The Right to Work.
(From the Westminster Budget.) The popular vote in Switzerland on the subject of the "right to work M Bhowa that while that country is intensely democratic Socialistic ideas have not yet made very great progress there. The Socialists made a great effort in favour of their pet project, and by dint of great assiduity they obtained 52,887 signatures to a petition for a referendum or plebiscite on the question. This being so, the Government, under the < Constitution, were bound to give facilities for the referendum. The people had to vote " yes " or " no " to ihe question whether in their opinion every citizen willing to work, but unable to get employment, had a right to have work found for him. byjhe State. The answer was Rn emphatic " no," 298,000 having voted against the tremendous oblig ation thus sought to be thrust upon the Executive, while only 75,000 were in favour ol it.
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Manawatu Herald, 14 August 1894, Page 3
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155The Right to Work. Manawatu Herald, 14 August 1894, Page 3
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