MARCH ON CAUCUS

Chronicle (Levin), 6 March 1948, Page 5

MARCH ON CAUCUS

Received Friday, 7.45 p.m. BRIWBaNE, Alarch 5. Today rail and wliarf strikers numbering 2500 marched ou Parliament ilouse where tlie Parliampntarv Labour caucus was diseussing the strike. Eifty police in cars raced to the liouse and narred tlie gates before the strikers arrived. The men asseinbied in an orderly manner outside tlie gates and strike leaders seut in a niessage tliat tliey wanted to see the caucus as a wliole and not Premier Hanlon. Tlie caucus repliod tliat it woukl reeeive a deputation of seven but when tliese men were admtted to the ilouse tliey were informed tliat thev could not go before the caucus. When tlie dele -gates returned tlie erowd hailed the news with loud , jeers. The leaders then gave instructions about the resumption of mass meetings and tlte crowd dispersed. DEPORT THE COMMUNISTS Communists wlio were dislocating iildustrv should be • deported, said the Country Party Leader (Alr. Fadden) in tlie Ilouse of Representatives irt Canberra. Afost of them were born outside the eountrv and eoukl be deported under the Crimes Aet, he added. Air. Fadden vigorouslv attacked the (lovernment for failing to take fiction in the Queensland railway strike. He said: "It is nearly time tliat, the people of Australia recognised? that this Crimes Act (. is simply lying cjn the bookshelves of the Attornev-Gen-eral, and that the Government is not .prepared to carry o,u.t its ovv;n laws." Arr. ITanlon had taken a stand which made the issue between constitutional governmenj: and -the revolutionarv j methods of the Communists, Air. Fadi den added. Tlie Government. must take aetion because Federal, as well as State awards were coneerned in tlie strike and because the seamen and the watersiders tlireatened to paralvse tlie carriage of goods by sea. Government nienibers sat silently as Alr. Fadden lashed them for their inactivity.