IN AUSTRALIA.
THE NAVY.
MINE-SWEEPING SECTION
MELBOURNE. July 10. Regulations have been gazetted constitutinc; a. new mine-sweeping section of the Navy. THE I.TV.W. REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION. MELBOURNE. July 10. Mr Hitches in moving tho second reading of the Unlawful Association Amending Bill, -which aims at the I.W .W. said that the previous Act had horn found insufficient. to cope with this great' menace. The larger portion of the members were semirings of society who did not, voire the aspirations of organised labour but came into being on the defeat, of organised labour. They had declared war against society and the Government was accepting the. challenge. Ihe hodv was flourishing and funds Mere coming in freely. It threatened to destroy the industry of the. country and s.tood in the way of the country doing its best economically to assist in the war. Therefore, it could not. be allowed to exist. The Bill provides for the prevention of the circulation of literature, of membership of the association and renders liable to six months' imprisonment and dismissal any public servant who is a member and deportation to other than Au.'stralian-born subjects.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12064, 20 July 1917, Page 2
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