FEDERAL CAMPAIGN

Evening Star, Issue 15538, 7 July 1914, Page 6

FEDERAL CAMPAIGN

LABOR’S PLATFORM. ANNOUNCED BY MR FISHER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, July 7. (Received July 7, at 9.15 a.m.)

Mr Andrew Fisher, in a speech at Bund a berg last night, announced the Federal Opposition policy. He favored resubmitting the Referenda Bills as a'means of securing industrial peace and of dealing with trusts, combines, and monopolies, ineluding the Beef Trust, .which he declared already had a hold in Australia. Other Labor y proposals are :—-Stateowned oversea steamers, a State-owned Atlantic cable, a National insurance scheme, the initiative and referendum, the development of oversea markets, a Commonwealth bank, a uniform railway gauge, and the careful nursing of military and naval defence—although ho was relentlessly opposed to borrowing for defence—tire continuance of the maternity bonus, and the provision of funds for the prevention and cure of cancer, consumption, and the red plague. Mr Fisher added: “Wo fully favor reciprocal relations with New Zealand, Canada, and tiro other Dominions, and favor every means being adopted to draw all of us closer together.”