ITALIAN PROTEST

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 80, 28 December 1928, Page 8

ITALIAN PROTEST

AGAINST DECISION OF PORT ADELAIDE AUTHORITIES NOT TO EMPLOY FOREIGNERS UNLESS KNOWING ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) Telegraph.— Copy right.) ("Times’’ Cables.) (Rec. December 27, 8.20 p.m.) London, December 26. “The Times” Milan correspondent states that Anglo-Saxon hypocrisy, brutal insults, and open violation of those principles of enlightened liberalism and intelligent democracy of which English society is so proud, are among the bitter opinions expressed by “Il Popolo d’ltalia” of the reported decision of the Port Adelaide authorities to debar workers not knowing the English language from employment. The decision may seem to be dictated by practical considerations, but really it aims at protecting the British workman against emigrants of any other nationality. “In the history of struggles among races, no measure so hateful, anti-social, or inhuman, has ever been taken.” Italian workmen are the first to suffer, but “those same Italian workmen were the first in Australia, Africa and America to open up unknown lands and lay down the fertile germs of Mediterranean civilisation.” The paper concludes by fearing that this English or Australian crusade against Southern European workmen may be the beginning of a dispute reaching vast proportions.