COMMUNIST PARTY EXPELS UNION CHIEF
N. Shanmugathasan, secretary of the Comnunist-controlled Ceylon’ tradeunion federation, has been expelled from the Ceylonese Communist party. Another old-time leader, Kumarasiri, has been suspended, The two are prominent leaders of $he pro=Chinese wing of the party.
Important party branches have denounced the measures and demanded convocation of the party congress, which should have been held last Decem= er,
Defying the party edict, Shanmugathasan has hired other pro-Ghinese © members, removed from the party press, to ont weekly : newspapers of the trade-union federation, |
The federation claims. 150, 006 menber s among the tea and rubber plantation workers,
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