National Register Boycott
(Received 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 14. Attempts were made to-day in Melbourne and Perth to induce the Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies, tb hold a conference with officials of the Australian Council of Trades Unions, to discuss with them the proposed boycott of the national register of man-power and wealth, says the “Sun.” The trades unions’ executive wants legislative, and not verbal, assurances that the register will not be converted into industrial and military conscription.
All the . coal mines in the Eastern States are likely to be idle on Monday, when stop-work meetings will be held in protest against the register. ;• The Federal Mr W. M. Hughes, declared in Sydney today: “Those who object to defending Australia within Australia, are unfit for free citizenship.” . - The Broken Hill miners say ..they will refuse to fill in the official forms and intend to burn them.
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Northern Advocate, 15 July 1939, Page 7
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