MOB RULE ALLEGED
Sydney, Jan. 21. “The militant trade union movement must be told that it cannot run this country,” the Leader of the Opposition in the New South Wales Senate, Senator McLeay, said in a lunch-hour address at the National Club, Sydney. There was no hope for Australia, he stated, unless a strong national Government was formed in the Federal Parliament. The spectacle of the Prime Minister toadying to a group of militant trade union leaders was unedifying. The triumph of union control and mob rule over responsible Parliamentary government, he said, was demonstrated during discussions on the Militia issue. The fact that the Federal Government was controlled by a section of the people would react against the country at the Peace Conference. Senator McLeay accused the Curtin Government of sabotaging the Australian arbitration system. Regulations were being issued by incompetent bureaucrats. The power of the Women’s Employment Board to override Arbitration Court decisions and State laws was leading to chaos.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 21, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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162MOB RULE ALLEGED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 21, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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