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"NO" VOTE
URGED
Mr. Fadden On
States' Rights
PERTH. Jan. 19.
In his first speech tonight
on the referendum on price
control, the Leader of the
Federal Country Party
(Mr. Fadden) declared:—
"For the third time hi four
years, the Chifley Government
is urging the people to amend
the Constitution by referendum.
Undismayed by the failure of
its 1944 attempt to gain power
over prices, Labor is again
seeking that power and once
again Its motive is to be sus
pected."
The issue, Mr. Fadden said,
was a straight-out fight of
State rights versus Common
wealth centralised bureaucratic
control. State Governments
now had full and complete
power to regulate prices and fix
fair rents.
If attempts by the Common
wealth by referendum to gain
complete control of State police
forces and railways were de
feated, all that would happen
would be that such powers
would, as hi the past, continue
to be exercised by the States.
Exactly the same argument ap
plied to price control as to
police and railways.
"Although the Commonwealth
has exercised rigid control of
house and land sales, more than
80 p.c of land sales nave been
made at prices exceeding those
officially determined by the
Treasury and notwithstanding
the fact that the Common
wealth fixed prices for used cars,
well-informed people are
unanimous that up to 90 p.c.
of car sales are made at black
market prices," Mr. Fadden
continued.
"If we must have price con
trol, let it be State control,'' Mr.
Fadden declared. "Common
wealth incursions into this
field are both unwanted and un
necessary. Consequently, vote
"No" and uphold your own
State's rights and powers at the
forthcoming referendum."
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