MAY DAY STRIKE OFF
BYDNEY, April L I LoJt uing Joiirlcivs have abandouod their plans 1'or an AusLralia-wide stopI puge oi' work on Muy 1, Itight iving I leaders sti.v that the Coiumuuists realiseded their plans for a general atcqjpagu ! witli out the support oi' tlie Australian Uouneil oi Trade Unions would fail, but the iel't-wingers, members of whose unions nuniber 200,000 claim that their deeision was niade in the interests of unily. ! L'nions whieh previously liad decided on a uational stoppage, despite the deeision of the emergency committee of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to abandon tlie proposal, ineluded watersiders, scamen, buildiiig -workers, irou workers, and anialganiated .engineers and nietal workers. A spokesman of Uiis group said that tlie left-wing unions did not intend to proceed Avith a one-dav strike uniess this beeame tlie fiolicy of the council execuitve.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 April 1947, Page 3
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