CONTRACT LABOR SYSTEM.
A NEWSPAPER CONDEMNATION.
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] LONDON, Sept. 25.
The “Morning Post” condemns Australia’s contract labor provision, which handicaps the industrial development of the country. They should not restrict immigrants except on the grounds of health and character. Australians were setting up false ideas of comfort-, and therefore were content with small families. Much natural- energy was devoted to petty quarrelling over hours and wages. Mr Theodore Fink, in reply, contends that Australian workers are more strenuous than British, and do more in eight- hours than the latter in ten. The workers do possess large families. The wages question is not a petty one. Contracts aro let at starvation wages in England.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3639, 27 September 1912, Page 5
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115CONTRACT LABOR SYSTEM. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3639, 27 September 1912, Page 5
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