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Meeting at Sunshine, to Mr. Mullens, M.L.A., the retiring candidate for the electorate of Footscray, addressed a well-at tended meeting at the Masonic Hall, Sunshine, on Monday evening last. In view of Mr. Mullens' con sistent verbal attack on the Com munist Party and the Eureka League, it was expected that the meeting would be a lively one. However, if there were any op ponents of the speaker, they were silent, for there was not one hostile interjection all the evening, and at the confusion the chairman (Mr. McGrath) called for three cheers for Mr. Mullens, and these were lustily given. Mr. Mullens said he stood before the electors, after six years’ par liamentary representation, as the only selected and endorsed Labor candidate—the only one of the five that had the backing of the Federal and State movement, politicall a or industrial. He had no Sesiak about being opposed, as it was any one's prerogative in a democratic country to offer himself as a can didate. He could tell them w un equivocally and without hesitation, that there was a branch of the A.L.P. functioning in Sunshine which was dominated and con trolled by Communist women. Where were those pseudo Labor leaders that night? They were probably attending a “fly-by-night” meeting of their friend, Cecil Sharpley. He (Mr. Mullens) was here and stood unashamed to give an oaccount of his six years’ stewardship. Where were these other stalwarts of Labor? A Voice: In the dark. (Laugh er.) Mr. Mullens: Those letters that have appeared in the Sunshine paper attacking the A.L.P., with a signed address in Parsons St. Everything defamatory was writ ten for the A.L.P., but nothing but adulation for the Eureka League. It was from that self-same address that the sabotage was going on to displace me by a Communist. Mr. Mullens said the gyrations of the “Mad Millahs at Monbulk and the “bhag-stabbing” at Wil liamstown, under the guise of the Eureka League, had reached such a stage that the Federal Govern ment felt compelled to ban these displays as a menace to the body politic. The Munition Workers’ Union and the Ironworkers’ Union were dominated and controlled by Communists, and the A.S.P. con ference had, by a majority vote, rejected the advances of these people, because they were impreg nated with a foreign policy. He wanted to hurl back in the teeth of a writer named “Toby,” in the Sunshine paper, that he (Mr. Mul lens) was not a unionist. He was a unionist before Toby knew the meaning of the term. He knew the value of shop committees when the Tobys and others were snivel ling on the other side of the world. Have no look around some of the men at Newport, and it would be found that their only enthusiasm was for Communism and Com munist propaganda. The Aus tralian prided himself on fair play, yet men were going around whis pering that Mullens said “so and so.” There has never been such a campaign of misrepresentation. Anyone who said that he had at tacked shop committees was telling a lie Referring to his achievements for the district over the past six years, Mr. Mullens read a letter from the committee of Manage ment of the Footscray Hospital thanking him for his efforts in ob taining £ 25,000 from the Govern ment for the erection of new build ings. He also read a letter from the Premier on the same matter. Mr. Mullens added that he had been able to secure six tons of firewood for as one it was at incE the pig market for triat, the new technical school in Ballarst Rd., and he had worked for the removal of the noxious trades to Derrimut. He would work for the substitution of a new technical school at Sunshine to the old wooden building, had a record of public service in Foota that was of. The
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Sunshine Advocate
Sunshine, Victoria, AU
Fri, May 28, 1943
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