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- Title
TOWARDS A REASSESSMENT OF DR. EVATT'S ROLE IN THE 1954-5 A.L.P. SPLIT.
- Authors
CLARKE, F. G.
- Abstract
The article assesses the role Doctor Herbert Evatt, the leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party in the Federal Parliament, played in the split of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 1954-1955. The formation of secretly organized cells established by the National Secretariat for Catholic Action in Australia to counter the rise of Communist activity in Australian labor unions is recounted. How Evatt managed to galvanize opposition against these anti-communist groups, which eventually led to Federal Executive intervention in ALP state branches, is examined.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; LABOR unions; AUSTRALIAN Labor Party; LABOR movement; EVATT, Herbert Vere, 1894-1965; LABOR parties; INTERVENTION (Administrative procedure); LABOR unions &; communism; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION
- Publication
Labour History, 1970, Issue 19, p55
- ISSN
0023-6942
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/27507993