International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Australian Trade

The Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 21, 23 December 1963 · p. 7 of the scan · 201 words

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Wiorking people in ‘ustralia's richest mining city, Droken Hill, the heart of Australia's biggest monopoly ~ Droken Hill Tty. Ltd. — are fighting to prevent monopoly press interests from swallowing the country's only trado union dsily newspaper — the Darrior Daily Truthecee

"Published around the turn of the century, this daily is one of the oldest trade union papers in the country.

"In recent times, the llurdoch monopoly press interests tried tc take the paper over. When Murdoch's offers were rejected, “oolworths,....which operates in noarly evory major city in .ustrelia, discontimed sdvertising in the papers

The Darrior Industrial Council which runs the paper then ordered 211 trade unionists to boycott “oolworths, The boycott had been very offeotive in Iroken Hill because about 80% of the local adult population bolong to some trade union or othor.

"To avenge the boycott, the local chamber of commerce on December 13th erdered all shops to clcse; thus the whole city became involved in the struggle, The attention of the entire nation is now focussed on tho atruggisa and support for keeping this daily newspaper of tho trado unions out of the clutches Australia's newspsper monopolists has beon rapidly mounting.

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