MILITARY CONTRACTS
THE PREFERENCE TO UNIONISTS' : CLAUSE. ' Melbourne, January 21. t? The president of the Chamber ofl "• Manufacturers, replying to Mr. Jessen's remarks concerning the newf" < clause in the Defence contracts, said:—u ! "To choose the time of a national crisis* : to insert' a new clauso, and to threaten with internment anyone opposing it, an incident more appropriate to the Ger-f : man Fatherland than to freo Austral lia." __ I Mr. Jessen's remarks, a 6 cabled yea-, terday, wero uttered in connection with', the Chanibor_ of Manufacturers' dec!-; ; sion not to sign the new clauso in tha' : Defence contracts. Mr. Jessen warn* ed the President of the Chamber |he was standing on very thin ice. The'' Department would not allow itself to ha threatened, and Mr. Jessen suggested that persons had been interned for ; making statements concerning the Emjf>iro less strong than those or the president..
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2365, 22 January 1915, Page 5
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144MILITARY CONTRACTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2365, 22 January 1915, Page 5
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