SECRET BALLOTS URGED IN AVON TO STOP STRIKES
P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, May 22. “Well, we shall have a look at that,” said the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, when a questioner, at a meeting at New Brighton to-night, suggested that it should be made compulsory for a unoin to take a secret ballot before strike action was taken. The questioner asked the Labour candidate for Avon, Mr -L Mathieson. if he thought that secret ballots would help to prevent strikes. Mr Mathieson said he did not know of any union that did not take a secret ballot on a strike issue. It was a rule of every union, he said. The questioner: “But is it done?” Mr Mathieson: “I say it is. It is in unions that I am acquainted with. But it may not be done in the union to which my friend belongs.” Mr Fraser: “They ought to.” The questioner: “Is it compulsory?” Mr Fraser: “No.” The questioner said that his point was that, if the secret ballot were many strikes would be avoided.
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Grey River Argus, 23 May 1947, Page 5
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