THE TURN OF THE TIDE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 284, 9 December 1907, Page 5

THE TURN OF THE TIDE.

MIGRANTS RETURNING FROM

AMERICA

\ EUROPEAN DIFFICULTY.

Prese Association—Copyright. Received, Dec. 8, 8 p.m. London. Dec. 7.

The Hamburg correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that 200,000 workers have returned to Europe from the United States, and nearly 100,000 who intended to proceed to America have decided to remain in Europe. It is expected that, this great reflux will result in labour difficulties. [Hamburg is the centre of the huge emigration concentrated from all Europe to the great German Steamship lines]. New York, December 7. A convention of Californian fruit growers at Maysville unanimously recommenced the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, urging Congress to admit a fixed liberal number of Chinese and Japanese on the- same conditions as apply to European immigrants. The memorial declares that the industries are threatened with extension for lack of reliable, labour, and that there was no evidence that the States in the West suffered from the presence of Chinese prior to their exclusion. John, well-known Irish journalist, declared that the real peril of the country was immigration from Southern and Sonth-eastern Europe. The present conditions in the fruit regions were due to labour agitators who were .mostly aliens.