AUSTRALIAN LABOUR LAWS
ARBITRATION COURT’S POWER N.S.W. COMMISSIONER PROTESTS Bv Telegraph.—Pre»s Awn —CVipyrrht. SYDNEY, November 20. Tlie 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 by that court, the sway of which could not be escaped from by an appeal to any court or Parliament in the Empire. “In this respect,” Mr Piddington said, “tlie Australian Constitution now resembles nothing that exists, or ever has .existed, in the British Empire.” It had a close resemblance to tlie 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 in one of four persons—the three judges of the Arbitration Court, and the chairman of a special tribunal.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12610, 22 November 1926, Page 6
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169AUSTRALIAN LABOUR LAWS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12610, 22 November 1926, Page 6
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