ITALIANS IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Star, Issue 20060, 28 December 1928, Page 5

ITALIANS IN AUSTRALIA

BITTER COMMENT OH TREATMENT “ANGLO-SAXON ” HTPUCKISY. Pteis Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 20. The Milan correspondent, of ' The Times’ states that “Anglo-Saxon hypocrisy, brutal insults, and open violation of those principles of enlightened liberalism and intelligent democracy of which English society is so proud,” are among the bitter opinions expressed by the ‘ Popolo <Pltalia ’ of the reported decision of the Port Adelaide authorities to debar workers who do not know tlie English language from employment. “The decision may seem to be dictated by practical considerations, but really it aims at protecting the British workman against emigrants of any other nationality. In the history of the struggles amftng races no measure so hateful, so anti-social, and so inhuman lias ever been taken. Italian workmen are the first to suffer, but those same Italian workmen were the first in Australia, Africa, and America to open up unknown, lands and lay down the fertile germs of, Mediterranean civilisation.” The ‘Popoio d’ltalia ’ concludes with the fear that “ this English or Australian crusade against Southern European workmen may be the beginning of a dispute which will reach vast proportions.” —London ‘Times’ Cable. OUTRAGE AT JNNISFAIL. COAT OF ARMS REMOVED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BRISBANE, December 27, Resentment prevails among the Italians at fnnisfail because of the removal of the coat of arms from the front of the Italian Consulate during the holidays. The Vice-Consul for Italy (Signor Luciano), in a statement to-day, describes it as an insult to the Italian nation, arousing a feeling similar to that experienced by Britons if somebody tore down the Union Jack and threw it in the gutter. He adds that it is time that such occurrences ended, and he looked to the proper authorities to trace the guilty person.