N.Z. STOWAWAYS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2554, 16 July 1909, Page 6

N.Z. STOWAWAYS.

SEVERELY FINED IN SYDNEY. Batches of stowaways from New Zealand (write.%\the. Sydney correspondent of the .’Hobart /‘Mercury”) have been severely fined in Sydney lately. The new arrivals are for the most part able-bodied men who could not obtain work in the Dominion, and were glad to take any opportunity to cross the water t 6 this country, the accounts of which were of a somewhat rosy kind. With only an occasional exception, these men had the appearance of willing workers. However, others are arriving from New Zealand who paid their passage money., Some remarks made at the .Sydney Labor Council the other night by Mr H. A. Campbell, a delegate from the Canterbury Trades /and Labor Council, showed at least that roving workmen should keep away from Maoriland for a time. Mr Campbell attributed the dearth of employment in New Zealand to the fact that they had gone as far there as it was possible to go, and they found that, while they had succeeded in,forcing up the wages, the employers had succeeded in keeping up the rents and the cost of living, so that the workers were, now in the same condition as they were before. It was the same all over the world, and the workers would have, to—find some other method than trades unionism if they wished to obtain permanent benefits. Mr Campbell urged the Sydney Labor Council to work towards securino- a confederation of all labor throughout the Commonwealth. They must send men into Parliament who were prepared to nationalise all the industries and eliminate the middleman a.nd his profits. They would never receive th e full value of their labor until that was accomplished.