"Labor spurns Communism's eye-wash" Labor Call, 14 January 1937, p. 1.

In accordance with changes in Comintern policy, local Communist parties fluctuated in their attitudes to labor movements. During some periods they denounced them as "capitalist lackeys" while at other times they sought to form a united front with them.

Links to the Communist Party were always electoral suicide and the conservative parties would make the most of public perceptions of Communist infiltration of the Unions and the Labor Party in every election.

This front-page article of Labor call, the paper of the Victorian branch of the ALP, begins,

In keeping with Communist moves throughout the world to gain control of the workers by disruptive or surreptitious methods, an abortive attempt has been made in England to establish a "united front." Every Labor Party in the world has turned such overtures down flat giving Communism a nasty jolt under the chin from which it cannot recover.

Australia long since applied the boot to Communist proposals, both wings of Labor having seen through the anti-Australian smoke-screen of falsity.