IN SPAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 163, 22 June 1936, Page 7

IN SPAIN.

Thousands Of Foreign Workers. CAMPAIGN BEGUN. The 120,000 foreign workers, who, according to a recent report, are earning £■'o 000,000 annually in Spam face dirhculties in the near future writes the Madrid correspondent of the New York Times The Press has. begun a campaign against immigrant job-holders who, it is charged, hold positions that should go to Spaniards, and more severe police surveillance of aliens has been inaugurated, from now on each foreign worker must obtain permission? from the Labour Ministry to remain m, Spain. One newspaper alleged that the flooa of German immigrants and peasants from Andalusia who are invading Catalonia will reduce genuine Catalans to a --mall minority in 2Q years. Ten thousand German Jews alone M? , said to have entered Spain since Reiehsfahrer Hitler took office, and most of tfcese have sectied in Cataknia. ' . , Large numbers of Socialists, Communists. Catholics and others have &ko come to Spain from the reich. One Barcelona newspaper declared it is impossible to enter a street ear without, hearing German spoken and that one of its reporters recently checked up on the nationalities of 56 people standing, in line before a movie house and found 18 were Germans. Spaniards allege 46,CCG. Germans have jobs in Spain, as against 470 Spaniards employed under the Nazi swastika. Wide interest has been created by Virgilio Sevillano's Dook, "Whose Spain?" In it he declared the drain of profits taken out of Spain by foreign countries is wrecking her economy. He is opposed especially tc the concession of the huge copper deposits of Rio Tinto to a British mining company. Sevillario asserted that 20,030 British subjects work in Spain, and earn £3,000X20 annually, whereas Great Britain permits only 1000 Spanish workers to remain there. He objected to the' intervention of the British in the semiofficial Constructora Naval, Which builds Spain's naval units. French workers in Spain are estimated at 23,000, but 180.G30 Spaniards are employed in France. British employees here are paid best, the French stand next, and the Germans last. Seviliano, a non-partisan who is a hign official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also attacked his countrymen. Spaniards, according to him. want lo earn 7 or S per cent, interest even in bad times. They will spend any amount of money to build blocks of flats, movie theatres or smart cafes, but will invest nothing at all in industry. This, he wrote, resulted in an invasion of foreign capital. The placing of foreign capital has been aided by many politicians and prominent lawyers who obtained concessions and privileges for foreigners, the author said.

Foreign capital in Spain is invested chiefly in mining, railways, engineering, light and power, street cars, telephones and banking.