APPEAL BY MR. CURTIN
NATIONAL REGISTER
MEN URGED TO SIGN
MELBOURNE, July 26
The Federal Labour . leader, Mr. Curtin, today issued an appeal to Australian unionists to accept the lead given them by the responsible bodies in their own movement and sign the national register. He emphasised that as a result of the conferences with the Prime Minister, Mr. Mehzies, the workers are now secured against industrial conscription.
A number of unions are reported to have indicated. that they are r not ..prepared to accept forthwith the basis ox settlement and intend to await developments at the trades and labour council meetings which are to be held in Melbourne and Sydney in the course of a day or two.
A report from Fremantle states that local coal-lumpers carried out a threat and burned their national register cards today. They made a bonfire of butter-boxes, crammed full of cards, which smouldered for over an hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 9
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154APPEAL BY MR. CURTIN Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1939, Page 9
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