THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12773, 21 April 1910, Page 2

THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

ROUT OF THE LIBERALS,

MR COOK'S VIEWS

EFFECTS OF THE WADE ACT.

[Pbhss Association — CorrmoHT.]

Sydney, April 20. Mr Joseph Cook, Minister for Defence, attributes the Labour success to the Newcastle strike and good organisation. There was, he said, a feeling in New South Wales that the amended Act for dealing with strikers was unnecessarily Severe) and wherever Liberal candidates went they were assailed with cries of "Coercion Act."

Mr G. 0/ Wade, the State Premier, repudiates the idea that the action of his Government with regard to. the strike had contributed to the Labjur victory. No one coukLgive an c . set explanation -of the larger Xaboar *"<te. He believes the State Government » ill hold its own at the forthcoming ejections, and considers that the Federal figures are no criterion of the feitte results.

MEETING OF THE LABOUR PARTY.

(Received April 21, 0.40 a.m.) Melbourne, April 20. A meeting of the Federal Labour Party is called for Tuesday to discuss the situation, and for the selection of Ministers.