PETITIONS HELD BACK
FEDERAL PREMIER'S STAND
SYDNEY, February 16
Tlie Federal Premier, the Hon. J. Cook, refused to send to _\_r Harcourt, Colonial Secretary, a number of petitions from industrial unions asking th<? Imperial Government to restrain South Africa from carrying out the. deportation of strike leaders.
Mr Fisher, Leader of the Opposition, said he hoped the time would never come when Australia would deport men without trial, but he agraed with Mr Harcourt that whatever Dominion offended, it was pot for the Mother Country to interfere.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14903, 17 February 1914, Page 7
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