AN AUCKLAND PROTEST.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 11 June 1912, Page 5

AN AUCKLAND PROTEST.

AUCKLAND, June 10. United action is being taken in Auckland by the employers and their workmen to prevent the introduction of Chinese labor into the furniture trade. A public meeting was held to-night under the joint auspices of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Furniture Workers' Association and the furniture manufacturers, when two resolutions were unanimously passed, one expressing apprehension of; the proposal to introduce Chinese labor into the trade in the dominion, and petitioning Parliament to pass legislation to prevent injury to any industry by the introduction of Asiatic labor, and the other asking the Government to place a prohibitive tariff ®n wicker and rattan furniture made by Asiatic labor.