AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL DISTURBANCES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 March 1925, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL DISTURBANCES

MOSTLY OF POLITICAL X ATT PI

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & JN.Z. Cable Association.)

SYDNEY, March 6

'Hie Attorney-General (Air Bavin] addressing the Newcastle Chamber c.| Commerce said that many recent disturbances in Australia have not been nctustrial disputes, but merely efforts touse the disturbance n! industry as n means to attaining some political • deject, <,r breaking down the existing economic social system. No arbitration machinery could deal satisfactorily With disputes of this kind. 1 bev caused un had suffering and distress. No man ancl no body of men had the right to auopt tins method of pursuing ,!imr own personal interest or t licit own nersunal greed. Turning to the subject y'-j genuine industrial arbitration, Mr Bavin said the co-existence of State and Federal tribunals caused most disastrous confusion in Australian industries. Niiilimis of pounds had been added unnecessarily to tlte cost of carrying on our industries. '1 he lime and attention o-t (he captains of industry, which should lie devi led to the development of their enterprise, were wasted in long unde iu.ig.Lion and discussions of problems that need fever have arisen. federal power was inserted in the eonstkui>on. only for the purpose of enabling tnr Commonwealth authority to- deal with industrial disputes which, by reason of their territorial limitations, the States could not effectively deal with. The Commonwealth Government- panic into existence to> deal with .natters which could not lie effectively uoait with by States. The. really important Federal subjects were matters like defence and cxLernu! relations. Our industrial concerns were handed over to it and it would not be long before the whole control of trade and commerce would also be transferred, and much time and attention of Federal legislators and Federal electors would be diverted from subjects which were not in their real province-