I am no lover of the maritime unionists especially their treachery during WW11, for which they have never been properly led to account. But I think it's a far stretch to refer to our wartime PM, Curtin, as a traitor. I have never ever heard, as you declare that:
'To contemplate that such activity was condoned by the inaction and virtual complicity of the Curtin Government'.
Didn't Curtin break the WW strike at Port Kembla and elsewhere? Considering he was being constantly undermined from within his own ranks, I hold him in high regard. He never condoned action by left leaning, selfish unionists, either on the wharves or in the coal mines, to undermine Australia's war efforts in WW11.
