ITALIAN WORKERS
IN QUEENSLAND
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, June 11
There is" now a delicate situation on the Queensland sugar plantations, where there is considerable friction between the Australian and the Italian workers. The friction was' somewhat relieved to-day by a statement made by Hon M. Frank Fordo, the Acting Federal Minister of Customs, who declared that there was no risk of Northern Queensland becoming Italianised for at least seventy-live per cent, of the mill and field workers there arc British.
Mr Forde added that there was no danger of the embargo on imported foreign sugar being lifted. I lie . Government’s policy waS one of adequate protection for the local sugar, industry, which would enable the white race to settle and to'develop Northern Queensland. ■
Mr Forde expressed the hope that the employers would give preference in employment in the cane cutting gangs to Britishers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1930, Page 6
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