COMPULSORY TRAINING.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 13

COMPULSORY TRAINING.

Mr. Semple's Threat.

GREYMOUTH, December 11

After Sir, Arthur Guinness had addressed the electors at Dunollie on, Wednesday, a large number of questions were put to the candidate, amongst which Avas the following :— "Are you in favor of imprisoning those who refuse to /pay fines inflicted on them for not registering under the Defence Act? ,, . , The candidate stated that he believed the provisions of the Defence Act must be carried out, and that/ the authorities should not make fish of one and fowl of another.

This answer did not prove satisfactory to Mr. R. Semple, the organiser of the New, Zealand Federation of Labor, who declared that if the Government' enforced payment of fines by imprisonment or by attachment of defendant's wages, he would paralyse the industries and business of the whole of New Zealand. He (Mr. Semple) could command/15,000 workers, who would see that no wages were earned.