The Federal Arbitration Bill

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1064, 11 August 1904, Page 2

The Federal Arbitration Bill

Preference .to Unionists

Probable Defeat of the Government

Prai &ii(ii'i«tion,~-Copjil|nv Mklbochnk. this day In tho Houso Mr, McCoy opposed Mr, Watson's motion to rc-tcouirnit tho Arbu (ration Hill mid reconsider tho clause giving preference to unionists, Mr Watson declared that Mr McCoy'a procedure in resisting tho committal was most unusual. Tho Government vegarded Mr McCoy's amendment as a travesty on preference), and it would bo better to strike it out of tho Bill altogether. He regarded preference to unionists as the cardinal principlo of compulsory arbitra* ■ion, The debate, which was healed, was then adjourned. It is probablo tho Government will bo defeated by at loast two voles,