NOT BOUND BY RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONGRESS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17881, 24 June 1926, Page 5

NOT BOUND BY RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONGRESS.

AUSTRALIA .MUST KEEP DOOR CLOSED TO ALL BUT WHITE MIGRANTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and ?r.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 24, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 23. Mr Evatt gave an outspoken intimation of the sacredness of the White Australia Policy and of Australian Labour’s disregard of any decision inI imical thereto, when controverting Mr Jowett’s proposal at the Labour Migration Congress. He said it was obvious that the Congress viewpoint was European, while the Australian Labour policy embodied the two cardinal nonEuropean principles, namely a White Australia, which was incontrovertibly opposed to the influx, not only of assisted migrants, but also of any immigration until the land monopoly had broken up and the unemployed were absorbed, and secondly that Trades Union consent must be obtained for any scheme of immigration. Unfortunately an anti-Labour Government c ontrolled Australian immigration, with the result that there was a greater percentage of unemplovment in Australia than in the majority of European countries. Labour was bitterly opposed to immigration from Southern Europe, especially Italian, and desired to see established safeguards against uncontrolled migration. . “If we open the door as the United States and Canada did and we subsequently desire to close it. there will be pretext for war. Australia is not affil iated with your International bodies, therefore your resolutions do not bind