PRESS BILL KILLED
Own Correspondent.)
Too Much Opposition from Organised Labour REPRESSIVE ACTION
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WELLINGTON, This Day. According to reliable lobby opinion the Anonymous Politieal Publications Bill will not maka its appoaTau.ee in tba House tbis session. The Bill, which was brought to a staga where it was ready for presentation to Parliament by tbe AttorneyGeneral, Mr. H. G. B. Mason, provided for tbe signirig of all articles of a politieal character appearing in print and for tbe suppression of all anonymous politieal correspondence. It was obvious from tbe first annonncement of tbe Goverument's intentions tbat tbere was a good deal of opposition to tbe proposal botb injdde and. outsida Parliament. Subsequently tbis opposition was reinforeed by tbe determined attitude of organised Labour, wbicb placed before tbe Government substantial arguments against too repressive an attitude, prejudicing not only newspapers but numerous Trade Union and Labour publications. It is felt tbat wbile tbe official impression is likely to be ereated tbat the measure is merely postponed, in aetual f act it will not be revived next session, for tbe reason, as one member pat it, "organised labour killed it."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 58, 1 December 1937, Page 6
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189PRESS BILL KILLED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 58, 1 December 1937, Page 6
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