Australian Workers

Sacrificed

The destruction of Australia’s trade with China and Singapore now appears to be the objective of the Communists.

For more than nine months, waterside workers, led by Communist bosses, have succeeded in tying up Dutch ships in Aus tralian ports.

They prevented the despatch of urgently needed medical supplies and foodstuffs to the Netherlands Indies. These goods were required to alleviate the sufferings and in many cases to save the lives of Indonesians and Dutch who had been rescued from Japanese concentration camps.

Agricultural implements, machine tools and a host of other articles necessary if prosperity is to return to the Indies, have been left in Australian warehouses not withstanding the fact that large quantities of these goods had been actually paid for by the Netherlands Indies Government.

As a direct result of this tie-up, orders worth millions of pounds have been can celled and goods that Australia could have supplied are being manufactured in other countries where foreign workers are get ting the wages that could have gone into the pockets of our own people.

The Federal Government' A.C.T.U and the Trades and Labour Council have all ■ tried without avail to get the ban on Dutch ships lifted, but the Communist Party, mouthpiece of the “Red Imperialists of Russia,” has decreed that Australian goods must be kept out of the valuable markets in the Netherlands Indies.

Well, they have succeeded and Aus tralia’s export trade with the Netherlands Indies has been completely destroyed.

Now, they are attempting to wreck our trade further afield. A ship scheduled to sail for Singapore and China with Aus tralian goods, has been held up in Bris bane.

When we recollect that our prosperity and maintenance of our standards of liv ing depends upon export trade, we realise how dangerous these foreign inspired agi tators can be.

The point to remember is that the Com munist Party is not concerned with the welfare of Australian workers. It is pre pared to sacrifice Australia and Australian people so long as it advances the plan for world Communist revolution.

The more chaotic the industrial position becomes in Australia, the nearer they be lieve they are to their objective. They want the people to be desperate enough to grasp at any remedy, even a Communistic dictatorship.

Moderate Labour men have got to clean up the mess if the Australian Labour Party is to survive and democratic govern ment to continue in Australia.

Whilst these Red wreckers control pow erful unions they can defy the A.L.P. and continue their savage attacks on our export trade.

Contributed by Ceigoa Pty., Ltd. (Consolidated Export and Import Group of Australia), 54 Oxford Street, Sydney.