“ THE SCEPTRE OF TYRANNY.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3334, 28 September 1911, Page 5

“ THE SCEPTRE OF TYRANNY.”

PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S PROPOSAL. [UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPTEIGHT.T MELBOURNE, Sept. 27. Mr Deakin, in his remarks regarding the proposal of the Government for preference to unionists, added that the Ministerial ukase put aside all judicial power and aimed at justice to nobody. Preference was now unconditional and beyond recall. Only a union could do whiat it liked, and use its funds for political purposes to any extent that it wanted. The sceptre of tyranny had been placed in the hands of mere- who had no right to use that power. Men would be coerced into unions.

Mir Fisher, in reply, stated that the Government had taken the step deliberately. The policy would he pursued 1 until the Government saw some better methods of doing things. They were unionists, and leaders of unions would go on for all eternity working, not only for themselves, but for those skulking people Avho were unworthy of them. Th© Government intended to organise industrialism as far as possible. It was bound to give preference to unionists. Whether pepole agreed or disagreed would not influence those who believed in this principle.

POLITICS AND UNIONISM.

SHOULD THEY GO TOGETHER?

(Received Sept. 28, 1.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 27. The censure deabte is being continued. Government supporters denied the existence of a “black list”, and one of them argued that polities and unionism should go together.