IMMIGRATION POLICY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1935, Page 12

IMMIGRATION POLICY.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —In respect of the policy of imml-, gration put forward by the Government, is it proposing to bring out more workers to snap up any jobs that might be offered with the lifting of the depression (created by the capitalist to bring wages

down) so as to keep the New Zealandersborn eating the bread of charity and humbling the women who have the misfortune to be married to a man out of work, begging for other women’s castoff clothing, that their nakedness may be covered? If they 'want to bring anyone out, why not first wait till our own relief workers are in permanent work? Surely that is the only sensible thing to do. Wages can only be kept low when the cost of living is also low. The farmers are crying out for labourers, but they must remember that a lot of the men have dependents to keep, and can only accept low wages when the cost of keeping themselves and their dependents is on a corresponding scale. If the cost of

primary products (milk, meat, butter, eggs, vegetables, fruit, etc.) is high, the wages of the worker must be on a corresponding scale to purchase them. High cost of living is what causes high wages. —I am, etc., ; REASON IN ALL THINGS. Stratford, Nov. 25.