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PROPOSED 44-IIOUR WEEK.
MR- JUSTICE HIGGINS'
SUGGESTION.
STATEMENT BY PRIME
MINISTER.
MiflLBOmiNK. AliRitr.t 7.
.. The Prime Minuter (Mr. Hughes)
jto-duy that The Australis^ Timber |
Workers' Union, in its plaint now before ;
thr Commonwealth Arbitration Court, j
• was claiming, amongst other things,
uutUclcnt
natiJilcJ that there v
ground for fixing nhortcr home lor this
purtirulnr Industry than for others which
w«*ro working IS hours. The claim affect
ed all Industries in Australia, nnd he
would not' bo justified In dealing
hortnr hours without
ndUBtrles. Tlio com
entitlcd to he Imnrd before
bearing tin
munlty tvc_ .— . ...
he took a step of this sort. !t« thought
of postponing Ida derision, us to workUg
•«, until n'lull opportunity had hc«u
ttisruKShm of the matter,
md he lavitod the Employer s' Federn
I min and the Trades Hall to appear b»
nrn him on the nppticntp
the Commonwealth
overmneot desired to he represented, as
presenting the community generally, ns
let I net from' employe
.jlirs nddod
iverflmcnt. nhn
full consldi
nelusion that It
ought not. to hi* represented at any such
inquiry. The jurisdiction of the Cora
wealth Court of Arbitration
ted to disputes which were brought
re It, and the parties to ihosn dt«*
», hut Imd no power to make a
■ parties, should Interpose i
which the representatives 01
who were not parties to the dla*
■ putt) sod collate! for the Commonwealth
should take part, the subject matter of
debate being tint quenttoa of bourn of
vrork for alt Industries throughout the
Commonwealth, Tim Uovrrmnent thought*
ibat, no itujuiry of that kind, Incidental
to the he-iring of a pvrtlculnr dispute,
to undertake,
outside the fur
W3« created, n
tioit and
regulation of hours ol Industry nu » whole
i« a matter for legislation by ParlU
Mr, I lugbi’h couclurtwl by saving that,
legislation was now before the’ Common
wealth Parliament which would make
provision for an Industrial Council, In
• which ouch a subject m this could he
fully discu*Bfd by the representative?, of
employers and employees.
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