Word: laborators
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revenge. In 1923 Mr. Bruce seized the leadership of the Nationalist Party from Mr. Hughes. Since then the personal feud between them has been relentless. Last week Statesman Hughes had his revenge for what happened in 1923. By persuading Yachtsman Marks to vote unexpectedly against a vital labor measure sponsored by Mr. Bruce, he caused the defeat of the Government. The Prime Minister was obliged to ask dissolution of the Dominion Parliament, thus necessitating a general election. Swan Song. Flushed and angry was the mien of Prime Minister Bruce as he stood up before Parliament in the new Australian Capital...
...Australians have their own conception of what should be the Govern- ment's role in an industrial dispute. Most Englishmen, like most U. S. citizens, shy away from the idea that the State should fix wages. But that idea has been the very cornerstone of Australia's labor policy. Moreover such Best Minds in the Dominion as the late and monumentally famed High Court Justice Higgins have consistently held that it is the duty of the State to apply compulsory arbitration. In trying to enforce these concepts a major issue has arisen: Shall the power of enforcement rest...
...effect he declared that since the Dominion Government could not get effective power by Constitutional amendment it must largely withdraw from attempting to arbitrate labor disputes and leave that duty to the states. A measure called the Commonwealth Arbitration Abolition Bill was drafted. That was the bill under consideration by Parliament when the crisis came last week...
Nationalist v. Nationalist. Professing himself a better Nationalist than his personal foe the Prime Minister, astute William Hughes took the attitude that it would be the very negation of Nationalism to follow the Bruce plan of handing over the states the whole duty of labor arbitration, simply because the states have again and again refused to give the Dominion Court supreme authority. Instead, he thought that the Nationalist Party should keep resolutely plugging for the constitutional amendment which thus far has proved unobtainable...
...Marks. Only the fact that the Government was balanced on a single vote made possible a debacle which throws before Australian voters an issue mixed and muddled as completely as possible by Parliament. The one clean-cut way out would be a sweeping victory for the chief Opposition party (Labor), but few observers believed that possible, last week, because recent state elections have heavily favored the Nationalists. Gloomily, Australians faced the post-election prospect of another Nationalist Government stalemated by the feud between Hughes and Bruce...