COMMUNISTS ARE NOT WANTED
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Labour Leader Condemns Agitators DANGER TO UNIONISM
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(Received 19, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 18. Addressing the Transport and General Workers' Conference at Blackpool, the secretary, , Mr. Emest Bevin, who is also chairman of the feeneral Council of the British Trades TJnion Congress, amid loud applause, dexnanded the support of every memher to drive out the Communists from their ranks. He said that they were seeking to undermine the structure of trade unionism and added: "Documents show that gangster tyranny goes on among the men who get into the clutches of Communists." Reviewing the achievements of the nnion in 1936, he emphasjsed that it had effected 4000 wage settlements, obtaining incroased wages for the workers
t without tl*e loss of a single day's work. The fusion of the Labour Party and the Trade Union co-operative movements was the greatest "popular fronts" the world had ever known;
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 104, 19 May 1937, Page 5
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155COMMUNISTS ARE NOT WANTED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 104, 19 May 1937, Page 5
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