CABLE NEWS. MR DEAKIN AND LABOUR.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 272, 22 May 1907, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. MR DEAKIN AND LABOUR.

fBY ILBCIRIG TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received May 22nd, 7.58 a.m.) London, May 21. Iri connection with the meeting on the 16th between Mr Deakin and the industrial companies representing a party of a million capital, who asked for re-assurances upon a number of points respecting economic and political conditions in Australia, the chairman of the meeting, in a letter to the press, states that Mr Deakin merely replied to questions, after dealing with the resources and their development. Mr Deakin was^asked respecting the possibility of the Labor Party obtaining majorities in the State Legislatures. He discriminated, between the Australian Labor Party and similar parties in the Old World, distinguishing between the moderate and extreme wings, recognising that investors were apprehensive lest labor should obtain a majority in every State and legislate accordingly. Mr Deakin examined the position of each State, explaining that if Labor stood alone it would be unable to secure a majority in any State, certainly not in both branches of local Legislature. Mr Deakin assured investors that they had not the faintest reason foi the apprehension that they would be treated with any injustice in Australia. The meeting was private, and was reported in one newspaper only as cabled. •