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...unfair to compare it with the convertibility crisis in the summer of 1947. In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson termed it "not a great crisis." On the contrary, British Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskell referred to "this moment of supreme crisis," and Australian Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley said it was a "pretty desperate situation...
...orders from Comrade Williams, the miners struck June 27. Australia's Laborite Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, veteran of many a railway walkout, was jolted out of Australia's usual tolerance of communism. For the first time, Chifley denounced the Communists, and his government hurriedly drafted an emergency bill that would prevent unions from using their funds to support strikes called during arbitration proceedings. Most of Australian labor supported the bill. It passed without dissent. Cried Labor M.P. Leslie Haylen: "Reds act here as in Berlin. They choose the depth of a hard winter to try and suborn...
...came to picking the King's Governor General for the Dominion, the Australian Labor Party wanted no "foreigners" to succeed the Duke of Gloucester (whose chief of staff had been charged with an unfair labor practice after a row with his valet). So Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, an ex-locomotive engineer, produced from the Labor Party's own marsupial pouch the new Governor General, William John McKell, Prime Minister of New South Wales...
King George had gently suggested that his representative be someone less active in party politics than Billy McKell. When Chifley, who under the Statute of West minster has the last word, overruled the King, official London was quietly horrified. (An editor privately muttered: "If the King suggests, dammit, that should be enough...
Called into the dispute by the Council, the Prime Minister (and ex-locomotive driver) Joseph B. Chifley, himself a union man, talked it over with Brigadier Schreiber, heard his denial of the Fields' charges. The Council officially: (1) blacklisted the whole Schreiber household by denying it all union services, such as delivery of groceries, household repairs, gardening chores; 2) ordered the Kingston to reinstate Field on threat of extending the boycott to three Canberra hotels; 3) requested the Prime Minister to send Schreiber back where he came from-England...