IMMIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18454, 16 January 1922, Page 6

IMMIGRATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

, TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Mt Nos worthy is imported in your issue of Friday last to have said, in replyin"' to Mr H. E. Holland, that he was not prepared to believe that immigrants were being used to victimise the miners on the West Coast. I am not in a position to speak about the West Coast mines, but would'like to mention what took place at an Otago mine. Last April I applied for ' a vadoney at a mine not 100 miles from Dunedin, and was fortunate enough to secure it. I wae promised steady employment at Ifls 2d a day. After I had been there about a month a Scotch immigrant came along with a pitiful tole and woe employed m , the same capacity as 1 was at 16a a day. In October me company found it necessary ; to retrench, and I was told kr finish at ■ the end of the week, and the immigrant ; was kept on, I inquired of the manager if “ I was not. giving satisfaction, and he replied • that I was, but it had been decided to keep on the immigrant, as he was accepting i Jess money. If Mr Noaworthy does not call ■ this victimisation I should like to know . what ho doea call it.—l am, etc., ( Jobless Joe No. 2. ; <T- ■■