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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5934, 12 September 1890, Page 2

Thk Labor Committei! at Sydney, according to our cabl-g.'i'tus, invo decided, to semi delegates to Loudon to mu.-.o ihe sympathy of tho docker.-; and other union.:. We can fancy the w-.-11-fed, well-dressed delegates from Australia addi'e.-.-.ing the dockets in the East End of London with a view to arouse .sympathy ! The result of tho delegation

| would most likely be a revulsion of feeling. { It is a misorabie thing for Australian workmen to have come to ; after being tho highest paid laborers in tho world, they now seek donations from London, from people who aro never beyond measurable distance from starvation. We. had hoped that the prido of the colonials would have saved them from such shameful degradation. After every effort, and many sacrifices, the unions at Home have not been able to scrape up more than £6500 to send to Australia, and this fact, should open the eyes of the labor organisations in the colonies to the dreadful poverty of the poor people from whom thej- are now asking money. It should do more than that, for it should ■ teach them that they must look to themselves for support. They are standing alone ; there is no outside monetary assistance for them, and they have forfeited all public sympathy within and without tho colonies.