EMPHATIC PROTEST
FEDERATION OF LABOUR MR SKINNER AND COMMUNISTS Special Correspondent WELLINGTON, Nov. 26. The reported statements of the Minister of Rehabilitation, Mr Skinner, about Communists are to be the subject of an emphatic protest by the New • Zealand Federation of Labour to the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser. The National Council of the Federation, in determining to-day to enter a protest, described the remarks attributed to the Minister as having a pro-Fascist tone. Mr Skinner was reported in the newspapers earlier this week as having declared at a Westland by-election meeting that members of the Communist Party were not entitled to live in New Zealand at all because their conduct was dictated by people 10,000 miles away, and that every member of the Labour Party would back him 100 per cent, when he said that Communist Party members shuld not be permitted to stay here. The. National Council of the Federation intends to carry the protest to the Prime Minister before making any official statement about it.
Delegates to the council praised the Minister of Health, Miss Howard, for her refusal to be drawn into the denunciation of Communists at a meeting she addressed last week in the Westland by-election.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26629, 27 November 1947, Page 4
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200EMPHATIC PROTEST Otago Daily Times, Issue 26629, 27 November 1947, Page 4
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