LABOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13832, 18 February 1909, Page 6

LABOUR.

BITTER COMPLAINTS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Feb. 17. Several of the immigrants who arrived by the Fifeshire yesterday, who have not secured employment so far, complain bitterly of the misrepresentations which they allege are made at Homo regarding the ease with which employment may be obtained in the Dominion. The representatives of local labour unions also state that there is no room for i'iore workers. Most classes of trade are already slack. At the meeting of the Trades and Labour Council, the Government's in migration policy was strongly conde.nue:!, and a deputation is to" wait on t-'ie. Prime Minister and place the facts before hint: to send a warning to the chairman of the British labour Lep.-i nutation Committee of the .rouse of Commons against immigrants cominj' out here: t-» call an inchgu ia.'jji inc. ting at the earliest possible moment, aid to request the Government u> stoj assisted immigrants'ffr at i-.w.st ene >«-ar. ,CARPENTERS WANTED. WELLINGTON, Feb. 17. Frequent complaints have recently been made that there is a dearth of employment in New Zealand for carpenters. The following might be good news for carpenters who are out of work. A man well-known in business circles is in receipt of correspondence from a large building contractor in Brisbane who states that —" Just at present there is a bit of a boom in the building trade in Brisbane with the re suit that there is a dearth of tradesmen. I understand that things in New Zealand at the present are dull ami that trade is fairly slack. I know that during the time of depression here a good many Queensland workmen went over to vour dominion in search of employment and possibly if they knew that things were on the up-grade here thev would come back again,"