INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1395, 22 March 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION.

NEW SOUTH WALES HOUSES DISAGREE. By Teleßrapa-Prets Aesocktlon-Copyricht Sydney, March 21. The Legislative Assembly has declined to ratify the Council's amendments in tho Industrial Arbitration Bill, and returned it with a message disagreeing with the amendments. The Council will discuss the message to-day. Soveral members have hinted at a probable crisis, the preference to unionists clause being the chief cause of disagreement. ! AMENDMENTS TO BE INSISTED ON. (Rec. March 22, 0.45 a.m.) Sydney, March 22. The Legislative Council has considered the Assembly's messago of disagreement with tho Arbitration Bill amendments. It was decided to insist on the amendments, and a committee was appointed to draw up reasons for the Assembly's information. MAY REPEAL EXISTING LAW. MR. BEEBY'S THREAT. Mr. G. FJ. Beeby, Minister for Lands in New South Wales, had something to say a few days ego in connection with the Legislative Council and the stand taken by it over tho Industrial Bill.' Mr. Beeby remarked t'hat ever since the Government had been in office it had endeavoured to honestly eope with the industrial position, and obtain for the workers of tho community a full recognition of the advantages of conciliation and arbitration. By carefully following the labour market the Department of Labour and Industry had bean able to intcrvcsio when trouble was threatening, and had prevented strikes. In many case;, notwithstanding that strikes had commenced, by a cari'ful handling of the situation what a'J times threatened to be serious upheavals had been settled and adjusted. The conception which the newspapers tried t<i givo the country of the Government, that it was a Hrail of irresponsible outlaws, who fostered industrial disputes for its own purposes, was grossly unfair, and maliciously false. A good deal more could have been done in preventing and settling disputes if proper machinery had been available Mr. Wado's Act. however, was full of defects, and from ■tho outset the Government devised a new measure which it was believed would make prevention and ready adjustment of disputes far more effective. "Kvcry lino of the Bill had been carefully conceived, and tho scheme, he believed, was a mitifiial conception of wen who had had long experience in industrialism. Tho mpistire favoured no particular side, but aimed at providing quirk nnd cffpctive machinery, hi mnnv of its provisions moral suasion 17ns afMrd as on adjunct to compulsion. Thn Upper ITou.-p, however, had struck nut a number of clauses, wirrh, if their action was persisted in, would make it practically inoperative. Tho stron.T objection tin had (0 the Council's attitude" was. whilst clause afl-'r clniifc was etrnrk out. tho gentlemen who wor« responsible showed no consrni&Jjve ability, and offered no'.'hing in substitution. '

Continuinsr, Mr. I!rpl\v doriarwl Hint tnpasnres sent up by Liberals was put rhrnn<rh on hon-nat-ty lines, but wluit tbo I;nliM\r font nUitis was turned dnv:u vtitliftnt ron'ideratinn. If tlio Bill was -nor rns-et l snbqtantiallv r~ it loft (ho Assemble be thoiu'hf ilif li?=t tl'iir! t.!> '1" ivnnll) !•■> li 1-o'Wil tbc CN'- ; .il" law ■lid let die jifirlie- i" imlnstriol ''isniilos bavp wlint ninny omp!ovfi--s v.-nrf cliip-'im , - inT for. tlio vigb! to without .Slate interference-