"NO LAWLESSNESS"

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 51, 28 August 1925, Page 7

"NO LAWLESSNESS"

MR. LANG'S COMMENT DEPORTATION MOST INIQUITOUS. SYDNEY", 27th. August, Mr. J. T. Lang, the .State Premier, in a statement defining the Government's attitude towards Mr. Brace's request for co-operation in dealing with the shipping strike, said tliHl^wlteii jNI f. Bruce aaked I hat protection be afforded the seamen who desired to work British vMßele, he, Wan turpi'ised at the request,

aa there was not the slightest lawlessness in this State. Referring to the deportation clause of the Immigration Act, Mr. Lang said he regarded it as one of the most iniquitous Acts ever passed in any country, and he would firmly refuse to permit the State instrumentalities to be abused for the purpose of deporting political or industrial leaders. There was no need for the Federal Government, in pursuance of its deportation policy, to invoke the assistance oi any State Government. He had no desire to embroil New South Wales in any deportation proceedings. He wae prepared to see that the laws of the Commonwealth and of New South ."Wales were observed, but he was not prepared, to iden.-, tify New South Wales or the Labour Party with any Nationalist attempt to deport itfi political and industrial opponents.