STONEWALLING IN SYDNEY.
GOVERNMENT FORCING THE ARBITRATION BILL THROUGH.
CLOSURE APPLIED—LIVELY
SCENES.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Sept. 19. The Legislative Assembly has been sitting continuously since yesterday evening, discussing tho Industrial Arbitration Bill in Committee. Mr Crick announced that tho Government- were going to put the Bill through, and if necessary use effective means to do so. They would not adjourn unless the Government were defeated. This statement led to trouble. The Opposition kept up a stonewall throughout tho day. Tho debate was of a most dreary description, no roal opposition being raised to the main principles of the Bill.
The closure was several times applied, and there were a number of lively scenes.
THE BILL FORCED THROUGH COMMITTEE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh
Received 12.35 a.rn., Sept. 20.
Sydney, Sept. 19. In the Assembly the Arbitration Bill passed through Committee, and the Assembly adjourned at nine o’clock.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 218, 20 September 1901, Page 2
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