AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1945, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Immigration of workers PREDICTED. (Rec. 7.5.) SYDNEY, May 16. Mr. John Storey, Director of the Beaufort Division of the Commonwealth Department of Aircraft Production, who has just returned to Australia after a six months’ survey of British and American industry said: “British and American manufacturers wishing to establish factories in Australia, should be encouraged to bring full staffs here.” Mr Storey said Australia Kouse, London, was receiving more than one thousand enquiries weekly from English people seeking to migrate to Australia after the end of the Japanese war. In advocating migration of whole staffs of British and American factories to Australia, he was not being disloyal to Australian workmen. Such newcomers would add to Australia’s population and technical strength. He had no doubt that, after the war, every Australian workman could be employed if Australian industries were developed as they should be developed.

INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION REFORM ASKED. (Rec. 6.30.) MELBOURNE, May 16. Complete reform of the Commonwealth arbitration system has been demanded by the Executive ol the Australian Council of Trades Unions. Members of the Executive said the reform should include heavy restrictions on the powers of the Arbitration Court Judges. The Executive’s demands will be forwarded immediately to the Federal Government. It is demanded that work now done by the Arbitration Court Judges should be done by round-table conferences, or by conferences between employer and employee representatives, presided over ”by civilian conciliation commissioners.