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National Savings Contributions
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 21. When the Appropriations Bill was being discussed in the House of Representatives today Mr Clyde Carr (Lab., Timaru) said complaints had been made that employees in some Government departments and some private firms were being almost compelled to contribute National Savings by what was almost a mild form of blackmail. The powers which the House had given to employers were in some cases apt to be abused. Mr A. S. Richards (Lab., Roskill) supported the protest and said it was a mild form of coercion and a disgrace to the Dominion that war funds should be raised, in this way when much free money was aV The Deputy-Leader of the House, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, said it was the first time such a complaint had reached the Government. The working people had renuired no pressure to contribute to National Savings and they did so voluntarily and enthusiastically. Mr Carr: They are bled white. Mr Sullivan then moved that the House should adjourn until October 14 with the usual promise that should the occasion warrant members would be called together earlier than that date.
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Southland Times, Issue 24829, 22 August 1942, Page 4
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193COERCION ALLEGED Southland Times, Issue 24829, 22 August 1942, Page 4
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