MAY BE CONSCRIPTED
SUGGESTION BY MINISTER “It may come to pass yet that we will have to conscript labour, the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. Webb, said in a public address in Greymouth on New Zealand's part in the war. He added that he was expressing his personal opinion, and not that of the Government. “If you conscript men for fighting it is as good to conscript men for service for the nation,” said Mr. Webb, who remarked that newspaper editors might not be able to show very good cause why they should not go into the mine or on the farm. Many, in the cities particularly, were prepared to do anything but work, and considered it was an indignity to go into the factories and workshops. They had to get those ideas out of their heads. Nothing was finer in life than the dignity of labour. “Everybody has a job to do, andLhe greatest thing to do today is to work harder and if necessary, to work longer,” said .Mr. Webb,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 9 December 1941, Page 5
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173MAY BE CONSCRIPTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 9 December 1941, Page 5
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