Communist Prejudice Against Baltic Migrants in Australia
SYDNEY, -Sept 15
Mr Stewart Fraser, executive director of the Building Industry Congress!, to-day istated that, through fear of industrial trouble, mainly Communist-inspired, the Government was not using Baltic migrants on work for which they had been brought to Australia. The expressed intention of the Government was to employ the Balts in heavy industries. Most of them appeared to be going to Government departments. t Of 4000 Balts who had arrived in the last year 1000 had gone to the Queensland canefields, but large allocations had been made to Government railawys the Victorian Electricity Commission, the Tasmanian hydro-electric scheme, and Government hostels, he said. In New South Wales no Balts were working in the building industry though the housing programme badly needed/speeding up
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Grey River Argus, 17 September 1948, Page 5
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