LABOUR PARASITES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 122, 27 May 1925, Page 4

LABOUR PARASITES

MENACE IN AUSTRALIA

MISLEADING THE YOUNG BLOOD

(BI TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL TO THE TOST.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Mr, ,"\V- '. J-. Russell, a well-known English salvage expert, in an interview on arrival from Sydney yesterday, made a serious indictment of the Australian labour engaged in .the. shipbuilding industry. He cited figures showing the work done and ■ costs in the salvage of the City of Singapore. He purchased the steamer, which had been badly damaged by fire and explosion at Port Adelaide. It was for the purpose of carrying out temporacy repairs to the vessel that he came to Australia. "The temporary repairs to the l)ad!y-damagcd steamer were undertaken by liie at Port Adelaide in January last," Mr. Hussell said, ."arid- should have been finished in the maximum period of twenty-five

clays. Actually, they lasted seventytwo days. Good men, some Australian, others English, gave me of their best, and throughout worked loyally, and used their own intelligence during my enforced absence from the ship, whilst others played a part unworthy of the traditions of well-organised labour. "There is no harmony between labour and capital,, and until there is things will continue to be bad in Australia," said Mr. Russell.- "In no country I nave visited have labour troubles been so apparently" bad. The condition of affairs which produces a situation of this description, whether it be from political, labour, or capital sources, should be removed. It was indeed unfortunate for Australia that while level-headed unionists were remaining in England, not-headed Communists were migrating and room was being made for them in the Commonwealth. They were mis. leading the young blood and filling their heads with false notions. After all, ths COmmumsts were only parasites on trua labour. i The quality of labour in Australia is such that with wise administration- and I clean-leadership it would be first-class, ' said Mr. Russell. '