SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE B.M.A.
To The Editor Sir,—There is a good deal of deliberate political propaganda being circulated to convey a false impression on this controversy. Resolutions passed in different parts of New Zealand by certain trade unions have accused the doctors of “striking.” This shows clearly that these unions have not
studied the Act and therefore are acting on false information. The Act is quite clear. No doctor is bound to take service in the scheme, but any doctor may enter into a voluntary contract on terms to be mutually agreed upon with the State. If any doctor so desires he can terminate his contract by giving three months’ notice. How then can a man be accused of “striking” because he refuses to enter into an entirely voluntary contract? To compare this with trade unions bound by a Court award is unjust and must be due to deliberately misleading propaganda. I have written as an ordinary citizen who recognizes the immense amount of good done by doctors and who resents such grossly unfair tactics. The truth is that the Minister, having failed to arrive at mutually acceptable terms of contract as provided by the law, has taken the arbitrary course of dictating the conditions. —Yours, etc., AJAX. May 11, 1939.
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