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No. 2988.
(Registered at the 6.P.0 Perth. for transmission by post as a Newspaper)
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HIGH COURT DECISION AGAINST UNION REDS John Thomas Byrne made social and political history in London by a major British trade union.
upsetting communist control of He won a costly 33 -day High Court action in which he proved that the powerful Electrical Trades Unionwhose 240,000 members hold key jobs throughout Brit'
clared aims and showing how a dedicated minority of less than one per cent could control the other 99 per cent.
industry-was managed
controlled illegally by rtiny communist clique for ,goirnmonistic purposes. Byrne. a stocky Catholic from Glasgow, brought the action with a colleague. They, charged that communist officials fraudulently rigged the last election for the post of general secretary, for which he was a candidate, so that Frank Haxell, senior member of the British Communist party, was elected in his place. The London
High Court ruled (July 3) that Haxell and four other communist members of the union were
guilty of conspiracy, that Byrne was in fact elected in December, 1959, and that immediately take over office from the deposed he should
Haxell.
Court Decision
Shocking Apathy
They blamed instead the Trades Union Congress, ex-
ecutive group representing all recognised unions, for not intervening earlier. T.U.C. leaders knew full well what was
happening,
they
said.
The British government was also blamed for rejecting an appeal for an inquiry into the union's troubles as long Above all, ago as 1957. Catholic commentators cast memon the union's blame bers themselves for letting a group of ruthless and determined men run affairs just as they wished. Catholic members of the union alone could have pre vented this but with the few exceptions they were as apathetic as the rest. As for Byrne's triumph, was pointed out that even
around £A112,500. Of the Electrical Trade Union's 240,000 members only some 2,000 are known to be communists. Between 100 and 150 of these hold influential offices in the union.
Catholic commentators, while hailing the exposure of communist activities in a national trade union which has been involved in many disputes and stoppages over recent years, said that the communists involved were merely living up to their de-
of NATO countries. Giving details of the "cold war" activities of the WFTU it said a permanent international liasion committee for car workers was set up four years ago and that communist shop stewards from the big British car plants co-operated. This year they all went to a special meeting in Milan. Italy, where plans were drawn up for new campaigns for higher wages, shorter hours, easier and slower work-all deliberately aimed at fomenting strikes.
Italian Ambassador to Australia, paid a cal on His Grace the Archbishop on Monday morning. During his short stay in Perth Dr. Prato had a busy round of engagements, a civic reception at the Perth City Council chambers, a reception at Fremantle, a Cabinet luncheon at Parliament House, a call on the Lieutenant Governor, Sir John Dwyer. DR. EUGENIO PRATO,
EDUCATION PROGRESS AT NORTH BEACIII
BY
JOHN A. GREAVES
Judgment was given that: he might have failed but for The union was managed and controlled by the the Hungarian uprising in 1956, which caused a split *Communist party as a tool inside the British Communist to serve the ideals of comparty. munism. Commentators also pointed The communist leaders out that Byrne's victory after of the union used to meet' years of almost single-handand to be told of the policies ed battle is only the begindecided by the Communist ning of a fight inside the Party which they had to Electrical Trades Union carry out through the union where Frank Foulkes, a and through such bodies as communist, is still president trade councils. and avid communists hold The communist group other strategic posts in addecided on candidates for ministration. election, and the communist Future Ballots leaders were ordered to eduTwo results are that the cate the union members in next Electrical Trades Union a communist pattern of polielections will probably be tical thought. supervised by neutral referThe judge found it clearly ees and that the Trades proved that Haxell and Union Congress will decide Frank Foulkes, the union's to intervene actively in obcommunist president, deliberately deceived the mem- vious scandals in any other union. bers of the union and that The Catholic Herald, nalies were told and a "wicked tional weekly, said the comfraud" practiced. munist -dominated World He found that extra balFederation of Trade Unions lot papers were printed and was responsible for the long fraudulently filled in, and that forged envelopes pur- history of unrest in the Briporting to come from branch tish car and allied indussecretaries were mailed af- tries. Quoting from a reter the election deadline so cent report of the Economic that union branches support- League here it said the 369 ting Byrne could be dis- strikes and the resulting loss of two million working days qualified. in the industry since 1949 Reds Must Pay was part of the plan of the The unsuccessful defend. W.F.T.U. to disrupt the de ants and the union were ordered to pay the costs of the action estimated at
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OTHER PAGES World Comment .. 2 Foreign News .. .. 4 Feature News .. 3, 5 Marriage Series .. .. 6 Vatican News .. .. 7 Societies and Parishes 8 9 10
Books, Records, Reviews .. .. .. 11 Radio Replies .. .. 12
Interest to Women . 13 Junior Readers .. .. 15
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The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth at their Convent in Charles-st., North Perth. Left to right, standing: SISTERS M. Seated. REV. MOTHER GODWIN, Vicar Superior from Sydney, MOTHER M. TIMOTHY, ALEXANDRA, BERNADETTE, ADRIA. CHRYSANTHA, Superior.
On Sunday last, His Grace the Archbishop blessed the first two classrooms of a new Secondary School at North Beach to be staffed by an American Order of Religious, the Sisters
of the Holy Family of Nazareth. The Sisters who are at present conducting a kindergarten and primary school are being visited by the Mother Vicar. The two classrooms, added to the original school built in 1954, cost £ 5,258 and will accommodate 40 pupils each.
Science Laboratory To Be Built The school will eventually incorporate Ave classrooms, a science laboratory, a library and other ameniAn innovation to the usual Sister -staffed schools of the Archdiocese will be that the school will accept boys in the secondary standards. His Grace was welcomed by the parish priest of North Beach, Rev. J. Depiazzi and by Mr. V. Courtney. Among official guests at the opening ceremony were the Very Reverend W. Dziecol, Rev. P. Quinn, Mr. E. D. Cash. M.H.R., Mr. L. Nimmo, M.L.A., Mr. H. Robinson, Chairman Perth Shire Council, Mr. A. Ramm, Shire Councillor. In the course of his remarksi His Grace thanked the Sisters for accepting his invitation to come to the Archdiocese. They brought with them the splendid teaching and training traditions that characterised ties.
their schools in the United States. All the Sisters were graduates of an American University. In recent years, said the Archbishop, the whole out-
look on education had changed. More and more parents expected their children to go on to a University education. Today the boy and girl who left school at 14 w8 greatly handicapped academically and from the point of view of religious knowledge. But if they were to continue their secondary course, the facilities must be provided. North Beach was solving that difficulty. He hoped that the parents would take advantage of this facility and allow their children to continue their course up to the Leaving certificate, or at least to the Junior standard.
Education Dept. Gave A Good Report His Grace complimented the Sisters on the highly commendable report which they received from the State Education Department's inspector. The Sisters intend to build a Convent next year on the four -acre site. Later it is their intention to build a boarding school. At the conclusion of the function afternoon tea was served by the ladies of the parish committee.