NO MORE MIGRANTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 26

NO MORE MIGRANTS

AUSTRALIA’S STAND DELEGATION TO BRITAIN Special efforts will be made by a delegation to reduce the number of immigrants for Australia, on the ground that the labour market has reached saturation point, and that no further migrants should be allowed to come to the Commonwealth until the local unemployed has been absorbed. The delegation from the central branch of the Australian Workers’ Union will visit Great Britain and Europe to tell “the true facts” of labour conditions in Australia according to Mr. G. Buckland, secretary of the A.W.U. Care has been taken by A.W.U. officials to make it clear that the delegation will have no connection with the large delegation which the labour councils of the Commonwealth are despatching early next year, with a dispatching early next year, with a tion, unlike the one from the councils, will not attend the sessions of the’ Red International and the Pan-Pacific Secretariat. "The delegation will pay particular attention to unemployment, and land settlement problems,” said Mr. Buckland. “It will warn the workers overseas that Australia is not the land of opportunity they are led to believethat every State is overflowing with unemployed; that poverty and destitution is rife; that the stories of plenty of land being available in Australia are mythical.”