NO LABOUR RESTRICTIONS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 27 November 1908, Page 1

NO LABOUR RESTRICTIONS.

i There are no arbitration laws oyer i there, nor restrictions as tb working hours,:'which are. limited only by the daylight, "capacity. The work starts at eunriee." In the summer time there is a two'hours' siesta at mid-day, and in winter -a* half-hour for the mid-day meal —and 'all your men knock off when tho sun .goes,down. The'general idea of ■ the English people who venture into Ar- ; gentine is that it is a splendid country in which to make a fortune; then they reckon it is a good country to get out of. Doubtless, however, there are many who could lind, after spending a good par^ of t **ae'r l'fe th el'e > at il would bpf as good a home as any part of the world. There are a few restrictions, tha chief of which may be said to be that life is held very much cheaper tliere than it is in any country under British rule. But it is not to be inferred from this that any man's life is in any special danger, but amongst the natives blocd runs very much warmer than it does in the Anglo-Saxon; no man in the Argentine needs to go far if he. is in search of trouble. There is, however, a wholesomo respect for the European, , and the knife flashes more in the native , quarters than it does in the ranches of I tha. etttler. Mr Gorton was also pleased to find ih-it the Englishman's word ia ' essentially considered his bond by the ! peoplo bf that South American state.