REQUEST REPEATED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 1 May 1947, Page 6

REQUEST REPEATED

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT INDUSTRIAL SITUATION (P.A.) AUCKLAND, April 30. “Every day intensifies the need for a frank, discussiin of the country's problems by the newly-elected Parliament,” said the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. S. G. Holland, who is visiting Auckland. “On a number of occasions I have stressed the need for an early session, but just as often the Prime Minister has announced that he has no intention of calling Parliament together earlier than Ihe last week in June. The public is well aware of the serious deterioration in the industrial situation in which defiance of recognisfed authority in the methods of settling industrial disputes has become the rule rather than the exception. On that no statement from me is called for at the moment.” Mr. Holland referred to the “extensive underground of foreign-inspired elements” which, he said, obtained, whenever an opportunity occurred, complete control over the most important industrial organisations. He considered that an open debate in Parliament, if it did nothing else, might help to stiffen the Government's attitude against such elements.