WHITE AUSTRALIA

Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 8

WHITE AUSTRALIA

HR AMERY SUPPORTS POLICY TROUBLES OF COLORED LABOR. Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BRISBANE, November 14. (Received November 14, at 11.40 a.m.) Mr Amery, speaking at the State banquet at Parliament House, strongly supported the White Australia policy. Referring to tho wonderful productivity of Queensland, and the hope lor its development, he said that there was a solution tempting and attractive at first glance to certain minds—namely, by colored labor. The reasons which had led Australia to refect that solution were very strong. Ho instanced the troubles which had arisen in America thtough tho negro, and in South Africa through tho Asiatic problems. Colored labor might he cheaper, hut while the community had higher standards of efficiency and enterprise, and a greater idea of scientific methods of development than tho colored, or mixed community could possess, a high standard of living made for a good home market. There was no market like the homo market in the immediate elfect on development. If Australia wanted to enlarge and strengthen her home market she must secure a larger population. in their attitude towards migration there was a tendency to regard the migrant as a competitor in the labor market, but the point of view was that any newcomer who lound productive work was an employer, because ho was also a consumer, and therefore an emplowcr of the labor of tho rest of his fellow citizens._ As long as the newcomer was of the right type, and rightly placed, he was not a competitor but a helper in the labor market.