BUTCHERS WHO WENT TO RAGES
Question Asked In The House (F.0.P.R.) WELLINGTON, June 10. “The Government is giving full consideration to the steps which may be necessary to deal '•with persons or organisations whose acts may be detrimental to public morale and the war effort/’ said the Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon, W. Nash) when in the House to-day he was replying to an urgent question by Mr F. W; Doidge (Opposition, Tauranga) whether, in view of the defiance of the Government by the workers at Westfield last Wednesday, when 145 men ceased work in a body to attend a race meeting, the Government would follow the example of the United Kingdom and introduce legislation' making such action in war time punishable by either a fine or imprisonment. . In a note to his question Mr Doidge said that ■Mr Ernest Bevin, - Minister for Labour in Britain, was responsible for the measure now in operation which made it a punishable offence for any man to leave*his work without permission. Such an offence involved a fine of £IOO or alternatively three months’ imprisonment. . - ■
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23352, 11 June 1941, Page 6
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