LABOUR POLICY
THE CONSCRIPTION ISSUE. DISCUSSION EXPECTED AT CONFERENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) . DUNEDIN, November 24. The statement made by Mr Barclay, M.P. for Marsden, in an address in Cambridge that “the Government would call up man-power as soon as it was not getting enough mon” was the subject of comment today by Dr McMillan, M.P. Dr McMillan stated that after a report of Mr Barclay’s statement had appeared in the Press he had received a number of inquiries and accordingly had telegraphed the Prime Minister and Mr Barclay.
“I am informed,” Dr McMillan added, “that Mr Barclay was expressing his own opinion only. Dr McMillan said that Mr Savage, in his reply, reiterated his statement of 12 months ago that no one could say what the nation might have to do when it had its back to the wall fighting for its life, but that if ever conscription came in New Zealand it would not begin with flesh and blood.
Dr McMillan added that he understood that conscription was one of the major questions to be discussed at the annual conference of the Labour Party next Easter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 4
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187LABOUR POLICY Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1939, Page 4
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