DUBLIN.—Competing with Swedish Prison Labor.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 26, 27 June 1901, Page 9

DUBLIN. — Competing with Swedish Prison Labor.

The Dublin LatiinriaKerr' Society wi-uld w-era to have good ground of complaint in il c fact that laths split in the prisons of Sweden are imported and used for bunding purposes, while the home-made hand-split lath is discarded The Plasterers' Society have testified that the Dublin-made lath is much superior to tho foreign article ; but even outside this fact, why should the products of Swedish pnponn be patronised, while workmen are idle about the streets ? Sweden does not allow such articles as these to compete with those of free labor within her own borders ; and surely the last place in which she should be able to find a market for them would be Ireland.