THREATS BY COMMUNISTS
UNION MEMBERS COMPLAIN. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.!' WELLINGTON. May 22. An allegation by a union member that he and other members of the union had been threatened by Communists has been reported to the police, who are investigating the matter. In confirming this, the Commissioner of Police (Mr D. J. Cummings) said to-day: “If there is evidence to support the complaint macle, the police will have no hesitation in prosecuting those responsible for the threats.” z
Mr Cummings was shown a statement made to a reporter by a member of the Carpenters’ Union who took a prominent part., in securing the rescinding of an anti-war motion proposed by representatives of the union at the recent conference ■of the Federation of Labour. He alleged that Communist members of the union had issued threats against him and other anti-Communist members of the union. Some of them had been told that they would be hounded out of their jobs if they did not “behave themselves,” his statement alleged.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1941, Page 2
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