The Archive · 1928

Australian Labour Sensation

Decision of Tom Walsh to Joist Industrial Peace Union London, June 10. sensation was created in Las hour circles yesterday by the one nouncement that Tom Walsh, form er Secretary of the Australian Seamen's Union, has decided to join the Industrial Peace Union.

Walsh, one of the most militant left wing trade union leaders in the Commonwealth, has had a very, storms career,—This decision, cabled to the Industrial Peace Union of Britain, which Mr. Haves oek Wilson founded, means that Walsh's attitude and views hava completely. changed.

The cable mentions that his wife, formerly Adela Pankhurst, a daugh" ter of the former suifragist leader, proposes to organize a branch of the Industrial Peace Union among Australian women and asks that credentials be sent her English executive. The lat abled warmly welcoming the pro. posal—Reuter.

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