PROTEST FROM DOMINION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25394, 27 November 1943, Page 5

PROTEST FROM DOMINION

FEDERATION OF LABOUR (P.A.) , WELLINGTON, Nov. 26. The Wellington Trades Council has passed a resolution asking the National Executive of the Federation of Labour to cable the British Trades Union Council supporting the protest against the release of the Mosleys and also asking it to take steps to have the Government make representations to Britain through the High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan. Mr F. P. Walsh, president of the Trades Council, in the course of a statement. said: “We cannot believe that the conditions of the detention of the Mosleys were so arduous that their release was necessary. We cannot believe that the conditions of release will prevent Sir Oswald Mosley from conniving to continue the evil work he began. Even if these things were so, we hold that his liberty is for the bar of civilisation to decide. We, as members of the common people, hold that this man is guilty. We demand his detention. We decry his release as a precedent and encouragement to those other criminals who are guilty of crimes against civilisation and humanity.” The secretary of the Federation of Labour. Mr F. D. Cornwell, states that the federation has cabled a strong protest to the Home Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, against the release of the Mosleys. At the biennial conference of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union yesterday the following resolution was moved by the president, Mr J. Flood, and carried:—“ That this conference of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union supports the protest of British workers against the release of Sir Oswald Mosley.”

Workers employed by the Love Construction Company in Dunedin yesterday sent telegrams to the Prime Minister, IVIr P. Fraser, urging that the Government should protest to the British Government against the release of Sir Oswald Mosley.