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Title Representative Camberwell citizens urge the government to lift the ban on the Communist Party : add your support, write to your M.P. now! / issued by D. Scott, former Secretary, Camberwell Branch, Communist Party, for the Political Rights Committee, 49 Elizabeth Street
Published [Melbourne] : Political Rights Committee, [1941?]
Melbourne : Stuart Taylor, Fine Printers

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 ADPML SPPAM  324.2940975 Sco/Rcc  LIB USE ONLY
 ADPML SPPAM  324.2940975 Sco/Rcc  LIB USE ONLY
Description 1 broadside ; 26 x 21 cm
Summary A broadside, printed recto only in red on cream paper, with statements by residents of Camberwell in support of the Communist Party. The statements are attributed to several ministers of religion, a lecturer in philosophy, two union officials, and a retired navy commander
Analysis Australian
Notes Caption title
Pro-Communist political ephemera
George A. Paul (1912-1962) was born in Scotland and spent most of his career in Oxford, but lectured in philosophy at the University of Melbourne between 1939 and 1945. A witness at the Victorian Royal Commission on the Communist Party in 1949 reported that he conducted classes above the Communist Party bookshop in Camberwell (National Advocate (Bathurst, NSW), 27 July 1949, page 3, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article161636065, viewed August 2018)
In June 1940 the Communist Party of Australia was among ten organisations declared illegal by the Commonwealth Government using regulations imposed under the National Security Act. It continued to occupy its offices at 49 Elizabeth Street and hold meetings as the Political Rights Committee until the ban was lifted in December 1942
The Political Rights Committee was once again in operation on 23 October 1950, shortly after the Communist Party Dissolution Act received assent on 20 October 1950, when Mr William S. Bird of the Commonwealth Investigation Service led a raid of ten men on the former offices of the Communist Party at 49 Elizabeth Street, then occupied by what staff told the security police was the Political Rights Commitee. Similar coordinated raids were made in Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart and Darwin. In Melbourne, the security police seized more than half a ton of pamphlets, articles and other documents. This second ban on the Communist Party was eventually overturned in the referendum held on 22 September 1951
Subject Australia. Parliament. Communist Party Dissolution Act
Communist Party of Australia.
Freedom of association -- Australia.
Political parties -- Law and legislation -- Australia.
Author Scott, D.
Political Rights Committee (Australia), issuing body
Stuart Taylor Pty Ltd, printer