LABOR ON THE WATERFRONT.

Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 2

LABOR ON THE WATERFRONT.

TO THE ED ITOE.

Sir, —I wish to correct a paragraph winch appears in the locals in Monday’s ‘Star.’ It is stated in that paragraph that all the waterside labor was absorbed on tho vessels then'lying in port. I desire to give this emphatic denial, as there was labor available both in tho morning and the afternoon of that day. If all the hatches bad been working on all tho vessels in port there would have been a dearth of labor; but as it was there was a surplus of labor.

During tho past few months immigrants have put in an appearance on tho waterfront. These men, when first they came to tho dominion, found employment in tho country; but for one reason and another they have come into tho city, and are to be found on the waterfront. Is this what immigra-

tion to tho dominion is intended for? Personally I am not against immigration ? Now Zealand to-day is what sho is through tho arrival and tho achievements of her early settlers. But these later settlers drift into tho city and aro swelling tho ranks of tho waterfront, making it all the harder for men to get oven an existence. It would seem that this is the intention of tho present immigration policy. I hope that I am in error in tho inference.—l am, etc., Fore and Aft. April 18.