EMERGENCY REGULATIONS
CARPENTERS AND JOINERS RESOLUTION OF PROTEST At the monthly meeting of the Otago Carpenters and Joiners’ Union, a resolution was passed demanding that the Government immediately repeal those regulations named “ Obstruction to Essential Industries,” Published on September 20. , The 1 resolution . was as foJlpws:- “ Such sweeping, drastic powers as are vested in one man. the Attorneygeneral. are a blow to democratic gov ernment. savour strongly of reflect on the integrity and loyalty of the whole trade union movement and. far from retaining the goodwill of the workers, tend to antagonise them This union feels that these regulations have been hastily framed, and that, on consideration. the Government will realise that the acquisition of dictatorial power over the lives of free men which these regulations allow is certainly not in accordance with the traditions of demoerjacy or of the Labour Party..
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24431, 17 October 1940, Page 8
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