INDUSTRIAL AMENDMENT BILL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 December 1927, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL AMENDMENT BILL

BEFORE NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT TBy Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Ist Dec., 10.35 a.m.) 1 SYDNEY, This Day. In the Assembly The Government introduced the Industrial Amendment Bill, which provides for the appointment of three commissioners instead of only one as at present, and questions at sittings are to be decided by a majority vote. Members of the commission are to have the same status a 9 Supreme Court Judges. The powers of the commission in relation to the granting of preference are to be restricted. The commission will not be allowed to go beyond a declaration that in giving employment preference shall be ; given to unionists, other things being equal. It will not be possible to direct an employee to join a union in order to obtain employment or to lay down that the engagement of labour shall only be made at a union office.

Provisions in current awards overriding these provisions are nullified. In- the Assembly, speaking on the Industrial Arbitration Amendment Bill, Mr Bavin,. Premier, said that at the end of Mr Piddington’s present contract he would be put on the same footing as other members of the Commission. The Bill simply meant transferring from the shoulders of a single individual pbwer with which no single individual should he burdened.