EMIGRATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1575, 4 October 1905, Page 2

EMIGRATION.

GENERAL BOOTH’S SCHEME,

By telegraph', Press* Aim'n, Copyright

London, October 2.

Mr Josße Collings, in a letter to the Times, declares that General Booth’s scheme for wholesale assisted emigration of strong healthy industrious workers is aa appalling national danger! If the Government assist in tho wholesale dis* posal of these men, their action will be little short of orimioa l , and the blame will rest on them. • • General Booth has replied that the Army is not sending to Australia people in comfortable circumstances, only unemployed. Some of those offering are Jn aotual want.; . ■ A conference of unemployed, representing 120 organisations, trades councils, trades unions and unemployed committees, met in London, and denounced the proposals of General Booth and the Rev. Wm. Carlisle, secretary of theOburoh Army, for the transport for life of thousands of the working olasßes, as a pretended relief to unemployed difficulty, considering suoh methods mischievouei and tending to stave off tho growing demand for urging, eoonomio.andsooial changes.

. Sydney, October 8. At the eight hours banquet, Mr Travers, the President, declared that our own people ought to be given the opportunity of obtaining employment before others were brought from outside. He recognised the high standing of General Booth, but the position was that be was largely attempting to take people out of the gutters, without taking any. stepß to remove the gutters. While they appreciated his efforts, they did not want Australia to be made the depositing ground for surplus labor brought up under unhealthy conditions.