COMMONWEALTH POLITICS.
SPEECH BY FEDERAL LABOR
LEADER
United Press Association —Copyright BRISBANE, Feb. 9.
Mr Fisher, leader of the Federal Labor party, opened the Labor campaign at Maryborough to-night. The speech largely traversed Mr Deakin’s Ballarat speech.
Mr Fisher opposed Wages Boards, and urged the necessity to give greater power to the Federal Parliament to protect workers. He claimed that his Government were responsible for the initiation of the Australian naval defence scheme. They were the first to put the idea into concrete form. The inclusion of financial arrangements with the States in the constitution would •prove embarrassing to the people of Australia, because it would be impossible to have a protectionist tariff and alarge revenue from the Customs if they were going to have a protectionist country, and he believed there were very high duties that would be required to defray the expenses of federation and the payment of 25s to the States. He urged the people to trust the Federal Parliament to do justice to tlie States. If justice was not done, the people had their remedy at the next election.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2733, 11 February 1910, Page 5
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183COMMONWEALTH POLITICS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2733, 11 February 1910, Page 5
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