EX-PREMIER'S VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 230, 28 September 1929, Page 9

EX-PREMIER'S VIEWS.

Mr. McCormack's Remarks Challenged. AN EXPLANATION. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, September 27. Repercussions from Queensland suggest that the speech made at Birmingham by Mr. J. McCormack, ex-Premier of Queensland, is the subject of conflicting interpretations between the Nationalists and Labourites. Mr. McCormack when requested by the Australian Press Association to say that he denies that his speeches and writings in Britain are in the slightest inconsistent with his Australian record, explained that when he said at Birmingham that Australian Labour would have to realise that the ideal conditions should be sacrificed, he added the important qualification, '"'unless efficiency and service is obtained in industry." Referring to arbitration, he said: "My view is that the Federal Parliament should be the sole authority controlling industrial conditions, both of the Commonwealth and the States." Mr. McCormack proposes arriving in Queensland in December. He is acting on the advice of London specialists in reference to a throat affection. He does not intend re-entering politics.