Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-07 | Page 19 | Flood of Immigration from Italy Source of Concern in Australia

I Flood of Immigration From Italy Source of Concern in Australia L I By A A. A W. W V V. V KING United Press Staff Correspondent SYDNEY 1 March 6 United I Press Press To To increase her population rapidly yet et at the same time preserve preserve preserve pre pre- serve rigidly her hel White Australia policy and It if possible keep the present present resent fligh proportion of British stock Is a mixed ambition of ot Australia Australia Australia Aus Aus- fraught with many tangled racial problems s. s Australians boast of ot having 98 per cent of British British stock and de despite despite despite de- de spite the comparative slowness with which her empty spaces are filling the parliaments and people of ot this country steadfastly refuse to encourage encourage en en- courage any Immigrants except those of British blood In its way the White Australia edict banning colored races from flom these shores Is Isas isas as great a social and political ex experiment experiment ex- ex I as prohibition Is In Amer Amen AmerIca America ica lea but whereas prohibition splits spits he citizens of America White Australia Australia Aus Aus- would find barely one opponent opponent opponent nent In Australia to ninety nine supporters With the dole providing an easy way of living to those classes in En upon whom Australia chiefly relies for her immigrants the authorities of this country have found suitable migrants rants increasingly increasing increasing- ly h scarce But other rac races s of Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope bend covetous eyes upon the rich fai fai- failand land lanel of ot the south Prominent PromInent Prominent Prom Prom- among them are the tho Italians hardest hit by Americas America's Immigration tion law Since that came into force there has been an influx of Italians to Australia Italian colonies colonies colo cob nies have been formed on the sugar sugarcane sugarcane sugarcane cane fields of northern Queensland and one district Is already known as Little Italy The Tho Italian influx threatens to he become ome a national problem The The Queensland state government ap appointed appointed ap- ap pointed a a commission of ot investigation I ap-I tion which reported adversely on the unrestricted entrance of Italians I Possessing no legal right to block white people entering the country providing they measure up to cert certain ocr ocr- t tam tain ln standards the federal government government govern overn- ment did the next best thing thing thing-it it raised the mental physical and fi financial financial fi- fi standards standard of ot foreign Immigrants grants to such an extent that there was a a. perceptible diminution of the flow flaw The Tho labor unions are the greatest greatest great great- est eat opponents of unrestricted foreign immigration since they fear wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale settling of ot men from the 1 Med Mediterranean ted ted- countries will undermine a stand standards of and lower wages Veterans of ot the World war too toe have e entered protests Civic officials gials responsible for the hea heath health th o of ot communities also view with disapproval disapproval disapproval the wholesale coming of ot southern Europeans In Influx influx in- in The outcry against the Italian flux has excited interest in Italy where Mussolini is credited with a desire of ot seeing a large larg proportion of that country's annual pop population laUon surplus go to Australia Every very batch o of Italians arriving h here re reIs Is accompanied by an official of theRome theRome the theRome Rome government The latest to arrive is Dr l inspector general of ot Italian migration who Is here to make a survey of ot the situation as he has done In the United States Paraguay the Ar Ar- gentine France Franc and Belgium He lIe says Italian emigrants are no longer birds of of passage as before the war No longer the unemployed unemployed unemployed but skilled workmen and agriculturists want vant tt to to- emigrate Meantime dozens of ot northern Queensland md townships have hae Italian communities Italian Is lR heard Ineve in eve every street of ot these theRe towns Italian shops and clubs have opened and Italians are establishing themselves on the land as cane farmers Australla Australia Aus Aus- traIls Is sure to face very shortly the problem of non non- British settlers