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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11767, 14 October 1932, Page 5

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LABOR AMENDMENT TO ARBITRATION ACT -MOTION TO INTRODUCE MEASURE DEFEATED THREE COALITIONISTS VOTE WITH OPPOSITION (Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 1A Resuming the debate in the House do-day on the introduction oi' the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Rill (Mr McCombs), the lion. A. Hamilton declared that the A spirit of conciliation was quite evid- / end in industrial disputes to-day. .Mr Fraser (L.) said the country was iu for a period ol‘ industrial turmoil. It. was possible to force people down, but it was impossible to make them surrender. -Mr Coates said the Labor party l-.acl been wrong when if forecast tout the country would come to a standstill when the Act was amended and now it was annoyed about- the inaccuracy of its forecast. Tile LaeOr party => allemitions about “sweating > were absolutely inaccurate. TJio country would not stand for “sweating conmtions being imposed upon the peopleThe Leader of the Opposition said that smaller unions might have accepted the situation created by lam session’s amendment, hut orlv ue cause of their inability to make unj effective protest.. The econom y conditions were all m favor ot the Pl AHer further discussion a, division was taken on the motion to introduce t *The motion was defeated by 42 votes to 29.. those voting in ' je in.r the Labor members and -Messrs A&.oio< Black, Stallworthy Samuel, Tirikatene, Wilkinson and " ig ul -