BRUCE GOVERNMENT’S FATE.
IN HANDS OF FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. FIFTY-HOUR DEBATE ON ARBITRATION ABOLITION. ,'By Telegraph-Frets Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) c CANBERRA, This Day. The debate on the Arbitration Bill which involves the fate of the Bruce Government, was continued until late this morning. At 4.30 a.m. the House had been sitting for fifty hours, equallino' the previous record created in 1922.
The Bill proposes the abolition of the Federal Arbitration Court and is Mr Bruce’s answer to the timber-wor-kers ’ strike.
The Government is expected to have a majority, but several Nationalists have announced their intention of supporting Mr Hughes’s amendment that the Bill he held in abeyance until the electors were consulted.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 September 1929, Page 5
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