ARBITRATION COURT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19809, 2 December 1927, Page 11

ARBITRATION COURT.

SUGGESTED AMENDMENT. BILL IN NEW SOUTH WALES. A. and N.Z. "V SYDNSY. Dec. X. In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Government introduced the Industrial Arbitration Amendment Bill. The bill seeks to provide for the appointment of three contm issionen-^tf stead cf only one as at present, anft that questions at sittings of the commission be decided by & majority vote. It is set out in the bill that "members of the commission shall have the same status as Supreme (Jou.rt Judges, and that the powers of the commission relating 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 torn a union in order to obtain employment, or to lay down that the engagement of labour shall only be made at a trade union office. Provisions in current awards over-riding these provisions are nullified. In speaking to the bill, the Premier, Mr. T. 11. Bavin, said that at the end of Mr. A B. Piddington's present contract as commissioner, ho would be put on the same footing as the other members of the commission. The bill simply meant the transferring from the shoulders of a singlo individual the power with which no single . individual should be burdened.