MAN IN RUSSIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 238, 7 October 1936, Page 10

MAN IN RUSSIA.

WHY HE WAS IMPRISONED. STARTED A BUSINESS. (By Telegraph.— Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this clay. During tlie progress of the Opposition attack, and the equally determined Government defence of the Industrial Efficiency Bill in the House of Representatives yesterday, the. Government put up man for man to combat the arguments of Opposition speakers, and the assertion that the bill sought to establish a sort of Soviet dictatorship of industry, was strenuously denied. The most vigorous speech against the bill was made by -Mr. R. A. Wright (Independent, Wellington Suburbs), who said there was no implication in the bill that compensation would be paid to the man who was dispossessed of business as the result of rationalisation, declaring that Once a man was forced out that was the end of him. Mr. Wright concluded his vigorous speech by saying that ke had met a man in Wellington who told him his brother had been in Russia and had been in gaol there. '.1 asked him what they had put him in gaol for," Mr, Wright continued, "and he said it was because ho had started a business." (Laughter.) "This bill," he added, "is going to do the same thing exactly as what they are doing in Russia. It is one of the worst bills ever introduced in this Ilouse."