THE LABOR MARKET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2411, 28 January 1909, Page 5

THE LABOR MARKET.

UNIONISTS DECLARE IT TO BE OVERSTOCKED. [Press Association.] 'WELLINGTON. Jan. 27. On the arrival of the lonic yesterday, the officers of the Labor [Unions waited on the immigrants and jnlormed them that the labor market was greatly overstocked. The PaintersUnion alone has sixty first-class ineii on the books. The majority of the immigrants professed their willingness to take any work. The officials state, that this will glut the unskilled labor market, in which many 11111 already unemployed. The secretary oi the "Wharf Laborers’ Union st-atis that 300 or 400 members are not■ oiuning a living. If this state oi things prevails during the summer lnmiths , it is .anticipated that the position wdl he verv serious when the w mtei • rives, with its enforced cessation ol outdo 0 r operations.

Mr. 1>- McLaren, who was retiinud at the last election as member ol 1 ailiament for Wellington Last is oiftaii S sin a ia deputation to wait on the lion (Jeoroc ifowlds, Miuifitei in charge of the Immigration Department', iu respect to. the questions <>i migration. and uuonmloyjd > tins connection Mr. ,J. Jt. rl.all, sic rotary of the East Coast Trades and Labor Council, Yesterday "•received a tcle ,r ram from Mr. McLaren., asking to be, furnished with all facts relating to the state of employment m WSboruc. v