Quota system for immigrants [Workers Star, 29 June 1945]

[Editor: This article, regarding the Communist Party’s viewpoint on the White Australia Policy, was published in the Workers Star (Perth, WA), 29 June 1945.]

Quota system for immigrants

“What is needed is not a White Australia policy but a sound immigration policy with a system of quota controls.”

Thus Paddy Troy, Chairman of the WA State Committee of the Australian Communist Party, in a recent broadcast.

“The Communist Party recognises the need for immigration control. We do not want the uncontrolled immigration into Australia of more people from any country than we can absorb, which could threaten Australian standards of living,” he said.

With the interest of the people in the Communist Party’s constructive proposals on immigration, the Labor Party’s discrimination against colored people has shown itself to be out of step with popular opinion.

More than 20 workers on the job spoke to Paddy Troy, who is Vigilance Officer of the Coastal Docks, Rivers and Harbors Union, about his broadcast and congratulated him.

Source:
Workers Star (Perth, WA), 29 June 1945, p. 6

Editor’s notes:
Australian Communist Party = the Communist Party of Australia, which styled itself as the “Australian Communist Party” from 1944 to 1951
See: “Communist Party of Australia”, Wikipedia

Paddy Troy = Patrick Laurence Troy (1908-1978), a trade unionist (elected as the Vigilance Officer of the Coastal Docks, Rivers and Harbors Union) and the Chairman of the WA State Committee of the Communist Party of Australia; he was born in South Melbourne (Vic.) in 1908, and died in Perth (WA) in 1978
See: 1) Stuart Macintyre, “Patrick Laurence (Paddy) Troy (1908–1978)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography
2) “Quota system for immigrants”, The Workers Star (Perth, WA), 29 June 1945, p. 6 [Paddy Troy as State Chairman, Vigilance Officer]
3) “Paddy Troy”, Wikipedia

WA = an abbreviation of Western Australia (a colony in Australia from 1829, then a state in 1901; previously known as the Swan River Colony)

[Editor: Added a full stop after “congratulated him”.]