FEDERAL POLITICS
SENATE ACTION. ATTACK ON SIR CL PEARCE. (Australian Press Association) (Received 10.45 a.m.) CANBERRA, May 22. The Senate by 1!) to l> votes, disallowed lor the thirp time the regulation under the transport ~inki ry Act designed to give prei erence of employim-m to me.uoers oi the \\atersiue Workers’ ]• ederatiuii. Government lueiiiwii made it ch'ai that new. regulations, having a similar effect, .wopld lie introduced. I lie assistant Minister of industry. Mr Ho.louay, referring to an attack on the Government by sir George Pearce, cabled yesterday, said —‘•Tins latest outburst has slumped Mr G. Pearce as the most hitter, vindictive, JutOmir turncoat that the Australian political and industrial Labour movement has yet produced. Ever since 1917, lie has pursued with the most brutal revengeful vindictiveness, a continuous vendetta against the Waterside Workers’ Federation. Sir George ridicules the fear of bloodshed, hut those who for the last eighteen 'months have been continual y urging discipline' and order amongst thousands of unemployed water,siders who have been displaced by men from outside dlstricts, take a much more serious view of th© continuous and obstinate policy of the Senate towards them.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1931, Page 5
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