LET BLACK MEN WORK.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 326, 12 January 1914, Page 5

LET BLACK MEN WORK.

AND WHITE DIRECT.

LEVER’S ADVICE TO AUSTRALIA.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.]

(Received 12, 9.40 a.m.)

Sydney, Jan. 12.

Sir AVilliam Lever, entertained by his employees, in a speech referring to a White Australia policy, said: “Australian breeds the finest men cf any section of the Anglo-Saxon world and here by your policy you are condemning them to do donkej* work. Why should not a white Australian be a superior man directing an inferior man and making the best use of God’s earth? God has given some higher intelligence than others. Do not go on compelling the white man to do donkey work when yau can get black labour help. You make the most of your natural advantages, thus giving your own flesh and blood the chance of thoroughly developing and enjoying your inheritance.” Sir William said he touched on the matter with some delicacy, saying “I daresay there is another side to it.”