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ARBITRATION DEBATE FATE OF FEDERAL CABINET HANGS' ON THE DIVISION By Telegraph-Press Assn-Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Sept. 7, 10.15 a.m.) Canberra, Sept. 7.' The debate on the Arbitration Bill which involves the fate of the BrucePage Government wag continued until Into tlii’s morning. At 4.30 a.m. .the House had been siting eoaitfiuiously for 50 hours, equalling the previous record created in 1922, • The Government is expected to have ia majority on the voting, hut several have., announced their intention of supporting the amendment of Mr Wm. Hughes that if passed the Bill be hold in abeyance- until the electors have .been consulted by referendum.
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Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 7 September 1929, Page 5
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