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UNIONS REMAIN DEFIANT IN AUSTRALIA FEARS OF CONSCRIPTION. SOME ATTEMPTS TO PROMOTE CONFERENCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY’. July 14. The “Sun” newspaper says that attempts were imide today in Melbourne ;yid Perth 1 o induce 1 lie Prime Al blister. Mr 11. G. Menzies, to arrange a eoiderenee with the Australasian Council of Trades Unions and discuss with 1 hem the proposed boycott of the national register of manpower. The A.C.T.C. executive wants legislative and not verbid assurances that the register will not be converted into industrial and military conscript ion. All coal mines in the eastern States are likely to be idle on Monday, when stopwork meetings arc to be held to protest against the register. The Federal. Attorney General. Mr W. M. Hughes, declared in Sydney today: "Those who object to defending Australia within Australia are unfit for free citizenship.” The Broken Hill miners declare that they will refuse to fill in the official forms and that they intend to burn them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 7
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