Foreign Labour Not
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Wanted In N. Cal.
Noumea, Aug. 12.
AT a general meeting of the com mercial employees’ union in Noumea in August, it was de cided to protest against the intro duction of foreign labour.
The resolution followed an an nouncement that an officer of the French Army in Saigon would visit the Colony with the object of plac ing Indo-Chinese now fleeing the Vietnim.
There are already 5,000 potential trouble-makers in New Caledonia — the Indo-Chinese indentured labour that was freed. Introduction of any more would swamp the Europeans. (Editorial Note: Only last year a plan was proposed whereby Fijian- Indians would go to work in New Caledonia. Various officials from Fiji investigated the scheme but nothing came of it. Since then there has been a slump in the Cale donian nickel and chrome market).