Grey River Argus and Blackball News SATURDAY, MAY 20, .1922, NORTHCLIFFE AND AUSTRALIA.

Grey River Argus, 20 May 1922, Page 4

Grey River Argus and Blackball News

SATURDAY, MAY 20, .1922, NORTHCLIFFE AND AUSTRALIA.

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Lord Northcliffc personally deserves scant notice from workers, whom he regards merely as pawns for capitalists, but ho wants watching when using his propaganda apparatus to boost armaments and the plan to empty surplus labour wholesale into Australia from the Old Country. Two lengthy cables yesterday with his propaganda show our allies of yesterday arc by Northcliffc rated potential enemies to-day. for the Japanese he says, are become the “Germans of the East, ” though tis not their exports but-themselves they arc sending broadcast and overrunning America! He would advocate a big fleet to keep them out of Australasia, their coveted goal, knowing such a fleet would pay the Armament Trust handsomely. That is why he rails at Canada for not being able to keep out Japanese, meaning she has no right io take the disarmament gang seriously and virtually scrap her navy. Yet he turns round then to praise Canada for admitting so many immigrants, and in the next breath says Italians should be barred from Australia (presumably if their sentiments are those of Labour) and none but British immigrants received, though ho admits these arc already returning home again in alarming numbers because the Australian Labour market ;is oversupplicd. The fodder basis for workers is one of his pet themes, and lit is laughable to note his verbal somersaults in regard to the Australian Labour movement, his hatred of which 1 shows his hand. Labour is a king or dictator in Australia, he says, whilst | Canada, —dhe country the Japanese are overrunning—is praised for the weakness of its Labour movement. Now there is one question Northcliffc might be asked: If Australian workers arc the best fed, and the best physically, in the world, where has a strong Labour movement failed them? Is it that they are not overrun with Asiatics like Western America? If so, the fault is truly Labour's! Northcliffc’s arguments really counter each other, and if the British capitalists, to escape a revolution want to rush emigrants out of Britain and into these countries at an increasing rat’P, <>n account of both Canada, and U.S.A, setting up an.-em-bargo against them, they had better get a shrewder man to advocate it than Northcliffc,,