N.S.W. POLITICS

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 554, 31 December 1925, Page 5

N.S.W. POLITICS

AR LABOUR -R.TTT.es THORNY LEGISLATIVE PATHS (Aust. aml N.Z. (Received Doc 31. 11.30 a.m.) Sydney, Dec. 31. As Hie result, ol' ihe introduction ol tho 44 hours week the Master Carriers 1 Association lias decided to increase the carta op rates by 10 per rent.

Cabinet has decided that the Arbitration Act Amendment Bill, providing for preference to trades unionists in all industries, which Bill was recently drastically amended by the elegislative Council, shall lie returned to that Chamber in its original form and passed with by the additional votes of the new appointees. Cabinet has decided to dissolve the municipal and shire councils throughout the State towards the end 1026 and hold election on the adult franchise principle.

The Bill to introduce adult franchise, which was rejected |,y the Leg. islative Council some time ago, will be t reintroduced during the present session.

It is possible that 1917 loyalists in the employ of the railway and tramway Services will not only, suffer regression in seniority, but also suffer l> having tffeir wages reduced in conformity with the positions held as the result of regrading. When the Government issued a minute demanding the regression, of the loyalists, Premier a Lug said the Government desired that loyalists should receive the same rate of wages as if they had not regressed. It niow appears that the Railway Commissioners cannot meet this added expenditure without legal sanction When the Bill was before the Council recently Mr Willis sought to amend Idle Bill by providing that the Government should lie responsible lor the added expenditure. But this was ruled out, on the ground that it was a financial clause. Premier l.ang lias refused to make any comment on the position.