COMMUNISTS PROTEST
RIGHT TO STRIKE DEFENDED A strong protest against the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration, Amendment Bill —“ in so far as it is an infringement of the elementary democratic right of the wage-earners to withhold his labour power ’’—has been Tiade to the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, by the Dunedin branch of the New Zealand Communist Party. “The right to strike,’ the protest states, “is a right which has been jealously guarded by the Labour movement since its infancy and is a basic principle of trade unionism. We consider that the Bill is a capitulation to the anti-Labour forces and will be recarded by the workers as a confession of inability on the part of the Government to deal with their just grievances. *• in the interests of the Labour movement,” the protest concludes, “and of the Government itself we urge you to withdraw the Bill.’’
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26531, 5 August 1947, Page 6
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