Paul Prying

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 4

Paul Prying

It is incredible that the Massey Government has the slightest anxiety for the welfare of Trade Unionise. It is tlie In'aaen. tool of! interests that hate every form of Labour organisat'on, and its past is owe long xecord o£ force and violence in the suppression arid defeat ot Trade Union work- ! cjh. Therefore, when it professes ■that it* Bill insisting on a Government 'audit o£ Trud3 Union books and ransacking, all their accounts for the last least detail of their .expenditure 'ai'is-es from a bene\-olent desire to do the Unions a service, we simply do not believe it. When it takes this line the Government talks with. Its* tongue in its cheek. The real reason for tins provision to nose into Trade. ■Union accounts is the Government's •■determination to place at tii s disposal of the profit mongers complete information about the unions' internal affairs, to snaieh away their rights, and to accumulate propaganda material fov its attack on the principles [of working class organisation. Trades I Unions will be'the veriest shadows -of what they were intended to be j£ th'iir property and business is to be rummaged by Paul Prys doing the will of this Government. Fancy the batonswinsers and pistol shooters of WaihJ and- 1913 beaming oilily ia«d professing that they wish to scrutinise Union books -in the interest of members!, For a simile we can. only think of wolves in sheeps' clothing.