AUSTRALIAN WORKMEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14898, 29 July 1910, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN WORKMEN

' MR FOSTER PHASER'S CRITICISM, • MR COOHLA'N'S. (REPLY. • ( ' Press Association—By Telepaph-Copyrjglit LONDON, July 27. •Mr T. A. Coghlan, Agent-general for New South Wales, has a lengthy letter in the Standard in reply' to statements made in Mr Foster Frr/sor's book. , Mr Coghlan defends the Australian workman's capacity, which, thebocik impugns, andclaims that the standard of work fixed fop the Australian ivorkmait is' one-quarter more than was dono by .(in Englishman in the same time. He reflates Mr Fraser's assertion that the Australian natives flock : into towns, and quotesi figures to .show that tho proportion' «f Australian-bora population is very mucin lass in the towns : than the numbers of general population warrant, while the reverse is true regarding immigrants. Tho impressions Ratborsd by Mr J. Foster Eraser during his-brief visit to Australia were communicated' to tho British public through flio medium of the Standard, of which ho is special parliamentary correspondent. In one article Mt Fiasco ac- ■ cused younar Australians of slackness anici flacidity, which he ascribed.'to .the-lan-guorous climate. Mr T. A. Coghlan, Ageiit-gejieral for New South Walce, wrote an article in! reply to this assertion. He painted t* the'.proficiency of Australians in athloticv and denied that Australian workmen were inferior to Englishmen- in civsrgy* and' enterprise, In. proof of this ho .Mentioned 1 that Austi-alian compositors, coopers, and bricklayers were quicker l workers than English workmen. ..-