NEW FEDERAL LAWS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 53, 31 August 1925, Page 7

NEW FEDERAL LAWS

STATE PREMIERS POSITION

REFUSAL TO DO BRUCE'S GRUBBING

LEGISLATION WILL BE ENFORCED.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIKIQHT.) (Received ■ 31st August, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. J. T. Lang, the State Premier, referring to the Commonwealth police, authorised by the new Federal legislation, said that if a reign of terror, coercion, and deportation is contemplated in the industrial sphere, a considerable increase iii tho number of gaols as well as j the police will soon be necessary, j The creation of new industrial of- | fences and the recognition of new constitutional principles will necessitate the erection of new administrative machinery. "At present the re- ' sources of the State are taxed to the utmost. We do not feel inclined to burden our people with additional taxation in order that My. Bruce may indulge his pernicious proclivities." Mr. Lang says : "I have no desire to be placed in a false position by the heroics of Mr. Bruce. Tho Prime Minister's attempt to set me up as a censor of Federal legislation, and to make the public believe that I will not enforce laws with which I personally disagree, indicates that he has either not read the full text of my Press statement, or is prepared wilfully and maliciously to deceive the public." I stated most explicity that I am prepared to Bee that the laws of tho Commonwealth and the State are observed. What I am not prepared to do is Mr. Bruce's grubbing. Mr. Bruce had»no need to appeal to me to help him to form a deportation board. "If Federal Judges are not available, he had the Victorian State Government at hand, proteasing sympathy with his policy."