Commerce Minister Valerius Pop announced today that a law “for the protection of national labor” will be submitted to King Carol June 8 for his signature.
The law, long awaited, will permit members of national minorities to share in trade according to their numerical proportion in the population, M. Pop declared.
Purported text of the law was recently published in Bucharest papers, but its accuracy was officially denied at the time. According to the reports, the law would give the Ministry of Industries the right to take arbitrary measures in connection with employment in all public or private enterprises. The Government would have the right to dismiss all foreign personnel employed in any enterprise. Failure to turn over necessary information on personnel would be punished by confiscation of the enterprise.
Even right-wing newspapers commented that the law, if in accord with the purported text, was “unconstitutional and even communistic.”
“It remains to be soon,” one paper said, “whether M. Pop will succeed in putting it through.”
Actual text of the law as signed by King Carol will be published in the Official Gazette following the formality of signing.
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