AUSTRALIAN AWARDS.
newspaper criticism. ROYAL COMMISSION SET UP. % A and N.Z. SYDNEY, Aug. 16. The New South Wales Government has decided to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into certain statements which were contained in an article written by a correspondent and published in the Sydney Morning Herald and 'in a leading article on the subject in the same paper. In dealing with industrial awards the correspondent said: Iho Government , by hook or by crook, managed to maintain its bare majority and it is to this Government that the Industrial Commissioner owes his appointment and acknowledges his duty. If this be true it follows that the administration of our industrial system is dictated, not by justice, as is the promised aim of other tribunals, but by political influence." The leading article said, inter alia: " The rural workers are not blind. They know the stern reality behind the farmers' protests against the award. Ihe Industrial Commissioner has said that he is not so much a Judge as the voice of a Parliamentary majority, and that his procedure in fixing the rural basic wage was to make an award first and hear the evidence after."
The Government considers these comments constitute an attack on the judiciary.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19717, 17 August 1927, Page 11
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204AUSTRALIAN AWARDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19717, 17 August 1927, Page 11
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