PROTECTION' OF WORKMEN

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2764, 19 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

PROTECTION' OF WORKMEN

EXPULSION OF ALIENS FROAI GERMANY.

Germany’s efficient methods of dealing with undesirable'aliens for the protection of her workers have just been put into practice in the southern districts of the province of Silesia, which has been recently overrun by foreign laborers, who deprived the German workmen of employment by accepting lower wages. The case, offers so striking a similarity to the situation in the East End of London, says the “St. Janies’ Budget,” that the drastic abolition of the alien evil in Silesia deserves attention. The German authorities served orders for expulsion from the country on 500 foreigners, whose presence in Germany menaced the prosperity of the German working man. The official communication giving the reasons for tho wholesale expulsion runs:—“The number of foreign Czechs who cross the frontier from Austria to find 1 employment in Germany is considerable. Especially large arb the numbers of shoe-makers, tailors, and journeymen bakers, but there are also workmen in many other branches of industry. Alanv of them become employers of labor, and they almost invariably send for their own countrymen to work for them. Their more modest requirements enable them to work far more cheaply than the Germans, for whom they constitute dangerous competitors.” Ou these grounds' the authorities decided to expel the intruders, and the police served them with notices to the effect that all must leave the country within a month.