FORTY-FOUR HOURS' WEEK
POSTPONEMENT OF BILL REFUSED. (united rnsss association—Bt electric TELEGRAPH—COPVBIGIIT.) SYDNEY, May 14. Tho Promior, Mr T. R. Bavin, in the Assembly, said that the 44-hours' week was an unmitigatod disaster to the people it was intended to bonefit. In moving tho second reading of the Industrial Arbitration Amendment.Bill, Mr Bavin said that dissolution on this issue would involve a delay of several months. In the face of the critical economic, and industrial conditions which prevailed, the Government did not feel justified in taking a course which would involve the postponing of any effective relief for that period. Tho State was faced with industrial con* ditions that wore unprecedented in its history. The vote on the second reading of the 44-hours Bill will bo taken to-night. Tho Ministry is confident of a Victory.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19928, 15 May 1930, Page 11
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