setting properties on child controls of Custom web user controls

I am creating a custom web user control that is a complex page view. I want
to use it as the confirm step of a wizard control. Inside the custom user
control, there will be different label controls that will display the text
of different things. What do I need to do in order to access the text
property of these labels? Do I need to make public accessers/properties that
access the label.text property? or do I just access the
usercontrol.Label.text property?