RIGHT WOULD BE FORFEIT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19978, 1 July 1939, Page 14

RIGHT WOULD BE FORFEIT

COMPULSORY UNIONISM DEREGISTERED BODY l MINISTER’S EXPLANATION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The fact that cancellation of registration. of a union under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, as he had threatened: in. his statement on Thursday, would completely remove the right to demand compulsory unionism of workers ; in that industry was emphasised 'by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. Webb, in reply to an inquiry last night. Speaking in the House of Representatives; on Thursday night, the. Minister said the organisations,-whether of workers- or employers, which were not willing to abide by the provisions of the Act. would render themselves liable to deregistration. “If the registration of a union .is cancelled,’’ the .Minister said, “it will follow naturally that its right to demand compulsory unionism, as provided for in the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, wall be removed. It will still be possible for workers to band themselves together outside the scope of the Act. and it is possible that some may prefer it that way, but any .body which, is constituted. in that way will have no right to demand that all the workers in that particular industry shall be members. That is a privilege which is enjoyed only under the Act.”