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Groups sharing address
deny political links
An attempt to link organisations
because of a common post office
box number by the Minister for
Employment and Youth Affairs,
Mr Viner, was criticised yesterday
by some of the organisations concerned.
On Wednesday Mr Viner used the
fact that the Unemployed Workers
Union had a similar post-office box
number to a number of organisations,
including the Australian Conservation
Foundation, which listed, in a 1978
directory, Mr Alan Sorrensen as its
contact, to say that the union was a leftwing
Labor front.
Mr Sorrensen worked with the ACF
in 1978, and left it in March this year
to work for six months for Mr Uren, a
leading left-wing ALP Member.
The post office box is rented by the
Environment Centre, in Childers Street,
ANU, which permits its facilities to be
shared by a number of organisations —
most environmentally oriented — including
the Unemployed Workers
Union.
A spokesman for the Unemployed
Workers Union said yesterday that Mr
Viner's assertion that the UWU was a
front for the left-wing of the ALP was
without basis. Mr Sorrensen was not
and had never been a member of the
UWU.
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