Parliament HEARING OF INDUSTRIAL CASES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 41, 12 November 1937, Page 12

Parliament HEARING OF INDUSTRIAL CASES

Adoption Of Proposals For Giving Relief To Arbitration Court

BROADCASTING AMENDMENT PASSED Inauguration Of Monday Sittings Next Week Formal action to inaugurate Monday sittings from now on until the adjournment of Parliament for. the mld ' SUI ™N rece was taken in the House of Representatives yesterday by■ the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage. Notice was given by Mr. Savage of his intention to move that the House sit on and atte Monday next. He indicated that this course was necessaiy rn order that the House might complete the schedule of business toi the first part of the session in reasonable time. Urgency was taken for all stages of the Industrial Concihatio and Arbitration Amendment Bill (No. 2),which contan lS 1 . posals for relieving the pressure of work on Arbltia J lo ” S,' s The first speaker when the debate on the committal of the Bill was resumed in the afternoon was Mr. A. C. A. Sexton (In epen , Franklin), who contended that the clause modifying p cedure for the citation of employers would operate in a particularly objectionable manner so far as the small'rural industries Wer^Both C Government and Opposition members took part m the debate, the subjects referred to including the stay-in strike of freezing workers at Southdown and Westfield just before the laA Christmas holidays. In his reply to the debate on the co—of the Bill, the Minister of Labour, Hon. H. T Armstiong saia he had endeavoured to avoid the establishment of a second Ai bitration Court, but this course could not be avoided any lon After the Minister’s reply the House went into committee to discuss the clauses in the Bill, which was passed without amendment at 10 50 p.m. The House then adjourned until to-day, when consideration of the Estimates will be resumed. The Broadcasting Amendment Bill, which separates the commercial broadcasting service from the national b ™adcasUng seiUre was passed early yesterday morning. The Opposition calico for a division on the third reading of the Bill, which was carried by 38 votes to nine.