ALIENS IN INDUSTRIAL POSITIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 199, 22 August 1919, Page 10

ALIENS IN INDUSTRIAL POSITIONS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—The determined attempt to hound out of employment t aptain Petersen on account of his unfortunate parentage, notwithstanding Petersen's naturalisation in this country, justifies mc in asking is there one law lor the rii-h and another for the poor? 1 will illustrate the point. In a large industrial establishment in this country an Austrian manager was retained until an ex-employee and a section of the publicraised a row. An advertbement tor a new manager induced a gentleman to accept the position, and he was told that the foreigner was remaining for six months to get him into the run of the business. That is twelve months ago. From tho day ot" the new manager's arrival, right down to the present time, the new man, a Britisher, has never been shown anything, told anything, or given an ounce of authority, and would appear to have been simply used to camouflage the foreigner. A request by employed: to liis-direetors for an inquiry was discourteously ignored. He is, to some extent, a brother capitalist. For how long will the company retain two managers. Why surely only until the racial enmity engendered by the war has died down a bit, and it is safe to reinstate the foreigner. A poor seaman is picked out to hunt from pillar to post while the alien with money lives on the fat of the land. Xow, sir, if, like Canada, the people of this, country wnnt the alien shifted out of fat jobs in the industrial world, let it, like Canada, make a clean job of it. So long as the worker like Petersen is singled out and money influence can save the other, then, as a worker, I say to the business world, show your genuineness by firing all foreign well paid heads out of your employ; give British -workers a share in your business, and a lot of distrust will vanish, and with it the everlasting strike. —I am, etc., IT. 11. EYAXS.