ARBITRATION SYSTEMS
APPLICATION TO AUSTRALIA. COMPULSION DECLARED A FAILURE. Canberra, May 24. Speaking on the amending Arbitration Bill Mr Rodgers (Victoria) said the central compulsory arbitration system in Australia had failed. The time had arrived for the Commonwealth to surrender to the States absolute control of industries. The Australian people were seized with the opinion that a great central compulsory arbitration system was a great caterpillar-like instrument which arrived two years after the dispute had gone. The Government permitted secondary industries to enjoy a high social standard while the primary industries languished in poverty. The States in 1914 owed £330,000,000 at 72/6 per cent, interest. To-day they owned £640,000,000 at 88/2 per cent, interest. This was explained by the present new social standard and there was not enough money in industry to support it. The debate was adjourned.—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20495, 25 May 1928, Page 7
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