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TOWNSVILLE LABOUR
\ .CONVENTION /-, '
1 As'the old saw has tt that * one maris mitt min lufanothu mans poison,'
no l'io ]<>bultiol the Laboui-in-politics Convention in Townsville bl ought dis mu y »bid angor to tin Reds bf the ti ides XluU and delight and cuttta tion to the A W U and Government tump The oilgmal objict of tho lab- oui Convention insplicd and instigtt cil by the militants"'of the Ti ados Hall
was to bl lillie and dtffcil Mi McCoi mitk There baa howovci bun a boomi tang tfftct He can legitimately ünlm, not only to' hiVc defeated'his un mies btlt lo hflVc \oiltibly triumph- ed over thun The convention undoubt- edly w,i, mi otilcbtnt of tho South Johnstone Mill ti ouble nnd the milw ly sliil ( of 1 ist ye.Ci* Arti the still t inint the e>l,icmc ( lemtnl both within und without Hit .Lab,oui movuntii), IHHI
Mr. MCCORMACK
right out after Mr. JWcCormack's scalp. A persistent demand'wits made'that a 1/iibour convention should be held/to deni , with Uie, Premier;"" The'- respon- sible^ leadoi'.s iiif Ihc "bnbcmr - movement simply turnad a.deaf ear loutit! demand. Then the militant11 Trudes-nnd Liibbur Council, ii; which those'stormy petrels of ' the-"Queensland iiulusti'lal worid!
Ilymrr nnd Maroney,- wield .oón.siíleralílo" Influence, deckled "to^eoiivenc^'a Trades
.Unlion congress.. . TlilH' congress ¡""WUP duly; held,-and i.slayud,Mi'Aj\feCormtick.' lils ministers anti his ^goyernmenl,^li-ii and' thigh. A «dernrind wiís''¡ilKO<ina'do"' that an A.U1'..convention be.Oicld .with- in four months-^-ostenslbly lo'pui on the finishing touches and curry.out the ob-i
ncquies ^of Hie Mccormack: 'government* -and the tl|rcat was added tlí'at 'utiles« Hie' Queensland Central« JUxftuiillvc r>(
the A:IJI1', .called-such.1 a ^convention,
liten ,jllii«(.<Trñdos I and ii jabour Council, woii]rttca]l ii itself. Tlic p.Ü.'ß., However,! callad; .¡the convention ^ancl it* was bold last wcok.'iWlth the rcsülti that" all the wprld íltno\YSíi-Jnstei)d -of being'deposed' and distKimlit.ed. JMr. MoCormaek 'Soli- dified his^pdtillon as Labour lender, nnd HCorecVa 'personal ti'lumph. r Th'e. routing ,of tjie "Reds" was also a signar vlctorv for the, moderates of Hie fJíubóur pai'ty. Quite prolmljloj if not passible.)IUi,s, that tho^ eonveiition^dccisions will have a controlling Jniluence-'over . the " strike Weapon, Thai, at any' rate, appears to, bo t'hc feellnfr in responsible'union circles* in the metropolis, where It ¡à re- cognised ^thalf the vesting; ol'-the'power
nun single union,/"!' a .subitididiyjiranch of a union, to make u "liJiujk'V doolara llon is, a '.serious danger''and; a moñaco lo the 'community ás^u whole.- ? <