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UNION 0N
ANTI-RED
PLEDGE
The South Australian branch
of the Federated Clerks' Union
has decided to dissociate itself
from an anti-Communist declara
tion made by the State branch of
the Australian Labor Party.
The branch council of the union
last night had before it the declara
tion made by a meeting of the
A.L.P. council in January, in which
that body dissocated itself from
the policy, methods, and propa
ganda of the Communist Party and
declared it anti-British, anti-Aus
tralian, and anti-Labor.
The State secretary of the Clerks
Union (Mr. A. C. Krantz) said to
day that the council of the union
had adopted the following resolu
tion:
"We dissociate the union frdm
this declaration, particularly in
reference to the anti-British, ant;
Australian, and anti-Labor clause
in it. and we advise the A,L.P.
that the purpose of our affiliation
i~, to advance the urigent needs of
the people for great improvement
i:, their standards and conditions
of life. and call upon our members
to unite to defeat all disruption,
whether from within or without,
and to see that the workers get
their first instalment of the new
order of 1946."
Mr. Krantz said that membersnof
the council had expressed them
selves strongly against adherence
to any political party being neces
s&ary for membership of the union.
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