INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10901, 19 October 1911, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

POWERS OF THE COURT. j [ I'.v Electric Telrorapii—Copykicht.] (l'nit Pi;i:ss Association.) Received October 18, at 11.50 p.m. Melbourne. October 18. In the Mouse Jlr Deakin resumed the debate on the Industrial Arbitration Amendment Hill. He:opposed, the powers proposed to be given to the Court, and said they were based on the idea that all the industrial conditions were fixed, and could be regulated by a timetable. This meant separating craft from industry, and it would revolutionise or wreck the original Act to make such basic alterations. He moved an amendment that no measure, the effect of which would be to concentrate in the hands of any one person the control of all industries on the continent, can he other than impracticable, and fraught with danger to the whole community. Received October 19. at TO.oO a.m. Melbourne. October 10. Mr Fisher, discussing Mr Deakin's amendment, asked if the Opposition objected to all the powers in the constitution being vested in the C'onrt that could prevent strikes y .Surely, he said, it was the House's duty to give the Court the power of amendment. Othcr«ice lie would have been gratified to

ce how the parties chided the Arbirtatiou Court's decisions. The Government would not accept the amendment.

Mr Irvine objected to a Bill trying to inako the Court a legislative body instead of a purely judicial ono.