LABOR LAWS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
Melbourne, Aug. 19. A petition from the Federated Seamen’s Union has been presented to tho Bouse, asking for the inclusion in the Arbitration Bill of a clause affording relief from the present intolerable competition oversea by foreign vessels carrying crews being engaged at cut-throat rateß. The Victorian Employers’ Federation adopted a resolution condemning the Arbitration Bill as a violation of the constitution, and asked that it bo referred to a Select Committee. It was also decided to ask Sir Malcolm MacEachorn to retire as the result of his attitude on the Arbitration Bill.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 973, 20 August 1903, Page 1
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