LABOUR TROUBLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1932, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MOVE, (Australian Press Association.) ADELAIDE,, January 20. Regulations, under tne Public Safety Presentation Act and having the eliect of barring the employment of volunteer labour on the waterfront at .Port Adelaide, were approved-by the State Executive Council to-day, and they will be gazetted this afternoon. Tho regulations restore the preference to’ the unionists, all the other privileges the unionsists enjoyed under the Scuilin ’Government, which restoration is directly in conflict with the recent action of the Lyon’s Government. Other regulations approved to-day give wide powers to the police with regard to seditious publications picketing, and tlie possession of unlawful weapons. Commenting on the South Australian Government’s action in the Sydney “Sun,” to-day, the editor-m----cluef, Air Delamore McKay, described it as being of the “gravest constitutional importance insofar as that it transcends any action by any State Government in contravention of the Federal authority since the formation of the Commonwealth.” He says: “While the South Australian coup can he challenged constitutionally, it is fraught with much graver potentjalltiefi, he,pause it involves file Ijvo® li 1)00(1 and tlip lives of a large number of people. A direct and serious defiance of the Commonwealth Sovereignty has been attempted. It remains to he seen whether the Federal Government will take up the challenge.”