COMMONWEALTH ARBITRATION ACT.
IMPORTANT DECISION. SYDNEY, Monday. The Federal High Court annulled the Land Engineers' and Firemen's Association registration under the Common-' wealth Conciliation, .and Arbitration Act. The decision was a majority one, Messrs Justices Higgins. and O'Connor dissenting. The Court ruled that an industrycon tempiaited' by tihe Act is one in which both employer and employee are engaged, and mot merely in an absltrac.t sense; or, in other words, the labour of the employee being given for remuneration from the employer does not .constitute an industry. The case was im-port-ant, affecting the Broken Hill Pro-' prietairy Company and 175 other respondents-.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 27 June 1911, Page 5
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102COMMONWEALTH ARBITRATION ACT. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 27 June 1911, Page 5
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