A WARNING

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1927, Page 3

A WARNING

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(Australian & N.Z. Cable Avdimitiuii.) (Received this day at IL.'-'O a.in.) BRISBANE, Sept. 22. Air McCormack, referring in the Assembly to the recent strike said that arising ouL of that dispute were very important considerations for Queensland, and in a wider sense for the whole Commonwealth of Nations known as the British Empire. South John.sU ne strike was an ordinary industrial dispute, and had nothing to do .with the disruption in general. Insidious attempts were made by sections of the community to take control ol this dispute. not for purposes of lighting an industrial buttle for the workers, hut to create disruption and disorder throughout the Commonwealth and the whole British Empire. It was obvious to him that this propaganda was heintc currieil on. not only in ilto Comnimiwealth but in other British Dominions. and in Britain itself. These individuals aimed at the disruption of Ouistftntiomil Government. It behoved everybody in Ihe com in unity, who believed in constitutionalism and revolutionary principles to lie awake and aware of these disruptions. Communism did not control the labour movement blit it was insidiously work-

ing its way into the organisation of labour, using the labour organisation for the purpose for which it was never created. Thcv found fifty or sixty men transported from Sydney to Brisbane using motor ears ami addressing meetings around the metropolitan area, vultures ready to take advantage of this dislocation that occurred through a dispute, between the Government and workers The Premier said ho wanted to point out to I'nions that more care would have to lie taken in the control of the labour organisation, if i! were not going to be destroyed.