NATIONAL PARTY AND UNIONS
COMMENT ON REFERENCE BY MR MATHISON (New Zealand Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 6. I The member for Avon (Mr J. I Mathison) had said that if the National j Party became, the Government it would have to reckon with the big industrial unions; was that a threat? I asked Mr W. H. Gillespie (Opposition, I Hurunui) in the House of Representatives to-day. | Mr E. B. Corbett (Opposition, EgI mont): Of course it is. 1 Mr Mathison: It’s a promise. i Mr Gillespie said that members of ! the Government before they came into I power had done exactly what the , Communists were doing to-day and : the statement by the member for Avon I meant that they would do it again. Speaking later in the debate. Mr D. 'C. Kidd (Opposition. Waimate) said I he would like the member for Avon | to know that if the National Party I became the Government it would perhaps “make it hot for him.” He could not understand a responsible member preaching such a nolicy as the member for Avon had.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25902, 7 September 1949, Page 6
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