LABOUR UNION OFFICIALS

Southland Times, Issue 24439, 20 May 1941, Page 8

LABOUR UNION OFFICIALS

The names of five Labour union officials who took part in the alleged attempt to intimidate Mr H. L. Nathan, a candidate for the Wellington Harbour Board, were given by him at the final meeting of electors addressed by candidates on the Wellington Citizens’ ticket on Friday night. The meeting unanimously recorded its disgust that such- tactics should have been introduced into the campaign. The attendance was the largest of any in the 1941 campaign. Mr Nathan said he had intended not to disclose names until after the election was over. He had had a few anonymous telephone rings—one and two a day and certainly nothing to worry about—but on the previous afternoon he had been stopped by two men who said that he did not dare to give the names, which, they said, was just what they wanted. If they wanted the names they could have them, concluded Mr Nathan and he placed before the meeting the names of five men all occupying prominent positions in the Labour movement.