MR. SEMPLE AGAIN
"MAY PARALYSE NEW ZEALAND." (Dγ Tcloeraph-I'ross Aepoointlon.) Grcymouth, December 11. After Sir Arthur Guinness had nddrc,* pd the pleclors at Dunollio on W«lne.«« day, a largo number of questions woro put to the candidate, amongst which was the following:— "Are you in favour of imprisoning (hoso who refuse (o pay lines, iiillti'tod on thorn for not registering v/iler tho Defence Act?"
'I'llo cnticliclnto Blatcd that ho bijicvod the provisions of tho Dcfciico Act. must be curried out, and Hint tho authorities lilmiild not mnkp iish of ouo and fowl of iimillior.
Tin's answer did not prove satisfactory to Air. ]!. .Semplc, onjaniwr of the New Zealand Federation ol Labour, who declared thai; if the ("foveriiment enforced pn.vmont of fines by imprisonment or by nllncliMßiit ot defcnd.itil'is wagfs, ho would paralyse (ho industries and business of tho whole of Now Zerilnnd. ITo (Mr. Stiuple) could coniniand 15,000 work«rs, who would seo that no wages were earned.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1309, 12 December 1911, Page 4
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