RUSSIANS IN AUSTRALIA.
A GLOOMY PICTURE. ,By Electric Telegraph—< ’opyrightj [United Press Association.] (Received 9.15 a.m.) St. Petersburg, July 21.
The Novoe Vremya, in an article depicting the fate of emigrants m the gloomiest colors, states there aio 20,000 Russians'in Australia,. that they form the lowest class of workers and are regarded as an inferior race, even as savages, and that they suffer privation and misery. Russian labour had replaced colored labor in the sugar plantations and in the Tasmanian tin mines. The unfortunates were struggling against want and dreaming of their return to Russia. The Novoe Vremya suggests warning intending emigrants and assisting the unfortunates who had fallen into the trap.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 77, 22 July 1914, Page 6
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112RUSSIANS IN AUSTRALIA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 77, 22 July 1914, Page 6
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