REVOLT OF UNIONS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 229, 22 June 1921, Page 7

REVOLT OF UNIONS

AGAINST LABOUR COUNCIL EXTREMISTS

WARNING TO WORKERS During the past twelve months many unions have withdrawn from affiliation with the Now South Wales Labour Council on the ground that the extreme views expressed by the council did not represent the unions as a whole. Tho “Sydney Morning Herald" reports that tho New South Wales branch of the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union, at a mass meeting at the Trades Hall on June 14, decided also to withdraw its affiliation. An official statement issued on behalf of the union last night asserted that the council had outlived its usefulness in industrial matters. As at present constituted, declared the statement, the council was a combination of extremists who were sowing seeds of 'dissension for the purpose of bringing about a revolution, with bloodshed, and securing control of Australia. "We would warn the workers,” it added, ."not to ba led like sheep to slaughter by those parasites. They should think and consider well before they fall into a trap eo skilfully and carefully planned by such a body of men, who class themselves as the saviours of mankind ’ Last week the United Labourers'Union also revolted against the Labour Council. In its appeal to other unions throughout the State it pointed out that Labour and Capital must be brought into active unity before a more equitable system could be evolved.