BILL PASSED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 September 1930, Page 5

BILL PASSED

FURTHER MINOR AMENDMENTS

OUTSIDERS ADaOTTED TO SCHEME

>M \ ;WELLINGTON, 9th .September. ; Urgency was accorded the passage of thei 'Unemployment Bill when, it came befdre' the House to-night. The Minister ofLabourjthe Hon. ,S. G.' Smith, moved an amendment providing that associate (mein ] bera I ,of : ,the 'board should not have voting. poorer/ . This was agreed to. . , . r .Onihe' clause dealing .with allowances of Members., of. Jhe !unemfloyment| committqe'several members suggested that a limit; of £2 a day should be placed on the allowance paid to. board members. .'< CaptairirH, M. : Rushworth (Country P ; a,rty,' Bay • of Islands) moved in this dir'ection, but;allowed the amendment to be'defeated on the voices.- '., Mr Smith- said the. Government might be trusted to fix the-amount. •,'. Mr P, Fraser (Labour, Wellington Central) asked whether the.board would have the power to abrogate the awards of the Arbitration. Court/ : . . Mr Smith said the board, was not an employer of labour,,and therefore would simply negotiate between employer and einplbyee. . ,: Mr KSemple (Labour, Wellington East) -moved as an amendment that the wages paid should be award rates. The Chairman, of Committees, Mr W. A, Bodkin (United, Central Otago) ruled this out of order as involving an appropriation, but his ruling was challenged by the Labour Party, and Mr Speaker ruled' against Mr Bodkin's decision, and the' House proceeded to discuss the amendment. .': i- - ■ ... The Hon. J. G. Coates, Leader of the Opposition, said the Labour Party was quite" oblivious of- wh'at'-was going on-in Australia and other-parts.of. the. world. It'would be better for the. board to use its.'discretion.- ' # '" " ■' . '■ The Minister said he could not accept the amendment, the' chairman 1 of the board would be just as keen as anyone to' protect the board. . „ • ' Two amendments by the Labour Party that all work provided by , the unemployment board should be paid for at:award rates, was defeated by 4o V °Mr R McKeen (Labour, Wellington South) moved an amendment to provide for the payment of sustenance after six days.of unemployment, instead 0! four-, teen days,, but this was defeated by 46 V °Mr M. J." Savage (Labour, Auckland West) moved to. increase the number ot weeks in which a man might receive susterianco from 13 to -26 weeks. This amendment was defeated by 41 votes to 20 • ' An amendment proposed by the Minister of Labour to include watersides under the scheme, was adopted. Mr W E. Barnard (Labour, Napier) moved an- amendment to the effect that no person shall be disqualified from receiving sustenance on refusing work where there was a strike or lock out. An amendment by Mr E J. Howard (Labour, Christchurch South) to increase the payment of sustenance from 21s to 30s a week was defeated by 31 votes to A further amendment moved by Mr W. J. Jordan (Labour, Manukau) to increase the payments to children from 4s to ss, was defeated by 37 votes to 13" The Leader of the Labour Party, Mr H. E. Holland, moved to recommit the Bill, but this was defeated by 35 votes to 25. The division list was as follows: -For the amendment (25): Armstrong, Barnard, Burnett, Chapman, Dickie Fraser, Hall, H. E. Holland, Howard, Jordan. Kyle. Langstone, McCombs, McKeen, Macmillan. Martin. Massey, \V. Nash, O'Brien, Barry, Savage, Semple, Sullivan, Wright and Young. Against the amendment (35)—Ansell, Bitchener, Black, Bodkin, Broadfoot, Clinkard, Coates, Cobbe, de la Perrelle, Donald, Endean, Fletcher Harris, Healy, Hogan, 11. Holland. Linklater, Lye, Lysnar, McDonald, MacPherson, Makitanara, Munns, Murdoch, J. A. Nash, 'Ngato, Ransom, Rushworth, Smith, Stallworthy, Sykes, Veitch, Ward. Wilkinson, and Williams. Pairs—For the amendment, Carr, Munro and Mason. Against the amendment,, Atmore, Stewart and Poison. The Bill was road a third tunc and passed.