Stanley Bruce's great industrial relation blunder

Stanley Bruce's Great Industrial Relations Blunder.He believed in arming the industrial courts with greater powers.It was Deakin who described it as the new era in industrial relations.Rhetoric about industrial mobilisation, on its own, won't get very far.Prime Minister Bruce sponsored the proposal.The federal leader of the Labor opposition, Matt Charlton, supported Bruce.That was precisely why Bruce introduced his referendum proposals in June 1926.Messrs Justices Higgins and Powers, both well versed in industrial law, had the opposite viewpoint.But that didn't worry Bruce.Bruce knew that the Federal Labor Party had always favored unification.