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VIEWS OF NEW ZEALAND DELEGATE UNITED NATIONS DISCUSSION N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 10 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 18. Speaking in the committee of the United Nations which is discussing Article 21 of the draft declaration on human rights, the New Zealand delegate, Mr James Thorn, said the Article as at present drafted appeared to suggest that individuals should be given the choice as to whether or not they joined trade unions. He moved that the present form of the declaration: “Everyone is free to form and to join a trades union for the protection of his interests ” should be replaced by the words: “ Everyone has the right to the protection of his interests through membership of a trades union." In the view of the New Zealand delegation, said Mr Thorn, it was impossible to accept any wording leaving the slightest doubt in this ma'tter. Since 1936 trades union membership had beeti compulsory in New Zealand in all industries governed by awards of the Arbitration Court, and since then it had been illegal for any of those industries to employ non-unionists.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26933, 19 November 1948, Page 5
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