A COLD RECEPTION.
14808 I'XIOXS AXD IMMIURAXTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. On the arrival of tlic lonie yesterday, the officials from the labor unions waited on the immigrants ami informed .them that the labor market is greatly overstocked. The Painters' Union alone lias «ixtv lirst-elass men on its book. »Tb* majority of the immigrants professed » willingness to take any work. The official* st.ite that this will glut the unskilled labor market in which there are already many unemployed. The secretary of the Wharf Laborers' Union states that three or four hundred mem,i. vra are not earning a living. Jf this f -te of things prevails during the *iihi- *,* »e»tbs he anticipated that the posi- ?• *3JI be very serious when winter | °" wjtk its enforced cessation of outdoM iW*"" 18 -
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 3, 28 January 1909, Page 3
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129A COLD RECEPTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 3, 28 January 1909, Page 3
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