ELECTORS’ OPINION
WELLINGTON, Oct. 7.
A general election should be demanded to give the people of tho Dominion an opportunity of expressing their opinion on the settlement of the recent coal-miners’ strike, said Mr M. G. C. McCaul at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last night. “If they approve,” he said, “well and good; if not—and I am hopeful that they will not approve—then a change will take place. The precedent which has been established is very serious for the welfare of the country. The whole of the people should be made responsible for deciding whether or not the law is to be enforced. If they say they approve of the flouting of the law, this is a democratic country and those who do not approve will have to put up with it. But the people should have a say, and that can be done only through a general election.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 264, 7 October 1942, Page 5
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