WORKERS BAN REDS
STORMY DEBATE AT TRADES CONFERENCE OPINION OF MODERATES MELBOURNE, Thursday. A long debate took place at the Trades Union Conference today as to whether the council should continue its affiliation with the Pan-Pacific secretariat. The spokesman for the proposal, Mr. J. S. Garden, said the policy of this body Was to raise the wages standards in foreign nations to that of Australia. Southern delegates urged that this amounted to an attempt to break down the White Australia policy. Moderate speakers argued that the secretariat was dominated by the Communists of Russia with whom trades unionists in Australia had nothing in common. Mr. Garden's proposal for a continuance of affiliation was rejected after a stormy session by five votes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 909, 28 February 1930, Page 9
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121WORKERS BAN REDS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 909, 28 February 1930, Page 9
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