QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS
SELF-GOVERNING RIGHTS PRINCIPAL ISSUE. Brisbane, October 1. In connection with the forthcoming general eeletions, the Labour Government is making a. determined effort to force to tho front, to the exclusion of more pressing national matters, the question of tho recent refusal of British financiers to absorb the Queensland loan. The Premier, Mr. Theodore, claims that tiro issue of tiho election is the maintenance by the people <A their self-governing rights, or tho dictation of tho domestic policy of the State Government by London capitalists. Speaking at Marybor. ongh, he said that while he was in London representatives of the principal unions in England offered him a loan of three millions, which he doolined, pre-1 fcrring that the Labour Party in Queensland should fight' its own battles.—Prow Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 7
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129QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2 October 1920, Page 7
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