MINISTERS BLAMED
STRIKE RESPONSIBILITY WRONG ONES RESIGN DOWNIE STEWART’S VIEW (P.A.) DUNEDIN, this day The Hon. W. Downie Stewart, commenting on the resignation of the National, Pflrty Ministers from the War, ,-Administration, said , that if Cabinet resignations were necessary the Hon. P. C.AVebb and some of his colleagues should, be the first to resign, for the moral responsibility for the strike lay at their doors. Early annual reports of the Miners’ Federation teemed with speeches by Mr. Webb,..the Hon. R. Semple, and the Rt. Hon. .P, Fra3er .jeering at those trade..unions that thought disputes 'should be settled by peaceful means. They never tired of describing the Arbitration Act as a machine created to keep the miners in slavery. ~ Mr. Webb ,had taught these doctrines only tbo well, and now he vainly and took Qff hjs hat ,to the miners. Doubtless Mg, j jVltebb was sincerely Qonyerted to sounder views, .but .'he and his colleagues had never frankly recanted and the mischief created' still persisted.
It was useless to cry peace when all we got was patched up concessions outraging the public sense of justice, added Mr. Stewart.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 6 October 1942, Page 4
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187MINISTERS BLAMED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 6 October 1942, Page 4
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