INDUSTRY IN WAR TIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 5

INDUSTRY IN WAR TIME

CONTROL OVER WORKERS & EMPLOYERS IN EVENT OF OBSTRUCTION. POWERS OF ATTORNEY-GENERAL ENLARGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Under the heading, “Obstruction of Essential Industries,” an amendment to the Public Safety Emergency Regulations empowering the At-torney-General to order the dismissal of any worker in the interests of public safety was gazetted hist night. The Minister may order the termination of any employee’s engagement should he consider it necessary for the effective prosecution of the war, or the maintenance of essential industries. The necessary notice may be served on either an employee or his employer, and the man concerned shall not be re-engaged by the same employer without the Minister’s consent. The term employee is held to cover the holder of any office in an organisation. The Attorney-General is also empowered to exclude any person from being or becoming a member of any industrial union or association, or other organisation of employers or workers, if he considers this necessary or expedient in the interests of public safety. Any person so excluded shall not be readmitted to the organisation without the prior written consent of the Attorney-General. The right of appeal to the Arbitration Court is provided. The Court may confirm, modify, or reverse the decision appealed from, but no decision shall be reversed unless the Court is satisfied that the acts which the decision was intended to preventare not hkely to be committed.