General Booth’s Immigration Scheme.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3581, 5 October 1905, Page 3

General Booth’s Immigration Scheme.

AN AUSTRALIAN VIEW,

London, October 2,

At a conference of unemployed, representing one hundred and twenty organisations, such as trade councils, trades unions, and unemployed committees, which met in London, resolutions were passed denouncing the proposals of General Booth and the Rev. William Carlisle, secretary of the Church Army, for the transport for life of thousands of the flower of the working classes as a pretended relief of the unemployed difficulty.

The conference considers such methods mischievous, and that they only tend to stave off the growing demand for a real solution of the unemployed difficulty. Resolutions were passed, strongly urging the adoption of economic and social changes.

Sydney, October 3,

At the Eight Hours’ Day banquet, Mr Travers, the president declared that Australia’s own people ought to be given an opportunity of obtaining employment before people were brought from outside.

He recognised the high standing of General Booth, but the position was that he was largely attempting to take people out of the gutters without taking any steps to remove the gutters. While he appreciated the General’s efforts, he did not want Australia made the depositing ground of surplus labour brought up under unhealthy conditions.