N.S.W. POLITICS

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 36, 11 August 1920, Page 7

N.S.W. POLITICS

PARLIAMENT OPENED

(UNITE* MESS AasOCIATION.--COPXP.IGHT.) SYDNEY, 10th August. The Governor opened thes State Parliament to-day. The Speech foreshadowed, amongst other things, a Bill for amending the system of electing members to the Legislative Assembly, legislation to prevent profiteering, the endowment of mothers, a compulsory wheat pool, the grouping of State industrial undertakings under a Ministerial head, the establishment of a rural bank, a Government insurance office, the regulation of hours of labour and the emendation of the Industrial Arbitration Act, and a Royal Commission to inquire into the administration of railways, including the reinstatement of the 1917 strikers. (Received August 11, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This, Day. Mr. Fuller, Leader of the Opposition, has launched a censure motion condemning the Storey Government. The principal charge arises out of the Ewing Inquiry ajid the subsequent release of the I.W.W. prisoners. (Received August 11, 11.60 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. Fuller attacked the Government over the proposal to reinstate the 1917 railway strikers and its delay in fulfilling its promise to deal' with profiteering. He caused some disorder by referring to Dr. Mannix as a rebel priest, and by declaring that two State Ministers who attended Dr. Mannix's farewell reception should have been severely reprimanded and put out of the Ministry. He said the action of the Governmentover the Industrial Workers of the World case had shaken the confidence of the people so far as the administration of justice was concerned. He then moved the motion of censure. On the motion of the Premier, the debate in the House was adjourned till this afternoon. . •