Ah Is Mise, the things they don't tell you.
OK here goes, we all know that labor follows the communist beliefs right? Well the unions are simply an extension of the labor/communist movement.

During WWII it was not unusual for the wharfies, to strike or stall or slow down loading of the supply ships to restock our soldiers with everything from food to bullets and so on. The unions were/are communists.

Consequently many died and many starved. My father-in-law was such a person. He developed problems, lost a lot of weight and came close to death.

They got him in time but they had to remove half his stomach, all because the supply ship did not get to him in time as planned because the scum unions/labor/commo pricks live by some sick set of rules that belong in the stone age as do they.

If you doubt my claim about these labor/union scum being commo's just listen to their speakers opening welcome. 'Welcome Comrades'.

I think I have explained the story well enough for you to understand.

What a great idea.

Let us all talk about something as unimportant as whether we become a republic. It will allow the politicians to avoid thinking about anything really important, now they have finished with SSM.

Issy, you are correct, with bipartisan agreement Labor governed successfully during WWII. Australian's were united in their support for the war effort. There was a degree of self interest of course, not wanting to be invaded by Japan.
The position of Communists was not as it become later during the Cold War. Remembering along with the United States, the Soviet Union was one of our stronest allies. Australian communists who led the wharfies were almost exclusively Stalinist, and as such were strong supporters of the war.

The strike issues in Australia during WWII were exclusively industrial. Ironically it was the wharfies who had made a political stand pre war against the Menzies government's selling of pig iron to the Japanese, who were using it in their war against the Chinese. Thus the tag given to Menzies 'Pig Iron' Bob. Menzies had Nazi sympathies, at least pre war, having made an official visit to Nazi Germany in 1938 and returning with glowing reports of Hitlers regime.

ALTRAV has a long discredited view of Labor and communists and what roll they each played during those times.

Paul1405, 'Altrav has a long discredited view of labor and communists and what roll each played during those times.'

You speak as an authority on labor and communism. I take then, from your comments, you are pro' labor and communism.

I must remind you that my disdain for both these anti-social groups is backed by the Australian population at the time. I would also suggest you not treat this matter with levity and indifference as a lot of Australians died and or suffered at the hands of the communist backed labor scum and for you to doubt these facts does not bode well for you and your credibility.

I and anyone alive during or after those times can quote you first hand what was going on. So don't you dare attempt to point score on this issue. If you want proof of the veracity of what I speak, for once I can respond with no doubt. I am living proof of these facts.

Where the hell were you when your father, your uncles and his friends were suffering or dying because these bastard labor/commo mongrels were backing the other side.

Your comments are not only offensive to the thousands of families who lost loved ones but they display your total lack knowledge on the subject.

Don't believe everything you read and hear, ask someone who survived that bloody war yes,'WAR'. Police action my arse!

"The strike issues in Australia during WWII were exclusively industrial. Ironically it was the wharfies who had made a political stand pre war against the Menzies government's selling of pig iron to the Japanese, who were using it in their war against the Chinese. Thus the tag given to Menzies 'Pig Iron' Bob."

1. It wasn't the Menzies govt. Menzies was the A-G. It was the Lyons Govt.
2. The government wasn't selling the iron. It was a private contract. The government got involved only to ensure that the contract was honoured. Trading with Japan wasn't illegal and the government had an obligation to ensure the law was followed. The strike was illegal.
3. The pig iron wasn't being used in Japan's war effort. It was unsuited for use in guns or bullets. It was to be used in Japan's construction industry...mainly for housing.

All of which makes no difference when the left gets into myth-making.

Menzies wasn't a Nazi sympathiser. But he was in favour of leaving the Germans to make their own decisions about themselves and he was, until late 1939, pro-appeasement.

"Australian communists who led the wharfies were almost exclusively Stalinist, and as such were strong supporters of the war."

Yes Stalinists and entirely under the control of the Comintern. As such, in the period 1939-1941 when Stalin and Hitler were allies and were, among other things, dismembering Poland (about 1 million Poles died at the hands of Stalin), the wharfies and other communist controlled unions opposed the war effort. They actively sabotaged the Australia's soldiers in Africa and delayed loading of supplies destined for that region. They showed that their loyalty was not to Australia but to far-away political masters.

Despite efforts to suppress details of this shameful period, even the myth-making efforts of the left have failed and the truth remains available for those who seek it.

Of coarse , after the war the communist controlled unions reverted to their roles as dupes of mother Russia in the cold war.

ALTRAV, To describe Labor as an anti social group shows you certainly are something from the rabid right of politics.
"I must remind you that my disdain for both these anti-social groups is backed by the Australian population at the time." Is that why the people returned the Labor Party at the 1946 election, and incidentally about 65,000 Australian's voted for the Communist Party at the same election.
The rest of your diatribe is a load of rubbish, with your totally distorted opinions, claimed to be facts.