GAOL FOR REFUSING TO WORK
CLAUSE IN BRITISH BILL STORM IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. Recd. 6 p.m. London, Nov. 13. A storm was caused in the House of Commons when Mr. Silveiman discovered a subsection in .the Bill to provide dockers with regular work, under which it was stated that a docker could be imprisoned for three months if he chose not to work for the employer to whom he was allocated. Mr. Silverman, who generally was supporting the Bill, described the provision as mischievous and dangerous. Several Liberals strongly supported Mr. Silverman’s attack and declared that the British workman’s most sacred right was freedom to choose his work and employer. Mr. Ness Edwards, replying for the Government, said it was like Mr. Silverman to seize on a flaw in the Bill, tear it to shreds and give the House an intellectual treat. Mr. Edwards gave an assurance that the dockers’ ordinary breach of contract under the scheme would not be deemed an offence which would bring him before the Criminal Court. The Bill, thereafter, rapidly passed its second reading.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 269, 14 November 1945, Page 5
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