LABOUR LAWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 17 December 1925, Page 7

LABOUR LAWS.

AGITATION IN AUSTRALIA. By Cable —Press Association—-Copyright. Australian ant N.Z. Cable -Assoc.Ctiou SYDNEY, December 16. A deputation representing the Employers’ Associations of the State urged the Minister of Labour to defer the date of tfie proclamation ol the 44-hour week to enable industries to prepare for the charge. It also asked that tho Bill should be held over until further efforts have been made to get other States to come into line in regard to the 44-hours legislation. The Minister promised to place tfie matter before Cabinet. PERTH, December 16; The Assembly rejected the 44-hour Week Bill, introduced by the Government, by 18 votes to 11. SYDNEY”, December 16. The Legislative Council’s amendment to the Arbitration Bill saved loyalist Unions formed during the war time strike from being outlawed as intended! by the Assembly. Ail Unions are now on an equal footing. [Tile Arbitration Amendment Bill contains a clause to the effect that the trade unions mentioned in the schedule shall, at the commencement of the new Act be deemed to bo the only trade unions registered as industrial unions under the principal Act. This means that the whole of tho loyalist unions, which have registered as industrial unions under State jurisdiction since the 1917 strike, will Ibe abolished.] ADELAIDE, December IG. A deputat.on, representing i.hc Trades and Labour Council asked the Premier to compel all members of tho Government service to become Unionists. Tfie Premier promised consideration of the request.