NEW ARBITRATION POLICY BILL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 15 November 1930, Page 15

NEW ARBITRATION POLICY BILL.

NEW SOUTH WALES PLANS. MR LANG'S PROPOSALS. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BT ELECTRIC telegraph—copyright.) SYDNEY, November 14. Among the first policy Bills of the new State Government will be one to amend the Arbitration Act, securing elective preference to Unionists, and abolition of the Loyalist Unions formed within the services as a result of the 1917 strike troubles. The Bill will also provide for general reversion to the forty-four hours' week and repeal of the provision permitting piecework, contracting, or any other system of payment by results. REDEMPTION LOAN ISSUE. MR LYONS'S HOPES. CANBERRA, November 14. .announcing the terms of the Commonwealth Redemption Loan, Mr Lyons! said that it was being issued immediately. The Government hoped that the people would co-operate in meeting tlie country's urgent obligations. Mr Latham and Dr. Earle Page congratulated the Government on accepting tITe advice of the Loan Council in this matter. Dr. Page remarked that he thought that it was ludicrous that Australia's financial credit should be inferior to New Zealand's. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

DEFIED. ACTION BY COMMISSIONERS. MELBOURNE, November 14. Mt Hi W. Clapp, Railways Commissioner, stated. at. Stauell .that the Ministerial.anouncemont that the Commissioners had decided to accede to the Government's request to withdi-aw from the High Court proceedings on the question of the Arbitration Court's power to bind the railways was evidently based tin some misunderstanding. In th«j absence of any binding Ministerial direction, which they were legally advised could not be given, the Commissioners were resolved to go ahead and to secure from the High Court a much-needed and authoritative finding as to the constitutional position.