STATE RAILWAY EMPLOYEES AND ARBITRATION IN N.S.W.

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11813, 18 December 1906, Page 4

STATE RAILWAY EMPLOYEES AND ARBITRATION IN N.S.W.

Received December 17 10.29 p.m. Sydney, December 17. The High Court decided an important case arising out of an objection by the Federal Government Railway and Tramways Association to the registration under the Federal Arbitration Act of theN.S.W. Government Railway Employees Associa tion. The point raised was as to whether an Association of State employes was entitled to registration under the Federal Act. The Court held that the provisions of the Com- I mon wealth Arbitration Act in so far ' as they purported to include State railway servants were ultra vires of Commonwealth Parliament and that the applicant Association could not be registered.