ARBITRATION COURT ORDER
DEFIED BY INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONER Sydney, November 21. The Industrial Commissioner (Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C.), has decided to defy the Commonwealth Arbitration Court order restraining the State Conciliation Committee from proceeding to make an award in regard to engineering apprentices. Mr. Piddington said that the awards of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court were in effect permanent unless varied bv that Court, the swav of which could not be escaped from by an appeal to anv Court or Parliament in the Empire. “In this respect,” Mr. Piddington ’ continued, “the Australian Constitution now resembles nothing that existed, or over has existed, in the British Empire.” It had a close resemblance to the present Constitution of Italy, where democracy had been abolished. The ultimate law-making power in Australia, so far as Labour laws or any social law bearing on industrial matters was concerned, was now vested tn one of four persons—the three Judges of the Arbitration Court, and the chairman of a special tribunal.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 49, 22 November 1926, Page 10
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163ARBITRATION COURT ORDER Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 49, 22 November 1926, Page 10
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