UNSKILLED LABOUR IN AMERICA.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1059, 10 March 1882, Page 2

UNSKILLED LABOUR IN AMERICA.

9 Philadelphia correspondent of the Times thus comments on the influx of paupers — or persons verging on that condition — in the United Statss : They have a great capacity for absorbing labor, but the ample foreign supply for two years has about filled up for a time. The emigrant who comes hereafter, if he expects to get along, must have, in addition to industry and a knowledge of some trade, the advantage of friends here who will push him on, and he will also find a little ready money of great service. The utterly destitute class, I if inclined to idleness, have no better j chance here than at home. The British Consulates in the sea-board cities, and the officers of the St George's and other charitable British societies have had numerous calls this autumn from emigrants who found they could not get on here, and who want assistance to get home. In almost every case the story has been the same. Knowing no trade and being destitute, they could either do no laboring work or find none to do, and had to throw themselves upon the charity of their countrymen. They had left home to better themselves, but getting in worse plight, \ actually sought a chance to return. It will be a great relief to the officials and also to the charitable societies, as well as the American public, if this class of emigration can be curtailed."