AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1925, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

1 [Australia A X.Z. Cable Association.] NEW ARBITRATION HI LI.. SYDNEY, Sept. 19. Drastic provisions in the new Arbitration Bill as drafted by Cabinet were disclosed to a meeting of the Uarlianieiitry Labour ('aliens, and as ultimately approved tlio Hill provides an industrial commission lie appointed to take the place of the (state Arbitration Court and Hoard of Trade, the abolition of the Court and Hoard of Trade, the establishment of a conciliation committee, preference to unionists in all industries under jurisdiction of the State so far as the constitution permits. restoration of arbitration rights to public seiucnt.s. It Is prorights to public servants. I is proposed the commission shall consist of representatives of employers and employees with an independent chairman of judicial mind, who will have no deliberate vote. The commission will have power to fix a wage for various centres within the Stale not one amount to cover the whole State as at present. According to a statement issued by tiie Labour Department, the number of unemployed at the end of August in a ic.et inpolita u area amounted to Lotto in the country districts 2,000. Those figures are exclusive of those ell'ected by the shipping strike.

As a result of the disturbances at the railway station (rubied en the llthj Hritish seamen .John Sept ires was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with h.anl labour. .MOUNT .MORGAN UIHK. BRISBANE. September 1?. The lire at Mount .Morgan mine is still raging tiercel v. It was found necessary to withdraw all men from the mine and to concentrate ellorts on extinguishing the llanies from the open. On the recommendation ot the company's official- and Government in--pertors it Inis boon derided to 1100 I the mine to -!d0 tret level. AIToINTIXO GOVERNORS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) PERTH. Sept. 19. The header ut the Opposition. Sir • lames M i rebel 1. lia- received a comnmnicatidi from Sir 0. Fuller in regard to the .oovemeiit throughout the Cominoiiwealth to prepare a counter petition to the memorial initiated by Mr Lang for presentation to the Imperial authoritiis. asking that future State (iovernors he selected from Australian citizens. Mitchell -aid no action would he taken till next week. PERTH. Sept. 19. Alter some delay the Largs’ Bay -ailed from Fremantle.

SYDNEY. Sept. IP. In the ease of Henley versus tin Labour Daily, a stay of proceeding: was granted to permit of an nppen to the Full Court