Australia will welcome large scale immigration of Europeans after the war, providing they are the type of immigrants who will not undermine the Australian standard of living, it was stated here yesterday by P. J. Clarey, president of the Australian Trade Union Council, addressing a luncheon of the Jewish Freeland League at the Hotel Commodore.
“Australian labor has the greatest sympathy for the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe,” Mr. Clarey said. “Australia wants population and will consult labor as it has in connection with the war and production. We have only seven million inhabitants. There is no reason why thirty to forty million could not be settled in the Commonwealth.”
The luncheon was presided over by Dr. I. N. Steinberg, president of the Freeland League which seeks to facilitate the settlement of Jews from Europe in the Kimberley section of Australia. More than fifty Jewish labor leaders attended.
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