ARBITRATION BILL GAGGED THROUGH

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 62, 14 March 1931, Page 1

ARBITRATION BILL GAGGED THROUGH

industrial measure PASSES FINAL STAGES. -(United/Press .Assn.>—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received March. 14, 11.30 a.m:) . , ’ ° SYDNEY, March 14.' The Arbitration. . .Bill was gagged through its final committee stages. The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment. Bill will bring about revolutionary changes in the industrial. laws .of New South Wales/' The Bill provides for the abolition of the existing Industrial • Commission and the appointment of Mr Justice Piddington as sole Commissioner, preferen e to financial unionists, abolition pf loyalist unions, determination of the basic wage on the basis of. a man and his wife, restoration qf the rights of Government employees similar to those existing outside the service, prohibition of piecework and the bonus system, and the right of domestic servants if organised in a union to obtain an award covering w'ages and conditions. Mr T. R. Bavin, Leader of the Opposition, in opening the attack on the measure in the House several days ago, said: “ Every clause of this Bill reeks with injustice, tyranny and stupidity. If the vicious and utterly revolutionary provisions of the Bill are to be accepted, no new industry will * srfart and every industry that possibly can will leave the State. The Bill opens the doors to wholesale blackmail, and transfers the control of industry from employers to the union secretaries.”