THE RIGHT TO WORK.
COLOUR PROBLEM IN AFRICA. PROTESTS AGAINST THE BILL., A. and N.Z. CAPETOWN. May 7. A joint sitting of both Houses will commenco to-day to discuss the Colour Bar Bill. The most weighty and most representative protests ever made in this country havo been addressed to the Prime Minister. General Hertzog, in the shape of a memorandum signed by the archbishop, the bishops, the heads of all European churches, native welfare organisations, a large number of missionaries, prominent Europeans and native chiefs. The signatories protest against the bill, not on political but on moral grounds, holding it is wrong that any man should be debarred by law from doing any kmd of work for which ho is _ oualifiod so long as such work- is legitimate, especially that ho should be so p merely on the ground of his colour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19323, 10 May 1926, Page 9
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