PERSONS SUSPECTED OF DISLOYALTY

Southland Times, Issue 24158, 21 June 1940, Page 8

PERSONS SUSPECTED OF DISLOYALTY

GOVERNMENT ACTION URGED (From Our Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, June 20. Declaring that he refused to believe that the Empire could lose the war, Mr W. P. Endean (Nat., Remuera) in the House this afternoon said that England would not fail and New Zealand would not do so either. The nation whose sailors and soldiers could fight as the victors of the Graf Spee and the heroes of Dunkirk had fought, could not go down. Mr Endean criticized the Govern-, ment for being too easy on those who were hostile to the country’s interests. Last Saturday “Lord Haw Haw” had broadcast from Berlin the movements of one of the Dominion’s cruisers. Surely the Government could do something to stop that sort of thing? It was doing practically nothing, but he could not see anything wrong in dealing with every person suspected of disloyalty or subversive activities. The country could not make a 100 per cent, war effort unless certain people were dealt with. Mr Endean said that the output of coal in Waikato had decreased by 25 per cent, because of go-slow methods and strikes. If the war effort was to be speeded up the Government would have to discipline the coal miners. The Minister of Mines (the Hon. P. C. Webb): Do you know that the miners have agreed to work longer hours without extra pay? That might be so, Mr Endean replied, but what he said was correct.