FEDERAL POLITICS.
LABOR LEADER’S SPEECH. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyrigb Received 12,10 a m., Alay 29. Alelbourno Alay 28.
In the House Air Watson, Loader of the Labor Party, continuing the debate, said tho return showing tho number of colored people admitted to tho Commonwealth despite the restrictions Act emphasized tho need of a strict color line. All available money should ho spent in tho improvement of armament. They could not get an adequate defence of the
immense seaboard either from a British or Australian navy. The chance of a British squadron being able to defend oven the State capitals and coaling stations was remote ; consequently the naval subsidy was not justified. It would ho better spent in improving land defences. He did not think au Australian navy practicable, on account of the expense. He hoped a Compulsory Arbitration Act would be passed this session. lie instanced New Zealand to show that although unionists surrendered certain liberties under compulsory arbitration, they gained in other ways, and tho community as a whole was protected.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 903, 29 May 1903, Page 2
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