AN INQUIRY.
JUDGE THROWS UP HIS COMMISV SION. WANTS TO KEEP AWAY FROM POLITICS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, November 23. Judge Heydon, of the Industrial Court, has been appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into the case of the man named Russell, dismissed-from the Kembla\ colliery. " Counsel for Russell sought to obtain a ruling amending the Industrial Act and fixing special rules for southern collieries. Jud£e Hey don thereupon threw up his Commission, declaring" that counsel was seeking to make a peg on which to bang matters that it was not intended by the Act should be dealt with in that way. As a Judge of the Arbitration Court, he considered it his'duty, to get as far from politics as possible; •
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1606, 25 November 1912, Page 5
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121AN INQUIRY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1606, 25 November 1912, Page 5
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