GERMAN INVASION OF HOLLAND.
German workers of both sexes (says. Ih" NTew Wuiid) arc crossing the frontiers in large numbers and settling in Holland, at traded by the enormous number of marks that the smallest Dutch salary "ill represent. The large towns arc being invaded by servant girls, by ladies' companions, and by hospital nurses. Even apart * from the wages quest ion, the German servant girls are preferred by must Dutch families. They are mote energetic and less exuding thai) Ihp Dutch girls, who, in the exorcise of I heir rigths, have been growing more and more intolerably high handed. Tlio mining districts especially have been invaded by German labor. ' The natural reaction against such conditions has already shown itself, and a meeting of all the miner.-.' associations in the Dutch mining districts has been held at Jlcerlcn. where a vigorous protest was registered against the influx of Germans. ______
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16114, 1 May 1923, Page 9
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149GERMAN INVASION OF HOLLAND. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16114, 1 May 1923, Page 9
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