PREMIERS' CONFERENCE.
DISCUSSION ON INDUSTRIAL LAWS. Received August 16, 10 a.m. MELBOURNE August 16. The Premiers' Conference is discussing the suggestion that the Commonwealth should be invested with certain powers for dealing with industrial matters. Mr Wade, Premier of New South Wales, re/iewing the question, said all the States with the exception of Tasmania had power to provide for a living wage. If Tasmania could see its way to establish industrial machinery, it would destroy the only substantial argument fnr vesting the Federation with powers the States now enjoy.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9570, 17 August 1909, Page 5
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89PREMIERS' CONFERENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9570, 17 August 1909, Page 5
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