COMMONWEALTH POLITICS.
LABOR'S PLATFORM.
By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright Brisbane, February 10.
Mr. Andrew Fisher, in the course of a speech, said he was opposed to wages boards, and urged the necessity to give greater power to the Federal Parliament to protect workers.
He claimed that the Government was responsible for the. initiation of tlhe Australian naval defence scheme, and was the first to put the idea into concrete form. The inclusion of the financial arrangements with the States in the constitution would, he said, prove embarrassing to the people of Australia, because it would be impossible to have a Protectionist tariff and a large revenue from the Customs. If they were going to have a protectionist country—and he believed they were—very high duties would be required to defray the expense:-.' of federation and the payment of 25s to the States.
He urged the people to trust the Federal Parliament to do justice to the States. Tf justice was not done the people had the remedy at the next election.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 312, 11 February 1910, Page 5
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169COMMONWEALTH POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 312, 11 February 1910, Page 5
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