SHILLING IN THE POUND.
REFERENCE BY MINISTER.
UNIONISTS’ DUTIES. “I want to say here to the ‘snivellers’ who arc yelping about paving a shilling in the pound to help defend our country, the greatest country the world has ever known, that if they listened to Mr Churchill’s speech on the radio this morning, they should go down on their bended knees and thank God that they are living in this Dominion,” said Hon. 11. Semple, Minister of National Service, in the course of an address in the city today. Turning to the need of men joining the Home Guard to defend New Zealand, if the necessity arose, and to combat the Fifth Columnists, of whom, there was a nucleus in New Zealand, the Minister asked where were the trade union movements now in Germany, Fra'nco, Belgium, Holland, Norway? The loading trade unionists there were either dead or in concentration cam ps.
“If the trade unionists in New Zealand do not get into this movement for the establishment of the Home Guard, and help all they can, I can toll them they are digging their industrial graves,” said Dir Semple.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 244, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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