THE FRUIT INDUSTRY.
CHEAP LABOUR WANTED. Press A-ssociation-Bv TelegraDb-Copyrijjht NEW YORK, December 6. A convention, of the Californian fiuitgrowero at Marysvillc, unanimori-jy recon'.n&ndcd 1 the repeal of the, Chinese Exclusion Act, and urged Congrdfes to' admit
ri, fixed liberal number of Chinese ail'd Japanese-' on the bains 'conditions ' as those which apply to European immigrants. The memoiial declare? thafcl industries are threatened with extinction, and there ,is )io .evidence that Ilia States in" the West suffered fi om the presence .of Chinese, prior to the exclusion of Asiatics.
An Irish journalist declared that' the real peril df the count)y was the immigration from Southern' and • -South-eastern Europe. , The present condition of the fruio regions na.s due to labour agitators, mostly aliens.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13463, 9 December 1907, Page 5
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121THE FRUIT INDUSTRY. Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13463, 9 December 1907, Page 5
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