed the article in full.
It is asserted by Sharpley that After the party, the hangover,
Former SS. chief of the Neckar disruptive tactics of the Com- At the 15th National Congress the Communists call, strikes not cials apparently hold the Truman has spoker most tactful effect on the national life of the 1949.
of the Australian Communist only to wreck Australia's concentration camp: has been sen➡ a Erench military that devaluation is a words to welcome the negotia-minists.
tors,
Party in Sydney in May 1948. economy, but to discredit and tensed by Ex-Communist America has of course nearly
coat. To a Neckartie party at Lance Sharkey, its leader and disrupt the Labour movement. as Great
renerak secretary, outlined as great an interest
After the New South Wales daw... Britain in seeing that the talks
changes in policy decided by the steel strike in 1945, which finan- PODYCOCKT do not fail. As long as the ster-
Cominform, and reported on his cially exhausted the Iron An accurate idea of the work-visits to Commimist organisers in
Hollywood Alms worse Workers' Union, and ling area is in economic dificulty,
Queens In the years since the end Russia will keep up its attempts ing-much lot it underground-
land meat strike in 1946, which opium, say Shanghai papers,.
Ought to pipe down.. Resolutions were unanimously had the same eficet
on several of the First World War two at sabotage. All that America is of the Communist Party in Aus India and Malaya.
concerning) at present building in the West tralia may be gained from the assed which brought Australian unions, the Political Committee
Cecil
Chinese Reds keep on harbin generalisations currency devaluation have through the Atlantic Pact is built exposure of its clics
on unsafe foundations until the Herbert Sharpley, who held one Communist policy into line with of the Communist Party declared
Cominform decisions of
resigned
under the a new technique of striking in on this trade business.. atarined widespread accep- Western economic system has its key positions. He
from the Victorias executive of expansionist policy of the Soviet waves, bringing out only the Yes indeed
and thus cabling the tance. One of these is that been brought into order.
It will be
if the
the Party in January 1949 after The Congress was in correspon men, very surprising the fiscal authorities of a
British Comunions to impose strike levies on the dence with the there no agreement of some 14 years membership, for
Is
thus pro- country which is considering kind at Washington. Probably last two of which
State. His job, tion in Malaya against British longing the trouble. infiation do not, and cannot America will increase its rubber the leaders in de was one of / minist Party, and urged revolu- those still at work,
£A510 a interests. This eventually earned him
In the 1947-48 strike in the admit the fact until the very purchases.
It may increase is which
metal trades, there was not, for week, self-admittedly that to a head. moment when official action stock-piles of raw materials from
instance, a general stoppage: but There may be of a paid wrecker.
waves of key engineers were laid is taken. This explains why the sterling area.
The standard income tax rate As secretary of the Industrial Committee, he worked among
idle for a succession of months. in Britain is said, to be 45 per rumours invariably persist barter deals. even in the face of the most
the trade unions and rigged their
The tactical development of a cent. Or practically on a friend- strike is assigned to Communist by sharing basis of 50-50.** emphatic denials in official}
There may also be devaluation elections to ensure the return to
Every Australian Communist is quarters.
of the pound, in spite of all Sir office of Communist candidates.
Не walked out because he expected
weekly factories, ahd to Communist-run to contribute Stafford Cripps' disclaims last
became convinced that the for Communist organisations in shop-committees and union man The second of these gen- July. Already sterling is being
Communist Party not
committees. only Malaya, China, India, and Burma agement
In May 1948 the tactical line eralisations is that if sufficient dealt in widely at. depreciated
rates. Devaluation will not be a sought to disrupt the Australian There is definite Commumist hos doubt is permitted to arise rate to the home public, which Labour Party, but desired a war bility to the admirable immigrants was made stricter,-and-organisa
which Russia should be to Australia from the Baltic, tion in all states was stimulated about the future value of a is now accustomed, as it was net
victorious.
States now under Russian conto greater activity, particular re currency this fact itself tends a generation ago, to shifting ex-
Nor were thd Communists trol: the Communists fear the gard being had to the lighter in frequently to make devalua- change rates. But the effects of averse to a Japanese occupation influence of the accounts given dustrial unions and the textile. tion inevitable. This is be- devaluation in giving a fillip to
of Australia, because when the by the Balts of Soviet oppres clothing, and boat trades, 'as well cause such expectations create British exports would quickly ex-
haust themselves. Devaluation is army of invasion had been driven sian, forced poverty, slave labour, as the metal trades group
out, the time would have been deportations and violent death Sterner disciplinary measures a short interest in the cur-not a long-term solution is the approval of the Soviet, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
solution.
ideal for the Communists, with
their lost homelands
for Communist o were instituted rency, in the broader mean- Indeed a long-term
officials in the trades unions who ing of that term. The cur-not likely to come from the talks seine power.
Communism in
is did not strictly toe the party line, rency is sold by persons who The measures
financed by party levies, street and classes were conducted fur- see in the prospect of devalu- probably be just enough to tide
collections, occasional donations ther to promulgate Marxist doe- Great Britain a little longer over
well-to-do trices. from ation an opportunity to buy
sometimes give a little the crisis They will
merchants-bazaars, racing and it back at a lower price; at more time for the adjustments to
Federal Parliament, and the same time potential-buy-be made which are necessary be- Sharpley, a clean-shaven, in-football sweeps Propaganda, to the
which less importance is attached only one is any State Legisla- ers of the country's goods cause of the long-term changes tense-looking man of 40, with
cast, began than to organisations, is spread ture: but the Party places some a number of liberal- postpone their purchases in the economic relations of the U.S. face of intellectual
life conventionally enough. Born by radio, by leafets, by word of reliance on
to minded citizens co whose friendly the expectation of buying and the rest of the world.
If America desires stability in in England, and reared in an mouth from school-teachers more cheaply later on. There the world outside the dollar area, atmosphere of social reform, he pupils, but mainly, by the party's views it can trade. is no doubt that the position it must buy more from the ster-was
of an Anglican newspapers, of which there are of the pound sterling has ling area and must invest more clergyman, and at 16 was lead-two in Victoria,
To be blunt, ing Bible study group been made to look much in the sterling area.
tariff.
At 17 he was preaching in The worse in recent months than it must lower its
London, recently had some
and two years it actually is because of the "Economist"
of the intention very existence of such doubts interesting figures showing how was studying at Cambridge Uni-
high the American tariff still is. versity with concerning its future value. Duty on imports of machinery becoming a minister of the gospel.
this idea' owing to tactics-collateral evidence is to Australia, But Australia It can be said, therefore, that may rise as high as 40 per cent. Abandon, convictions, he all-be found in the columns of the signs of waking up.
1
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Devaluation Issue
agreed
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the advalorem
will
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"Little Brother“ Switches Career
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Cash And Corry For Communism
Australia
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ja the nigns and
There are no Communists in
But despite or perhaps be cause of-occasional replacements in its ranks and expulsions from them, the Australian Communist Party is not a happy family. They i are ambitious enough: these are the people who look to an even- In his exposure of Communist tual Communist dictatorship
Union Leaders Side-tracked
and nothing was decided as British need do nothing on their starting waze of £AZ a week, Communist Party.".
to the level of sterling,
-
other
Subterfuges Serve Russia
Communist tactics, apart from
there can be
rate a change et no permanent On clocks
a "Little "Sydney Bulletin, the "Sydney admirable Moraing Herald," and change for the better in Bri- may be more than 200 per cent. ed for Australia as
Big Brother newspapers, Sharpley, whose tain's dollar position unless The duty on glass is up to 4 per
cent boots and shoes 20 per cent, organisation, the
Movement, sponsored by and until such doubts are re hosiery 50 per cent.
estab statements are supported by a that they who endeavour statutory declaration listed Australians who solved one way or another. Pernicketingss to secure a career for younger are true, says:
parts of
the
big strikes in Australia But to say this is not to say The Economist afde The men from other
ver the past three years have
not! that the present uncertainty American tariff is operated wil British Commonwealth.
After working can be removed only by sterla pernicketiness and Within the
being thrown aire ted by unions. They have ing devaluation. The final context of a set of regulations on the land, and for two years reither been decided on
which are obviously imbued with iale for four years a depres been called and run by the Com-
Inbou i word rests with the Interna-
market, munist Party. Most of the in- a traditional bostility to import Sharpley Joined the Labour tional Monetary Fund which left as a relie from the days eff
ras disillusioned, and
dustrial
the past disputes of Party was
could have been sits in Washington This American high protectionism."
This does not mean that the became a Communist in 1935 at three years
settled had it Fund has met and adjourned |
not been for the believing that
this
was the true!
It was the Communist Party side. British costs of production
path to Socialism, to adherence They can be re- are too high.
which called the Transport Strike to which he has now reverted duced by better management, Devaluation is not inevita-and a better effort by labour toilusion than be ever sußered Victorian Essential Services Art, after having experienced deeper of November 1943 against the ble. When devaluation has increase production. There may as a Labour
pre-strike which provided that supporter. cast its shadow ahead of it need to be a cut in standards of
ballots should be secret. clearly in the past this has living. But nobody is willing to
One In 600 A usually been because inflation talk about that on this side of a
Communist has got out of hand, and goy-general eletion.
And that brings the question ernments have more often
back to the date of an election. The total membership of the than not found it easier to The British
in their Australian Communist is new price level than to bring the decision to cut dollar 500. This takes no account of strikes, include sabotage,
down fellow
work meetings, and go slow prices into line with the cur-still further, and to cut
members, dis-tactics, because the most valuable rency. No one, we think, public expenditure. These mea-
illusioned about Russia, have service that can be rendered in sures will hurt the public. They would seriously contend that will not do so now, but in a few left the organisation since the Australia to Russia is to weaken that is the pattern of Bri- months' time. The government Second World War, and result the national economy, and the tain's exchange problem at may decide to get the electioning,
strangely enough national defences, the present time.
A useful subsidiary method of of the trades be felt
But though mimerically unions was to rig the ballots at Moreover, the Washington talks ars
gary, weak, the
the Communists. are, or the,amion-elections. Communiste SHERANAN may not result in agreement. The ABDULLAH-FRANCO British delegates may be pressed ganisationally strong.
to take measures to which they branch is a
Headquarters of the Victorian or "follow travellers" were elect ed as returning officers, ballot AGREEMENT feel they cannot agree because
gloomy, sparsely- papers were "switched", altered, of the opposition which they furnished office near the top of a and even destroyed. Madrid, September 17 would meet from organised
10-storey block in the heart of
The election of the returning Melbourne's business district, The Spanish Foreign Ministry labour at home...NO NONE with likeness of Lenin on the Officers is made sure by packing; said tonight that King Abdullah If that should happen and
relying on the absence through of Jordan and General Franco everybody prays that it will not wall and try of Marxista meeting with Communists and have reached complete agreementit would be a
a great temptation There is a school for young indifference of "straight union on questions inviting the Middle to the labour government to hold Communists in one of the mists. Switching the votes is facill Fast and the menace of Soviet an immediate election, hoping to 2 branch, or
of Sa tated by having more ballot- Communispa,
win for fleelf the patriotic vote
and e Youth League with Left-wing
voters. ang Commotmists are organized to tomorrow for Malaga where he Sir Stafford Cripps have no in New South Wales, will embark for the Middle Eart liking for questionable mano-One of the Victorian execu- vote in the names of straight”
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tives has twice visited the Mar- unionists too egligent to attend
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