Show KEEP AWAY THERE there ii a rush to south africa bi ought about by the glowing accounts of i for work at higher wigs since the u of the boer war immigration companies haic been adver tiina ti ina jhc thc faunt ry auth hie result that many been induced to gac up lucrative positions to go in bearch of better employment in the faraway far away land and invariably hey met with disappointment the engliski Engli sli have been the greatest from these denotations but not a few americans haeft been victimized by the A traveler writing from johannesburg u mail arid intermediate boat that comes town is crowded with immigrant all sorts and conditions of with head and hand arc pouring into the new south africa as though it were el dorado of the twentieth century cep tury on what foundation are unfortunate people building their hopes of fortunet on what chances abc they gambling their passage money and luicir savings possibly on the promises of immigration agents who make a profit on each superfluous worker dumped on the unwilling shores of south africa not on the hard facts of the situation as they are 1 I have been making inquiries all round the country from durban to pretoria johannesburg johannes burg buier be it noted some 75 per cent of these misguided folk gravitate and down through bome of the rural districts I 1 have also interviewed men in all sorts of positions from many parte of the subcontinent and what they have told me is identical with what I 1 have learned for eliat now south africa is the worst of all possible countries for the fortune seeker to come to tho first and most important ion is of that of prices and wages the english clerk is told that he can get from 75 to a month and the skilled arthun that his wages liere will be from to a day that h provided always that he can and work at first sight these figures might well to many a cherl or artilian at home but do not forget that revenue ha no economic value until it been compared with necessary ex turc you leave not only to consider what you earn it is what you must pend in order to live decently that is the real crux of the question we would advise our people to remain away from south africa even in the tho chances of employment are limited tho boys do all the manual work and although thai class of labor is not equal to the demand the positions given to are well supplied |