DECRYING AUSTRALIA

Southland Times, Issue 18819, 12 May 1920, Page 7

DECRYING AUSTRALIA

I BRITISH UNIONISTS REBUKE. An interesting light on the British trade union view of immigration to Australia is given in a letter written by Mr W. A. Appleton, president of the International Federation of Trade Unions, to Mr A. Clemenson, assistant secretary of the Perth ] metropolitan council of the Australian Lab- | our Party. Mr Clemenson had written to 1 Mr Appleton drawing a most gloomy picj tuns of the position of Western Australia, i and stating that an influx of immigrants | would aggravate the position, unci make 1 the task of the Labour movement a much ! harder one than it is to-day. He expressed the hope that Mr Appleton would warn the British workers accordingly, i Mr Appleton, in reply ,says;—‘The pic- : ture you print suggests extraordinary incapacity somewhere. Yon have land where the sun shims always. Von Lave '-wl which ; will produce :>ny!iii;ig t’,.< he - ;' u! man desires. You have minerals at lea t cr the * needs of a ponnietion of 5 1 '•. 100. \ oil ere a'v.civhig out for a V ;.:te man s Australia, ami yet you seek to dissunuc i white men from coming to Australia. ! “If wo are to carry our your wishes, ; and bend all our attention towards per--1 Funding our surplus population to ern'g.rrte to the United States or the Argentine, it : does f.ccm that the posjubi'nies < f Asiatic emtio! of Australia is increased. I Ihink you onc.ht to knew, .’hu, that thousands of Avs! rail are?, who hr.'. ;; been over here the la. t few years, do not speak so despondently of their country as you do They have been the beat imnugr.ir.on gents .Australia ever had. Com perns w.e.r .talcmerits with yours, i am ciOi’.iuiKi to wonder whether ihcse man were not utterly j r.-nrrant o’' i ue c;■ u. a l ' am. a tour country. I “At- the moment in mui. car a man | on this side of the won-: c> jt-dco properly of the situation exrrtmg iiiritv tnc Souihen* Crrms It is possible that .\ustnt- ,; n. like : c-rher count res. A sudermg from the loss 1 of l.irave am. ..'rii.efl men, woo wore killed 1 in the war, an i that it m not le-w bioour but | more labor.- that Australia requires to dei velop lu:r uii'ioubtrnl resoiircre.* ;