RETURN OF “SWALLOWS”
HUNGARIAN LABOURERS BACK FROM ARGENTINE The return to Budapest of thirtythree Hungarian labourers (popularly called “swallows”), a fraction of the 360 who started for Argentina last summer, has pricked the bubble of the plan to send Hungarian unemployed to South America every winter. As the Canadian quota for emigrants has been reduced, it was thought that Hangarian labourers would find plenty of employment during the South American summer. The batch was divided into small groups, each of which was directed by an engineer; but despite the efforts of the Hungarian Consul in Buenos Ayres employment was not forthcoming. The returned labourers state that they were employed for only twentyone days, when they worked in a virgin forest 2,000 kilometres from Buenos Ayres, and that -the greater part of their pay was deducted for food, water and clothing. At a cost of 77 pesos each they were able to return oil an Italian boat. The remainder of the 360 are stranded penniless in Buenos Aires.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 29
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167RETURN OF “SWALLOWS” Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 29
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