TRADE UNION PURGE
“FOREIGN INFLUENCE” EFFORT TO ERADICATE JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 10. An extraordinary conference of all taade unions has been specially summoned by the S.A. Trades and Labour Council Executive to take place shortly, for the purpose of discussing an active -and intensive campaign to eradicate Fascist influences in their organisation. Mr. W. J. de Viies, general secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, has been engaged on convening chis conference on the instruction of his executive. The conference will be one of the most important staged for years, because it is felt that Fascist influences and tendencies have made astonishing progress among members of unions throughout South Africa and particularly on the Rand. Measures to fight these foreign political influences will be discussed, and the delegates will draft a scheme by which they will institute an intensive drive, propaganda and otherwise, against all movements and tendencies which have as their object the division of the ranks of the trade unions and allied organisations.— Sunday Times.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20060, 5 October 1939, Page 7
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