CANADIAN PARLIAMENT ADJOURNED.
CONTENTIOUS LABOUR BILL PASSED. (By Telegraph-Press Assn. —Copyright). (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) VANCOUVER, April 19. The session of the Canadian Parliament has just adjourned three months/, work, during which it has been wrestling with a new constitutional doctrine. The session was devoted largely to social legislation, including unemployment insurance and provision for an eight-hour day and six day week. Previously such questions had been con sidered within the exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces and the Opposition insists that they still rest there. The Bennett Government, however, went on enunciating 1 the doctrine that by virtue of the Versailles Treaty and the League covenant, questions involving any labour scheme became matters affected by the treaty and so were constitutional and came under Federal Government), and afll measures were passed by both Houses easily.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 April 1935, Page 5
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