UNIONISM UNDER DICTATORS
(To the Editor.) Sir, —The present world trouble should have a vital interest for the Labour delegates at present assembled in Wellington. Victory by the dictators would mean the immediate and absolute crushing-out of all trades unionism. Hitler has already achieved this in Germany. And he has gone further; he has conscripted all forms of labour, and at ten hours a day. There are many hundreds of clerks who have been forcibly taken away from their I proper work, and are now doing pick and shovel work on the Siegfried Line and similar jobs. Not content with this, married women are being required to do manual labour.
I am daily expecting Mr. Chamberlain to issue his overdue appeal for the "First Hundred Thousand" volunteers. New Zealand must have a similar appeal for a smaller number. It is to be hoped that the Labour conference will give this most vital matter the
fullest consideration before it breaks up, even if it means sitting into next week.—l am, etc., HOME-BORN. April 14.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 8
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