A WARNING TO BRITISH WORKERS.
NOT TO.EMIGRATE TO CANADA
Received December 20, 9.44 p.m
LONDON, December 20
Mr Trotter, Special Commissioner sent by the Canadian Trades and Labour Congress to warn British workers against emigration to Canada, addressed the Labour Party and Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress at Westminster. He declared that the flood of skilled labour had attained alarming proportions. Many of the emigrants were settling in the cities, where they were not wanted, and refused to go into the country, where they were needed. Mr Trotter blamed the Canadian manufacturers, British emigration agencies, and the Shipping Companies, who were working on commission, for the present state of affairf?.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9011, 21 December 1907, Page 5
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112A WARNING TO BRITISH WORKERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9011, 21 December 1907, Page 5
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