“ALMOST CRIMINAL"

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 9

“ALMOST CRIMINAL"

CANADIAN MIGRATION CAUSES CONCERN ORIENTALS FEARED United P. A.—B J Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. VANCOUVER, Friday. Attacking the immigration activities of the Navy League Mr. James Simpson, a Toronto Labour Leader, declares it is almost criminal for mechanics to he brought to Canada to compete with Canadian workers, when there are no jobs available. Charles Watson was brought from Dundeo for permanent employment by the League, and his family is now destitute. A message from Vancouver says the United Farmers of Alberta Party on Friday refused a ballot on a resolution favouring the termination of Oriental immigration into Canada and the cessation of property rights now vested in Oriental residents. The question was referred to the Board of Directors, and will probably be brought up next year. It was contended the matter should have at least a year’s consideration. The Alberta wheat pool had Orientals on a contract basis. The passage of this resolution would involve property rights and rights as British subjects. Mr. J. E. Armishaw, president of the United Farmers of Canada, stated the question was whether we retain a Pacific Province or see it cast into the hands of Orientals. The immigration question was so serious, he said that neither of the Dominion political leaders dare mention it. The grave situation was being permitted for Imperial reasons, he said. The Government was sacrificing the agriculture of the province for Oriental trade. The Oriental question was reopened at the convention, and a substitute motion was passed assuring British Columbia Agrarians that they had “our moral support in their efforts to solve the Oriental question, as affecting agriculture In British Columbia.”