FOREIGN BARBERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 93, 13 January 1908, Page 9

FOREIGN BARBERS.

"If we go on as we are doing now, the British barber will somo (lay be found only in the British Museum, or possibly nt lime. Tussaml's," was the opinion expressed by Mr. ,T. ICnight, General Secretai-y, at a mooting of the Amalgamated Society of - British It airdres.sers's Assistants, held at Anderton's Hotel, I'leet Street, recently.

. This Society, wluch is a "baby trade union," was formed in conscquence of a split with tho International Union at Hairdressers, and the lion. Claude Hay, M/P., who was in the chair, made the reason of this split quite clear. "Certain foreigners tried to use that union us a means of advancing Anarchist principles," he said. Mr. Knight denounced tho ovil system of foreign agencies, who lived by exploiting "green foreigners" to the detriment ot tho Englishmen.

Mr. .T. Ford said that GO per cent, of the convictions in recent years for employing bov labour over certain hours dealt with barbers' shops owned by foreigners. In' tho City of London 75 per cent, of tho employers wore foreigners. ■ After (he. Rev. J. F. Thompson, of Camberwell, Captain Brodriclc Donnelly, and others had sooken, a resolution protesting against tho influx of aliens into England, and tho unscrupulous methods adopted by them to displace the British employee, and denouncing the Socialists' attempts to oaptiirn tho trade unions and their funds was unanimously and enthusiastically passed.